{"id":28147,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28147"},"modified":"2016-02-28T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:58:59","slug":"397-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28147","title":{"rendered":"Q397 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue:<\/strong> Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201cAug. 21 Mon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> News items from August 7 and 8, 1978<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/p>\n

President Jimmy Carter
\nFormer President John F. Kennedy
\nFormer Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
\nSen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas)
\nSen. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
\nSen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona)
\nSen. Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) (by reference)
\nSen. John Stennis (D-Mississippi)<\/p>\n

Agostinho Neto, President of Angola
\nJonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, Angolan resistance group
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nIan Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister<\/p>\n

General Juan Alberto Melgar, former President of Honduras
\nGeneral Policarpo Paz Garc\u00eda, President of Honduras<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler
\nKurt Lischka, Nazi Gestapo chief in wartime Paris<\/p>\n

Carlton Goodlett, San Francisco newspaper publisher, physician
\nDon Freed, author and playwright (by reference)
\nFrank Rizzo, Philadelphia Mayor
\nMartin Luther King, slain civil rights leader
\nReverend Ben Chavis, leader of Wilmington 10
\nNatan Sharansky, convicted Soviet spy
\nPhilip Agee, ex-CIA agent<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong>None<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This tape consists of the news of the day read by Jim Jones. While the note on the tape box says the tape is from August 21, 1978, the news items are from August 7 or 8.<\/p>\n

As with many newscasts, Jones seems to rely upon Soviet or Eastern bloc news sources. The items themselves focus on more international news than most Americans are used to, especially in their coverage of Central America, Africa and Eastern bloc countries.<\/p>\n

The origin of the news services likely accounts for much of the use of adjectives in describing US or Western European interests. Their actions are uniformly \u201cbarbaric,\u201d \u201cinsane\u201d and \u201ccriminal,\u201d their support of foreign nations is driven by fascist or racist impulses, and the nations themselves are lackey capitalist puppets of Western imperialism.<\/p>\n

Other editorial interjections likely come from Jones himself. The four nations which did not support UN sanctions on the \u201capartheid concentration camp nation\u201d of South Africa were the United States and three European allies, and after a brief pause, Jones adds \u201cthey didn\u2019t go for it, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n

One comment which undoubtedly originates with Jones was his characterization of U.S. Sen. John Stennis (D-Mississippi) as \u201cwhere our conspiracy began.\u201d The reference is to an event in Peoples Temple history in which members of the church caught two men eavesdropping on a service featuring a black woman mayor from Mississippi. The men were traced to an electronics wing at Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and had connections to Stennis\u2019 office.<\/p>\n

Among the topics covered in the news:<\/p>\n

    \n
      \u2022 Counter-revolutionary leader arrested in Zaire<\/ol>\n
        \u2022 People gather to remember Hiroshima victims<\/ol>\n
          \u2022 NATO conducts war games off Portugal\u2019s coast<\/ol>\n
            \u2022 A coup overthrows the president in Honduras<\/ol>\n
              \u2022 The British increase their occupational force in Northern Ireland<\/ol>\n
                \u2022 Letter bombs are mailed to leftists in London<\/ol>\n
                  \u2022 China and Chile forge an economic pact<\/ol>\n
                    \u2022 A former Nazi is charged with murder of 33,000 Jews in wartime France<\/ol>\n
                      \u2022 Congress blocks home rule for DC<\/ol>\n
                        \u2022 A former CIA agent seeks to unmask all US intelligence officers<\/ol>\n
                          \u2022 Jobless rates for blacks go up<\/ol>\n
                            \u2022 Philadelphia police attack MOVE house<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                            The tape closes in a familiar fashion, with Jones\u2019 exhorting Jonestown residents to work hard to produce the land so that they might bring more people from the US to liberation in Guyana. He also reiterates how much recent visitors have been impressed with what they saw. As always, his final words are of love to the community.<\/p>\n

                            FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

                            Date of transcription: 6\/26\/79<\/p>\n

                            In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

                            On June 5, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B100-5. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

                            News of the day and commentary by JIM JONES.<\/p>\n

                            Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

                            The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

                            Tape originally posted January 2012<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                            Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cAug. 21 Mon.\u201d Date cues on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28147"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66471,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28147\/revisions\/66471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}