[looks to be 2 lines of shorthand notation]<\/em> __\u00a0\u00a0 no weakling or sniveling coward.\u00a0 There will be opportunities unimaginable if you\u2019re in my spirit.\u00a0 See that people are not using this movement to get power.\u00a0 I believe it\u2019s possible to develop pure motivation.\u00a0 I have no ambitions to be anything under capitalism.\u00a0 I should be president of this country.\u00a0 I\u2019d rescue it and save it.\u00a0 Very difficult to keep ego from taking over.<\/p>\n(5) Brown won\u2019t sign bill for capital punishment.\u00a0 Answer: Brown is a schizophrenic. He\u2019s a socialist at heart and at moments it will break out, This is one of those times. Who you have to watch is LA police Chief Davis of LA.\u00a0 He may be governor but he\u2019ll be your governor,\u00a0 I won\u2019t be here to can see bad signs everywhere,\u00a0 Klan and Nazism is growing. You\u2019ll see how mean this place is going to get. You would rather float in shit rather than be there.\u00a0 Mark my words.\u00a0 Told of Mildred Callahan.<\/p>\n
Give your name to Fortson today if you\u2019re planning to move to SF.\u00a0 What you need to worry about is the earthquake that\u2019s coming here.\u00a0 5 earthquakes in SF after we left.<\/p>\n
(6) Problem in the Temple. Handling of his property, Medlocks.\u00a0 Complains they didn\u2019t get it ready for sale.\u00a0 Blames Hue Fortson.\u00a0 Jim says it was an independent gift,\u00a0 It has been a source of controversy.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to receive anything that\u2019s not given whole heartedly.\u00a0 I\u2019ll wait until there won\u2019t be division. Perhaps death will have to take over.<\/p>\n
(7)\u00a0 What is political awareness?\u00a0 To know what is socialism.\u00a0 To know what is going on as, for instance, Why did Wallace withdraw in favor of Carter?\u00a0 The deal that the Attorney General would be one of his men, Bell.\u00a0 This is an example.<\/p>\n
(8)\u00a0 Child: What is capitalism?<\/p>\n
Pamphleteers leave marching by altar with gifts<\/p>\n
Answer: Rich own everything.\u00a0 Rich own banks, trains, airplanes, houses your mom and daddy live in, They get all the profits.\u00a0 Asked teachers to explain to him in his language.<\/p>\n
Pamphleteers file out.\u00a0 Jim stopped persons going wrong way.\u00a0 Firm order.<\/p>\n
(9) Joyce Rozynko: Why is liberty of newspapers and books printed by the organization?\u00a0 Why hasn\u2019t book burning taken place?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 Frightful commentary on the state of consciousness.\u00a0 No one cares.\u00a0 No one\u2019s thinking.\u00a0 No one resisting.\u00a0 What kind of letters do we get back from People\u2019s Forum?\u00a0 Hate letters.\u00a0 At first Hitler didn\u2019t burn books.\u00a0 Took over on ground he\u2019d help people. Overnight he arrested all the Communists.\u00a0 Jews ignored that although Mein Kampf told of his hate of them.\u00a0 Political unawareness of American people is dreadful.\u00a0 Not one American mother laid her body on tracks to prevent bombs going to Vietnam.\u00a0 300,000 newspapers can go out and you won\u2019t get a letter, except hate letters. Does some good though.\u00a0 Our enemies are afraid of it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t want to read on first page what they\u2019ve done.\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s a contradiction.\u00a0 In Germany they cared; in America, they don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n
(10) Statement that CIA had to do these things to protect national security. Brother Mercer.\u00a0 No comment from Jim.<\/p>\n
Jim took an offering by sum. When on sum of $7.77 he spoke of a Templeton who had drawn the pictures of Jim and Harriet Tubman had obtained some money.\u00a0 He should have given to the Temple, he bought a house instead and strayed from the Temple.\u00a0 Head severed in accident, near death, wife asking for help.\u00a0 Can\u2019t help now protection diverted from you, who have been faithful.<\/p>\n
Healings include man involved in house episode.\u00a0 If get matter cleared up, he and his wife will be healed. He asked leadership to meet with man after service.<\/p>\n
Come to altar with offering.<\/p>\n
Details on trip. 16 to 28 January. Service ended 6.00.<\/p>\n
Beulah was taking home Pauline Simon as well as me.\u00a0 Eunice Stanford was giving us a ride but she had to take another load home first.\u00a0 Beulah suggested I get a plate downstairs while I waited, which I did.\u00a0 As it turned out, Eunice had to attend security meeting.<\/p>\n
Beulah and I sat through the meeting, which started shortly after 7.00.\u00a0 Jim McElvane conducted it.\u00a0 The first point was a discussion of the arrangements for the M.L.King memorial service.\u00a0 The Temple had to agree that no searching procedures would be followed.\u00a0 The measures of coping with diversionary tactics were discussed and practiced.\u00a0 The Temple had been cold all day and I kept my coat on,\u00a0 Tonight even with my coat on my feet and hands were cold.<\/p>\n
The security meeting ended about 10.10 and Eunice took us home.\u00a0 Pauline and some of the children had come earlier.<\/p>\n
I had some chicken wings, peas and an apple.\u00a0 I read a little of Radicalism in America. [by Sidney Lens 1966]\u00a0 Went to sleep about 12.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
9 January – 1977 Sunday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8.00.\u00a0 Had for breakfast: egg, bacon, toast and banana.<\/p>\nPauline [Simon] told me the details concerning herself and her family.\u00a0 She herself suffers from numerous physical problems.\u00a0 She has been interested in dramatic productions at the Temple.\u00a0 She has recently moved to SF but is not living in a commune, though she says she wants to.\u00a0 She has three sons: Anthony [Simon] in Guyana, Michael and Jerome.\u00a0 The latter two live at the Temple in SF, a daughter Alisa, also in SF.\u00a0 Jerome is married to Melanie who has a baby girl.\u00a0 Alisa just had a baby girl.<\/p>\n
Geneva took us to the service.\u00a0 She and Beulah had had a falling out but this problem seems to have blown over.\u00a0 We were about half an hour late.<\/p>\n
Norm took an offering by sum.\u00a0 Jim was on the podium about 12.00.<\/p>\n
Choir sang.<\/p>\n
Jim read excerpts form an article in Guyanese about Jim\u2019s visit there (more detail).\u00a0 Another article on Jonestown settlement called \u201cPeople Temple Agricultural Mission.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cConsidering the situation today, it is remarkable that Americans have been allowed to live so close to Guyana\u2019s borders they trust us and we do not intend to violate that trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cecil Templeton who drew the pictures.\u00a0 Wife begged us for meditation .\u00a0 He was in car wreck.\u00a0 Neck severed.\u00a0 Cleve Ivy had massive heart attack, warned to be in services.\u00a0 Mildred Callahan, her companion put a knife through her head.<\/p>\n
