{"id":28997,"date":"2013-09-08T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28997"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:06:02","slug":"miscellaneous-audiotapes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28997","title":{"rendered":"Other Audiotape Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"He's<\/a>The following listing is of other tapes and audio files \u2013 or in some cases, only the transcripts of long-since lost tapes \u2013 from sources other than through the government and Peoples Temple itself. The tapes are arranged chronologically below, with source information added.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cFaith Without Works Is Dead,” the abridgment of a Jim Jones sermon from 1956 was printed in The Herald of Faith<\/a>, a publication of Joseph Mattsson-Boze.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The music of He\u2019s Able<\/em> (1973), the album recorded by the Peoples Temple choir, may be found online here<\/a>, listed by song title in the third paragraph. Articles and reflections upon the creation of the album, originally published in the jonestown report<\/em>, appear here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cAllegory (1974), The Prophetic\u00a0Text That Preceded the Tragedy,\u201d<\/a> by Laurie Efrein Kahalas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Guyana: How It Was,”<\/a> a radio documentary on the Jonestown deaths by Tony Russomanno (November 25, 1978)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Margaret Singer Tapes<\/a>, a collection of tapes recorded by the Human Freedom Center and the Concerned Relatives.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cA Witness to Tragedy and Resurrection,\u201d<\/a> sermon preached by John V Moore in Reno, Nevada (November 26, 1978)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cDr. Peter David Beter Audio Letter No. 40,\u201d the presentation of one of the first conspiracy theories regarding the deaths in Jonestown (November 30, 1978). It asserts, among other claims, that “Congressman Ryan had been deliberately sacrificed in order to launch a covert military operation in Guyana,” that “[t]he psychological profile of the leader, Jim Jones, indicated that he could be converted into a powerful tool of our Unseen Rulers,” and that those who refused to drink the poison in Jonestown “were herded off into the jungle and shot without mercy.”
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\u2022 Mae Brussell, whose political awakening occurred with the JFK assassination and who then took to the radio airwaves for 17 years on a \u201cselfless, nonstop journey of political and history research,\u201d discussed Jim Jones and Peoples Temple on at least two occasions. In a broadcast from August 1977, according to her website<\/a>, \u201cMae discussed Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple move to Guyana. She speculated it might be a training camp for assassination teams \u2013 this was more than a year before 913 members of the church were massacred.\u201d\u00a0A transcript of this broadcast does not appear on her site.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of Jonestown, however, Ms. Brussell recorded three hour-long radio programs in consecutive weeks with her analysis of the deaths and her beliefs that \u201cJonestown was a CIA Mind Control Experiment.\u201d \u00a0The recordings were made on:<\/p>\n