(Timothy Lisagor\u2019s previous article for <\/em>the jonestown report is Jim Jones and Christine Miller: An Analysis of Jonestown\u2019s Final Struggle<\/a>. He may be reached at timlisagor@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n We have access to exhaustive attention to the details, and with such attention the details become reference points and poring over the details deadens the impact. It is easier to manage facts and not to rest on any one, but this is problematic, for how do we understand and maintain hope for different outcomes without a focus on the worst of the details. In the jungle of Guyana, South America, more than 900 Peoples Temple members committed mass suicide. Until the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the suicides at Jonestown were the greatest loss of civilian life in America\u2019s history. Parents watched poison syringed into the mouths of their children before drinking the Flavor-Aid cyanide mixture themselves. These are the details about the end but there are details that foreshadow and they are pivotal in our understanding of Jonestown.<\/p>\n The communal desire wills away the tragedy as anomalous, but the images are not easily forgotten for they were a community. In pictures, the bodies dropped like kindling. As a community, they toiled on a scar carved in the South American rainforest, but on that fateful day, they followed an unstable and exhausted pastor and collectively committed suicide (Who Died<\/a>). This was not a rash decision and the details reveal that it was not much of a decision at all.<\/p>\n Jim Jones founded Peoples Temple in Indiana, and from the very beginning, he focused on retaining and augmenting membership, and did not tolerate defectors easily.<\/p>\n Earl you will be making a serious mistake if you leave our Temple that God has ordained and declared you to be a part of. Don\u2019t go out to see the proof of what I just said (Note to Earl Jackson<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In language that would become familiar to many in his congregation, Jim Jones implores church member Earl Jackson to remain and predicts negative consequences if he abandons the church. Jones claims that \u201cmuch sorrow and heartbreak will be the result\u201d of defection. His desire to retain members is understandable, but the note reveals that he is not beyond threats to keep his followers.<\/p>\n In 1965, Jones moved his church to Ukiah in the Redwood Valley of California. There he published a pamphlet entitled \u201cThe Letter Killeth,\u201d representing his attempt to right what he notes as inconsistencies, errors, and atrocities in the Bible (The Letter<\/a>). He separates the bulk of the document in two sections: Great Truths in the Bible and Errors. He begins Great Truths quoting Acts 2:44-46 (\u201cAnd all that believed were together, and had all things in common: And sold their possessions and goods\u201d) and Matthew 19:24 (\u201cIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God\u201d). In Errors, Jim Jones identifies inconsistencies in the Bible and includes a separate section on the abomination of slavery.<\/p>\n As one of the few extant documents which he wrote, it establishes Jones\u2019 foundation for Peoples Temple. He allies with socialist and communist theories and provides the Bible verses to support his belief. He denounces slavery and impugns the pursuit of wealth. \u201cThe Letter Killeth\u201d dovetails with the Temple decision to transfer church funds to a missionary account used at the discretion of Jim Jones (Decision<\/a>). He promotes the philosophy that everything is to be equally shared, and that no one gets rich; however, Jones uses trickery to obtain total control of church money. In the following sermon from 1973 sermon, Jones preaches what he does not practice. Along the way, he says that the religious leaders around them cannot be emancipated \u201cas I\u201d until they renounce their worldly possessions and \u201cput the money in the people\u2019s hands, for land, jobs, industry, businesses, and social justice in the courts.\u201d His frustration with the ministers of all religions led him to call out, \u201cif there\u2019s any God in the universe, let it be deposited in me. If there\u2019s any energy in the universe, let it be combusted in me. And that moment, it happened. And ever since that moment\u2026 I have seen myself as God, and I have seen my children as gods\u201d (Tape Q974<\/a>).<\/p>\n In direct contradiction to this sermon, Jones takes control of church funds with the missionary account. His actions and the actions of his followers are not spontaneous; rather, Jim Jones gradually abrades their independence. He takes complete control but erodes any protestation with sermons of equality and community. That control is absolute and present early, as he wears his people down. His language in writings and sermons reveal much of this attrition, reveals his gradual and consistent erosion of personal autonomy. As Jones assumes the reigns of an entire community, he is ill prepared for the daily trivialities required to maintain order. He creates a pandemic which eventually fells all involved.<\/p>\n An analysis of his speech patterns reveals that Jones also suffers this attrition. While he begins as a dynamic speaker, by November 1978, he sounds exhausted, compromised, and finished. His speech patterns reflect this gradual but consistent degradation.<\/p>\n The sermons of Jim Jones represent what Frederick Erickson labels local and global ecologies (Erickson, 108-125). Local ecologies are exchanges occurring in real time, in the present (Erickson, 108-109). A global ecology concerns events beyond the local but that bear on the conversations occurring in the present (Erickson, 110-112). In a local ecology, it is important for speakers to \u201cread the verbal and nonverbal reactions of listeners\u201d and to reorient \u201cactions in the light of the visual and auditory feedback\u201d (Erickson, 109). Jim Jones is adept at connecting local and global ecologies to create a message that is immediately accessible and representative of world events affecting the audience. Erickson describes this effect as top down-determining influences moving from global to local ecologies (Erickson, 112). The local ecologies depend on what occurs beyond the immediate exchange. In the following strips of text taken from the Q932 tape delivered in 1972, Jim Jones connects global and local ecologies.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>So it\u2019s (struggles for words) changed the tarnished images of the Mormons, uh, \u2018cause that fellow pulled a pretty slick one, until he went back to his own Mormon community and bailed out. (Pause) And uh, (struggles for words) I like to mention that, because they\u2019re always mentioning it, any time a black does something, black man. (Pause) <\/strong> In describing events experienced by the members of his church, Jones identifies a pervasive racism in America and a bias towards identifying black Americans as perpetrators of crime. Eliminating labels for other ethnicities solely constrains the attention on black criminals. Jones identifies the influence of global ecology on local ecology of black Temple members. They are unduly stereotyped.<\/p>\n Following this acknowledgement, Jim Jones conversely infuses the congregation with power, a technique Erickson would describe as a bottom-up influence, with the local affecting the global (Erickson, 112). Jones will now identify other ethnicities when crimes are committed so black Americans are spared sole accusation. He continues describing the global ecology but extends his argument as an indictment of the structure of capitalism.