Transcribed from her handwritten and typed journal notes by Don Beck (September 2009)<\/p>\n
RYMUR-89-4286-C-1-A-3 (1) through RYMUR-89-4286-C-1-A-3 (104)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The text transcribed here from Edith Roller’s notes has some missing words or lines due to (1) unreadable, poorly xeroxed text or (2) unreadable writing. Blanks are left in the text for these areas.\u00a0 [?] indicate questionable readings.<\/p>\n List of people and groups mentioned in this Journal<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n 1 August – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n Up at 9.00.<\/p>\n Called Eddie [sister]. She told me arrangements for the reunion were all made.\u00a0 Dor [sister] coming Friday and will visit Joyce for weekend.\u00a0 Mabs [sister] coming for two weeks.\u00a0 Eddie will pick up Dor and come to the airport for me on Monday morning so I won\u2019t have to wait.<\/p>\n Beulah woke at 9.30.<\/p>\n I gave her for breakfast: grape juice, steak, egg, toast, jam.<\/p>\n I washed dishes.<\/p>\n Dressed.<\/p>\n Beulah told me Willie Malone was a changed young man.\u00a0 He is going to summer school, getting good grade, not causing any trouble.<\/p>\n We walked up to Christians and Rob brought us to church at 12.00, the time for service this morning.<\/p>\n We were in service about 12.30.\u00a0 Helen Love had saved a seat for me.<\/p>\n Announcements had been made.<\/p>\n Norman took the offering.<\/p>\n Jim on podium at 12.00.<\/p>\n Children, dozens of then, sang \u201cI Thank You, Jim\u201d<\/p>\n Apostolic Singers did a number.<\/p>\n Choir.<\/p>\n Jim: Turn in professions, skills.\u00a0 Government of Guyana making positions available.\u00a0 Dr. Carlton Goodlett certain that no justice in America.\u00a0 Jim said he talked with Goodlett about non-black socialist nations staying in Olympics.\u00a0\u00a0 He said Cuba was requested by black nations to stay in and make fools of capitalist nations.\u00a0 He said health and muscular [?] development of socialist nations showed.\u00a0 Believes nuclear war will destroy county.\u00a0 Ruling class waiting to rush in because they would not face public censure.\u00a0 Goodlett wants to go with us.\u00a0 He\u2019s afraid white world would exterminate blacks.\u00a0\u00a0 There is no black America.\u00a0 You have no real roots here, don\u2019t believe and never will believe. You are surrounded by vultures waiting to prey on your flesh.\u00a0 One of the saddest things is to see how Germans, Christian whites destroyed Jews.\u00a0 But all resistance is gone.\u00a0 Corporate institutions rule South Africa and are now sending 5 \u00bd millions of blacks to die of starvation.<\/p>\n Attack on those who believe Bible.<\/p>\n Nobody could have treated white people better.\u00a0 They\u2019d like to be healed but they\u2019d rather die than sit behind a black person.\u00a0 Our black leaders sell us out.\u00a0 Bobby Seale going into ministry.\u00a0 Dr. Goodlett says all phones of himself, Willie Brown, Cecil Williams, and Jim are being monitored by one department in phone company.\u00a0 I hate the cross.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand why you like it.\u00a0 They hung Jesus on it.\u00a0 Do you want them to hang you on it?<\/p>\n We ought to have rehabilitation for religion.\u00a0 They have rehabilitation for drugs.\u00a0 Dr. Goodlett says concentration camps not necessary.\u00a0 Our youth killing themselves with alcohol and drugs.\u00a0 Jesus was an atheist.\u00a0 On the cross he said, \u201cGod, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to see no Jesus.\u00a0 When he comes he\u2019ll go to Washington.\u00a0 Whip their asses, he\u2019ll whip Ford and Carter.<\/p>\n Carter says he has the black vote under control.\u00a0 He has 10 million black Baptists.\u00a0 \u201cCarter is a son of a bitch.\u201d\u00a0 His church voted not to allow any blacks to attend or join.<\/p>\n Mother LeTourneau, reported Mom Taylor, didn\u2019t like picture of Harriet Tubman.\u00a0 Says she was ugly.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want her back, don\u2019t write to her.<\/p>\n Reason for being later. You needed some teaching.\u00a0 This stuff getting back to you.<\/p>\n Jim outlined some conditions here: earthquakes, can\u2019t take money out, drought, viruses, no vaccine going to be available,\u00a0 when 18% unemployed, what black people going to do then, black leaders returning to Jesus.\u00a0 Few firebrands among Muslims keeping alliance with us, not their leaders.\u00a0 But he\u2019s trying to get land in the p.l.<\/p>\n He went over subject of terms such as right, fresh [??], advice on losing inhibitions.\u00a0 He went over discrepancies in Bible.\u00a0 For benefit of guests.\u00a0 Don\u2019t want anyone to die.\u00a0 It costs me when you die here.\u00a0 Go home and die on your own time.<\/p>\n I ain\u2019t taking no religion kooks over there. They\u2019ve closed all the churches.\u00a0 Turned the church schools into technical schools.<\/p>\n 89% of black leadership under investigation.\u00a0 Jungle of black ghetto.\u00a0 Youth hopeless.\u00a0 It\u2019ll never get better in this country.\u00a0 A minority has never been able to survive.<\/p>\n We need to get away from the honkies and away from the Uncle Toms.<\/p>\n Jim made goal for selling possessions and giving us money fro the p.l.\u00a0 Get in your $1000 pledges.<\/p>\n Black children have one out of 2 chances of being in jail before they are 18.<\/p>\n Took offering by sum.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t go to freedom I\u2019m going to start me a fucking\u2019 fight.<\/p>\n Question: Lee Ethel.\u00a0 Coretta King\u2019s attitude.\u00a0 Jim: She\u2019s sold out.\u00a0 Took part in the Carter election.\u00a0 Willie Brown and Mervyn Dymally said it was a big waste of money. Blacks not get anything in the platform.<\/p>\n Testimonial dinner for our leader.\u00a0 September 25.\u00a0 Many community leaders, public officials, dinner and entertainment.\u00a0 Tickets, $20.00.<\/p>\n Questions about Farmer\u2019s Market not wanting us to pamphlet there.\u00a0 Jim\u2019s attitude: if we can\u2019t pamphlet there, then we won\u2019t shop there and there are 8,000 of us.<\/p>\n Healings during which people were to come to the altar with their offering.<\/p>\n New members admitted.<\/p>\n Meeting was out at 4.45.<\/p>\n Couldn\u2019t find Rob Christian, so took a bus home.\u00a0 Had to wait over half an hour for a Hayes St. bus.\u00a0 Vernetta joined me at the stop.\u00a0 Finally when a bus came along and did not for some reason stop for us, we went over to the McAllister stop.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t arrive home until 6.00.<\/p>\n I ate a quick lunch.<\/p>\n Washed and changed clothes.<\/p>\n Returned to the Temple with Rob at 7.00 for service.<\/p>\n A film was being shown, \u201cRage,\u201d with George C. Scott.<\/p>\n Film ended at 9.15.<\/p>\n Those of us who had certain skills were asked to fill out a resume of degrees and experience.<\/p>\n Rides were arranged.<\/p>\n Films of the p.l. were shown.<\/p>\n Jim: How many people have turned their property over?\u00a0 Many haven\u2019t.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to lose it, earthquakes, nuclear war.<\/p>\n Jim took and offering.<\/p>\n Jim on cussing, expressing your hostility, people ask: why are you so hostile?\u00a0 I want to know why you ain\u2019t!<\/p>\n Bonnie Stahl misbehaving on floor.\u00a0 Jim moving her from the Redwood Valley to San Francisco.\u00a0 Going to harness your toughness.<\/p>\n [Name withheld by request] pushing Santiago Rosa and on latter\u2019s job at movie theater.\u00a0 Santiago never gives us any trouble.\u00a0 Boxing decreed.<\/p>\n People can be arrested for not giving ID when asked in Oakland and Berkeley.<\/p>\n X Griffith boy gave trouble.\u00a0 Work all night.<\/p>\n Several girls sentenced to working all night.<\/p>\n Jack Beam complained of kitchen crew who left kitchen dirty. Colton admitted responsibility, said he left it clean.\u00a0 He was to work all night.<\/p>\n John Gardner stole sodas from Temple. 2 nights work.<\/p>\n Ronald Campbell hit two smaller children.\u00a0 He got 10 whacks and has to work tonight.\u00a0 Jim had girl he had bit bite him, hit him with a paddle.\u00a0 Socko [Rochelle Kemp] called for to hit him until he cried.<\/p>\n [Name withheld] really took punishment from Danny Curtain [Curtin].\u00a0 [Name withheld] gave Archie trouble all last week.\u00a0 [Name withheld] protected his face with his gloves.\u00a0 Mark Cordell took over for last 30 seconds.