{"id":28201,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28201"},"modified":"2016-03-03T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T13:46:43","slug":"614-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28201","title":{"rendered":"Q614 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>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>One Tracs 90\/ JJ in separate calls to Dr. Moore & Dr. Goodlett 2\/26\/76<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tape contents consistent with identification note<\/p>\n

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

Peoples Temple members:<\/em>
\nGene Chaikin (speaks)<\/strong>
\nMike Prokes (speaks)<\/strong>
\nTim Stoen<\/p>\n

Peoples Temple members, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nMarie
\nMichelle<\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJerry Brown, governor of California
\nWillie Brown, California assemblyman
\nRichard Hongisto, San Francisco county sheriff<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Dennis Banks, leader of American Indian Movement
\nKamook Banks, wife of Dennis Banks [by reference]
\nMark Banks, brother of Dennis Banks
\nJohn Adams, Banks supporter
\nDennis Roberts, Banks attorney
\nJohn Thorne, Banks attorney
\nRev. Chandler, head of SANE
\nWilliam Anorato [phonetic], property owner (speaks)<\/strong>
\nHerb Caen, newspaper columnist
\nCesar Chavez, head of California Farmworkers Union
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician, newspaper publisher \u00a0(speaks)<\/strong>
\nJohn V Moore, District Superintendent of Methodist Church (speaks)<\/strong>
\nBarbara Moore, wife of John Moore
\nMarlon Brando, actor<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em><\/p>\n

Lester Kinsolving, reporter, Peoples Temple antagonist<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

(Editorial note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from disclosure.)<\/i><\/p>\n

This tape consists of a series of phone calls made by Jim Jones and other Temple members in February 1976. The first several are without context or recorded only at one end (or possibly a dictated memo with pauses for the stenographer to get down the words) so as to render the subjects incomprehensible. In the opening call, for example, an unknown property owner turns down an offer made by Temple attorney Gene Chaikin to buy the property, and although the amount of the offer is clear, the location of the property and why the Temple wanted it is not.<\/p>\n

The most significant conversations on the taper are the last two, during which Jim Jones speaks first with John V Moore, a District Superintendent in the Methodist Church in San Francisco (as well as the father of two Temple leaders, Carolyn Layton and Annie Moore), and then with Carlton Goodlett, a black newspaper publisher and Jones\u2019 personal physician, about what type of support the Temple should give to Native American activist Dennis Banks.<\/p>\n

The progressive community in San Francisco wants to support Dennis Banks \u2013 and Peoples Temple wants to assume a leadership role in that support \u2013 but by some measures, that has been difficult. The activist was arrested for his role in the takeover at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and fearing for his life, jumped bail, an action which cost some of his institutional supporters thousands of dollars. In the current battle, Banks is fighting extradition from California back to South Dakota on state charges, and although the Temple has generated 1500 letters to Gov. Jerry Brown urging him not to grant extradition, that might not be enough. The purpose of the phone calls, then, is to help Jones decide what to do next.<\/p>\n

Despite the setbacks, Methodist church officials have urged the religious community to \u201chang in there with [Banks].\u201d As Moore says,\u00a0 \u201cif you stay in touch with Dennis, there may be those times when the church can kind of be in a brokering position.\u201d Jones does not have to be told twice; as far as he\u2019s concerned, as the problems that Banks has had with the legal authorities increase, the more he wants to help.<\/p>\n

Banks has accepted the Temple\u2019s assistance at the time of the calls. He has also arranged \u2013 apparently on his own, without the participation or even initially the knowledge of Temple leaders \u2013\u00a0to stage a media event in the Temple on the third anniversary of the Wounded Knee takeover, where he plans to reunite with his wife and children. The purpose of Jones\u2019 call to Goodlett, then, is to figure out how the Temple should handle both the event and the South Dakota fugitive who has put it together.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that John Moore is the father and father-in-law of the manager and editor\/research director of this website, respectively.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 3\/8\/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 March 6, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B47-58. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Phone conversations by possibly JIM JONES with unknown males. Conversations dealt mainly about the extradition of DENNIS BANKS from California. During the conversations, JONES talked about his relationship with JOHN ADAMS, possibly BANKS\u2019 attorney, former San Francisco Sheriff HONGUISTO, Assemblyman WILLIE BROWN, Governor JERRY BROWN and Mr. GOODLED (phonetic) of the National Newspaper Publishers of the United States.<\/p>\n

This tape was reviewed, and nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted May 2013<\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: One Tracs 90\/ JJ in separate calls to Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28201","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28201","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=28201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66512,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28201\/revisions\/66512"}],"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=28201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}