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Socialist consciousness means that you believe in these days that some form must\u2013 of government must come whereby the means of production and distribution are owned by the people. That\u2019s what the New Testament spoke about. All the people holding things in common. The Indians had this. They didn\u2019t believe anybody could own the earth. We\u2019d be better off if we had now\u2013 look what industries have done with it. We have the worst smog, we have the most\u2013 worst coal tar, we have more carcinogens in American air than anybody has. (Tape Q932<\/a>)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The free market industries pollute the air, violating the idea that it cannot be owned, only experienced communally. The ruination of the environment results when each factory seeks more production, more profit. The world is better with communal holdings.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>We say, oh, the church shouldn\u2019t have anything to do with government. Oh, yes it should, the government is upon his shoulders. We have to get involved with politics. (Pause) It\u2019s your duty. (Pause) And the\u2013 no planet\u2019s going to\u2013 no heaven\u2019s going to take a bunch of people that were too creepy that they were so lousy they wouldn\u2019t do anything to make this a better world. Now you better\u2013 see, this is\u2013 see, we\u2019re asleep. They feed us wrong, they give us preservatives, the worst kind of foods end up in the cheapest supermarkets\u2013 still a practice, you in the black section, you get foods that came from the middle-class white neighborhoods, that\u2019s a week old. (Tape Q932<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jones continues to reverse ecology interdependence claiming the importance of the church\u2019s involvement in politics. He pushes for a bottom-up direction of influence countering the concept of social determinism (Erickson, 113). The marginal and disenfranchised would respond favorably to such a message, as he establishes power where it was previously absent. Erickson describes this process as socialization (Erickson, 114). Socialization occurs when individuals learn the methods to operate within a structured society to maximize the experience of positive reward. Anna de Fina writes of marginal groups interpreting and appropriating concepts beyond their direct influence (de Fina, 352). They construct identities from their interpretation and appropriation of the dominant culture (de Fina, 352). In these sermons, Jim Jones provides the tools of socialization to his church. He describes their exploitation but begins to explain how, as a community, they can enact positive change within an unfair system. When Peoples Temple moved to San Francisco this idea seemed possible.<\/p>\n Jones resettled in San Francisco in hopes of increasing membership in Peoples Temple and thereby increasing political clout. The socialization sermons delivered by Jim Jones appeared genuine when Peoples Temple moved. Members of Peoples Temple campaigned for progressive mayoral candidate George Moscone. After his election, Moscone appointed Jim Jones as head of the Housing Authority Commission. Jones held audience with Rosalynn Carter and vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and was able to court a Stanford-educated lawyer, Tim Stoen, to represent Peoples Temple (Hall, 66, 168, 177). Superficially, Peoples Temple appeared cohesive, dedicated, and successful; however, this patina belied the truth.<\/p>\n Jones assumes different roles that insidiously gain the trust of his followers. He presents himself as god and relies on the traditional chicanery of faith healing to convince followers of his divinity. He slyly incorporates aspects of group cohesion, including narratives about the person healed. As Anna de Fina notes, \u201cnarrators build shared representations about who they are by creating story-worlds in which identities are characterized in common ways and routinely related to specific actions or reactions\u201d (de Fina, 351). Narratives allow speakers to ally with a community; by telling stories a person can belong. De Fina describes the importance of narratives identifying the community affiliation of \u201cminorities and marginal groups\u201d and their interpretation and appropriation of \u201cmainstream labeling categories\u201d (de Fina, 352).<\/p>\n In the following strip of text, Jim Jones proceeds to heal a man Rupis Washington.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>(Calmly) Rupis Washington. (Softly) Cripple man. My God, how you must have suffered. Jones does more than heal Washington, he tells a story. He claims Rupis was visiting in-laws in Mississippi and struck down by a white racist who deliberately swerved his car into Rupis and his young child. Including this facet of the accident conveys a story, and this narrative connects Jones with the community.<\/p>\n Jim Jones founded Peoples Temple with superficially noble principles. He supported racial equality during a time when many Americans were opposed to integration. The Temple\u2019s progressive tenets attracted people who existed on the margins of society or had grown antipathetic to established intolerance.<\/p>\n Jones recognizes the struggle of his members, and he exploits it. Through this healing narrative, he erases the racial distinction between himself and his members. He is white but not racist; he condemns the white Americans complicit in the violence experienced by Rupis Washington. He joins the community; however, also rises above as Rupis Washington\u2019s narrative nestles inside the faith-healing process. Rupis is paralyzed owing to racist violence, but Jim Jones sets things right. He eradicates bigotry in this community and erases the former hurt caused by racial inequality. He frees Washington from paralysis, which stands as a metaphor for overcoming racial injustice.<\/p>\n Jim Jones ensures that the community understands that he maintains order and control. Rupis Washington cannot heal himself \u2013 he needs Jim Jones. Jones ferrets out dissenters and exposes them to the community. As they would revel as a community, they would reprove as a community. He augments the disapproval by incorporating public punishment and castigation during the sermons.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Now I\u2014 I get (draws out word) mighty nervous. I\u2019m settin\u2019 here, looking at a whole lot of folk again tonight, that I don\u2019t know from nobody. And they\u2019re settin\u2019 here looking quiet. And they got some white ones. They look white, they obviously look white, and I got some black ones that are acting white, and\u2014 Either relax, honey, clap, or get yourself on the move, \u2018cause I\u2019m not\u2014 I\u2019m not interested in this mess tonight. This is a community that members can choose to belong or not belong. Jim Jones understands that he has created a local ecology to oppose the racist oppressive global ecology. To belong is to exclude, and Jones delineates this distinction in the preceding strip of text. He pushes further in this sermon identifying the out group as white, and describes \u201cacting white\u201d as being uptight, establishment oriented, and complicit in dominant hegemony. He creates a community that moves beyond participation to cooperation, but he also constructs a foundation where dissent is anathema. He encourages community but \u2013 as a community \u2013 it must strictly obey the rules as he defines them. There is little patience for those who violate them: participants must clap or \u201cmove on.