<\/p>\n After a brief meditation period, the meeting was dismissed at about 11.45.<\/p>\n I went home with Christians.<\/p>\n Read newspapers.<\/p>\n Went to be at 1.30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 August – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong> Phil Becnel wanted further changes in his Consumers Power contract and I started to make them, was about half way through when Ray Hines requested someone to take dictation.\u00a0 He gave me letters and a memo on legal matters involving former employees for about half an hour, while Marquita finished the contract changes under Dor\u2019s instruction.<\/p>\n I ate my lunch outside on the PG&E steps. \u00a0Even at noon the sky was overcast today but the sun came out a little later.<\/p>\n I worked on Harris\u2019 work all afternoon.\u00a0 The items were short but enclosures and extra copies were required.\u00a0 I xeroxed most of the extra copies.<\/p>\n Marquita had little to do all afternoon and was very bored.<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t get away until late, as I had to prepare Harris\u2019 materials for mailing and my bus was slow in coming.<\/p>\n When I got home I exercised.<\/p>\n Prepared and ate dinner and washed dishes and I had a rather simple meal but I had some watermelon and cooked mung beans for lunches, which made me late.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t start work on my journal until 9.45.\u00a0 I typed until 11.15 but did my 2 pages.\u00a0 I am ready to make corrections on the 16 to 30 September entries.<\/p>\n Read newspapers.<\/p>\n Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3 August – 1976 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong> I worked on journal entries.\u00a0 Later on I continued typing excerpts from the CIA book.<\/p>\n Marquita: after she finished work on the MagCard, was put on the ATS by Dor, who instructed her in original entry.<\/p>\n At lunchtime Marquita and I ate our lunches in the assembly room where we looked at the film in the employees\u2019 film series, a film on travel around South Africa was to be shown but it hadn\u2019t arrived so we saw one concerning a Japanese businessman who established _______ research and cultural institute.<\/p>\n A little discussion of politics led to the information that Marquita is a Reagan republican.\u00a0 She said her mother was a Democrat but she had always had a sympathy with Republican policies.\u00a0 Dor was present, said she was a Republican too.\u00a0 She made a reference to my being insulted by being called a liberal though I don\u2019t remember my saying so.\u00a0 She probably thinks I am a radical Democrat.\u00a0 Dor has ceased talking about politics with me.<\/p>\n I helped Marquita make corrections in her document, delete and store it and was a little later in leaving the office. \u00a0However I caught a bus right away and got home earlier than I have recently.<\/p>\n I exercised.<\/p>\n I made curry with the steak which was left from Sunday, ate and washed dishes.<\/p>\n I was very tired and decided to proofread my journal section of 16th to 30 September, then press some of the clothes Claire gave me, take a bath and go to bed.<\/p>\n However, Dick Tropp phoned, wanted to bring around a letter for me to sign.\u00a0 This was a long letter, mostly organized by Jim.\u00a0 It was to the editor of a John Birch publication which had picked up charges against the Temple from a number of sources. Jim wanted me to sign it as a member of the church.\u00a0 Dick and I discussed some of my reading on and experience in the CIA.<\/p>\n When we left, I finished my proofing, took a bath and pressed enough clothes for a week or so.<\/p>\n Didn\u2019t get to bed until 1.00.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4 August – 1976 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong> Marquita was on the ATS computer, correcting the job she did yesterday and Dor was working on a Schuman contract on the other computer.<\/p>\n The system went down.\u00a0 Dor, Marquita, and I had a long conversation.\u00a0 It started with a discussion of religion.\u00a0 Marquita believes in God but experiments with divine cults.\u00a0 Such subjects as evolution in which Dor does not believe and the literal interpretation of the Bible, in which she does believe came up.\u00a0 Marquita and I mentioned some inconsistencies, but she was impervious.<\/p>\n Marquita asked for a change in her lunch time today as she wanted to have lunch with another girl.\u00a0 I changed with her and volunteered to transcribe Hartt\u2019s disc, for which he was in a hurry.\u00a0 Later Marquita stated she wished she could have the early lunch hour.\u00a0 She is sociable and wants to be with other people.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to work out some compromise with her.<\/p>\n When I did go to lunch, the weather was very pleasant.<\/p>\n Marquita expressed her dislike for filling in the slips we complete on jobs we do.\u00a0 She resented being timed on her work.\u00a0 Dor explained the purpose and went with on with Bechtel\u2019s personnel policies.\u00a0 When Marquita inquired about raises, she said we get merit increases only.\u00a0 Bechtel does not believe in cost of living raises.<\/p>\n When Dor was speaking of performance standards, she referred to Kate Walker but not by name, who she said wrote the book on secretarial procedures and office time and\u00a0 was very put out when with a new boss she had to rewrite how to do her work. Dor doesn\u2019t like Kate.<\/p>\n I went out on time.\u00a0 Got home at 5.30.<\/p>\n Slept for an hour.<\/p>\n Prepared a quick dinner and ate.<\/p>\n Dressed for the service.<\/p>\n Christians phoned about 7.50.\u00a0 We were in church at 8.05.<\/p>\n Rob handled the rides.<\/p>\n Wesley made the announcements.<\/p>\n The choir sang,<\/p>\n During testimonials, Tyrone Duncan told how, when his case was heard in court, the judge threw it out, bearing out Jim\u2019s prophecy that he would not go to jail. Yolanda [Yulanda] Crawford, with her baby, was in a crash.\u00a0 The car was completely demolished, but she and the baby came through without injury.<\/p>\n Jim was on the podium at 9.15.<\/p>\n Jim pushed the sale of the Berkeley Barb.\u00a0 The Temple gets a percentage of the sales we make.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s socialist, but not as socialist as we are.\u201d\u00a0 Of the Temple members Jim said, \u201cPeople tell me you won\u2019t buy it or won\u2019t sell it.\u00a0 You\u2019re offended by something about sex.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking of mistakes which are made in hospitals, Jim said a top Republican, was given the wrong kind of blood and died.<\/p>\n The offering was taken and I was assigned to the platform.<\/p>\n Jim said: Have nothing to do with Grace Love Berry nor Valor St John.\u00a0 They associate with the worst racists.\u00a0 Mrs. LeTourneau is almost in that category.\u00a0 Nobody is to write to her without Jim\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Twelve Chairs,\u201d a comedy taking place in Russia, directed by Mel Brooks, was shown.<\/p>\n Jim read commendations.<\/p>\n He took another offering.<\/p>\n Several people were brought on the floor.\u00a0 Keith Wright, backed up [Name withheld] when he was discourteous to a black hostess.\u00a0 Philip Lacy and [Name withheld] gave trouble in the swimming party.\u00a0 Jim gave [Name withheld] 4 nights work with 2 hours sleep.\u00a0 This is his last chance.\u00a0 Hugh Doswell and Ricardo Arterberry were reported for misbehavior.\u00a0 Jim mentioned that Ricardo comes from a battered child syndrome.\u00a0 He and Hugh were assigned night work.<\/p>\n (No further notes were taken for this day) [Note from Edith]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 August – 1976 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong> Marquita worked outside our office on the MagCard.<\/p>\n Dor put me on the computer to work on a report for Steve Butler on all the litigation with which Bechtel is involved.\u00a0 We had done a similar report for Insurance but what is wanted now is one with annotations which can be dropped if desired.\u00a0 A special code is used for this.\u00a0 Although Dor had set the job up with columns, it was still nerve-wracking work.<\/p>\n Went to the bank and deposited my check and got cash.<\/p>\n I worked on the litigation report 5 \u00bd hours, stayed late to finish.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get out until 5 minutes after 5.00, but I caught a bus right away.