Jim took another offering by sum.<\/p>\n
Quiz period:
\n(1) Meaning of swastika.\u00a0 Jim: Emblem of Indians meaning power, but taken over by Hitler to symbolize Nazis.\u00a0 He described National Socialism. Then another strength in America.\u00a0 Disintegration of the groups, particularly Muslims.\u00a0 Elijah Mohammed in spite of non-sensical religion that white power stressed.<\/p>\n
(2) Will hospital be built in Jonestown before we get there?\u00a0 Jim: Probably one of the last things because there is one hospital down the river.\u00a0 We will have clinic at first.\u00a0 We will have a hospital and you and many others will be welcome to work in it.\u00a0 Food is our first priority.\u00a0 We are going to store food.\u00a0 You can\u2019t survive here if there is a food shortage as wild life has been destroyed, now new ice age coming.\u00a0 We have wild cows, wild boars there.\u00a0 Bible says church must take care first of household of the faith. Have to provide against nuclear threat, earthquake.\u00a0 I can take care of the supernatural, as well as the physical natural\u00a0 I can provide against every contingency.\u00a0 What is your church doing?\u00a0 Medical specialist, lawyers?\u00a0 We do.\u00a0 We are the only church to do so don\u2019t talk about souls?\u00a0 Saved your soul long ago And now I am saving your ass.\u00a0 The first moment my people looked in my face, their souls were saved.\u00a0 Emanuel is here.\u00a0 No man can dissolve cancer, no man can stop rain. No man can straighten broken bones.<\/p>\n
(3) Talking to people. Lisa.\u00a0 Can we ever say we are socialists?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Don\u2019t cast pearls before swine.\u00a0 99% of the time that\u2019s what you\u2019d be doing.\u00a0 You can tell them of our services.\u00a0 Any person in his right mind will know.\u00a0 Ask them questions.\u00a0 We are against every form of injustice, that we stand for freedom of speech.<\/p>\n
(4) Personal problem.\u00a0 Ill sister Nettie Jones.\u00a0 Sent her all possible help.\u00a0 She called me saying Temple collected money for her.\u00a0 Supposed to give it to her.\u00a0 Not true.\u00a0 Nettie Jones here. She must speak.\u00a0 She says Bernie Hicks rang offering taken up and she didn\u2019t get it.\u00a0 Jim:\u00a0 people love to stir up mischief.\u00a0 Jim has option for them both.\u00a0 Glad to see Nettie back. The two embrace.<\/p>\n
(5) Why do they want to kill black liberation movement? Child.\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 They know they owe us a debt.\u00a0 People avoid someone they owe.\u00a0 White America owes us 300 years of liberation.\u00a0 We make them feel guilty.\u00a0 They want us dead.\u00a0 We may go away but we\u2019ll be back.\u00a0 People of color are going to rule the whole world.\u00a0 They\u2019re afraid of black unity because if we get together we\u2019re going to.<\/p>\n
Letter from people on question of giving house.\u00a0 Do you mean what you say?\u00a0 I know what your husband whispers to you and what you say to me?<\/p>\n
(6) Meaning of\u00a0 Bitterbergs [Bilderbergers Members of Bilderberg Club founded 1954 see Wickpedia].<\/em> Got answer from talks show.\u00a0 Organized during Eisenhower administration.\u00a0 Named from hotel [Hotel de Bilderberg, Arnhem, Netherlands],<\/em>\u00a0 Netherlands.\u00a0 Prince Bernard of Netherlands mixed up in Lockheed scandal [Lockheed Affair] big businessmen secret, made sure no newspapermen present.\u00a0 Heavily armed.\u00a0 No one knows what they believe in, Ford had resigned in 1974.\u00a0 Is this where all our rulers come from.\u00a0 Jim: there are such gatherings composed of big corporations, banking institutions have plans for their own survival, don\u2019t know the name (Bitterburgs) [Bilderbergers]<\/em><\/p>\n(7) Petition on slave?.\u00a0 More (add) Mrs. Alex?
\nJim on what husband whispered. answer from you on your proposal,\u00a0 But you didn\u2019t tell me your husband\u2019s question.\u00a0 More explanation of situation.\u00a0 Something about son defrauded him. [margin note \u201crewrite\u201d for all of #7]<\/em><\/p>\n(11) Little girl.\u00a0 Why do Nazis send notes that we\u2019re against them.\u00a0 Jim: because they know that I\u2019m out to get every one of them,\u00a0 It\u2019s either them or me.\u00a0 If they get in my way, I\u2019ll kill them all.\u00a0 They killed one good man.\u00a0 We\u2019re pacifists no longer.<\/p>\n
Important for us to realize that we have no change in administration. Community made up of West Europe, Japan and US, Carter a member, they\u2019re joined together to be sure capitalism maintain its power.<\/p>\n
Healings. One woman. Father and mother both suffered violence.\u00a0 She cured of blood clot which would have paralyzed her.<\/p>\n
New members admitted.\u00a0 Congregation came to altar with commitments.<\/p>\n
Meeting dismissed at 3.10.\u00a0 Jim announced the buses would be loaded in 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
I found that the general line moved faster than the senior line.\u00a0 Even so, I had trouble getting through in time and did not change clothes before boarding the bus.<\/p>\n
My seat was occupied on bus 12. As Irene Mason, a senior who is blind, had gotten on the wrong bus, I was changed to bus 10.\u00a0 I specified that I not sit in one of the seats against the wall, as the backs do not let down and I explained I need to sleep for work tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The buses left at about 4.00.<\/p>\n
I read American Radicalism. as long as there was light.\u00a0 We went by Route 5.\u00a0 There was snow on the Grapevine, quite heavy on the northern side.<\/p>\n
The bus offering was taken with a good deal of earnestness.\u00a0 One of the Hicks sisters was hostess.\u00a0 This bus carried a mixed crowd of seniors and others, including children, and they are as cantankerous as those on bus 12.<\/p>\n
At the stop I helped Irene Mason to the bathroom, as no one else was assigned or volunteered, Viola Godshalk was being helped by Ray.\u00a0 She always gets permission from Council to stay behind if Ray is not going.\u00a0 We agreed that people should be assigned to help the handicapped.\u00a0 Probably the nurses are so busy that they have not had time to take care of all the details.<\/p>\n