\u201d Members applaud his rebuke, and the woman concluding the text strip states that participants not clapping should be \u201cshamed.\u201d<\/p>\n As Peoples Temple expanded, fissures began to form that reveal the control Jones had over his followers and the decadence he encouraged. In 1973 eight members of Peoples Temple drafted a letter explaining why they were leaving the church. The following excerpt from the letter conveys the command Jones continues to have on apostates from Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n Before we explain ourselves further, let us say that our departure has nothing to do with you. To us, you are the finest socialist and leader this earth has ever seen. We plan to contact you and, if you see fit, work with you, not staff. We have nothing to say to or with staff.\u2026 The letter composed by these eight defectors reveals abuses, hypocrisy, and capitalist hierarchies that belie the message Jim Jones delivers in his sermons. Even as they profess a belief in socialism, the writers reveal a decadent, sexually-open environment perversely labeled as loyalty. They exonerate Jim Jones from any of the systemic abuses in the church. Rather, they chastise the rest of the Temple leadership for requiring Jim Jones\u2019 \u201csensitivity and dedication\u201d wholly freeing him from any complicity or blame.<\/p>\n Brian Schiff and Chaim Noy argue that narratives such as the letter by the Eight Revolutionaries are expansive collections of information. A storyteller marshals information from an array of sources such as \u201cwords, meanings, stories, expressions, and symbols,\u201d and this input shapes personal narrative (Schiff & Noy, 400). This account is influenced by the abuse in Peoples Temple but also by Jim Jones\u2019 approximation of socialist ideology. The eight apostates reveal their shared experience through the dichotomous treatment of the problems in Peoples Temple and the reverence they harbor for Jim Jones. They lose faith in the church but not in its leader; that is their narrative. There exists a disconnection between the staff and Jim Jones, and it is the latter with whom they hope to work in the future.<\/p>\n Jim Jones responds to the defection in a sermon from which three strips of text have been included. In these three excerpts Jim Jones strengthens the communal identity of the members who remain in the church.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Yes, I can lift. There\u2019s an energy about me that I can lift you to the other planet, but the other planet\u2019s just a stage of evolution, just like we\u2019re a stage higher than the reptiles and the chimpanzees. Although sometimes when I look at our chimp up there, Mr. Muggs<\/a> who comes to church with us, I wonder who\u2019s higher, \u2018cause he\u2019s awfully loyal to me. You better not mess with me with Mr. Muggs around. You better not touch me with Mr. Muggs around. You\u2019ll get bit, and I don\u2019t mean just bit, you get tore into, because Muggs remembers that I saved him when they were going to cut him up. Something\u2013 He\u2019s loyal anyway. Yeah, yeah, that\u2019s what I got against you, some of my people say, they don\u2019t come. They\u2019re always saving dogs and animals. You better go over and look at these dog pounds, and see how they shoving these little animals in these gas vats. There\u2019s only a step \u2013 only just a step \u2013 before they\u2019ll be shoving black people in them. In the preceding text, Jim Jones bolsters his power by claiming supernatural abilities. Filled with energy, he can move his people to another planet \u2013 metaphorically a stage in human development. He tells his story with no irony; his narrative reveals a fey, otherworldly leader who demands reverence. He next bizarrely alludes to a large chimpanzee he keeps as a pet. He initially threatens anyone who might assault him with the retribution of Mr. Muggs. Jones immaturely reacts to perceived defectors or possible seizure of control.<\/p>\n Jones distorts logic in an attempt to create an outside and inside group, creating identity from his narrative that extermination by the American government was imminent. He claims the time will soon come when black Americans will be targeted and eliminated. He fosters a culture of fear within his community. Outside is not safe; the only bulwark for the community is Peoples Temple. Temple members developed a community and Jones heightens the threat beyond the safety of the group. Jones\u2019 logic may have stretched thin, but racism is pervasive, Peoples Temple is not far removed from the violent attacks during the civil rights struggle, and he can exploit this fear.<\/p>\n Jones<\/strong>: (Voice climbs) And you say, why is it? Well, I say again, why did Jesus have a Judas? And we need them. We needed this, or I couldn\u2019t tell you last night I want it, but we needed every one of these things, makes us stronger, every one of these things makes us more perfect, everything \u2013 every one of these knocks boosts us a little more, everything that ha\u2013 happens to us makes us a little wiser, and I hope (normal tone) we\u2019ll let it make us more loving. That\u2019s the hardest part. In the preceding strip of text, Jim Jones continues to encapsulate the community. Those that defect create a stronger community; those that remain are loyal to his message. The systemic abuses continue as they are habitual and ingrained, and those that remain tacitly condone them. Jones concludes by fashioning himself a trickster, a wise and crafty fox. He conveys a gleeful revelry in continuing engage in decadent behavior while confusing his followers with distorted logic.<\/p>\n Jones<\/strong>: \u2013the way. (Pause) By the way, it\u2019s interesting to note that we have facts to show you that it isn\u2019t all gravy, that Jim Cobb [of the Eight Revolutionaries] has arthritis in the knee so bad that while he\u2019s out on these cold nights, that he can hardly move his knee. Terri [Cobb] Pietila [of the Eight Revolutionaries] had her\u2013 had a uh, a cancerous growth here that I took from her breast. It was not serious, I mean, it\u2019s\u2013 it was made\u2013 she was made free of even losing a breast, but she had [to] increase her pain pills last night to double<\/em> what she oug\u2013 what uh, she should take. So don\u2019t envy people who don\u2019t do right. Jim Jones frightens his audience with a supernatural warning. Jones, as a trickster, scares his audience who previously witnessed his healings. The healings promote hope, but turning away from the church removes his blessing. Jones slyly constructs a dangerous world of genocide and the return of physical pain that lies beyond Peoples Temple. He huddles his community close, claiming strength through the non-believers who left.