<\/p>\n Was home before 6.00.<\/p>\n Exercised.<\/p>\n Took my washing to the laundromat.\u00a0 I did underwear only.<\/p>\n Did personal and household chores and washed my hair.<\/p>\n Had dinner and washed dishes.<\/p>\n I examined the three zippers which were not working on three of the dresses given to me by Claire.\u00a0 Got one of them to work.\u00a0 The other two will have to be replaced.<\/p>\n I ate some watermelon and read newspapers.<\/p>\n Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6 August – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong> Got my time card in.<\/p>\n Coming in this morning, I made a reference about Dor to Marquita who responded she had had about enough of her domination.\u00a0 \u201cShe nags and I won\u2019t submit to it.\u201d\u00a0 She said she was thinking of quitting.\u00a0 I took a few minutes to tell Betty Vasil about Marquita\u2019s discontent.\u00a0 She was non-committal, said my report helped her know how to handle the matter \u201cwhen she comes to me.\u201d\u00a0 I felt she would back up Dor.<\/p>\n I was to start making corrections on the litigation report this morning but the system went down.<\/p>\n At 11.00 there was a demonstration of the MagCard II.\u00a0 This typewriter has a memory. One can retrieve material, adding or deleting with ease and \/or record on a card.\u00a0 When the lease is up on the machines we have now, they are to be replaced by this machine.\u00a0 At present we have one.\u00a0 Dor said she wanted Marquita and me to take the course on its operation.<\/p>\n Marquita wanted to go to lunch with one of the girls and traded lunch hours with me.\u00a0 I got on the computer and started revision of the litigation report.\u00a0 Dor told me not to trade lunch hours any more with Marquita.\u00a0 She said she intended to be very firm with her.\u00a0 She needed discipline. I told her of some of my teaching experience when I have to make a choice between enforcing rules and allowing for the individuality of the student.\u00a0 She said she benefited from my opinion but she thought the situation was entirely different.\u00a0 It was up to Marquita to adapt to the company\u2019s regulations.\u00a0 If she didn\u2019t want to another person to do the job could be recruited.<\/p>\n I finished the revisions of the litigation report.<\/p>\n I ate at my desk.\u00a0 When Marquita returned I took the bus to the bank, where I had left my check book and check register.<\/p>\n In the afternoon, Dor informed Marquita to make corrections on the ATS computer.\u00a0 She had done another part of the litigation report.<\/p>\n I was free all afternoon.\u00a0 I did yesterday\u2019s journal entry.\u00a0 I had a $5.09 discrepancy in my bank balance and I checked over former bank statements but did not succeed in finding it.<\/p>\n Left work on time.\u00a0 Got home at 5.00.<\/p>\n Packed for the LA trip.<\/p>\n Prepared and ate a quick meal, washed dishes.<\/p>\n Dressed.<\/p>\n Rob called at 7.45.<\/p>\n In the service there were the usual preliminaries.<\/p>\n Jim on podium about 9.10.<\/p>\n Told of indictment of black law enforcement officer Mitchell Ware [Chicago Police Dept, helped found NOBLE] of Justice Department for wire tapping.\u00a0 Shows it doesn\u2019t pay to play their game, in the end you get it.\u00a0 He\u2019s black without an organization.\u00a0 Carter\u2019s wife called Jim talked for 20 minutes.\u00a0 Presidential candidate recognized power, but some in here don\u2019t.<\/p>\n Jim just came from meeting with Chilean Ambassador.\u00a0 He told of last days of Chilean government.\u00a0 His own soldiers tortured him for 11 hours.\u00a0 Jim saw _____ overthrown in Brazil overnight.\u00a0 Thousands of people disappeared with in a matter of days.<\/p>\n Returning to ______\u00a0 ______ ____ to point out necessity of attending regularly or \u201cwe can\u2019t protect you when you need it.\u201d You half-hearted assholes better hope that I get out of here.\u00a0 Jim tired of disloyal people taking advantage of us,\u00a0 One went to be an actor in Europe.<\/p>\n Not impressed with all those who call us.<\/p>\n Dr. Goodlett.\u00a0 The Zionists after him. He wouldn\u2019t be in such trouble if he were here.<\/p>\n Take note you are ____ ____ ____ ___ as long as you\u2019re here trying it ___ ___ when you go out, you\u2019re putting knives in the backs of my children.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to die alone.<\/p>\n White actors.\u00a0 No chance of being an actress in London.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going show our power again in direct, volatile fashion in a very short time.<\/p>\n Sick and tired of finks, of blood suckers.\u00a0 You\u2019re pushing a wild animal, an animal used to a jungle in a cage becomes wild when poked.<\/p>\n If I show gentleness, there are some devils in here.<\/p>\n Those in the Redevelopment called today, wanting help.\u00a0 Jim said I never knew you, you\u2019ve been ripping off the people and now you\u2019ll pay for it.<\/p>\n Referred to those who come wanting healing.<\/p>\n Jim took offering.\u00a0 Great emphasis on commitment.<\/p>\n Questions.\u00a0 Woman asked about advocate of reinstatement of whipping posts.\u00a0 Used mostly for poor whites and blacks.\u00a0 Answer: of course.<\/p>\n Emma Jurado. Can somebody takes a check from you without touching you?\u00a0 She lost a check in a bank, suspects a white man standing near her.\u00a0 Jim says stop payment. Asks someone to help her.<\/p>\n On legionnaire disease: Army experiment in germ warfare or people pretending to be leftists putting toxics in legionnaire food.\u00a0 Rumor will be spread forth it was blacks.<\/p>\n Mercer has complicated ___ concerning ____ caused by young black woman riding with her wants to sue her.\u00a0 Jim comments: don\u2019t sue fellow member.<\/p>\n Altercation between 2 women, one ____ ___ eating at the church.\u00a0 Old woman that new one had been eating\u00a0 ___\u00a0\u00a0 Jim was hard on older member who was unkind to new member.\u00a0 Former ____<\/p>\n Temple had holding period. [??]\u00a0 Jim took another offering. Continued healing.<\/p>\n Meeting dismissed at 12.30.<\/p>\n I went right out to Rob\u2019s car. When he came I got my belongings and put them on the bus.\u00a0 Valysha found me a seat.<\/p>\n Ate my food outside.<\/p>\n Joyce Rozynko ___ ___ ___ she ___ have been changed. ___ ___ I had had she\u00a0 ___ ___ __ ____ _ Is Liz the actress of whom Jim spoke?\u00a0 ___ ___ of Harriet Randolph [Tropp], but Joyce had seen her.<\/p>\n I went to sleep before the bus left, about 1.30.<\/p>\n The buses left at 2.20.<\/p>\n I got up at the first stop and went to the bathroom,\u00a0 Ran a little.\u00a0 Helped Viola walk to the bathroom, as her bus was parked far away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7 August – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong> I ran, washed, started to eat with Rita Tupper.\u00a0 I asked her whether Liz [Forman] had returned from being with her grandfather.\u00a0 She said no; she hadn\u2019t seen her.<\/p>\n We got the signal to board the buses before I was through eating.\u00a0 I finished my food on the bus, didn\u2019t brush my teeth.<\/p>\n The bus left the strip about 9.45.<\/p>\n I read the rest of Friday\u2019s paper.<\/p>\n Slept until we got to LA at 12.20.<\/p>\n We were not allowed to take luggage into the church and food that we couldn\u2019t bring it into the annex either.\u00a0 I had to dress on the bus and leave luggage on the bus.\u00a0 I was angry because we were not told where to dress. Read some critical comments from Lorenza Tucker who thought I was excessively modest, that I fear being raped.<\/p>\n Service started at 2.00.<\/p>\n Rides were arranged, announcements made.\u00a0 Norm especially urged all to get their passports.\u00a0 The price is raised to $25.00 ___ ___\u00a0 the board had voted not to pay it.<\/p>\n Testimonial.<\/p>\n Rick introduced the offering by telling of trying to get rental plane for Norman Ijames. Racial discrimination.\u00a0 Norm started offering.<\/p>\n Jim came out at 3.20 at start of offering. Told of what has been happening to Norman in this city. \u00a0Asked about those paying commitment as in San Francisco.<\/p>\n Warning on using magical potions and other magical devices.\u00a0 Stop it.\u00a0 Trying to remove people in our congregation.<\/p>\n Questions:\u00a0 Some persons (1) Some said conspiracy back of legionnaire poisoning. Answer: probably police.\u00a0 Who else except police would have that talent?