As my seat can not be fixed I was changed to another seat towards the back.\u00a0 Behind me was a young man who was ill and was vomiting.\u00a0 The woman next to me resented having seats changed so often.\u00a0 She was fat and sprawled into my area. However I slept well until the next stop, which was at 11.30.<\/p>\n
Then I ran. The night was not as cold as Friday night was though.\u00a0 I got a little chilly, not having anything but my coat to cover me.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t sleep on the rest of the journey.<\/p>\n
We arrived in SF at 1.30.\u00a0 Bus 10 dropped people at 2 communes and at the Temple.\u00a0 People from 1029 Geary came of other buses and we were taken to our building.\u00a0 Bates had just got in, My suitcase had been unloaded.\u00a0 Bates and I talked about the disagreeableness of many of the seniors. She told me of the argument which had occurred just before I boarded bus 12.<\/p>\n
I went to bed at 3.00 but it was sometime before I fell asleep.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
10 January – 1977 Monday<\/strong>
\nI bought a filler for my thermos in the drugstore near the East Bay Terminal. I obtained hot water from the Bechtel cafeteria and made my Sanka morning and afternoon.<\/p>\nAt 8.30 there was a meeting of the secretarial and clerical staff of the Legal and Insurance Department.\u00a0 Chief purpose was to introduce the staff to the new personnel evaluation forms which have to be filled out by supervisors on each employee yearly.\u00a0 They are to be discussed and seen by the employee.\u00a0 Most of the staff were very new about the procedure.\u00a0 Another issue causing hard feeling was access to the Mag Card A to who in the insurance section.\u00a0 A few other matters came up.<\/p>\n
Marquita hurt a finger playing football with her brother; it may be broken and she left for an appointment with the doctor at 4.30.<\/p>\n
In spite of her injured finger, Marquita continued to work on ATS, as did Dor and I had little to do. Later in the day I revised two equal opportunity cost items to put on Mag Card for Butler\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Took lunch inside.<\/p>\n
Went directly to the Temple after work.\u00a0 Dinner was good.\u00a0 We had fried fish, green beans, salad, yams and banana bread.\u00a0 Went home on the bus with Hazel Dashiell.<\/p>\n
Did my exercises.\u00a0 Bates got home about 7.00.\u00a0 She had been to see Millie Cunningham, who is doing well and could talk to her.\u00a0 Vera Talley was with Bates and worked on her hair.\u00a0 I worked on my journal form 7.30 to 10.30.<\/p>\n
Sewed a button on my coat and some other mending.\u00a0 Finished the newspaper and looked back over Freedom at Midnight.\u00a0 Had some toast with margarine and apricot-pineapple preserve.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n
[note in margin: write this as finished]<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
11 January – 1977 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nNeither Marquita nor I had any work to do this morning, while Dor worked on the ATS.\u00a0 The doctor said Marquita\u2019s finger was not broken but he advised her not to use her hand for a few days.\u00a0 She saw Betty who said she could take sick leave in advance or work could be found for he which should not require her to use her hand.<\/p>\nI did some work on my journal.<\/p>\n
Then Marquita started to tell me about her sister who behaves in a deranged manner.\u00a0 She really seemed to need a more experienced person to listen to her and proffer a little advice.<\/p>\n
Dor came over, obviously irritated, but instead of saying our talking interfered with her work or telling us she now had assignments for us she seemed to blame us for not working.<\/p>\n
I reacted angrily as I had not been given any work to do and had not done anything on ATS since before Christmas.\u00a0 I had last Friday quietly and tactfully asked for assignment to the ATS.\u00a0 She repeated what she had said before, that all the work was urgent and I was slow.\u00a0 This made me even angrier as my production would be satisfactory if I got some practice.\u00a0 She thought I exaggerated. I told her if my work was so poor, I thought she shouldn\u2019t have me in the office.\u00a0 As I was not making any progress with her I maintained I was going to talk to Betty Vasil.\u00a0 This remark made her more conciliatory. I thought I got an agreement that she would let know what work comes into the office so that I won\u2019t have the feeling I am just a flunky.<\/p>\n
Dor went to talk to Betty and Marquita saw Betty also.\u00a0 Dor said another meeting of the three of us with Betty would be arranged.<\/p>\n
During the argument with Dor I was late going to lunch and missed the first part of a film called \u201cShi the Volcano\u201d made at Mt. Hood, Oregon.\u00a0 I ate my lunch while looking at the rest of the film.<\/p>\n
Dor gave me an ATS assignment of a report on secrecy agreements for Maggie.\u00a0 Dor gives directions badly, furnishing too much detail instead of a view of the project as a whole.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple on Muni directly after work for dinner and went home on Muni.<\/p>\n
Exercised. Bates was home rather early.\u00a0 Versa Talley came in to see her, talked to her while she made candy.\u00a0 I worked on my journal.\u00a0 Finished the 16-31 December section.<\/p>\n
Read the newspaper.\u00a0 Went to bed at 12.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
12 January – 1977 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nDor told us what work was to be done in the office early in the day, although she did not keep us informed as new items came in,\u00a0 I worked most of the day on the Secrecy Agreement report and did fairly well as the routine became established.\u00a0 Dor showed a poorly disguised hostility to me when I asked questions.\u00a0 She is warmer to Marquita.\u00a0 She gave Marquita some work on the reports she herself is supposed to do, as Marquitai could work on them without hurting her hand.\u00a0 Dor herself appeared to be typing a report on a letter, the subject of which she did not tells.<\/p>\nAt lunchtime I took my lunch to the assembly room where\u00a0 I saw a videotape on the Pinto Valley project, a copper processing plant in Arizona.<\/p>\n
I finished the first secrecy agreement report about 3.30, talked to a few people around the department and prepared pencils and paper for note-taking tonight, before coming to the computer and starting on the second series.\u00a0 There\u2019s one concerned with agreements binding on Bechtel and are in much more detail and parts more numerous than the first group.<\/p>\n
Got home at 5.15.\u00a0 Changed my shoes and washed my face and took the Temple bus, which loaded at 5.30, to the Temple.<\/p>\n
Ate dinner,<\/p>\n
Wrote journal entries in my seat until the service started.