<\/p>\n It was not simply the Eight Revolutionaries who defected from Peoples Temple. Apostates exposed much that was rotten within the structure of Peoples Temple. Members Elmer and Deanna Mertle defected citing economic, political, and personal reasons. The Mertles wanted to steer Peoples Temple in a different direction from Jim Jones. There existed disagreements over property that Elmer and Deanna formerly signed over to the Temple (Hall, 179-180). Their daughter Linda suffered physical abuse, being struck 75 times (Hall, 123, 179). This public corporal punishment conveys the immersion of members in Peoples Temple. There are no individual transgressions \u2013 rather they stain the entire community \u2013 and only public corporal punishments satisfied the group. The Mertles\u2019 conflict with Peoples Temple became so distressing that Elmer and Deanna changed their names to Al and Jeannie Mills (Hall, 180). Grace Stoen, who came to Peoples Temple through her husband, Peoples Temple lawyer Tim Stoen, also grew disillusioned with the church and defected with member, Walter \u201cSmitty\u201d Jones (Hall, 180). Defectors shared their stories about the threats, corporal punishment, and the extortion of personal property; these reports soon made there way back to Jim Jones (Hall, 183-184).<\/p>\n In the following strip of text taken from a 1976 sermon, Jim Jones rants against those who have questioned his authority.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>There are those amongst us who have the audacity to question that I can materialize anything, and I\u2019m looking at one who has received such comment. I do not want you to feel welcome when you set off and criticize this house, that\u2019s not (unintelligible word) whether or not we do these things. The fact is you have no business listening to that kind of comment, and the woman that made it is such a no-account who never puts anything into this work and drains it dry\u2013 (Tape Q965<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This strip recalls Jones\u2019 claims of supernatural power with his statement that he can \u201cmaterialize anything.\u201d He decries criticism as treasonous to their cause; those that speak out are not welcome. He again closes the community tight around him claiming that a woman who criticizes him is a \u201cno-account who never puts anything into this work and drains it dry.\u201d He identifies \u2013 albeit not by name \u2013 someone who questioned his authority and emphasizes that no one has any cause to listen to her protestations. As the time nears his departure for Guyana, this side of Jones\u2019 personality will become more apparent as he grows increasing paranoid and angry with individuals who seek to expose abuses. The loyal and resolute work for the cause and do not spare time to critique the leader. Those who do contest violate Temple principles and should not be believed. He creates a milieu of vigilance, with each member alert to others who may speak negatively about him.<\/p>\n Jones was quick to maintain control but also knew when to allow input from others. His charisma depends on this ability to maintain control but appear open to Temple members. Laura (Johnston) Kohl, was a member of Peoples Temple who was in Georgetown during the mass suicide in 1978. corroborates Jones\u2019 ability to enfold and control. \u201cJim was a master at making people feel that they were free to discuss ideas with him. He was not threatened by discussions or new ideas\u2026 he knew as we all did, that he was the final decision-maker\u201d (Kohl). It is these antipodal aspects that reveal the nature of his charisma. He simultaneously creates a community based on reciprocal ideas but also remains in control of every decision.<\/p>\n This dichotomy may appear in conflict with former strips of text. Jones rants against those who question his ultimate authority; however, he directs the majority of his ire towards defectors. He criticizes defectors to draw his community close, but within the community Jones allows members to discuss ideas freely. He controls the community, but this control requires Jones to finesse the members with both sternness and affection. This effect continues to erode personal autonomy. The members are valued in a community that matters.<\/p>\n In 1977, it was not simply the reports of defectors that were newsworthy, it was also efforts of Peoples Temple to block the stories based on these reports. Suspicion arose regarding a break-in at New West<\/em> Magazine prior to its publication of an article critical of Peoples Temple. The attempts to suppress the investigations emboldened journalists who sensed a story behind the intensity to preserve secrecy (Hall, 184). In spite of the efforts of Peoples Temple, these articles created doubt concerning the organization and its leader. Conservatives in San Francisco used the Temple news articles as fodder to support a restructuring of city government. Jim Jones resigned from his position as head of the Housing Authority Commission but not before leaving for the Temple\u2019s Agricultural Project in Guyana (Hall, 189-190).<\/p>\n When Jones moved to Guyana in 1977, much of what he created was collapsing. A group of disaffected former members and distressed families calling themselves the Concerned Relatives became the greatest challenge to Peoples Temple (Hall, 210). Jim Jones could not create a socialist retreat in Jonestown as he increasingly embroiled himself in conflict with this oppositional group.<\/p>\n Jones\u2019 addresses in Jonestown are markedly different from this in California. He appears exhausted and preoccupied with death. In the following strip of text from December 1977, Jones begins developing the foundation of what would occur less than a year later.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Do you ever plan your death? There\u2019s a number of you that do not lift your hand and say you plan your death. You don\u2019t ever plan your death? (pause) You\u2019re gonna die<\/em>. Don\u2019t you think you should plan about such an important event? (pause) Hmmm? (pause) Well, I see some\u2013 I\u2019ll just call somebody I don\u2019t see their hands up, that\u2013 that they\u2019re not planning their death. Lois Ponts, I don\u2019t see your hand up, don\u2019t you plan your death? Jones assumes the role of a father trying to guide his children. As he speaks gently to Vera Talley, he conveys a comforting protector who is moving his followers toward a positive decision. But he perverts his role as a leader to convince Temple members that planning a death is better than \u201chave it be an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n This represents a marked shift between Jones and his community. Construction of Jonestown began Jonestown in 1974, but the majority of Temple members did not move permanently until 1977, only a few months before this preceding strip of text. It is clear that Temple members initially did not follow Jones\u2019 logic. None had thought about Jonestown being the end. They expected Jonestown to thrive as socialist utopia, but it is clear that Jones intends them to die.<\/p>\n Jim Jones continues toward the end by addressing seemingly unrelated subjects. In the following strip of text Jones castigates Jonestown residents for their sexual freedom.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>You better be sure<\/em> what you\u2019re openin\u2019, you want\u2013 (pause) \u2018Cause it\u2013 you\u2019re not gettin\u2019 away with sex. The woman is seeking you for some kind of damn image thing, \u2018cause a woman is sexually driven, she cannot get her orgasm in no few minutes. No<\/em> way\u2013 So somethin\u2019<\/em> else that the\u2013 you women are doin\u2019 with this sex business\u2013 and why is it that you have to do it here? I don\u2019t understand it. (pause) I don\u2019t know why you want to take such a chance\u2013 What<\/em> kinda fuck is worth it? What\u2019re you gonna do when the pills<\/em> run out? These pills are horribly expensive. I don\u2019t know what the pharmacist can tell us, but it\u2019s very, very\u2013 they\u2019re very low. So what\u2019s gonna happen then? You brothers gonna have to use rubbers, and that\u2019ll take care of half of our jobs\u2013 \u2018Cause we\u2019re gonna penalize everybody that uh, gets pregnant. We can\u2019t afford pregnancies now. We owe more than that to our people. What we gonna do if we got 50 pregnant women when the war comes? (Tape Q787<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jim Jones criticizes the residents for having sex: he accuses women of using sex to achieve status; he warns that birth control methods are scarce, and that Jonestown cannot \u201cafford pregnancies now.