<\/p>\n (2) Corporations are paying blacks to get on talk shows to say nothing wrong with apartheid in South Africa.\u00a0 Answer: Not surprised.\u00a0 Some of our black people will agree to do it.\u00a0 They\u2019re killing off people in South Africa now.\u00a0 Always find some Uncle Toms and Aunt Janes. That\u2019s why we have to get out.\u00a0 They get you in the end.<\/p>\n (3) Any danger in San Francisco Program, advertising, newspapers, owned by oil company.\u00a0 Any problem to us?\u00a0 They are racist.\u00a0 Jim already had a round with them. We called them night and day, called their advertisers.\u00a0 We\u2019re rough.\u00a0 They wanted to print story on us.\u00a0 Is growing rapidly.<\/p>\n (4) Viola asked what are the 24 countries meting in Guyana.\u00a0 Answer: Soviet Russia, Arab nations, Sweden are among them.\u00a0 Are going to build an electrical energy plant as their falls bigger than Niagara.<\/p>\n (5) Statement on Olympics.\u00a0 On black participation.\u00a0 Jim: did your father\u2019s heart good.\u00a0 No\u00a0 black nation in world participated but US Uncle Toms and Aunt Janes did.<\/p>\n Jim said baptism is evil, pagan rite connected with raising of children.\u00a0 Why did her baptize people\u00a0 Because stupid people wanted to be.\u00a0 Just as they ask stupid questions on saving your soul.\u00a0 If I save your ass, I\u2019ll also save your soul, as it\u2019s contained in your ass.<\/p>\n Went into subject of white Christians who lynched 3 million of our brother.\u00a0 On Bible, Jim proved they wouldn\u2019t want to go to heaven.\u00a0 Discussion of Biblical errors.<\/p>\n Words on sex.\u00a0 \u201cIf you work hard and get us to the p.l.\u00a0 I\u2019ll promise to get your __ ___ on sex prowess of ____ Jackson ____ ___ will do anything.<\/p>\n To new people: How do you know who to follow?\u00a0 He told of his miracles, how the ____ lives.<\/p>\n Pamphleters left at 4.45, ate first.<\/p>\n Jim started healings\u00a0 Then took another offering.\u00a0 Healed more at the same time.<\/p>\n Then had people come to altar as he called sums.<\/p>\n Church open for new members.\u00a0 Jim called names of those who should come.<\/p>\n Jim read names of kitchen crew, commended them.<\/p>\n Meeting ended 5.30.<\/p>\n Beulah got Earlene and me and the children a ride home with Geneva.<\/p>\n We had rice, ground beef, chicken wings and peas and I ate a banana and an orange.<\/p>\n Beulah is going to have a garage sale next weekend, mostly of clothes given to her.<\/p>\n I told Beulah of Lorenza Tucker\u2019s unfriendly attitude.\u00a0 Lorenza never talks with anyone. At the Christians, she said once of communal living that it was such a fine way to live that she wished all black people could have the opportunity, not all poor people.<\/p>\n I tried to read Radicalism in America<\/em> but was so tired that I kept falling asleep and had to read paragraphs over and over.\u00a0 I finally gave up and went to sleep.<\/p>\n It was about 11.00 o\u2019clock when Beulah turned out the lights.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8 August – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong> Breakfast: egg, bacon, toast, and an orange.<\/p>\n Earlene told me she had been unable for over 2 months to get from the nurses vitamins Jim told her to take.<\/p>\n Geneva Smith took us to the Temple at 10.00.<\/p>\n Jim was on the podium at 12.00.<\/p>\n Jim told us the semi in which Jack and Ellie Beam and Walter Johnson had had the accident and from which they came out uninjured was on display on the street near the church.\u00a0 We should all look at it and realize what great power was shown in saving these people.<\/p>\n He also told us of Jesse Walker who was shot to pieces by the police after he had called them when he had called them when he saw thieves trying to steal his car.\u00a0 They shot him instead of the thieves and told him he would die.\u00a0 In the hospital he was given no chance, but he survived.\u00a0 Later Jim called him out of his wheelchair and completely restored him.<\/p>\n Jim\u00a0 took an offering.<\/p>\n The choir sang.<\/p>\n The little girls did 2 new numbers:\u00a0 \u201cSafety Place\u201d and \u201cWe Don\u2019t Like Oreo Cookies.\u201d<\/p>\n Jim. Don\u2019t use me in your marital arguments.\u00a0 Don\u2019t say, \u201cFather says—.\u201d\u00a0 (to women) Don\u2019t imply you have a romance with me.\u00a0 I have made up my mind not to cause any more pain to black men than they already have.<\/p>\n Jim conducted a question period.\u00a0 The first enquirer asked whether people should be encouraged to participate in the work by writing to the Temple if they don\u2019t want to cone to meetings.\u00a0 Jim said no.<\/p>\n Jim: Black people own 42% of the property they had at the end of WII.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not staying here alive.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019re going to throw the white man out of Africa.\u00a0 Then\u2019s when you\u2019d better watch out what happens to black men here when the capitalists can no longer exploit Africa.<\/p>\n Jim spoke on the subject of people who want to stay in LA.\u00a0 When you walk down the street with your black son, you know how racist people are here.\u00a0 They\u2019re waiting to kill you.\u00a0 Those who are mistreated are not limited to those with black skin.\u00a0 When the revolution comes, it\u2019s going to be all colors of the rainbow.<\/p>\n Malcolm, DuBois, Robeson show you can\u2019t get educated enough to make them forget you are black.<\/p>\n Johnny Brown said people are refusing to get passports.\u00a0 Some won\u2019t turn their passports in to the Temple.<\/p>\n Question.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t the Russians trust Carter?\u00a0 They don\u2019t know much about him.\u00a0 Jim: they know one thing: He believes in God and that Bible.\u00a0 No one trusts anyone who believes in God.<\/p>\n Jim: Blacks in Africa are going to be free before the black here are.\u00a0 I\u2019d be glad to be tortured to have our brothers in Africa free.\u00a0 When they\u2019re free, blacks here are going to be put back in slavery, as the honkies are not going to lose their standard of living.<\/p>\n Question on Amin of Uganda.\u00a0 Jim: Amin is one of the greatest men in Africa.\u00a0 Smith and Vorster of Rhodesia and South Africa are the enemies.\u00a0 You can\u2019t believe the newspapers.<\/p>\n Question: Will the socialist countries be affected by depression?\u00a0 Jim: It will be no danger to them; they don\u2019t live on deficit spending.<\/p>\n Question:\u00a0Is it possible that germ warfare is the cause of the legionnaire disease case?\u00a0 Jim: Yes the police probably did it.<\/p>\n A young man who was released from Soledad prison by Jim expressed his gratitude.\u00a0 Jim said that those who go out hurt the chances of such people.<\/p>\n Healings were performed.<\/p>\n Jim took another offering.<\/p>\n New members were admitted.<\/p>\n Jim dismissed the meeting at 4.00.<\/p>\n At the communal meal, the seniors\u2019 line moved quickly.\u00a0 I observed Lorenza Tucker going to the head of the food line and concluded she was barging in on the line.\u00a0 I had my change of clothing in a paper bag.<\/p>\n The buses left at 5.30.<\/p>\n I read Radicalism in America<\/em>.\u00a0 Then dozed a little before we got to Buttonwillow at 8.00.<\/p>\n We had a long break, not leaving until 10.30.<\/p>\n Lorenza explained to me that she hadn\u2019t pushed ahead in line (although I hadn\u2019t confronted her, she had observed that I noticed her moving to the top of the line), that she had gone to wash her hands.\u00a0 I said I was glad she hadn\u2019t, as I couldn\u2019t put up with cheating on places in the line.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI have to put up with a lot I don\u2019t like.\u201d\u00a0 I replied, \u201cNo, we don\u2019t, if it\u2019s opposed to socialist principles.\u201d<\/p>\n I ran.<\/p>\n I spoke to Irra Johnson about Earlene Watkins\u2019 saying that she couldn\u2019t get her vitamins.\u00a0 Irra said the seniors got their vitamins every two weeks.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t know why Earlene said that.<\/p>\n I talked Patti Chastain.<\/p>\n Bus No. 10 broke down and the other buses had to take their chare of its passengers.\u00a0 However, I had a window seat and slept quite well.<\/p>\n In spite of leaving late, we arrived at the next rest stop at 2.20. and we arrived at San Francisco at 4.00.<\/p>\n Christians took me home.<\/p>\n I unpacked.