{"id":28148,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28148"},"modified":"2018-12-27T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:16:51","slug":"398-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28148","title":{"rendered":"Q398 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 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/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>: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201cTues Aug 29 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> News items consistent with note on tape box<\/p>\n

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

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

President Jimmy Carter
\nFormer President Gerald Ford (by reference)
\nFormer President Richard Nixon
\nFormer President John F. Kennedy (by reference)
\nFormer Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (by reference)
\nSen. James Abourezk (D-South Dakota)
\nSen. George McGovern (D-South Dakota)
\nSen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)<\/p>\n

Rep. Charles C. Diggs (D-Michican)
\nRep. William Clay (D-Missouri)
\nRep. Ralph H. Metcalfe (D-Illinois)
\nRep. Charles Rangel (D-New York)
\nRep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio)
\nFormer Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-New York)<\/p>\n

Jerry Brown, Governor of California<\/p>\n

H.R. Haldeman, Chief of Staff to Richard Nixon
\nJohn Ehrlichman, domestic adviser to Richard Nixon
\nJohn Dean, counsel for Richard Nixon
\nAndrew Young, US Ambassador to UN
\nWilliam Colby, Former CIA head
\nPat Nixon, wife of Richard Nixon (by reference)<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler
\nPope John Paul I
\nAlfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, prime minister of Portugal<\/p>\n

Hua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Chinese Communist Party
\nFerdinand Marcos, president of Philippines
\nImelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand Marcos (by reference)<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\nMario Tapia, Mexican Consul General<\/p>\n

Sidney Wolfe, founder of Health Research Group, Ralph Nader-related organization
\nEd Mulligan, hospital patient in Syracuse, NY
\nBenjamin L. Abruzzo, captain of the balloon Double Eagle <\/em>(by reference)
\nArlene Blum, pioneer female American mountaineer
\nFrancis Jay Crawford, American corporate executive imprisoned in USSR
\nRobert Shaw, actor
\nRon Ridenour, editor of Los Angeles Free Press<\/em>
\nLarry Flynt, publisher of Hustler<\/em>
\nAlthea Flynt, wife of Larry Flynt
\nEd Davis, Los Angeles Police Department chief
\nMartin Luther King, slain civil rights leader
\nJames Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King
\nBob Woodward, Washington Post<\/em> reporter on Watergate story
\nCarl Bernstein, Washington Post<\/em> reporter on Watergate story
\nTheodore White, author, biographer of several presidents
\nRobben Wright Fleming, president of University of Michigan (by reference)
\nFred Hampton, Black Panther killed by police in 1969
\nMark Clark, Black Panther killed by police in 1969
\nAnatoly Karpov, Soviet chess champion<\/p>\n

Carlton Goodlett, San Francisco newspaper publisher, physician
\nDon Freed, author and playwright
\nJoe Mazor, private detective<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Jonestown resident:<\/em><\/p>\n

Ralph Jackson<\/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.<\/p>\n

As with many newscasts, Jones seems to rely most heavily upon Soviet or Eastern bloc news sources, although he quotes other sources such as BBC and Voice of America as well. 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 Soviet-oriented news services likely accounts for much of the use of adjectives in describing US or Western European countries. Their interests are pursued \u201cfalsely and aggressively,\u201d their support of foreign nations is driven by \u201cdreaded fascist\u201d or racist impulses, and the nations themselves are \u201ccapitalist lackeys of Western imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Soviet bent is especially apparent in stories involving either the USSR or its main adversary, China. One item on the visit of Chinese leaders to Iran suggests that it is an attempt \u201cto influence one of the oil-rich nations of OPEC out of the Second World into the Third World for Chinese purposes. The Soviet Union calls the Chinese efforts a threat to the world peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are five extended news stories upon which Jones dwells \u2013 Americans access to their own health records; the plague of locusts devastating crops in Africa, Asia Minor and South Asia; the publication of the last edition of The<\/em> Los Angeles Free Press<\/em>; the assertion of the Congressional Black Caucus that there is a conspiracy against leaders of people of color; and the CIA\u2019s belief that the growing population of Mexico represents the next threat to the United States \u2013 and Jones offers his own editorial comment (and additional facts not necessarily included in the original news coverage) on all of them. On the locust story, for example, he points out that their infestation may not be a complete accident: \u201cit\u2019s thought that this may be some of geo-physical warfare, because it\u2019s affecting nations that have not been pro-USA.\u201d More significantly on this story is its deeper lesson for the people of Jonestown that the destruction caused by the locusts, and the starvation and deprivation that they bring, \u201ccertainly prov[es] there\u2019s no loving deity in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones also reports on some of the less important news of the day \u2013 the hero\u2019s welcome given to trans-Atlantic balloonists, and the attempt by a team of American women mountain climbers to scale the highest peaks in the Himalayas \u2013 even as he belittles them. \u201cThis is what capitalism does to divert people when there are serious difficulties in their system, to have this kind of damn stuff in the news,\u201d he says. \u201cI would be glad to hear that some American women had gone to the ghettoes and done something about the starving children and the ones dying of lead poisoning \u2026 but no such news, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some news items are unknown in their origin. The report, for example, that the governor of California said there would be a second revolution in the US \u2013 one launched by whites who \u201care tired of supporting people who do not want to work\u201d \u2013 and that he would support the effort is unique to Jones. He nevertheless can find a lesson for the people of Jonestown in it: \u201cwe\u2019ve always known, you can\u2019t trust liberals. Remember the main enemies of socialism? Anarchism, Trotskyism, revisionism, and don\u2019t forget that enemy, social democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other news items covered in this newscast:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Egypt believes peace in the Middle East can be found only with US assistance
\n\u2022 Portugal has a new cabinet
\n\u2022 Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos says human rights issue is \u201cnew moral imperialism\u201d
\n\u2022 Cambodian human rights records comes under attack by Swiss conference and US Senator
\n\u2022 Pope John Paul I will keep many leaders of previous papacy
\n\u2022 Prices increase \u201call through the capitalist world\u201d
\n\u2022 Eritrea and Ethiopia battle over key cities
\n\u2022 US postal strike delayed
\n\u2022 Nicaraguan coup aborted
\n\u2022 American arrested in USSR for currency violations
\n\u2022 Uranium and coal deposits located on Indian land lead to abrogation of treaties
\n\u2022 Babies sold on American black-market (referred to in the Temple argot as \u201cwhite market\u201d)
\n\u2022 Black suicide rate rises
\n\u2022 Actor Robert Shaw dies
\n\u2022 Soviet chess master accused of hypnotizing opponents<\/div>\n<\/p>\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 repeatedly reminds them of 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 1B100-6. 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 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cTues Aug […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28148","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=28148"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85432,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28148\/revisions\/85432"}],"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=28148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}