\u201d The community grows with more children, but Jones has no intention of enlarging the community. He views pregnancy as a threat to his goal of mass suicide, since pregnant women or women who recently gave birth would be less likely to view suicide as an option. A surfeit of pregnant women might create a faction of members unwilling to follow Jones, and this faction could influence other members and undermine the entire plan.<\/p>\n It is clear that Jones is progressively wearing away the resolve of his followers. They believe in him, they establish a socialist community in Guyana, and they now listen to him encourage the planning of death and the cessation of birth. His distorting logic now antithetical to what they thought Jonestown would be, he wants them to cease population growth and encourages members to focus on their revolutionary death.<\/p>\n Concurrent with Jones\u2019 speeches, a phantasmagoric environment exists in Jonestown. The following excerpt concerns the public punishment of an adult member of the Temple who sexually assaulted a child.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Let her get it out, let her get it out, she\u2019s the one that was raped, let her get it out. Let her get it out. The preceding text reflects the debauchery rife in Jonestown. By this time, Jones is in poor health and is abusing alcohol and drugs. He lacks energy and wearies from the burden needed to maintain order in the settlement. Earlier in this sermon he chastises residents who pee on the ground instead of designated basins. The community identifies an adult member who sexually assaulted a child. To punish the man, Jones encourages the victim to physically assault her attacker. He encourages her to hit him in the groin and then commands him to drop his pants. Jonestown lacks order and is devolving into base impulses and brutality.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in California, the Concerned Relatives contacted Leo Ryan, a sympathetic congressman from San Mateo, to investigate the Jonestown settlement (Hall, 255). When Ryan arrived in Jonestown, sixteen members elected to leave with him, but ultimately he saw little wrong during his visit until the final day and assured Jones he would deliver a positive report when he returned to the United States. He offered a few suggestions to increase accessibility to the public, but spoke favorably about the settlement. Before he could conclude these statements, Don Sly, nicknamed Ujara, attacked Ryan with a knife. Sly was pulled free, but Ryan\u2019s focus had shifted. \u201cDoes this change everything?\u201d Jones asked. Ryan responded that it did not change everything, \u201cbut it changes things\u201d (Hall, 275-276). Ryan was convinced to leave immediately rather than stay another night as he had initially planned. He departed with members of the Concerned Relatives, the media who had accompanied him, and the sixteen Jonestown defectors (Hall, 277). Even as Jones delivered his final sermon, Temple gunmen were on their way to the Port Kaituma airstrip where they would assassinated Ryan and kill or wound another dozen of his entourage.<\/p>\n The charisma and manipulation of Jim Jones culminate in this final address. An announcement over the public address system has instructed everyone to gather at the pavilion. Jones begins by inveighing against those who had come to investigate the settlement and providing but one option in response (Hall, 280-287). One member of Peoples Temple speaks out against him. Christine Miller presents alternatives to suicide, arguments contrary to the focus of Jones\u2019 sermon.<\/p>\n The exchange between Jim Jones and Christine Miller is crucial to comprehending the tragic events that follow. Christine represents the loudest voice opposed to Jim Jones. Her opposition seemingly represents hope to those preparing to die. However, Jones had worked hard in softening his followers. They macerated in his words, becoming more and more open to leaps in logic and distortions of truth.<\/p>\n Jones understands the constraints of time: the murder of a US congressman would bring a swift response. He describes the failure of the community resulting from the accusations of the defectors, then continues with the events he believes is occurring at the nearby airstrip.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Of what\u2019s going to happen here in a matter of a few minutes, is that one of the few on that plane is gonna shoot the pilot. I know that. I didn\u2019t plan it, but I know it\u2019s gonna happen. They\u2019re gonna shoot that pilot, and down comes that plane into the jungle and we had better not have any of our children left when it\u2019s over, \u2018cause they\u2019ll parachute in here on us. I\u2019m telling you just as plain as I know how to tell you, I\u2019ve never lied to you\u2026 I never have lied to you. I know that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen, that\u2019s what he intends to do and he will do it. He\u2019ll do it. What\u2019s there being so bewildered with many, many pressures on my brain, seeing all these people behave so treasonous, it is just too much for me to put together, but, I now know what he was telling me and it\u2019ll happen. If the plane gets in the air even. So my opinion is that we be kind to children and be kind to seniors and take the potion like they used to take in ancient Greece, and step over quietly because we are not committing suicide. It\u2019s a revolutionary act. We can\u2019t go back. They won\u2019t leave us alone. They\u2019re now going back to tell more lies which means more congressmen. And there\u2019s no way, no way we can survive. Anybody \u2026 Anyone that has any dissenting opinion, please speak \u2026 Yes \u2026 You can have opportunity, but if their children are left we\u2019re gonna have them butchered. We can make a strike but we\u2019ll be striking against people that we don\u2019t want to strike against. And what we\u2019d like to get is the people who caused this stuff and some, there\u2019s some people here are prepared to know how to do that \u2026 go in town and get Timothy Stoen, but there\u2019s no plane, there\u2019s no plane, you can\u2019t catch a plane in time. He\u2019s responsible for it. He brought these people to us. He and Deanna Myrtle. But people in San Francisco will not, not be idle over this. And not take our death in vain, you know \u2026 Yes, Christine (Tape Q042<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jones asserts his purpose in the beginning of his sermon with a quote from the Bible: \u201cNo man takes my life from me, I lay my life down.\u201d The theme of persecution versus independence has recurred throughout the Temple\u2019s history.<\/p>\n He returns to themes in previous sermons: war, extermination, and persecution. Congressman Leo Ryan had come to Jonestown to investigate claims that people were exploited, dissatisfied, and eager to leave. Upon arriving, Ryan did discover some who wanted to return to America. The problem for Jones, however, is Ryan\u2019s overall favorable impression (Hall, 275). Jones\u2019 immediate claim is fabricated \u2013 and has followed his effort to destroy Ryan\u2019s impression via Ujara\u2019s attack \u2013 but he has stated it many times, and the community is with him.