<\/p>\n Went to bed for half an hour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9 August – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong> Marquita came in saying she was sick all night. May have the flu.\u00a0 She intended to go home but stayed to make sure revisions on MagCard work she did Friday and did not go until well after lunch.\u00a0 She had a great deal of trouble because of unfamiliarity with the MagCard.<\/p>\n Shortly after the offices opened, Dor was informed by Mr. Shuman\u2019s\u00a0secretary, that several messages were going to be transmitted from Ann Arbor in conjunction with a suit by Consumer\u2019s Power lawyers were meeting here. Dor spent most of the day talking with Marquita and I revised some of them on the computer, then copies had to be xeroxed for the lawyers meeting with Phil Becnel and I worked on the xerox machine, which at one point broke down.\u00a0 Nora put it in working order.<\/p>\n Bechtel\u2019s mail room delivered my registered letter from Eddie [sister] with my ticket.\u00a0 I had had it transferred from my \u201cloc pro\u201d as I couldn\u2019t get in there to pick it up.<\/p>\n I ate my lunch hurriedly at my old desk.\u00a0 Then took the bus to Macy\u2019s.\u00a0 Bought 2 pair of good panty hose for my trip home.<\/p>\n In the afternoon after Marquita left I had to make a small change on one of the pages Marquita had done on a MagCard but it caused me a good deal of trouble because of the way she had ended it.<\/p>\n At home I exercised.<\/p>\n Prepared and ate dinner and washed dishes.\u00a0 I was late in getting the newspapers.<\/p>\n I made journal corrections, finishing the 16 to 30 September entries.<\/p>\n I read Roszak Where the Wasteland Ends<\/em> for an hour.<\/p>\n Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10 August – 1976 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong> Marquita was feeling much better.\u00a0 She made some revisions on her MagCard work, having considerable difficulty.\u00a0 Dor remarked to me that she did not know as much as she thought she did.<\/p>\n Phil Becnal brought in the Consumers Power contract I had worked on for revisions and I made those.<\/p>\n There was much conversation mostly between Dor and Marquita on astrology, which Marquita believes in and politics.\u00a0 On the latter subject Dor got into the subject of communism among the young and in government and [Sen. Joseph] McCarthy, who she thought saved the country, from subversion.\u00a0 Questioned by Marquita about the Hollywood purges, she was convinced all the accused were disloyal Americans,\u00a0 I did not remark on any of this.<\/p>\n At noon I saw the film in the employees series, People of Ponce, about the Union Carbide chemical plant in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 I may have seen it before.\u00a0 It showed little of either the scenery or the common people of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n I phoned Western Airline and formed the time of departure on my ticket.\u00a0 Phoned the airport bus company and got information about giving to the airport for my flight.<\/p>\n Because of an attempted theft on Market Street, buses were not running on that route where I left work.\u00a0 Fortunately I had gone to Mission Street to mail a letter, went to the East Bay Terminal to take a bus, from which I intended to transfer to a Hayes Street bus.\u00a0 But I found the Hayes Street bus was running, along with others, on mission and was enabled to get home quicker than the crowds of people trying to find transportation home.\u00a0 I was home a little before 6.00.<\/p>\n After meditation, I did my exercises.<\/p>\n Prepared and ate dinner and washed dishes.<\/p>\n It was later before I finished.<\/p>\n I put on a new ribbon on my typewriter.<\/p>\n Took a bath.<\/p>\n Read journal entries for 1 to 15 October until 12.00.<\/p>\n Read Roszak Where the Wasteland Ends<\/em> for an hour.<\/p>\n Went to bed a little after 1.00.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11 August – 1976 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong> Then Maggie brought in several resolutions from the Board of Directors and Dor gave them to me to put on MagCard.\u00a0 I tried to make a master card which I could use for all but had a great deal of difficulty.\u00a0 I was about to use the recorded heading only and type the rest manually but Dor finished the master for me.<\/p>\n She was working on a contract for Galbraith started yesterday.\u00a0 Later in the day some additional materials was received from Phil Becnel on the Consumers Power Ann Arbor Litigation.<\/p>\n Dor put Marquita on the computer to work on another litigation report.\u00a0 Marquita had trouble with it and when Dor attempted to instruct her, a flare up resulted and the two argued caustically.<\/p>\n I ate lunch at my old desk.<\/p>\n Most of the attorneys and secretaries have hid their offices and places of work changed.<\/p>\n When Dor was out of the office, Marquita told me she was very unhappy at work.\u00a0 She is willing to work hard but expects to have some opportunity to make friends and resents the way Dor \u201cbosses\u201d her.\u00a0 We tried to analyze Dor\u2019s psychology.<\/p>\n After finishing the resolution for Maggie, I started an affidavit on the Sonatrach project in Algeria which had to be typed in both English and French.<\/p>\n I got out on time and was home by 5.30.<\/p>\n I slept for an hour.<\/p>\n I ate dinner.<\/p>\n Dressed for the service.<\/p>\n Christians took me to the Temple at 8.00.<\/p>\n In the service, rides were arranged, announcements made.<\/p>\n Jim on podium at 9.00.<\/p>\n People marching in Louisville, Kentucky for Ku Klux Klan in lines as far as the eye could see.\u00a0 Other news of persecution. for supporting progressive causes. Gallup poll about strength of religious belief in America.\u00a0 Bigotry and fundamentalist belief.<\/p>\n Offering.<\/p>\n Jim said he had been speaking Party socialism for some time, hard to get back to religion<\/p>\n Commendations: Pat Martin, Danny Marshall, Patty Chastain, ____ ___ , Laurie ___, Cassandra Minor, Gina Severns and John Harris.<\/p>\n Commendations.\u00a0 Calvin Johnson, Albert Smith found $3 and turned it in.\u00a0 William Klingman found $13 and turned it in.\u00a0 William Swinney [no such person \u2013 Edith has wrong name] found $10 in trash bin and turned it in.\u00a0 Bonnie Stahl very cooperative since she\u2019s been in San Francisco.\u00a0 Chris Buckley told William Swinney not to tell he found the money.\u00a0 Jim said since there were no other complaints about Chris he let him off.<\/p>\n Cornelius Truss outstanding when in children\u2019s program.<\/p>\n Anthony Doswell disrupts, Tobiana Stone a problem.<\/p>\n Maria McCann. Kathy [Richardson] Purifoy.\u00a0 Acting out negative thoughts.\u00a0 Puts down communal living.\u00a0 Mom gave her money, said she needed it for clothes.\u00a0 Said going on work trip miserable experience.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy, she said, was pissed off.\u00a0 Jim said he has too much piss, but not any more. [She\u2019s] very critical of people, many she doesn\u2019t like.\u00a0 Said she\u2019s trying to get out of church commune.\u00a0 Anita Kelley says she has been manipulative.\u00a0 She admits it.\u00a0 She ___ ___ ___she\u2019s had.\u00a0 Jim called attention to ____ ____ ___ habit.\u00a0 She\u2019s a good greeter.\u00a0 She is to work for one night.\u00a0 Jim:\u00a0 Show us you can change.<\/p>\n Anita Garrison stayed in L.A.\u00a0 Not back yet.<\/p>\n Bertha Ford avoids work.\u00a0 Linda Mertle says they stay out to avoid passing out newspapers.\u00a0 McElvane says Bertha refuses security.\u00a0 Anita says she won\u2019t give reason for avoiding work.\u00a0 Her mom says she\u2019s always had lousy attitude.\u00a0 Jim wants to know why she treats everybody badly.\u00a0 She says no reason, no cause.\u00a0 He wonders of her homosexual relationship (with Linda) bothers her.\u00a0 Finally says she stays depressed.\u00a0 Jim said he not going to spend the rest of his life fighting people he loves and threatening.\u00a0 Says he\u2019s depressed all the time, nothing makes me feel good,\u00a0 Jim says he prefers to find what is bothering her.<\/p>\n Jim hints he had a child abuse case which could have caused disaster for us all.\u00a0 Something every day he has to straighten out or we\u2019d all have to lose.\u00a0 Jim emphasizes she lied to him.\u00a0 She promises to do better.\u00a0 Work all night. Linda volunteers to work all night.\u00a0 Jim accepts three hours.<\/p>\n Linda Swaney now wants some help.