{"id":32649,"date":"2013-07-25T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=32649"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:44:04","slug":"875-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=32649","title":{"rendered":"A Forum on a Mystery: Exploring Tape Q 875"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JonestownOver the years, the Peoples Temple audiotape which has been the subject of greatest interest – from researchers, documentarians and curiosity-seekers – is the FBI-designated Q 042, better known as “the death tape.” While some listeners question elements of the tape’s authenticity, there is little debate about the voices on the recording and the circumstances under which it was made.<\/p>\n

Much more mysterious is tape Q 875, found along with the hundreds of others at Jonestown. There was apparently nothing special about the location of the tape, or any differences in appearance to distinguish it from the others, or anything else. It was just there. As opposed to all the other tapes, though, this is the only tape made after<\/i> the deaths.<\/p>\n

Q 875 consists of four broadcast news stories recorded off the air on November 19, 1978, all concerning the deaths of Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his party “last night” at the Port Kaituma airstrip in Guyana. Two of the broadcasts are of Guyanese origin, and two are American, including an ABC broadcast.<\/p>\n

The transcript of the tape is located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The jonestown report<\/em> published an analysis of this tape<\/a> two years ago, but the questions we raised at that time still linger. In an effort to determine whether anyone else could make sense of the tape –\u00a0and answer these questions –\u00a0we asked a number of people to offer their own perspectives. The seven articles we received in response follow:<\/p>\n

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    1. An Enigma Within a Conundrum<\/a> by Tim Carter<\/li>\n
    2. Closing in on Q875?<\/a> by Josef Dieckman<\/li>\n
    3. Shredding the Suspect List on Q 875<\/a> by Matthew Thomas Farrell<\/li>\n
    4. Tape Made After Arrival of GDF<\/a> by Jim Hougan<\/li>\n
    5. Q 875 Made by Outsiders <\/a>by Laura Johnston Kohl<\/li>\n
    6. Q 875 Makes Case for Murder<\/a> by Roger Stacy<\/li>\n
    7. Imagination and History: Tape Q875 and the Day after the Jonestown Mass Murders\/Suicides<\/a> by Catherine Wessinger<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Over the years, the Peoples Temple audiotape which has been the subject of greatest interest – from researchers, documentarians and curiosity-seekers – is the FBI-designated Q 042, better known as “the death tape.” While some listeners question elements of the tape’s authenticity, there is little debate about the voices on the recording and the circumstances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":32685,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32649","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=32649"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95752,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32649\/revisions\/95752"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}