{"id":33316,"date":"2013-07-25T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33316"},"modified":"2014-08-21T21:59:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:59:54","slug":"efreinvehiclep1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33316","title":{"rendered":"THE VEHICLE USED IN THE ATTACK: PART 1, THE TRACTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

REFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FIVE TRACTOR PICTURES:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from the internet <\/a><\/strong>
\n2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from Jonestown<\/a> (filmed at the Peoples Temple <\/strong>Agricultural Project) <\/strong>
\n3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from Jonestown<\/a> (filmed at the Port Kaituma airstrip,<\/strong>\u00a0November 17, 1978) <\/strong>
\n4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from Jonestown<\/a> (filmed at the Port Kaituma airstrip, <\/strong>November 18, 1978) <\/strong>
\n5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201cTractor\u201d Used in the Attack<\/a> (filmed at the Port Kaituma airstrip, <\/strong>\u00a0November 18, 1978) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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QUICK SPOTTING GUIDE<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

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VISUAL PROOFS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 QUICK SPOTTING GUIDE (ILLUSTRATED IN PHOTOS)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pictures 1-5 side by side<\/p>\n

FRONT END FEATURES DUPLICATED (DECEPTION)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

As outlined in the \u201cQuick Spotting Guide,\u201d the front end of the real Jonestown tractor and the \u201ctractor\u201d used in the attack had front-end features that were duplicated.\u00a0 Shown at the top of panel 6 are all of the pictures used for these comparisons, but picture 3<\/em> was selected as best for comparison as its features are visible close up.<\/p>\n

The bottom of panel 6 shows the main front-end features as they appear in pictures 3 <\/em>and 5,<\/em> respectively.<\/p>\n

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2)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE DRIVER\u2019S INSET<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Driver\u2019s Inset Open in Real Jonestown Tractor <\/strong><\/p>\n

The driver\u2019s inset is a key determinant that the real Jonestown tractor and the vehicle used in the attack were different<\/em>; more specifically, that the divider between the front and back of the respective vehicles, namely the area of the real tractor called the driver\u2019s inset,<\/em> was different <\/em>from vehicle to vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The driver\u2019s inset<\/em> is the wide open space where the driver steps right in from the outside to sit.<\/p>\n

As with a car, the driver\u2019s seat falls just behind the engine in the front.\u00a0 Unlike a car, however, with a shut door enclosing the driver, an open inset is typical for tractors.\u00a0 Tractors are open vehicles as much as a car is a closed vehicle:\u00a0 With a car, you open the door, the driver steps in, you shut the door.\u00a0 With a tractor, you just step into the open space.<\/p>\n

As is clear from A., the driver\u2019s inset in the real Jonestown tractor was a wide open space bracketed by metal cut vertically down just ahead of it, as well as metal cut vertically down just behind it (see <\/em>A — metal, space, metal).\u00a0 The metal ahead of the open space is horizontal <\/em>as would be, let\u2018s say, the front engine of a car (see <\/em>B).\u00a0 Moving then towards the back of the vehicle,\u00a0 the only other horizontal contour is the back fender, with a long swath of metal extending from the inside back fender down to the floorboard vertically<\/em> (see <\/em>C.)<\/p>\n

The front of the driver\u2019s inset is also marked by metal cut off at right angles and going straight down vertically (see <\/em>D.)<\/p>\n

If you lack the structure<\/em> of solid\/open\/solid (see <\/em>A.); with to boot, contours that rule out that structure even being possible (as shall be shown), then you are simply not looking at the same vehicle\u00a0 You can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

After examining what the driver\u2019s inset looked like in the real Jonestown vehicle, we move on to how the vehicle used in the attack was different <\/em>[8]<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DRIVER\u2019S INSET BLOCKED IN THE VEHICLE USED IN THE ATTACK<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Real Jonestown tractor (picture 3):\u00a0 OPEN compared to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vehicle used in the attack (picture 5):\u00a0 CLOSED (CAMOUFLAGE)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019ve delineated the structure of the Massey Ferguson 178, the real Jonestown tractor, let\u2019s examine by contrast, the vehicle used in the attack.<\/p>\n

Well, but isn\u2019t that blurry, bleeding, pixilated?\u00a0 Oh, it\u2019s a little blurry, expectable for older film.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the clarity of modern HD, but with NO bleeding and NO pixilation.<\/p>\n