\nService at 7.30.\u00a0 Tommy X handled ride.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown said Emporium needed people on Saturday at 6.00 to take inventory.\u00a0 Church would be paid.\u00a0 Volunteers recruited.\u00a0 Young people especially needed.<\/p>\n
Johnny asked for cars to use in getting out the newspaper at 8.30 and 1.00 p.m. tomorrow.<\/p>\n
CJ [Jackson] announced that those in charge of the fire project at apostolic homes must turn in a report on how fire watch was kept for each hour, also a list of residents needing any special care in case of an emergency.<\/p>\n
Two offerings were taken.\u00a0 In the second Jim\u2019s voice came over the loud speaker.<\/p>\n
Jim was on the podium at 8.15.<\/p>\n
Jim took another offering.<\/p>\n
Young man representing the Committee on Assassinations showed slides on assassination of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Concentrated on 3 troops? photographs at Dallas, one E. Howard Hunt. Pictures show they also involved in cases of M.L.King as well as Watergate. Their theory, CIA did it.\u00a0 Very short presentation.<\/p>\n
Jim told of plans for M.L.King, Jr. memorial service<\/p>\n
Report from Promised Land.\u00a0 New housing unit completed.<\/p>\n
Jim was back.<\/p>\n
Elihue Dennis doing better in garage since confronted . Richmond Stahl performing well in Redwood Valley. Does laundry,\u00a0 always available to drive a bus..\u00a0 Martha Klingman will be working full time in accounting.\u00a0 Jann Gurvich good helping in law offices. Judy Merriam excellent at 1029 Geary.\u00a0 Pam Moten [Moton] good worker.\u00a0 Bob Stroud has positive attitude.<\/p>\n
Jerome Simon only works with supervision. Archie sent him back to SF.\u00a0 Jack Beam says he does things sporadically.\u00a0 Lost job.\u00a0 Okayed for courses but we don\u2019t want anybody who doesn\u2019t work on mundane jobs.\u00a0 Jim:\u00a0 We\u2019ve educated our last bourgeois.\u00a0 Jack says from 13 to 20 we have only about a dozen people who hunt up work.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want people who act smart.<\/p>\n
Jim has heard enough about people who complain about no t.p. [toilet paper].\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t have much respect for anyone who goes up and down highway 5 without finding a place to put some t.p. in their pocket.<\/p>\n
Jack says Jerome doesn\u2019t have a real grasp of what we\u2019re about, Jim says he need some sun, doesn\u2019t get a chance to look at the sun.\u00a0 Asks how he manages to sit around when other people are working.\u00a0 He admits he\u2019s been over-indulged.\u00a0 His brother X\u00a0 says he\u2019s a manipulator.\u00a0 Penny reminds him that he was reading a book, wrapped in a blanket, when she found the agent outside the building.\u00a0 Debbie says he fouls up security matters.\u00a0 He put under strict supervisor, raise $200.<\/p>\n
Elsie Belle says Penny Kerns bugs people all night and then sleeps all day when other people are pamphleting.\u00a0 She says she is just joking. She said it to Bea Orsot.\u00a0 Jim says Elsie going to have plastic surgery on her face for paralytic condition.\u00a0 Jim tells her to pamphlet for 3 hours.<\/p>\n
Jim speaks to somebody out of jail without naming them.\u00a0 We don\u2019t see any work from you.\u00a0 Volunteer for something before you are addressed publicly.<\/p>\n
Jim gives instructions on close scrutiny of visitors at gates,\u00a0 Don\u2019t admit anyone without checking with front desk.\u00a0 Don\u2019t accept any packages.<\/p>\n
No one will ever be dealt with so harshly as someone who doesn\u2019t cooperate with fire watch.<\/p>\n
Jim wants volunteers to go on Housing Committee tonight with him.\u00a0 After that, bus will go to LA.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the day I can pee on L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim took another offering, giving some healings and other revelation in the midst of\u00a0 them. For instance we are to get rid of any broken watch we might have, not sleep in the room with one and he asked as a precaution that they be brought to him.<\/p>\n
Jim recalled to us that he had denounced the film, \u201cThe Omen,\u201d which had portrayed a little child as the anti-Christ and dogs as \u201cdevils.\u201d\u00a0 All of the people responsible for the film will suffer and some already had injuries and fatalities.<\/p>\n
Meeting was dismissed at 11.00.<\/p>\n
Helen Love and Rose of Sharon have moved into our apartment building.\u00a0 They are temporarily, Helen thinks, on our floor.\u00a0 Ever will not be moving and Helen will no longer take care of her.\u00a0 The doctor ordered complete rest for her, as her heart is in poor condition.\u00a0 I came in to look at their apartment.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 12.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
13 January – 1977 Thursday<\/strong>
\nI finished the first secrecy agreement. Worked all morning on the second.\u00a0 These were arranged alphabetically, with separate sections for each letter.<\/p>\nDor was in a better mood but made some nasty remarks,<\/p>\n
Marquita did not have anything to do.<\/p>\n
I ate inside.<\/p>\n
At 1.00 I went to my appointment with Dr. Winn for an eye exam.\u00a0 I was supposed to arrive at 1.30 to have drops put in my eyes but had to wait a long time for my bus.\u00a0 Arrived at the medical building half an hour late but the doctor saw me only five minutes late. \u00a0My eyes were in good condition and barring an emergency I don\u2019t have to have my eyes checked for two years.\u00a0 However, I will soon have a requisition for a possible change of prescription.\u00a0 I got my last inoculation.<\/p>\n
I wore dark glasses on my way home and could not see well for the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Got my shopping cart and plastic bags and went back on the Geary bus to Masonic and walked to the neighborhood Coop to buy fresh fruit and vegetables.\u00a0 Spent about $8.00.\u00a0 Then took the shopping cart on the bus.<\/p>\n
After putting away my purchases, I went to the Temple to eat.\u00a0 It was announced that all meetings were cancelled, as newspapers had to be delivered by all available workers.\u00a0 I inquired of Jack Beam if counseling was cancelled and he thought so.\u00a0 However, Phyllis Houston, before the temple bus left for 1029 Geary, got on and announced that counseling would be held.<\/p>\n
