{"id":28336,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28336"},"modified":"2016-03-07T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:01:45","slug":"978-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28336","title":{"rendered":"Q978 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>. To listen to MP3, click here<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Music<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

Members of Peoples Temple:<\/em>
\nJulie Runnels<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

The people of Peoples Temple sing five songs. Jim Jones leads two of them, and an unidentified woman leads two. The two led by Jones extol socialism and the community\u2019s leader \u2013 i.e., himself \u2013 and all speak of freedom, struggle, and unity.<\/p>\n

As with other songs performed by Peoples Temple, at least two \u2013 and perhaps others \u2013\u00a0are gospel songs adapted to relevance to Jones\u2019 followers. The lyrics of the first song, \u201cClimbing up the Mountain,\u201d for example, have been changed from \u201cI can see Jesus\/ Standing there to meet us,\u201d to \u201cI can see Father standing just to the left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the poor quality of the recording, and the single organ as instrumentation, and the number of voices participating in the singing, it is likely that this is a recording of the Peoples Temple congregation in song, with a single microphone set closely to Jim Jones or the lead vocalist.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 7\/6\/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 24, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B110-7R43. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recording which contains approximately five minutes of music by the Jonestown Express with the remaining time on the tape being blank.<\/p>\n

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

This music recording is not of the Jonestown Express.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted March 2009<\/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. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music FBI preliminary tape identification note: None Date cues on tape:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28336","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=28336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66593,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28336\/revisions\/66593"}],"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=28336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}