To the contrary (panel 4<\/a>, 1-5):\u00a0 The textures are smooth, continuous, unbroken; to boot, with even coloration<\/em>.\u00a0 There is no reason visually, photographically, to mark any<\/strong> area of that expanse as broken.\u00a0 Thus we are looking at solid metal straight across the very area (namely the driver\u2019s inset) that should have been open!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nor is \u201ceven coloration\u201d just a fine point.\u00a0 Some areas of the real Jonestown tractor were clearly red, others clearly grey, marking variously the engine, the hull, the fender, the metal swath down and the like.<\/strong>\u00a0 On the attack vehicle, by contrast, it is the red hull, the outer metal covering the engine of the vehicle (much like the hood of a car, let\u2019s say) that is extended with no breaks in coloration, contour or form all across the side of the vehicle up to the back fender.\u00a0 There are no breaks, no distortions, no variances, no broken lines; it is consistent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is markedly different, opposite from panel 2<\/a>, A-D.\u00a0 These vehicles are different<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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4-5)\u00a0\u00a0 NOT JUST STRUCTURE MISSING, BUT STRUCTURE DIFFERENT <\/em><\/strong>(panel 4<\/a> and panel 5<\/a>)<\/p>\n

First note that the vehicle used in the attack was filmed in direct sunlight, broadside, at rest.\u00a0 There is some blur, yes; it is also at a moderate distance.\u00a0 But the sun was still like a direct flashlight beam.\u00a0 No shade, no shadows, no breaks in lighting.\u00a0 Just bright direct sunlight = what you see is what was there!<\/p>\n

We already noted the difference between the wide open driver\u2019s inset on the real Jonestown tractor and the sealed-off metal siding with the \u201ctractor\u201d used in the attack.\u00a0 But lest the reader just think that the sealed-off area was like a \u201ccurtain\u201c with the same vehicle underneath, note two inexplicable structural anomalies that preclude even that much:<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 A knob-like or handle-like protrusion with a shadow and\/or recessed area under it <\/strong>(panel 4<\/a>).\u00a0 This was not an open space.\u00a0 It was not a seat either — note solid metal blanketing the area above it with a smooth continuous play of light and no open space anywhere.\u00a0 Also note knob or handle bulging out catching the sunlight; with recessed area below, all with smooth even texture.<\/p>\n

Also note that the knob or handle appears directly in front of the back wheel.\u00a0 Compare this to picture 3 which features a long vertical swath of metal down to the floorboard with open space in front of it.\u00a0 This knob\/handle was insertion<\/em> of a physical structure in lieu of<\/em> the vertical swath of metal preceded by open space.<\/p>\n

Also note that in picture 5, the back fender is in no way<\/em> blocked from view; obviously, the knob\/handle on the vehicle used in the attack seals off that area completely.<\/p>\n

The knob\/handle is an anomaly.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t match the real Jonestown tractor at all.\u00a0 It dictates a different metal body.\u00a0 These differences are structural,<\/em> not cosmetic.<\/p>\n

It also suggests a different function<\/em> for this vehicle:\u00a0 A concealed driver cannot be seen, but he also cannot see the terrain around him<\/em>; i.e., no one ever drove this \u201ctractor\u201d to plow corn.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 An odd, irregular, scissors-shaped metal construction where the flat open floorboard should be <\/strong>(panel 5<\/a>). Note an oblong of metal generating two extended \u201cscissor points\u201d moving\u00a0 along the bottom edge of the vehicle:\u00a0 one hand of the \u201cscissors\u201d slanted up, the other hand slanted down.<\/p>\n

In fact, the downward slanted point is in the place of<\/em> an open metal square directly under the horizontal floorboard in the real Jonestown tractor.<\/p>\n