I did my laundry and personal chores.<\/p>\n
Went back to the Temple on Muni as the counseling meeting with Francine had been rescheduled for 8.45 tonight.\u00a0 However when I got there I was told Francine was not coming.\u00a0 She was being seen on another issue on Saturday, I was told, and I did not have to come but could write a memo giving counselors the details of my complaint.<\/p>\n
Don Bower and I got a ride with Harry Williams.<\/p>\n
Washed my hair and did my hand laundry.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
14 January – 1977 Friday<\/strong>
\nTurned in my time card.<\/p>\nDor and Marquita had finished most of the secrecy agreements but I worked on a few more. \u00a0I had a letter for Philippe Lamy which had to be ready at 1.00 o\u2019clock. I took dictation from him and put the letter on Mag Card, staying into my lunch hour to finish it.<\/p>\n
I ate inside.<\/p>\n
Went to the post office to inquire about the postage for sending a copy of the current Temple newspaper to my sisters.\u00a0 I wrote a short letter with a carbon copy for each and mailed it with a newspaper to each of them.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon Dor had me continue work on the secretarial manual on Mag Card.<\/p>\n
After work I went to the Temple to eat. Went home on the Muni.<\/p>\n
Vitamins had been distributed to us.\u00a0 Wanda King put them up. Vacuumed the rug.\u00a0 I was finishing when Bates came home with her daughter-in-law.\u00a0 She had packed up some of her belongings for the trip east.\u00a0 She definitely intends to go, although I thought she might be refused on account of her health.<\/p>\n
Pressed clothes. I wrote the memo on Francine for Council.\u00a0 Had hoped to work on my journal tonight but didn\u2019t have time. Read newspaper.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
15 January – 1977 Saturday<\/strong>
\nWe got up at 8.00<\/p>\nThe staff brought breakfast to us.<\/p>\n
Temple bus brought us to Temple at 9.30.<\/p>\n
We were seated downstairs in Green room while ushers organized us.\u00a0 Our people given identification tags and brought upstairs row by row.\u00a0 Some of seniors put in front rows on one side. Children in balcony except for some on the platform.<\/p>\n
A video tape with scenes from M.L.King movement shown.<\/p>\n
At 12.00 Jim with others on program filed on to platform<\/p>\n
Opening number: \u201cI Dream of Life\u201d to tune of \u201cWe Shall Not Be Moved\u201d
\nMaster of Ceremonies- Booker T Anderson
\nJames B. Flynn – Catholic
\nMargie Bohen- Song To God Almighty
\nRev. Glenda Hope- Prayer on women\u2019s rights
\nGov. Jerry Brown
\nBlack National Anthem- \u201cLift Up Every Voice And Sing\u201d
\nSenator Milton Marks
\n(Our people being moved from front rows to give seats to guests\u2026)
\nSpeaker of House- Leo McCarthy sends regrets
\nWillie Brown, Assemblyman.- Couldn\u2019t be here as he is doing same job in LA
\nyoung men meeting him.
\nMayor George Moscone
\nRev Amos Brown, Third Baptist Ch. Introduce.
\nRev. A.R.Robinson, Baptist Ministerial Alliance<\/p>\n
He alludes to untrue things about black preachers.\u00a0 He represents the highest and best.\u00a0 Cites Nat Turner, Haren X,\u00a0 X,\u00a0 Booker T. Washington studied in seminary, Adam Clayton Powell, Douglas Hanes?, first Blackman to run for public office in SF, Dr. M.L.King, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta , GA.<\/p>\n
Robinson —\u00a0 a rousing statement.
\nDr. Tony Abelde- Bethany United Methodist Church.\u00a0 recently appointed to
\nHousing Authority.\u00a0 Referred to International Hotel, introduced
\nRev. Jim Jones.<\/p>\n
Jim Jones: Out of this meeting a sense of unity.\u00a0 M.L.K spoke as a prophet, leader of the world, system could tolerate him as a civil rights leader in his last days began attacking system of exploitation and militarism impossible to believe he was killed by lone assassin.\u00a0 We feel that all assassins connected.\u00a0 Power elite will resort to any measure public tribute to Cecil Williams.\u00a0 Unity should come out of this meeting. Not to let something like method of baptism.\u00a0 Malcolm X shot down when he went\u00a0 beyond black against white.\u00a0 King saw end of system.\u00a0 Commended Rev. Anderson for speaking up to government.\u00a0 winds of change.\u00a0 King was betrayed, deserted when he went beyond civil rights.\u00a0 When you tell to working class they\u2019re all niggers.\u00a0 FBI attempted to discredit M.L.King.\u00a0 If they went that far, what else did they do?\u00a0 Senator Stennis behind threats to black mayors of Mississippi.<\/p>\n
Peoples temple has got out its shell today.\u00a0 M.L.King made a dead god. Spoke on Jesus chasing the money changers out of the temple in Jerusalem.\u00a0 You shall do better.\u00a0 Be doers of the word.\u00a0 Not havers only.\u00a0 Lets get together, let nothing divide us, International Hotel, during riot. \u201cThey\u2019d like to see a blood bath.\u00a0 Infiltrators.\u00a0 we don\u2019t believe in NWLF.\u00a0 We want to have good people who don\u2019t believe in non-violence\u00a0 Sheriff has done more for us than some of our people.\u00a0 Talk to those who own Cadillacs.<\/p>\n
I know I am a nigger.\u00a0 I know who I am.\u00a0 Need for working class people to unite.\u00a0 Reminded of Joe Hill\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t mourn my death but organize.\u201d\u00a0 I won\u2019t speak against that ___ Baptist Church pastor any more.\u00a0 Infamy that responsibility for Chile, downing plane with Guyanese young people.\u00a0 Conspiring against people.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to write and fight that conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown introduced African Dancers.
\nAn offering was taken, proceeds to the SF Council of Churches.
\nChoir- Anita Kelly [Kelley]
\nSolo by Maggie Becker
\nJoe Hall introduced guest speaker. the president of SF NAACP.
\nIntroduced speaker
\nBen Brown. Georgia legislator, former follower of M.L.K. and member of
\nPresident Elect Carter\u2019s transitional Team.\u00a0 Called for documentation
\nand finding positive alternatives to what has gone before\u00a0 We put
\nCarter where he is. All we need is a government, decent health care.
\nAmong announcements Jim Jones had to leave.
\nWanted to thank Rev. Isbalde for support to previous people on
\nHousing Commission,
\nMrs. Donneta Lane, President SF CC.
