{"id":28338,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28338"},"modified":"2017-11-18T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:21:59","slug":"981-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28338","title":{"rendered":"Q981 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 (MP3-Pt. 1<\/a>, MP3-Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/b>Labeled in part \u201c5\/11\/77 [November 11, 1977] Jonestown\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Context of tape consistent with label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter (by reference)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Evelle Younger, California Attorney General
\nJoseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, 1968-1976
\nGeorge Moscone, Mayor of San FranciscoHuey Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nLehman Brightman, Native American activist
\nRichard Pryor, black comedian and activist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/i>
\nThe Roses (unknown, could be code)
\nDavid Conn, Elder in Disciples of Christ denomination
\nTim StoenTemple members not in Jonestown:<\/i>
\nChris Lewis<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/i>
\nBen [several in Jonestown]
\nPenny [likely Penny Kerns]<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/i>
\nNeal Welcome aka Neal Touchette
\nJerry Wilson (speaks)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

(Note:<\/strong> This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Recorded in November of 1977 \u2013 the Jonestown community already has 800 people in it, and Chris Lewis, who was murdered in December 1977, is still alive \u2013 this relatively short tape of a Jonestown meeting shows that Jim Jones and the Temple leadership have already been confronted with murmurings from people who want to return to the United States. It is an issue which would return with increasing frequency in the next year leading up to the arrival of Rep. Leo Ryan.<\/p>\n

Jones is happy to be in Jonestown, and the first full sentence of the tape is of him talking about the reasons \u201cyou ought to be glad to be here.\u201d He talks about being outside the jurisdiction of the California Attorney General on an issue involving the Roses (it is unknown whether there is a family named the Roses, or whether this is code for the Stoen custody battle); he talks about the cruel warmongering policies of the US, as evidenced by its use of napalm and anti-personnel weapons in Vietnam; he presents Guyana as a safe haven when nuclear war comes \u2013 as it inevitably will \u2013 and reminds Jonestown residents that rich whites are the only ones with bomb shelters or access to protective caves in the US, with the result that blacks will be wiped out.<\/p>\n

But there are reasons, not only to bring their people out of the US, but to come to Jonestown, he says.\u00a0 They have land, they have security, and they have none of the cares they had back in California. So complete are the benefits of their disengagement from the States, he says he doesn\u2019t remember the Temple\u2019s street address in San Francisco or even the name of the city\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n

One young man has apparently voiced a desire to return to the US, and much of the tape is of Jones in a colloquy with Jerry Wilson \u2013 as he tells Wilson \u2013 \u201cso we can re-educate your value system.\u201d By the end of the conversation, Wilson has changed his mind, and Jones applauds\u00a0 \u201cthe growth I\u2019ve seen [in you] in these last few days.\u201d The Temple leader also acknowledges he has used the opportunity \u201cas kind of a reference point\u201d for others. In fact, there is less confrontation and certainly more laughter in this exchange than there is when the subject of returning to the US arises throughout 1978.<\/p>\n

Jones does talk about one of his enemies in particular, and says that David Conn \u2013 who allegedly tried to get Native American activist Dennis Banks to renounce his association with Jim Jones in exchange for favorable legal treatment from the US government \u2013 has gone crazy. As for the other unnamed enemies who want to assassinate the Temple leader, Jones warns them to watch out. They might eventually be successful in their plotting, he says, but they would feel the retribution from the Temple. It could be that \u201cnothing happened tomorrow. Nothing happened next week. [But] You ain\u2019t out of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

He expands upon the threat a moment later in words that could be interpreted as showing the existence of a Temple hit squad: \u201cI\u2019ve got people back there writing me, said you healed me when I was dying, you saved my child that was dying, you got my young person \u2026 out of jail. You did this and you did that\u2026 Just put a word in the newspaper, and I\u2019ll do anything you ask me to do. Well, I haven\u2019t done it, but you think their people going to set there and let this shit go by?\u201d In unison, the people of Jonestown call out, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/b><\/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 1B110-7R46. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES tells the people that EVELLE YOUNGER was trying to get him, but he would get YOUNGER before YOUNGER got him. JONES also syas [says] that he stopped some things\u00a0 from getting to Vietnam and that it was a federal violation not state and YOUNGER did not have jurisdiction in the matter.<\/p>\n

JONES also tells his people about how they will be blown up if there is a war and only white people will survive.<\/p>\n

The remaining portion of the tape contains classical music.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted June 2010<\/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 (MP3-Pt. 1, MP3-Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c5\/11\/77 [November […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28338","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=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71811,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28338\/revisions\/71811"}],"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=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}