\u00a0 Her child being sent up the river. Poncho Johnson.\u00a0 Bad attitude accused of bragging.\u00a0 Driving recklessly, though he\u2019s 16.\u00a0 Jim warns of danger of being arrested, ties us up with damages which prevents us from getting away.\u00a0 Orders all counselors against sending anyone underage out on security.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim gave him 2 nights straight.<\/p>\n Jim complains newspaper distribution fallen off.\u00a0 He says people using other projects and pamphleting not to go.<\/p>\n Big drive to get more volunteers to distribute newspapers.\u00a0 Jim says only way is to schedule time for all and bring people up when they don\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n Jim. Some of you love it here.\u00a0 Won\u2019t do anything to help us\u00a0 get out.<\/p>\n Lisa Wright.\u00a0 Avoiding work since being in San Francisco.\u00a0 Old complaint. Dismissed.<\/p>\n [Name withheld]. For pamphleting.\u00a0 Quit.\u00a0 Said his supervisor Connie Frohm let him off.\u00a0 Lied.\u00a0 Pat Hess said he doing better.\u00a0 Penny told him he wasn\u2019t doing better.\u00a0 He took an overdose of medicine.\u00a0 Jim warns Penny her role is reporter not disciplinarian.\u00a0 No individual counseling.<\/p>\n Jim.\u00a0 Keep improving and I\u2019ll send you to p.l.\u00a0 Quit picking on people all the time.\u00a0 Keep things in perspective.<\/p>\n Donna Briggs [Lacy].\u00a0 Bad attitude.\u00a0 Tropp says she is improving.\u00a0 Dismissed.<\/p>\n Coordination of reports from children\u2019s workers needed.<\/p>\n Wayne McCall disrupts during tutoring.\u00a0 Tropp says he\u2019s improved.\u00a0 Dismissed.<\/p>\n Anthony Doswell.\u00a0 Impossible to handle.\u00a0 Irvin Perkins, Monica Doswell, Tobiana and Anthony hard to settle down, says Diane Lundquist.\u00a0 Jim had parents speak firmly to these children. Doswells picked up children and removed them from structured environment without permission.<\/p>\n Jim called out for emergency.<\/p>\n Dale Parks too another offering by sum.<\/p>\n Mike Prokes gave revelation from Jim.\u00a0 First we were asked to close our eyes.\u00a0 Those who had refused to pamphlet were to raise their hands and receive a cloth, to protect hem from harm to their bodies, then to make up their uncooperativeness.\u00a0 Teresa King was praised for her dedication to the cause, saved from a blood disease.<\/p>\n The audience was asked to come to the altar and was then dismissed.\u00a0 Jim had not returned.\u00a0 It was 1.30.<\/p>\n Christians took me home.<\/p>\n I washed dishes. Read for a while. Went to bed at 3.00.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12 August – 1976 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong> Dor has worked until 7.30 last night on the Consumers Power litigation.\u00a0 She transmitted material to and from Ann Arbor all day and had Marie for several hours on machine, as Marquita and I are not expert enough to do this type of work.<\/p>\n I mentioned separately Marquita and to Dor the idea of having before I leave on my vacation, an office conference. \u00a0So that each of us could state calmly what we liked and what we didn\u2019t like.\u00a0 Dor had a strong negative reaction, still taking an attitude of firmness. \u201cShe\u2019s got to learn to adapt to the business world.\u201d\u00a0 She revealed that she thought my influence in the working relationship had been detrimental and she was looking forward to dealing with Marquita alone and \u201cgetting her straightened out\u201d while I am on vacation.\u00a0 She is showing signs of great insecurity.<\/p>\n I continued working on resolutions from Maggie and typed on MagCard the final version of the Sonatrach office documents.\u00a0 Philippe Lamy, our French attorney, corrected it for me and Maggie accepted his changes.<\/p>\n Marquita\u2019s sister and brother-in-law are visiting her and have been doing some sight-seeing.\u00a0 She was to meet them for lunch today but they were delayed on BART so she didn\u2019t get any lunch.<\/p>\n I ate my lunch at my desk and went to the bank.\u00a0 Deposited 2 checks as I was paid for my vacation work in advance, and got cash.<\/p>\n The weather has been drizzly for the past few days.<\/p>\n Got home at 5.30.<\/p>\n Exercised.<\/p>\n Took my washing to the laundromat in addition to underwear, I washed all my dresses, blouses and skirts which were dirty.\u00a0 I am going to decide whether to keep my old clothes or give them to the Temple.\u00a0 Did some sorting.<\/p>\n I did personal and household chores.\u00a0 I decided to wash my hair tomorrow.<\/p>\n Prepared and ate dinner and washed dishes.<\/p>\n Took a bath.<\/p>\n Called Lor [her friend at SF State].\u00a0 She had taken the day off to get ready for her trip to Eugene.\u00a0 She is leaving with Sacton, Manning and Dorothy, tomorrow at 6.00. Ryn will get her PhD degree at the ceremonies to be held on Saturday.\u00a0 Neither Beth nor Carol will be able to attend.\u00a0 Bill de la Fuente is going to fly up.\u00a0 I told Lor about my plans for reunion with my sisters.\u00a0 Lor said Patty and Mike are going to have a meeting in November.<\/p>\n Read Roszak for a while.<\/p>\n Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 13 August – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong> Unaccountably, Marquita\u2019s attitude improved and the atmosphere in the office was friendly.<\/p>\n I took the bus to the Coop tonight and bought groceries for the week following my return.\u00a0 I got mostly frozen vegetables.\u00a0 Took a taxi home.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 14 August – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong> Went up to the Haight-Ashbury to the second hand stores to buy a few items I need for my trip.\u00a0 I got a pair of tennis shoes, a pair of walking shoes, 2 pair of panties and a light house coat.<\/p>\n Listened to the Temple broadcast.\u00a0 The panel discussion was on the power of the mind and was concerned with so-called miraculous happenings, not exclusively healings.<\/p>\n Prepared and ate a meal and did dishes.<\/p>\n Cleaned up the apartment.<\/p>\n At 4.00 I slept for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n I sorted out the clothes I am giving to the Temple.\u00a0 I had 2 big bags.<\/p>\n I was about to eat, some melon when Rob called.\u00a0 He picked me up at 7.45 and we arrived at the Temple at 8.00.<\/p>\n As we were entering, signing in and so forth, Jim\u2019s voice came over the loudspeaker.\u00a0 He was apparently reacting to the testimonials being given, said there wasn\u2019t much discussion of politics and other matters Some time should be devoted to honor of our saviour.<\/p>\n By the time I came upstairs, there had been generated an atmosphere of praise and rejoicing.<\/p>\n Jim came on podium and although Rick Cordell had just taken an offering, he said it had not been sufficient and took another.\u00a0 He said too many were going to stores trying on clothing and buying things they don\u2019t need if we enjoyed looking at articles in stores, going to movies, looking at TV shows and eating in restaurants, there was too much of Sodom and Gomorrah in us.\u00a0 You are not only in Sodom and Gomorrah, but Sodom America is in you.<\/p>\n A film was shown, \u201cBuck and the Preacher,\u201d with Sidney Poitier and Harry Belefonte, directed by Poitier.\u00a0 It concerned the wagon trains which were organized by blacks in the South after the Civil War to move to the west and were harassed by Southern night riders who were intent on keeping their labor force.\u00a0 The picture showed cooperation between the backs and Indians in helping the blacks to get to freedom.\u00a0 The photography was stunning, but the sound in the auditorium was bad.\u00a0 The film was more for people in the auditorium than any I remember being shown in the Temple. [?]<\/p>\n Films of the p.l. were then shown most of the scenes had been shown previously.<\/p>\n Jim performed healings.<\/p>\n He took an offering for a special need of one of our members.<\/p>\n New members were admitted.<\/p>\n The service was dismissed about 12.30.\u00a0 Jim said there would be no government meting.\u00a0 The auditorium could thus be used for arranging buses.<\/p>\n I paid to Diane Louie $20 for my ticket to the testimonial dinner in honor of Jim 25 September.<\/p>\n As Beulah had not come, I volunteered to Judy Flowers to take someone else and Florine Dyson was assigned to me.\u00a0 Christians did not have room for me so we waited for Glenn Hennington to take us along with some others.