\nRefugees from Chile Present
\nDr. Hannibel Williams, New Liberation Church, gave Benediction.<\/p>\n
Meeting over at 3.00.<\/p>\n
Jim asked Temple people to let guests go first<\/p>\n
A meal was to be served at the break but I decided to go home on Muni.<\/p>\n
I prepared and ate a macaroni and cheese disk which I had in a package at home and some cauliflower I bought Thursday.\u00a0 Washed the dishes. Went to buy a Saturday and Sunday newspaper.<\/p>\n
Tried to call Lor [Edith\u2019s friend from SFState]. <\/em>Finally someone else answered, probably a new tenant.\u00a0 She couldn\u2019t hear very well and all I could learn was that Lor was away and wouldn\u2019t be back till tomorrow.<\/p>\nI cut out some food coupons from the newspaper to turn over to Rheavianna. Returned to the Temple on Muni at 6.30 for service at 7.00 I turned in my check. Put in Tim Stoen\u2019s box the latest version of my journal.<\/p>\n
Service was started, the offering was taken.\u00a0 After some congregational singing another was taken. Tim Carter asked for a final count of who is going on the trip.\u00a0 This will be the last chance to get your name in. Pam Moton doing good work on paper work in garage.<\/p>\n
Soul Steppers dance group previous section.
\nThe Soul Sisters. Little girls dance routine.
\nOne Sister- \u201cA New Realization\u201d poem.
\nJimmy Cordell- \u201cI love My Daddy Jim\u201d and \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim:\u00a0 Demonstration today of what can when ego is left behind,\u00a0 Preachers talking about Angola and South Africa today.\u00a0 Some fists raised.\u00a0 Be humble and win souls.\u00a0 77 preachers here and no talk of God and heaven.<\/p>\n
Valor St. John refused to repay Amanda Fair. Fell ill. No one could be found to care for her.\u00a0 No relatives came. Died?<\/p>\n
Wesley Johnson.\u00a0 Some going around saying he died.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t die. He failed to follow some of Father\u2019s instruction.\u00a0 That he didn\u2019t need the Good Samaritans.\u00a0 In the hospital the attendants dropped him.\u00a0 He\u2019s been moved now.<\/p>\n
More Jim took another offering by sum.\u00a0 By starting be talked more about humility.\u00a0 the other ministers had been jealous because he had succeeded in getting Governor Brown to come.\u00a0 He had mollified them, praising them, had enlisted them in the cause of liberation and human rights.\u00a0 He had unified the black congregations in San Francisco, the last bastion of freedom in the US.<\/p>\n
Carter is going to be as ruthless as Nixon.<\/p>\n
Jim announced that Sheriff Hongisto was required to visit the tenants of the International Hotel tomorrow, He believed that Sunday had been purposely chosen, so that large numbers of opponents would be available to protest.\u00a0 As there were probably police provocations among the pickets, an attempt might be made to incite violence, causing the authors to improve repression measures, finally resulting in martial law, we should be therein a mass to prevent it.,\u00a0 Jim feels that if the sheriff were confronted with such numbers, no court could blame him for not enforcing the eviction order.<\/p>\n
Jim was called to telephone, talked to Hongisto. When he returned he said he had a feeling that if all of us went to the hotel, we\u2019d fill the block and the sheriff may not even come, won\u2019t be expected to come.\u00a0 Some of the people making it hard for him may get off his back.<\/p>\n
The healing service was long. Albertha Smith, mother of Preston Wade, sitting near me was healed of cancer which had recurred.<\/p>\n
Jim said everyone would be expected to go on the buses to the International Hotel.\u00a0 He predicted that no one would be arrested.\u00a0 We would return to the Temple afterwards and the buses would leave on the trip in plenty of time to arrive on schedule.<\/p>\n
Jim took a final offering instead of calling people to tell after.<\/p>\n
The service was dismissed about 11.00.<\/p>\n
Bates had asked Rheavianna if we could bring guests home to the communal apartments.\u00a0 Rheavianna said it was disposition of agreement between the occupants of each apartment.\u00a0 Bates was taking a friend, X home and I asked Beulah, but she had made other plans.<\/p>\n
I had had a pain in my stomach for 2 or 3 hours.\u00a0 Probably caused by the large crowd in the morning and the general excitement.\u00a0 It would not go away though Jim had ended the service. With a mass healing and in an exuberant mood.\u00a0 I went right to bed when I go home, borrowing a quilt from Bates to keep warm.\u00a0 X slept on the floor in the hall.\u00a0 It was some time before I could get to sleep.<\/p>\n
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16 January – 1977 Sunday<\/strong>
\nWoke about 6.30.\u00a0 Bates was up preparing for the trip. I felt all right, had slept well.\u00a0 Bates and\u00a0 X started talking so I turned the radio on and eventually went to sleep again.<\/p>\nWoke up again about 8.30.\u00a0 Bates and guest X left on the Temple bus to get breakfast.\u00a0 They were going at 10.30 to Glide Memorial to be present when Jim receives an award, the Fourth Annual M.L.King Award.<\/p>\n
I had for breakfast grapefruit and corn flakes. Dressed for the service. Wrote a note to Tim. I lay down for a half hour before taking Muni to the service which was at 12.00.<\/p>\n
The congregation, especially the children, was unusually noisy at the beginning of the service.<\/p>\n
Usual problems.<\/p>\n
Jim and Mother came in at 1.00.\u00a0 Mother read the wording of the award.<\/p>\n
Cleo Ivy returned to service.<\/p>\n
A period of enthusiastic congregational singing followed.
\nThe Soul Strutters danced.
\nA woman recited previous\u2026
\nAnother song of Harriet Tubman.<\/p>\n
Mother took an offering.\u00a0 Speaking of gratitude to Father.\u00a0 Said if he didn\u2019t hole up in a bus or upstairs in the Temple working on our problems, never tells what plans he\u2019s working on.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t be with us, if you say one who heals everything and brings the dead back to life can surely save himself, don\u2019t count on it.\u00a0 You may nave to do without hum to teach you to stand on your own feet.<\/p>\n
Cleo Ivy played the harmonica.