<\/p>\n Although the themes remain constant, Jim Jones\u2019 manner of speaking during this final sermon is peculiar. He health is poor; he suffers high blood pressure. He abuses drugs and is drunk at number Jonestown community meetings. He also suffers from attrition; he is worn out. Keeping order in the community is burdensome. People urinate throughout the settlement, work has slowed, there are rapes. Laura Kohl believes that \u201cdrugs were responsible for his slurring words and his lethargy and rambling during interviews\u201d (Kohl).<\/p>\n Jones develops a problem with the sibilant S. His S morphs into a combination of S and TH sounds. This trait was not always present and a result of his failing health and substance abuse. Jones had been diagnosed with a lung disease, and it was also reported that he attempted to strike a balance using both amphetamines and opiates (Hall, 243, 254). In early sermons, Jones is a commanding and imperious speaker. His speaks quickly but clearly enunciates his words. In this final sermon, he draws out his S sounds and often his words trail before achieving coherency. It is seemingly unintentional, but the effect is disarming. He no longer sounds commanding but rather seems exhausted and finished.<\/p>\n Included in the final strips of text are notations that assist in identifying the odd speech patterns. A key to this conversation analysis is located directly before the bibliography. Conversation analysis lends importance to aspects of speech beyond the content. Pauses, speed, inhalations, exhalations, inflection, emphasis, and nonverbal gesticulations are noted as influential to the context of what is said.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>I\u2019ve been living on a hope<\/span> for a long time, Christine, and I appreciate\u2013 You\u2019ve always been a very good (. 5)<\/strong> agitator. I like agitation (. 5)<\/strong> because you have to see two sides of one issue, two sides of the question. \u2022hhh<\/strong> What\u2019s those people gonna get done: : <\/strong>once they get through: : <\/strong>? They make our life worse than hell, they\u2019ll make the Russians not accept us. When they get through lying\u2026 \u2022hh<\/strong>They told so many lies: : : <\/strong>between there: : <\/strong><\/span>and that truck<\/span> that we are, we are done in as far as any other alternative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In the preceding exchange, Christine and Jones debate the possibility of escaping to Russia seeking the protection of the Communist party. Peoples Temple allied itself with the Communist party, and a vague idea existed that the community could emigrate and thrive under the aegis of the Soviet Union (Hall, 249-250). In his response to Christine, Jones is insidious. He compliments her \u2013 stating that she is \u201ca very good agitator\u201d \u2013 and hopes to quell her protest through the compliment. Praise from the leader of the community surely resulted in feelings of pride and appreciation. Rather than directly deny Christine\u2019s claims, Jones validates her but continues to dismiss her argument. She is good, but her argument is flawed. He then reiterates the lack of alternatives. Kohl describes Jones as \u201ca master at making people feel like they were free to discuss ideas with him\u201d (Kohl). Jones allows Christine her view, but his power ensures that her opinion will not sway the crowd.<\/p>\n The gambit works. The crowd fully sides with Jones. Christine, unfortunately, speaks only for herself. Jones \u201cknew who the most popular \/powerful people were\u2013 and he would have responded a different way to one of them on the last day\u201d (Kohl). Moreover, Jones was never threatened by new ideas; \u201che knew as we all did, that he was the final decision-maker.\u201d Kohl describes Christine Miller as \u201csomewhat abrasive\u201d and she \u201cdid not have the emotional support of a lot of other residents\u201d (Kohl). Christine is not wrong, but unfortunately she is not popular.<\/p>\n Secure in his position and ideas, Jones continues to discount Christine\u2019s alternatives.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>Tired of people\u2019s lives in my ><\/strong>hands and I certainly don\u2019t want your life in my hands and I\u2019m going to tell you, Christine, without me, (. 5) <\/strong>life has no meaning (crowd cheers)<\/strong> I\u2019m the best friend you\u2019ll ?ever<\/span> have: <\/strong>. And once, once I have to pay: <\/strong><\/span>I\u2019m standing<\/span> with Ujara, I\u2019m standing<\/span> with those people. (1. 0) <\/strong>They\u2019re part of me: : <\/strong>. I<\/span> could detach myself ><\/strong> my attorney says detach myself <<\/strong> no, no, no, no, no, no I\u2019d<\/span> never detach myself from any of your troubles. I\u2019ve always taken<\/span> your troubles right<\/span> on my shoulders and I\u2019m not gonna change that now: : <\/strong>. It\u2019s too<\/span> late. I\u2019ve been running too long<\/span>. Not gonna change now: : <\/strong>. (crowd applauds) ><\/strong>Maybe the next time you\u2019ll get to go to Russia (. 5)<\/strong> the next time \u2018round (1)<\/strong> \u2022hh<\/strong>This is, ><\/strong>what I\u2019m talking about to now is in the dispensation of judgment. This is the revolutionary su, sui \u2026 this is revolutionary suicide council, (. 5) <\/strong>I\u2019m not talking about self, self-destruction. (1)<\/strong> I\u2019m talking about what, we have no other road: : <\/strong>. I will take<\/span> your call: : <\/strong>. We will put it to the Russians<\/span>, and I can tell you the answer now: : <\/strong>, ><\/strong>because I\u2019m a prophet. (crowd assents)<\/strong> Call<\/span> the Russians and tell them and see if they\u2019ll take us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This statement is quite personal and likely telling of his mental state at the time of the sermon. Jones is weary of being tormented, presumably by the investigators from America. He then states that he is \u201ctired of peoples lives in my hands\u201d which reveals his exhaustion having the entire community contingent on his leadership.<\/p>\n Jones: <\/strong>To lay<\/span> down your ?burdens, I\u2019m gonna lay<\/span> down my ?burdens, <<\/strong>down by the riverside, ><\/strong>should we lay them down here \u2026 inside of Guyana. ><\/strong>?What\u2019s the difference? (5)<\/strong> No<\/span> ?man didn\u2019t take our ?lives, right now, ><\/strong>he hadn\u2019t taken it, but when they start parachuting<\/span> out of the air, they, they\u2019ll shoot some of our innocent ?babies. ><\/strong>I\u2019m not \u2026 I don\u2019t want to see this, Christine. <<\/strong>They gotta shoot<\/span> me: : <\/strong>to get through
\nCongregation: <\/strong>Laughter. Calls of \u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d
\nJones: <\/strong>Black man on certain street did this, black man run through a traffic light, so any time now, until they stop telling everything black people do, every time I see a Catholic do something or a Mormon do something or a Mennonite do something, I\u2019m going to tell it. (Tape Q932<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAnnouncer: <\/strong>(Calmly) He is so crippled that he cannot stand unassisted.
