{"id":28258,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28258"},"modified":"2016-03-06T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T22:22:37","slug":"709-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28258","title":{"rendered":"Q709 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 Unidentified Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Identified Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>One Tracs 90\/ \u201cCall to George Hunter 9\/28\/77\u201d in envelope<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Date consistent with tape contents<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nGeorge Hunter, Ukiah newspaper editor (speaks)<\/strong><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Charles Garry, Temple attorney
\nPat Finnegan, attorney representing Tim Stoen
\nJeffrey Haas, attorney for Stoens in custody battle
\nVincent Hallinan, San Francisco attorney<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em>
\nSandy Bradshaw (speaks)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nSharon Amos
\nMike Prokes
\nJohn Victor Stoen<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0None<\/p>\n

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

In September 1977, the whereabouts of Tim Stoen were unknown to Peoples Temple. The leadership did know that the attorney and trusted aide to Jim Jones had turned against them \u2013 he has united forces with his former wife Grace to secure the return of John Victor Stoen from Jonestown, and has a lawyer who has traveled to Guyana to try to enforce a California state court order directing Jones to return the boy to the U.S. \u2013 but the depths of his perceived betrayal and his location has eluded the Temple for months.<\/p>\n

This tape consists of two parts \u2013\u00a0both related to Tim Stoen \u2013 with a snippet of unrelated telephone conversation in between. The first is a newscast describing the unsuccessful efforts of the Stoens\u2019 attorney Jeffrey Haas to persuade a Guyana court to enforce a judicial ruling by a California court.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the tape is a phone call which Sandy Bradshaw \u2013 a Temple leader in San Francisco \u2013 makes to George Hunter, a still-friendly newspaper editor (that relationship would irrevocably change within six months) to give him the Temple\u2019s perspective on the custody battle. Bradshaw asserts, not only that the court order was illegal, but that the judge had been paid to rule that way. There is \u201cbig money\u201d behind the custody efforts, she says, and while she expresses her belief that the conspiracy against the Temple had spread to Guyana, as evidenced by two attempts on Jones\u2019 life in recent weeks, \u201cwe\u2019re not sure how [the court order] all ties in with the total conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is Tim Stoen?\u201d the editor interrupts her a moment later, and the question is never answered. Bradshaw replies three different ways: \u201cTim Stoen is not here right now,\u201d is her immediate reply; \u201cTim has been traveling quite a bit,\u201d she adds a moment later to explain his silence; and finally, when Hunter reports that Stoen had told the reporter \u201cthat he was planning going back to New York City,\u201d Bradshaw agrees, \u201cthe last I knew he was<\/em> in New York City, and then I know he was looking into different things needed for the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stoen apparently spoke to Hunter, when he sat down with the editor for an interview about a week earlier \u2013 much more recently than he has checked in with the Temple \u2013 during which the lawyer talked about filing a suit against another newspaper. Hunter has now received word that Stoen will not pursue the suit after all and presses Bradshaw as to why he changed his mind. She insists she doesn\u2019t know, but adds, \u201cI do<\/em> know his action was independent. It was not a church action.\u201d As with the questions about Stoen\u2019s location, the editor never hears a satisfactory answer about the lawsuit, no matter how many different ways he asks them.<\/p>\n

In the midst of the conversation \u2013 and completely without context \u2013 Bradshaw volunteers a longstanding Temple tenet that Jones has always supported the First Amendment rights of the press. The assertion seems leaden and heavy-handed, and Hunter calls her on it. \u201cI hardly think that\u2019s<\/em> appropriate,\u201d he replies. \u201cI should think that the relationship that this newspaper\u2019s had with the church and with Tim would be paramount to even freedom of the press.\u201d He doesn\u2019t pursue the subject beyond that.<\/p>\n

The conversation closes with Hunter\u2019s observation that \u201cI\u2019m extremely anxious to talk to [Stoen].\u201d The same could be said for Sandy Bradshaw and the rest of the Temple leadership.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 3\/29\/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 8, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62-26. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Side A \u2013 News Report<\/p>\n

Telephone Conversation Between SANDY BRADSHAW and Mr. HUNTER (Identified as an editor in Mendocino County).<\/p>\n

Side B \u2013 Blank.<\/p>\n

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 Unidentified Individuals Speaking FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Identified Individuals Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: One Tracs 90\/ \u201cCall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28258","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=28258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66544,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28258\/revisions\/66544"}],"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=28258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}