This is not a floorboard of any \u201ctractor.\u201d\u00a0 It is also clearly not<\/em> a step-in; it\u2019s the outline of an outer body with some unseen inner body; no driver can step onto a slant.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know how<\/em> the driver entered this vehicle.\u00a0 Either a door opened or he hopped over the top.\u00a0 We do know, however, that it was not a step-in, like a \u201creal\u201d tractor, thus the intent was that the driver be concealed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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6-7)\u00a0 HOW WAS THIS VEHICLE STEERED? <\/strong>(panel 6<\/a> and panel 7<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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NO VISIBLE STEERING WHEEL <\/strong>(panel 6<\/a>)<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know how this vehicle was steered!\u00a0 We have already seen that there was no driver\u2019s inset, so there was no driver sticking up into the air with his hands on an elevated, visible (black) steering wheel as we can spot in pictures 1,2 and 3 (as illustrated.)<\/p>\n

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NO DRIVER\u2019S INSET <\/strong>(panel 7<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Now combine no visible elevated steering wheel with no driver\u2019s inset.\u00a0 Yet the vehicle had to be driven and steered somehow!<\/em>\u00a0 Namely, it had to somehow be steered from inside an enclosed, not open vehicle; and with the driver concealed.<\/p>\n

Also note that (if the reader is reviewing this prior to<\/em> \u201cEyewitness Identifications?:\u00a0 The FBI Report Versus the On-Site NBC Film Footage\u201d), many departing defectors had seen Stanley Gieg, a young white, fair-skinned blond man in the driver\u2019s seat of the real Jonestown trailer parked at the edge of the airstrip.\u00a0 No surprise.\u00a0 As we can ourselves see in picture 4, he was sticking right up into the air!<\/p>\n

They saw him; they recognized him on sight.\u00a0 That\u2019s why at least five eyewitnesses wrongly claimed that Gieg was driving the attack vehicle<\/em> when the film footage instead reveals dark-skinned black man as the only person up front (see<\/em> \u201cEyewitness Identifications?:\u00a0 The FBI Report Versus the On-Site NBC Film Footage\u201d panel 9<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Now, if the driver of the assassins\u2019 vehicle had his head sticking up, no one would have recognized him; indeed he would have been pinned as a stranger! <\/em>\u00a0Then there\u2019s go \u201cPeoples Temple did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, \u201cIf you have nothing to hide, why are you in hiding?\u201d\u00a0 Conversely, if you need to hide to be neither recognized nor pinned as \u201ca stranger,\u201d you need a differently-constructed \u201ctractor.\u201c\u00a0 Because a real tractor will not even have a door and hood (as with a car) to conceal your physical person.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which brings us to \u201cHow was this vehicle steered?\u201d\u00a0 And we still cannot state that with certainty.\u00a0 But we do have a clue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MODIFIED \u201cEXHAUST PIPE\u201d (PERISCOPE?) <\/strong>(panel 7<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Note the exhaust pipe<\/em> on the front right side of the real Jonestown tractor, pictures 1-4.\u00a0 (Picture 1 is a generic Massey Ferguson 178 tractor, only difference black exhaust pipe instead of white.\u00a0 Picture 3 same exhaust pipe.\u00a0 Picture 4 is same tractor right on the airstrip just minutes prior to the attack with an exhaust pipe blurry but still clearly visible as to shape.)<\/p>\n

The exhaust pipe on all these pictures was straight up<\/em>.\u00a0 There\u2019s a bulge part of the way up, but that bulge is around the circumference of the pipe, not protruding forwards.<\/p>\n

Now onto picture 5, the vehicle used in the attack:\u00a0 There are no interfering objects in the background, just vegetation.\u00a0 Moreover, there is no<\/strong> explanation for the protrusion forwards half-way up the exhaust pipe, nor the cap-like top.\u00a0 We just see that it is different<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Best speculation?\u00a0 It may have been a periscope<\/em> used for steering.\u00a0 Construction and technology?\u00a0 Unknown.\u00a0 The vehicle\u2019s means of propulsion?\u00a0 Engine design?\u00a0 Unknown.\u00a0 But given that even the outer metal casing is different,<\/em> it is a good bet that we do not know what the inside of this vehicle looked like either.<\/p>\n

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REFERENCES \u00a0 FIVE TRACTOR PICTURES:\u00a0\u00a0 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from the internet 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from Jonestown (filmed at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project) 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from Jonestown (filmed at the Port Kaituma airstrip,\u00a0November 17, 1978) 4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey Ferguson 178 from Jonestown (filmed at the Port Kaituma airstrip, November 18, 1978) 5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33311,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33316","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=33316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61024,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33316\/revisions\/61024"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}