{"id":28153,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28153"},"modified":"2016-03-01T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:46:48","slug":"403-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28153","title":{"rendered":"Q403 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

\n

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

FBI preliminary tape identification note<\/strong>: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c7\/15\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Part 1<\/strong>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nAndrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations<\/p>\n

Sen. Richard C. Clark (D-Iowa)
\nSen. John Stennis (D-Mississippi) [by reference]<\/p>\n

Helmut Schmidt, German Chancellor
\nAndrei Gromyko, foreign minister of the Soviet Union
\nBenito Mussolini, Fascist leader of Italy<\/p>\n

Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt
\nBoutros Boutros-Ghali, foreign minister of Egypt [by reference]
\nHaile Selassie, deposed emperor of Ethiopia<\/p>\n

Jerry Brown, governor of California
\nHarvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor<\/p>\n

Muhammad Ali, prize fighter, member of Nation of Islam
\nWallace D. Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam
\nNatan Sharansky, US spy in Soviet Union
\nAlexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/strong>
\nSen. Edward Brooke (R-Massachusetts) [by reference]
\nJudith Hart, British Minister for Overseas Development
\nHamilton Green, Guyana Minister of Health [by reference]<\/p>\n

Huey Newton, leader of Black Panthers
\nM.A. Farber, New York Times<\/em> reporter
\nMario E. Jascalevich, New Jersey doctor tried for murder [by reference]
\nTheodore Trautwein, judge in Jascalevich murder case [by reference]<\/div>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news of the day to the residents of Jonestown.<\/p>\n

Unlike many of his newscasts, the stories in this edition do not seem to come from Soviet Union or Eastern bloc news services. There is little anti-Western rhetoric in the coverage, and almost all of the editorial asides and commentary seem to come from Jones himself.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the commentary is there, on virtually every item. Following a report of a court ruling that the press cannot go inside California prisons because of its potential disruptive effects, Jones pauses and adds: \u201cInteresting. How could news people in USA who never<\/em> print the truth create any kind of incidents?\u201d In the course of the next item \u2013 a CBS report that majority of black teenagers think that the government of the United States should be destroyed \u2013 Jones notes that the story was first reported in the middle of night, when it\u2019s safe to do so. Following the first line of the next item, that prize boxer Muhammad Ali is undergoing a tax investigation, Jones comments, \u201cOh, what did we expect differently? Obviously, because he had praised the Soviet Union and praised Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones also uses one news item to expand upon his longtime conviction that nuclear holocaust is imminent. President Carter is reshuffling the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US armed forces because \u2013 according to Jones \u2013 the current leaders \u201csaid that nuclear war was unacceptable\u201d and they do not \u201chave the strength, the will to retaliate [in the event of] the nuclear war.\u201d As Jones then adds, \u201cWe have a president, apparently, more willing to do the fascist will of the establishment of monopoly capitalism, big business, than even the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

As is the case with a number of newscasts, Jones reads one extended story. In this case, the story is on the history, geography, population, and culture of Ethiopia \u2013 now led by a Marxist military government which deposed a longtime ruler, emperor Haile Selassie \u2013 with a focus on the country\u2019s relationship with a breakaway province\/rebellious colony of Eritrea, and a denigration of the latter\u2019s support from two antagonists of the Soviet Union, the United States and China.<\/p>\n

Other news items include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The San Francisco black community considers a boycott of public schools
\n\u2022 San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk attacks police corruption in the city
\n\u2022 Proposition 13 effects on state employees begin to emerge
\n\u2022 US presses for release of Western spies from USSR
\n\u2022 US prepares to block trade agreements with USSR to protest treatment of Zionist dissidents
\n\u2022 SALT talks proceed<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

A second newscast \u2013 likely made later the same day \u2013 adds several more stories, with little commentary. They include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Senator Brooke divorce in public eye
\n\u2022 Police crackdown in Japan
\n\u2022 Reporter for New York Times arrested for refusal to disclose sources
\n\u2022 Guyana and China reach agreement on tile-making plant
\n\u2022 Caricom nations move towards metric system.<\/div>\n<\/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 1B100-12. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES gives U.S.A. and international news to people at Jonestown. This is followed by symphony music.<\/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 \u201c7\/15\/78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28153","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=28153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66482,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28153\/revisions\/66482"}],"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=28153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}