<\/p>\n Jim McElvane was sitting behind me downstairs.\u00a0 He said he was daddy to some 12 children, the boys who had been in the house, when Liz was there, plus the ones Pat Grunnet was caring for.\u00a0 Pat has moved in.\u00a0 Liz is no longer there.\u00a0 He thought she might be living in San Francisco.\u00a0 Rene\u00e9 McMurray [McMurry], he said, was with her.\u00a0 I forgot to ask about Bob Davis.<\/p>\n It was raining and I got the hem of my offertory dress wet.\u00a0 We arrived home about 1.30.<\/p>\n Florine and I had some honeydew melon and I ate some toast and jam.\u00a0 I went to bed at 3.00.<\/p>\n Florine got up twice during the night, couldn\u2019t find the bathroom.\u00a0 I had to get up and turn the light on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 15 August – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong> I bathed.<\/p>\n Prepared breakfast: honeydew melon, biscuits with currants, steak.\u00a0 I made a mistake in measuring ingredients for the biscuits and took a long time getting them into the oven.<\/p>\n Florine is 86 years old.\u00a0 She was born in Virginia, says she had no education.\u00a0 She was a member of the Peace Mission in Philadelphia but was vague about when she left them and joined Jim Jones.\u00a0 She apparently heard of Jim from Mary Black (then Mary Love).<\/p>\n I left the dishes. Dressed.<\/p>\n I had got my offertory dress wet last night and although I had rinsed it out I didn\u2019t have time to iron it, wore a short one.<\/p>\n I called a taxi as Christians didn\u2019t have room for us.<\/p>\n We arrived at the Temple at 11.30.\u00a0 Although rain had threatened earlier, the sun was out.<\/p>\n Usual preliminaries.<\/p>\n Jim on podium at 1.00.<\/p>\n With remarks on situation of blacks in America, he introduced another offering.\u00a0 \u201cRedneck\u201d sentiments of [Joicy] Clark\u2019s relatives recorded.\u00a0 Repeatable national magazines such as Newsweek print anti-black statements.\u00a0 Was her who brought up word to Jim that a man in group downstairs said he believed in slavery.<\/p>\n Jim: Dr. Carlton Goodlett is head of all the black newspapers in America.\u00a0 Wants to go to the p.l. see the facilities.<\/p>\n Choir sang \u201cUnited We Stand.\u201d<\/p>\n Jim ordered guests to be brought in, ones who believe in slavery.\u00a0 Pictures taken as they came in.<\/p>\n Introduced Goodlett. The one man outside of Peoples Temple Jim trusts.<\/p>\n Marcy sang, \u201cAll the Weary Mothers of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n Jim introducing choir singing \u201cImagine.\u201d\u00a0 We are dialectical materialists, don\u2019t believe in anything we can\u2019t see.<\/p>\n Jim: minorities usually brutalized or exterminated.\u00a0 We even find discrimination in Israel.\u00a0 In Socialist countries, only places in world in which minorities are not discriminated against us.\u00a0 If anyone can justify slavery, they must have a hole in their head.\u00a0 We are visited by people everyday who said they would go to concentrations camps if ordered by the President<\/a>.<\/p>\n African dancers.\u00a0 Danced for liberation.<\/p>\n Although the situation looks bad, we are not afraid but we have to face reality.\u00a0 Religious people are expecting Jesus to come and take them away.\u00a0 We are willing to die to preserve our liberty.<\/p>\n Ragtime music and dancing on platform.<\/p>\n Films of agricultural mission which we own.\u00a0 Jim emphasizes our care of our funds.\u00a0 Our thrift.\u00a0 27,000 acres.\u00a0 One and a half million dollars expended on it.<\/p>\n Dr. Carlton Goodlett.\u00a0 There comes a time when you have to be ready to make the supreme sacrifice.\u00a0 Amazed at what you have done in Guyana.\u00a0 Men in power are interested on not losing him.\u00a0 Coming down to a day of decision.\u00a0 To redirect forces of government and use political power and economic power.\u00a0 200 years of slavery and graveside rhetoric has been used by the rich and greedy to exploit the people,\u00a0 We cannot hold accountable the political parties.\u00a0 Republicans believe in socialism for the rich an trickle down theory.\u00a0 This country moving towards institutional fascism.\u00a0 Watergate only tip of iceberg necessary to this fascism.\u00a0 Strong conservative party, ____ socialist party, Labor force organizing masses of people.\u00a0 Labor has been co-opted by government.\u00a0 McGovern allowed his enemies to take control of Democratic party.\u00a0 Robert Strauss (Democratic National Chair): Carter stole the party while Humphrey and others slept. Southerners used Wallace as irritant.\u00a0 Church and Brown began to make progress against Carter.\u00a0 Brown could have stopped Carter if he had entered earlier.\u00a0 What Jerry Brown said we can take the disinherited and govern.<\/p>\n Jimmy Carter makes deals.\u00a0 Many ministers in San Francisco can be bought.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think much of themselves, they come very cheap.\u00a0 Sun Reporter exposed them. We aren\u2019t going to be underestimated by those under the ____ of Jim\u2019s church.\u00a0 Once a politician pays you before the vote is in, he will do nothing after the election.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got to stop bragging about we want and get what we need.\u00a0 We are 25th nation in the world.\u00a0 We are lacking discipline.\u00a0 We owe everything to Mother Africa.\u00a0 We spend more of our substance than any other nation and do not spend on each other.\u00a0 Earned 70 million last year but black business very small\u00a0 Should get off our knees. Specifically: (1) black is beautiful\u00a0 (2) everyone who is a racist is an enemy.\u00a0 Take care of our own indigenous and our own young\u00a0 (3) use our power against those who exploit us.\u00a0 Churches should take care of children, establish half-way houses for addict, alcohol, drugs, ____ ___ ___\u00a0 work about beauty of blackness ___ ____<\/p>\n Jim: we don\u2019t have any of the elements.\u00a0 Churches haven\u2019t democracy.\u00a0 Churches won\u2019t do anything.\u00a0 We project a bad self-image.\u00a0 Worse than drugs is that 90% of our people are addicted to white man\u2019s religion.\u00a0 We believe the Bible: Obey those who have rule over you.\u00a0 Something irritating in that form of religion that teaches submission.\u00a0 Our people being killed off little by little.<\/p>\n Jim: ___ on Bible.\u00a0 Bible ___ ____ ____ ___\u00a0 religion is the work ___ ___ control over us.\u00a0 I can heal crippled bodies but I can\u2019t heal crippled brains[?].<\/p>\n More healings under socialism ___ ___ culture than under Christianity.<\/p>\n Mrs. Martin L. King says she ___ __violation even though they put her in a concentration camp.\u00a0 She\u2019s already a slave.<\/p>\n Muslim leader says his grandfather was white.\u00a0 He can\u2019t hate the white man.<\/p>\n Guests here today.\u00a0 It is my duty to tell you the truth.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want your blood on my hands.<\/p>\n On ancestry of Jesus.<\/p>\n On inconsistencies of the Bible.<\/p>\n \u201cYe are all gods.\u201d<\/p>\n People don\u2019t want the truth,<\/p>\n Adam and Eve.<\/p>\n Half of Carlton Goodlett wants to go to the p.l.\u00a0 The other half wants us to get our money together.\u00a0 It\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n Berates those who are fidgety.\u00a0 Some of these people are going to concentration camp.\u00a0 Earthquake.\u00a0 Drought, famine.\u00a0 What\u2019s going to happen when the banks close?\u00a0 What\u2019s going to happen when everybody is unemployed?\u00a0 Wake up.<\/p>\n If there is a god he\u2019s bad.<\/p>\n After healings and admission of new members, the meeting was dismissed at about 5.00.<\/p>\n I rode home with Christians.<\/p>\n Had hoped to be home at least by 4.30. in order to prepare for my trip.\u00a0 I had to do dishes from the morning.\u00a0 I had time to eat only some melon.\u00a0 I then packed and dressed.\u00a0 I took to the Christians my plant which they had agreed to water while I was gone.\u00a0 I sorted out a few clippings, etc., to take with me to show my sisters.<\/p>\n Had intended to take the buses to the airport terminal, but they run infrequently so I took a taxi at 8.00 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 I was just in time to get on a bus.<\/p>\n I checked in at the Western Airlines counter.\u00a0 I had a hamburger at the snack bar where I had to wait for some time.<\/p>\n The plane left at 10.00.