\nLittle girls singe, \u201cGet away\u201d and \u201cWe Don\u2019t Hesitate\u201d
\nDance — Go down Moses
\nJimmy Cordell sang \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim: Glide Memorial is in trouble.\u00a0 Only 80 people present.\u00a0 He\u2019s getting closer to teaching of black identity.\u00a0 His people not behind him.\u00a0 If 2 or 3 groups would just stand up together we cold shake this city.\u00a0 Argentine woman with Goodlett says fascist have taken over though there were left elements in government and military.\u00a0 Look to working class unity.\u00a0 we need the Communists.\u00a0 We need the Radical fringes.\u00a0 We will teach anyone who will speak out against what is going on in Washington.\u00a0 When the spirit of Freedom is, there is liberty.\u00a0 We are going to march with those elderly Chinese and Filipino people At the International Hotel.\u00a0 Jim raised the determination to participate in the march.<\/p>\n
Jim said the rest of the healings would be done privately. The ushers would take another offering.\u00a0 We need to raise at least $1000. Sharon Amos called the names of people invited to join the church.<\/p>\n
Jim left to attend a press conference.<\/p>\n
Norman took the offering by countdown.\u00a0 He persisted obtaining the $1000 though he was under pressure to let the congregation go to the International Hotel.<\/p>\n
The meeting was dismissed about 3.30.\u00a0 At first we were told food would be served at the buses, but it was not. I had a banana.<\/p>\n
We picketed from about 4.00 to 6.00.\u00a0 A number of other organizations had pickets out but as our people gradually arrived we fanned out.\u00a0 Numbered them.\u00a0 Soon some of the pickets were moved across the street. After the sun set, it became quite cold.<\/p>\n
When we came back to the Temple, the lines for food were long and the space limited as the provisions for the trip occupied much of it.\u00a0 However, Bates got me a plate of food and I was through eating fairly early.\u00a0 In the auditorium some of the little boys were practicing the dance routines of the Soul Strutters.<\/p>\n
The evening meeting didn\u2019t start until 8.00.\u00a0 After rides were arranged and some announcements made, Johnny Brown started the offering.\u00a0 Jim came on podium at 9.00.<\/p>\n
Question period.
\n(1) Did you read about Roberto Gonzales being arrested?\u00a0 Answer: Yes I am heartsick,\u00a0 Arrested for drunken driving; now he\u2019ll be prosecuted.<\/p>\n
(2) Opinion of Governor Brown.\u00a0 Jim reviewed his bad and good points.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have much faith.\u00a0 Politician.\u00a0 They\u2019d go to bed with anything for votes.<\/p>\n
(3) Will America ever have a surplus? Answer:\u00a0 Yes, whom us niggers come back and kill all the honkies. A nigger is anyone who doesn\u2019t have what he\u2019s supposed to have.<\/p>\n
(4) How is International Hotel going to end? Answer: Don\u2019t want to get into fighting.\u00a0 But it won\u2019t be their Waterloo or ours. The tenants won\u2019t be left without housing.\u00a0 The matter is far from ended.<\/p>\n
(5) To next question concerning a daughter.\u00a0 Jim spoke of people who let their children manipulate them.\u00a0 This in regard to Alexis. as long as they think they can go through you to get around me, they\u2019ll never learn that they have to go through the door.<\/p>\n
(6) What was McCarthy era?\u00a0 Answer: Going back to the three million or so votes Wallace got because he was pro-soviet, pro socialist, the investigative committee of Congress set up to question people as to Communist background and opinions.\u00a0 McCarthy got out of control, was throwing Republicans and Democrats in jail.\u00a0 His sudden death at 44 ended the era.\u00a0 Can happen again. Happens in time of joblessness.\u00a0 Always have a war on high unemployment.\u00a0 They were not the poor colored people using our poor colored sons.\u00a0 The voluntary army doesn\u2019t affect the average person.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a big army any more.\u00a0 Lost in Angola.\u00a0 No way to kill off minorities but through drugs, that won\u2019t be =enough.<\/p>\n
Getting the International Hotel is not going to be a history won\u2019t solve the problems of the working class.<\/p>\n
(7) Child- how did Martin Luther King die?\u00a0 Because he was socialist and started to tell how the poor black were exploited in Vietnam, he as shot down.<\/p>\n
(8) Child- What is Third World?\u00a0 Its us all black, brown, red and yellow people,\u00a0 and they\u2019re going to take over the whole world.<\/p>\n
(9) Jean Newsom asked a philosophical question about how we get here.\u00a0 Jim said there were other worlds in which there were intelligent beings much more highly advanced than we are.\u00a0 He believed he came from such a world.\u00a0 It was more important to think about how to get you out of this world than how you got here in the first place.\u00a0 That was what he came to do.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke with disapproval of bringing children into the world.\u00a0 Planned parenthood was worse than accidental as more misery was brought into the world intentionally.<\/p>\n
(10) Child- Why are honkies so stupid? They\u2019re not stupid, just ugly.\u00a0 Don\u2019t underestimate the honkies.\u00a0 They have a little fat on their brains because they haven\u2019t had to work so hard as we have.<\/p>\n
(11) What do you think if Governor Brown staying in the Pink Palace?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 Don\u2019t think much of it.\u00a0 Just gets him publicity Why doesn\u2019t he stay in a black home?\u00a0 Politicians are a strange breed.<\/p>\n
(12) Why did Hitler want a dictatorship?\u00a0 Answer: Power over people.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why anyone would want it.\u00a0 They got you in the end.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy when I make other people happy.<\/p>\n
(13) Child–When are we going to the PL [promised land]<\/em> when all the grown-ups get passports and get passports for all the children, get guardianships for all the children they want to take with them.\u00a0 I can\u2019t take the same child unless I take all the children.\u00a0 Unless an emergency.\u00a0 Then I\u2019ll take then, passport or no passport.<\/p>\n(14) Child- Why do capitalists kill black people?\u00a0 Not just black people, all people because they are selfish.\u00a0 They\u2019re mean.<\/p>\n
(15) Child- Why did Kennedy get killed.\u00a0 Answer: because he wanted to be a little more to us than others.<\/p>\n
Revelations.