\nJones: <\/strong>More difficult to get up, so uh, if\u2013 if we are able to reach this, and you\u2019re to break<\/em> that thing totally, that\u2019s why I moved from the\u2013 the\u2013 it\u2019s easier to cure an ear than it is to cure this<\/em> man. He\u2019s crippled and paralyzed there.
\nAnnouncer: <\/strong>(Solemn) Even with assistance, he cannot stand.
\nJones: <\/strong>Paralyzed. Your pelvis<\/em> was broken, isn\u2019t it?
\nWashington: <\/strong>Yeah. (Cries softly throughout healing)
\nJones: <\/strong>Eighteen years ago in a (Pause) accident.
\nWashington: <\/strong>Oh, yeah.
\nJones: <\/strong>Let\u2019s see if I can build your faith.
\nWashington: <\/strong>Oh, my God.
\nJones: <\/strong>Saint Timothy Baptist\u2013 you were born in Louisiana.
\nWashington: <\/strong>Yes.
\nJones: <\/strong>But this accident happened in uh, uh, Mississippi.
\nWashington: <\/strong>Yes.
\nJones: <\/strong>By an old granary.
\nWashington: <\/strong>Oh, yes.
\nJones: <\/strong>All right. Hands clasped.
\nWashington: <\/strong>My God.
\nJones: <\/strong>You were visiting your in-laws in Mississippi, and when you went to go to the store with your youngest baby in your arms, a white racist went across the wrong side of the road-
\nWashington: <\/strong>Oh, yes.
\nJones: \u2013<\/strong>and struck you down on purpose-
\nWashington: <\/strong>Yes.
\nJones: \u2013<\/strong>and fled the scene of the accident.
\nWashington: <\/strong>Oh, my God, yes. (Tape Q926<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nCongregation: <\/strong>Applause
\nJones: <\/strong> I said it, I\u2019m gonna say it one more time. Get\u2014 Get in here with us, and clap when we clap. You in Rome, you do as Romans do, or move out of here. I (unintelligible word) one more time, one more time. Or let\u2019s just move up and down, move up and down the aisles. Move \u2018em out of here.
\nCongregation: <\/strong>Applause
\nJones: <\/strong>I sure should not let this be. (Pause) (unintelligible word) right there, where they at, and tell \u2018em to move. (Pause) Who are you, sitting back there, black brother, even though you were with somebody buddy white, you\u2019re still black. You clap too? I say, everybody clap again.
\nCongregation: <\/strong>Applause.
\nJones: <\/strong>And there\u2019s one back there not clapping. (Pause) Clapping down there underneath your pants. Get your hands up there and clap it like it ought to be clapped.
\nCongregation: <\/strong>Applause
\nJones: <\/strong>(unintelligible word off mike) (Pause) Peace. Do really need to watch these people, they clap down there, they don\u2019t want to be seen.
\nWoman 3: <\/strong>Uh-huh, that\u2019s right. Shamed\u2013 (Tape Q1058-3<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nProceeding, a revolutionary as you and staff would say, does not engage in sex. Anyone with any awareness concerning socialism would give up sex. The reasons for giving up sex are agreeable with us. However, who takes the privileged liberty to abuse such a decision? STAFF. Carolyn Layton, Sandy Inghram, Karen Layton, Grace Stoen, Janet Phillips etc., have to be fucked in order to be loyal. Jack Beam Sr., Tim Stoen, [name withheld by request], Mike Prokes etc., have to be fucked in the butt for the same reason. Who has to do it to them but Jim Jones. The thought of demanding your sensitivity and dedication in such a manner is grossly sick. There are other staff that\u2019s taken advantage likewise. However, the above is sufficient.\u2026
\nIt is known in Peoples Temple that Helen Swinney isn\u2019t to be messed with. She brings in a lot of money for the church, so she\u2019s left alone, in spite of the fact she\u2019s a racist through and through. When Helen meets Peoples Temple\u2019s black members downtown or in public eye, she ignores them. We\u2019re not speaking of outside the ranks black people, we\u2019re speaking of Peoples Temple\u2019s black members. We have many testimonies to this fact. These people are both black and white (mainly black). It was staff that said \u201cdon\u2019t talk about Helen Swinney unless you can bring in as much money.\u201d This is a cruel and sick thing to say to poor white and black people that will never have the opportunity Helen had. Too, it has a stinking capitalist overtone with no socialist concern. It\u2019s true Helen has a lot of money, does what she wants and enjoys a condescending capitalist position.\u2026
\nOn what grounds is staff chosen? Does it mean anything or warrant respect and camaraderie if a black person proves loyal to Peoples Temple as long as 7, 8, 9, 10 years? There are black Peoples Temple members who have proven themselves through the years. Still, they participate in Peoples Temple from the same capacity as when they joined. On the other hand, there are those who become members of staff after 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 meetings. Mike Prokes, Annie Moore, Terry Buford, Gene Chaikin etc. are examples. How much do they know about Socialism? It\u2019s impossible to know what\u2019s necessary concerning Socialism the way they were introduced to it. How is it justified that new white people achieve such staff positions? New white upper middle class put in charge of a Socialist movement. New white upper middle class folk seem to be trusted and treated better than black folk who have proven their loyalties through the years. There\u2019s never been one black person who\u2019s come into Peoples Temple and put on staff right away.\u2026
\nWe know you have far too much on you and have to rely on staff for facts etc. This puts you in a vunerable position, because staff lies and their personal prejudices are given to you instead of fact. We\u2019ve witnessed it as well as experienced it. How can one judge or be objective about something they fear. The Staff being uppity white folk fear blackness, they fear what some of us had to offer, they fear the consequences of a do it now philosophy, they fear action.\u2026
\nWe want it known by you and staff that we don\u2019t believe in religion, we don\u2019t believe in God, we don\u2019t believe in reincarnation, we don\u2019t believe in impossible. We are not concerned with the beginning, the end or the hereafter. We are only concerned about today. (The Eight Revolutionaries<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nCongregation: <\/strong>That\u2019s right.