\u00a0 I was served two glasses of champagne.\u00a0 I read the Saturday and Sunday newspapers.\u00a0 I tried to sleep but couldn\u2019t.\u00a0 The flight was only a little over two hours.<\/p>\n We landed at about 1.00 Denver time.\u00a0 I had to wait at the baggage claim for Eddie and Bug [?] And they didn\u2019t come for an hour.\u00a0 Eddie had said they might go to a show.\u00a0 However, they had gone out to dinner with Joyce Struble with sister Dor.\u00a0 They\u2019d\u00a0 visited a couple of days after her arrival in Denver.\u00a0 They had gotten the time my plane arrived wrong.<\/p>\n Their greeting was warm.\u00a0 We arrived at Eddie\u2019s home, talked ceaselessly. Eddie showed us the house.\u00a0 She had finished putting up the second story.\u00a0 All the electrical equipment has been installed and she is living upstairs, but the whole house is as cluttered as ever.\u00a0 She has, of course, a beautiful view from two windows.<\/p>\n Eddie and Dor slept upstairs and I slept downstairs.\u00a0 We went to bed at 4.00.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 16 August – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong> I had some cantaloupe and Sanka.<\/p>\n We spent most of the morning talking.\u00a0 Dor told us of Paul\u2019s wedding.\u00a0 The bride was Polly Williams.\u00a0 Dor had some snapshots.\u00a0 It had been a simple wedding conducted by a Unitarian minister in the garden of the parents\u2019 house in New Jersey.\u00a0 Polly\u2019s father is well-to-do.\u00a0 Paul has his own business designing buildings.<\/p>\n Dor\u2019s chief topic was her affiliation with Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair\u2019s atheistic group.\u00a0 She still dislikes the Temple\u2019s identity as a church, though she is not bitter about the incident in Chicago summer before last.\u00a0 She fears the object of Jim\u2019s \u201coccult\u201d abilities.<\/p>\n Both Dor and Eddie warned me to avoid discussion of Jim and the Temple with Mabs.\u00a0 They are concerned about her mental condition.\u00a0 They think she is drinking too much, believe she has too few interests.\u00a0 They think she should get rid of her house and do not understand her reason for keeping it.\u00a0 He financial situation is not good, but not desperate.\u00a0 I promised to be careful in discussion with Mabs.<\/p>\n Eddie has rented the downstairs portion of her house, bedroom and kitchen to a new teacher at her school, a young woman.\u00a0 The arrangement will give Edna [Eddie] more security.<\/p>\n The three of us went for a short walk with Eddie\u2019s three dogs.\u00a0 The weather was ideal.<\/p>\n We had a light lunch.<\/p>\n Eddie wants to retire in perhaps another year.\u00a0 She will get a pension from her school administration.<\/p>\n We drove to Denver, stopping at a shopping center on Wadsworth to make a few purchases.\u00a0 I got some zippers for my 2 dresses with Eddie\u2019s advice.\u00a0 Denver was very hot.<\/p>\n Eddie drove through Barnum where we had lived as children and we looked at familiar sights.\u00a0 She and Dor remembered them better than I did.<\/p>\n We had dinner at Stouffer\u2019s Restaurant on Colorado Boulevard near the [old] airport.\u00a0 We had salmon.\u00a0 We thought too much attention had been given to surface embellishments; the food was not extraordinary.\u00a0 Prices were high.\u00a0 We paid $8.50 for the entree alone.,\u00a0 Dor paid for dinner.<\/p>\n At 8.00 we picked up Mabs at the airport.\u00a0 We found her right away although we had not been certain of the airline nor flight number.<\/p>\n Mabs was in a good mood though her complexion seems muddy and she has gained weight.\u00a0 She was happy because Miranda had just taken a job in Washington with some experimental agricultural project of the government, starting in October,\u00a0 The climate in Montreal is hard on her.\u00a0 Tagore is five.\u00a0 He suffers from allergies and has to have a restrictive diet.\u00a0 She says he has a hot temper.\u00a0 He looks like Matthew.<\/p>\n Mabs is still smoking heavily.<\/p>\n We spent some time in getting out of town as Eddie took the wrong road.<\/p>\n We went to bed at 11.00.\u00a0 Mabs slept in the same room as I.<\/p>\n I slept soundly the first part of the night, woke at 4.00 and couldn\u2019t get back to sleep.\u00a0 Mabs slept rather restlessly.<\/p>\n I got up at 5.30, made some Sanka, thought I would make journal entries.\u00a0 But Mabs joined me and we sat talking until Eddie and Dor got up.<\/p>\n We had toast and eggs for breakfast.<\/p>\n When we had dressed we went in the car with Eddie driving us to see several of her friends in the locality, to her school to meet her principal, whom she likes very much, to the vet with one of the dogs who was limping on one foot.\u00a0 We had hamburgers for lunch.\u00a0 Mabs and I shopped for food for tonight while Dor and Eddie went to the beauty salon and had their hair done.<\/p>\n From what conversations I have had with Mabs, she is not as opposed as Dor to believe in some form of spiritual power, but she does not think highly of Jim Jones\u2019 extra sensory perceptions.\u00a0 However, she is very concerned about social issues and agrees with me about the harmfulness of the present economic system.<\/p>\n On our return we visited another of Eddie\u2019s friends.\u00a0 I had 2 glasses of Scotch and was very tired.<\/p>\n I slept for an hour and a half.<\/p>\n Took a shower while Mabs told the others of some of her relationships.<\/p>\n Eddie borrowed a projector and showed the films I had given Dor, of her, Paul, Mabs, Edna, Miranda, Matthew, Mother and the ranch.<\/p>\n We had dinner which Edna prepared: t-bone steak, baked potato, mushrooms, tomatoes.\u00a0 I had paid for the food.<\/p>\n Mabs told of the trial and sentencing of the man who attempted to rape and murder her.\u00a0 He \u201ccopped a plea\u201d was sentenced to seven years of which he served two.\u00a0 She does not think he was rehabilitated.<\/p>\n Mabs told of some of her experiences doing home teaching.<\/p>\n We looked at the films again.<\/p>\n The others went to bed.\u00a0 I made journal entries.\u00a0 I then read a few items Dor and Mabs had saved for me including an article about folklore written by Matthew.<\/p>\n I went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nSusan Wintersteen from the computer center conferred with Dor for several ours this morning, explaining billing methods.<\/p>\n
\nAside from one memo from Maggie, which I put on the ATS MagCard and ran off on one of the outside MagCard machines.\u00a0 Marquita was using mine.\u00a0 I had no other work all day.<\/p>\n
\nI had two typing jobs with revisions which kept me more or less busy all day.\u00a0 The first was a memo for Marquita which I put on MagCard. It was on the dissolution of a contract in Argentina.\u00a0 Jim Hartt, a new attorney, brought in a disc which required a new type of transcriber.\u00a0 Dor had to locate one and read the instruction book to learn how to operate it.\u00a0 She showed me.\u00a0 It gave a very clear rendition.\u00a0 The recording was on a contract dispute.<\/p>\n
\nMarquita was very moody today.\u00a0 Dor asked her if she didn\u2019t feel well.\u00a0 I knew she was probably depressed by the numerous regulations of which Dor constantly reminds her but Marquita merely said she had a lot of problems.<\/p>\n
\nSlept until 6.30 this morning and didn\u2019t have any breakfast except a piece of cantaloupe.\u00a0 Bought a doughnut which I ate at the office.<\/p>\n
\nOur bus got to the stop at Buttonwillow at 9.00 late, having sopped for a short time for an older person to go to the bathroom and park for other reasons.<\/p>\n
\nGot up about 8.00.<\/p>\n
\nSet alarm for 5.15, when I got up so that I could press clothes for the week,\u00a0 Have been wearing the outfit which Claire gave me.\u00a0 Most of them are suitable.<\/p>\n
\nNone of us had much to do all day.\u00a0 R.V.Galbraith, departing for Venezuela, left a contract for revision, which Dor worked on but with no great urgency.<\/p>\n
\nThe morning started off slowly.\u00a0 I worked on journal entries.<\/p>\n
\nSandy Parks left the church.\u00a0 Has concerns.<\/p>\n
\nDidn\u2019t get\u00a0 until 6.30.\u00a0 Had only an orange for breakfast. Bought a doughnut which I ate at the office.<\/p>\n
\nI did not have a great deal to do in the office.\u00a0 Worked on resolutions for Maggie.<\/p>\n
\nGot up at 9.00.<\/p>\n
\nGot up at 9.00. Florine was already up.<\/p>\n
\nI slept until 9.00.\u00a0 The room I was in was so dark I couldn\u2019t see anything.\u00a0 Dor and Eddie were already up.<\/p>\n