\nJones: <\/strong>They\u2019ll be shoving us<\/em> in them next. (Tape Q1057-2<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nWoman in Congregation<\/strong>: Yes.
\nJones<\/strong>: That\u2019s the hardest part. Oh, wiser I am, this old fox never looked like he could ever get any wiser, but every day he gets wiser (Tape Q1057-3<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nVoices in congregation<\/strong>: That\u2019s right. (Tape Q1057-3<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nPonts: <\/strong>Said, I always planned to uh, be blown in million pieces<\/em>. Thought that would be the best way to go up, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019d happen here.
\nJones: <\/strong>Well, I\u2019m uh\u2013 I\u2019m talking about planning<\/em> your death, I don\u2019t uh, I don\u2019t care how<\/em> you plan it, you may not plan it the way I<\/em> plan it or you may not plan it the way that ni\u2013 your comrade plans it, then\u2013 In other words, you have planned (pause) your death at times. You\u2019ve planned your death for an operation, and uh, some kind of operation the best\u2013 the way you\u2019d like to plan it would be to b\u2013 put your body in a million pieces.
\nPonts<\/strong> (interrupting): Yes, blow up something with it.
\nJones: <\/strong>That\u2019s a\u2013 that\u2019s a very ri\u2013that\u2019s a very realistic plan. (pause) How many planned their death? (pause) I\u2019m not trying to\u2013 some people, uh, Sister [Vera] Talley, don\u2019t you ever plan your death? You don\u2019t plan your death, huh?
\nVera Talley<\/strong>: (unintelligible)
\nJones: <\/strong>You don\u2019t<\/em>? Well, I\u2013 I think you, uh, I\u2019d like to know why, what\u2013 what is it\u2013 you\u2013 the reason you don\u2019t? Maybe it\u2019s a mistake<\/em>, like, uh, \u2018cause some people are looking over at Sister (unintelligible name), and I thought I\u2019d asked her, and I\u2019m certain, I\u2019d heard her talk about dying. You don\u2019t ever plan your death?
\nTalley<\/strong>: No.
\nJones: <\/strong>You don\u2019t.
\nTalley<\/strong>: No.
\nJones: <\/strong>And why don\u2019t you, dear?
\nTalley<\/strong>: I don\u2019t know, I just hadn\u2019t thought about it.
\nJones: <\/strong>But don\u2019t you think it\u2019s, uh, time to think about it? (pause)
\nTalley<\/strong>: It\u2013 it may\u2013 It\u2013 (stumbling, pauses)
\nJones: <\/strong>What is it, honey?
\nTalley<\/strong>: It might be time, but I just hadn\u2019t thought about planning it.
\nJones: <\/strong>Well, it\u2019s a shame to have it to be an accident (pause)\u2013 it\u2019s a terrible thing to have it to be an accident, like I saw my mother [Lynetta Jones] and in many ways your<\/em> mother to be, uh, wasted and just laid in a box. I think that\u2019s a kind of a waste, don\u2019t you think (Tape Q998<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nCrowd<\/strong>: (Shouts)
\nJones: <\/strong>Hit him in the balls<\/em>. Hit him in the balls<\/em>! Hit him! (Pause) Back off, back off, back off from him, back off from him, back off from him, let\u2013 back\u2013 no, no, I don\u2019t mean her! Everybody get away. Let em, let \u2018em loo\u2013 let her loose. So people can see.
\nMale: <\/strong>Everybody down, everybody down, everybody down. Everybody down. <\/strong>
\nJones: <\/strong>The rest of you, get out, so people can see. There been others raped out there. There been others raped out there! Get down<\/em>, you fuckers, get down.
\nCrowd<\/strong>: (Shouts)
\nVoices in crowd: <\/strong>That\u2019s right! Put that Judo on it. Hit his fucking ass! Kick him, kick him! Hold on tight! Yeah, you hurt! It don\u2019t hurt! It be all over now! Hit him again! Hit him again!
\nJones: <\/strong>Hold on to your precious balls, that you put into little babies.
\nVoices in crowd: <\/strong>Hit him again! Hit him again! You\u2019re a real man, aren\u2019t you?<\/strong>
\nJones: <\/strong>All you better look that\u2013 that decide you want to rape a child. You better look real well. We\u2019ll\u2013 we\u2019ll gladly stand up to face anybody about this. And Guyana\u2019ll back us up in it.
\nVoices in crowd: <\/strong>Hit him again, hit him again, hit him again. Stupidest! Goddamn liar! I get to your fucking ass. You better stand up! Stand your goddamn ass up, I get to your ass. I\u2019ll make the motherfuckers fall off your ass Jones:<\/strong> \u2013<\/strong>young man? Think about her, think about her, we\u2019re doing you a curative<\/em> process now. You think about how you held her down, think what you were doing while she was screaming. Hit him again, and you think<\/em> about it. <\/strong>
\nVoices in crowd: <\/strong>That\u2019s right! Hold on tight. Stand up, Jerry!<\/strong>
\nJones: <\/strong>Think about it. Think about having her poor little body under yours. A little child! Think about it! Think about it! Think about it! Think about it! Charles Garry said that was wonderful, even a psychiatrist said our technique was excellent on a man<\/em> when we did that before.
\nCrowd: <\/strong>(Cries out)
\nChild: <\/strong>Feels good, doesn\u2019t it, Jerry?
\nJones: <\/strong>Okay. Okay. Now s\u2013 drop your pants.
\nFemale: <\/strong>Low down fucking pig. <\/strong>
\nJones: <\/strong>Drop your pants!
\nFemale: <\/strong>All the way! Creep!<\/strong>
\nJones: <\/strong>Now turn around! I don\u2019t want to see it\u2013 s\u2013 that thing you throwed in her! A child!
\nFemale: <\/strong>Give him a good hit!<\/strong>
\nCrowd<\/strong>: (Cheers and cries)
\nJones: <\/strong>Hmm? Okay. Now, now\u2013
\nJohnny<\/strong> Jones: <\/strong>Hey, let go, let go, let go! Let go!
\nJones: <\/strong>Now put your pants up. (Tape 734<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n