\nJim took a final offering.\u00a0 During this he spoke of Valor St. John who had cheated Mabel Johnson and Amanda Fair.\u00a0 She had flown to Hawaii, wanted to see Honolulu.\u00a0 Had a stroke before she landed.\u00a0 Never would see Honolulu.\u00a0 Someone asked if he were going to meditate for her and take away energy which should go to you.\u00a0 She had money and never paid us what she owed us.<\/p>\n
Those going east were dismissed first.\u00a0 I left the podium and Dale Parks was in charge.\u00a0 When Jim returned he said he had to leave immediately for the International Hotel and act as a negotiator.\u00a0 He asked as many as possible to come to the Hotel at 6.00 on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
He then dismissed us at about 10.30.\u00a0 However we had a long wait for a bus to take us home and didn\u2019t get home until nearly midnight.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers.\u00a0 Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
17 January – 1977 Monday<\/strong>
\nThe weather has been quite cold, down to about\u00a0 38\u00ba at night, 40\u00ba or 50\u00ba high for a day.<\/p>\nChecked over F\u2019s work.\u00a0 Made revisions in a document for Maggie, a list of Bechtel Powers of Attorney.\u00a0 Stayed late to finish it during the lunch hour.<\/p>\n
Dor was in a fairly good humor and the office work went smoothly.\u00a0 She has been trying to cut down on her smoking with the help of a cigarette holder sleeve.\u00a0 Seems to be succeeding.<\/p>\n
We had a discussion in the office about the International Hotel.\u00a0 Marquita was interested in the background of the dispute.\u00a0 Then in talking about the execution of Gary Gilmore which took place today, I find that Marquita as well as Dor favored capital punishment\u00a0 I stopped discussing the matter.<\/p>\n
I spent a good deal of time bringing journal entries up to date.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I phoned Lor. She spent the weekend with Mike and Patty in Santa Rosa.\u00a0 Their new baby Ian is 6 weeks old.<\/p>\n
I took lunch outside.<\/p>\n
At the pharmacy I bought some boric acid which has been recommended for controlling the roaches with which we live.\u00a0 There was a supply in the nurse\u2019s office, but it cannot be located now.\u00a0 Bates and I decided to buy some ourselves.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple after work for dinner but the guards were admitting no one. Guests were in the building.\u00a0\u00a0 Took the Muni home.\u00a0 The nurses told me food was being brought to us from the Temple.<\/p>\n
I did my exercises. Put the boric acid around the walls in the kitchen and bathroom.<\/p>\n
On the radio I heard that the eviction from the International Hotel had been stayed until Marquitah and the Housing Commission would have time to use eminent domain procedures to buy the property and arrange for the tenants to take it over.\u00a0 Police Chief Gain said he had information that there was real danger of weapons and fire bombs being used by people of the commune.<\/p>\n
We went down to get our dinner at 7.00.<\/p>\n
I asked Edith Cordell if she would cut my hair this week.\u00a0 She offered to do it tonight.\u00a0 I went to her apartment which she shares with Mark [Gosney] and a member from L.A.<\/p>\n
Typed from 8.30 to 11.00 finishing 5 pages.\u00a0 Made out my money needs list. Had a snack and read newspapers. Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
18 January – 1977 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nI made some corrections in the Power of Attorney documents. Dor worked on a rush job for Mary Carolina, a contract for computer services.\u00a0 Marquita and I also did some work on it.<\/p>\nI ate lunch inside.<\/p>\n
Did some work on the Mag Card on the Secretarial Manual.<\/p>\n
I spent a limited time typing cards for my journal.<\/p>\n
I went directly home tonight.\u00a0 Learned the bus was coming to take 1029 residents to the temple at 5.30 but we had a long wait.\u00a0 When the bus did come we had another long wait.\u00a0 Some of the residents did not want to come, probably because it was so cold.<\/p>\n
During dinner Jack made an announcement over the intercom to the church demanding that they keep the Temple clean as it had just been cleaned up.\u00a0 Jim came on the intercom repeating the admonition,\u00a0 He said tomorrow afternoon was going to be a meeting of police officials at the Temple,\u00a0 They were talking with him because he has influence with the left.\u00a0 He was willing to talk about measures to fight crimes but not about putting more police on the street.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t exercise tonight.\u00a0 It was late and I had other tasks to do.\u00a0 I wanted to spend as much time as possible on my journal.<\/p>\n
I cooked beans for lunches and baked a loaf of frozen bread.<\/p>\n
I started to work on my journals at 8.30 had trouble with my typewriter ribbon and feared that I had broken a part but after experimenting, it turned out to be all right.\u00a0 I was able to finish only 4 pages.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers.\u00a0 Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
19 January – 1977 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nMarquita out today, as she is moving.\u00a0 A friend is renting her a detached studio apartment on the friends property in Richmond.<\/p>\nDid some corrections or ATS on Cochina material on which Dor has been working.\u00a0 Then worked on ATS on the Galbraith unit report and made some correction on a Schuman pro forms contract which Dor had made the original entry.<\/p>\n
Ate lunch inside.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon Dor and I both typed some material, for Weinberger.\u00a0 It was to be used for an audio visual presentation to engineers on increasing problems Bechtel has with litigation\u00a0 At last to be typed in a special form and as it was taken from tapes it was often ungrammatical and disconnected, therefore difficult to type.\u00a0 I was not quite through with my portion at the close of the working day.<\/p>\n
When I got home, Chris told me the bus had already gone.\u00a0 I washed prepared for the evening service.\u00a0 The Muni arrived about 6.00.<\/p>\n
Food was not being served at the Temple yet. I was told most people had gone to a rally.\u00a0 The seniors from 1029 Geary were not to the Temple and probably were at the rally.<\/p>\n
Dinner was served before people at the rally had returned.<\/p>\n
Albertha Smith told me she heard the weather was so bad in the East that our buses cold not go through and turned back.\u00a0 Harry Williams, who seemed to be the only minister present, opened the meeting at about 8.00.\u00a0 He got rides for those needing them.<\/p>\n
There were some musical numbers.Two offerings were taken.<\/p>\n
Jim entered at about 8.45.<\/p>\n
Jim:\u00a0\u00a0 Said he had been at the Police Conference.\u00a0 Remark from someone, \u201cJim seems to be everywhere championing the causes of the people.\u00a0 Are there lots of you?\u201d\u00a0 Jim: \u201cLots of us.\u00a0 One day they\u2019ll learn how many of us there are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Questions:
\n(1) Child.\u00a0 Would like to get a job in the P.L. Jim:\u00a0 We\u2019ll go soon.\u00a0 Have to stay here for a while, earn money.\u00a0 But you\u2019ll get there.\u00a0 You have the rest of your young life.\u00a0 and Big life too.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep your request in mind.<\/p>\n
Jim on food for those coming from the P.C.<\/p>\n
(2) Highway Patrol- approve – Jim said he had conveyed the message that any police imported into city should be representative of population remember not to participate in a political meeting.\u00a0 Approach people with diplomacy.\u00a0 He has always been sympathetic to black\u00a0 He is limited by Charter? surrounded by bigoted police.\u00a0 Won\u2019t get as good a police chief as Gain.\u00a0 We want to see a black officer moved up as his assistant.\u00a0 They must remember Rodney Williams.\u00a0 Don\u2019t make people defensive by attacking them in public.\u00a0 If we were completely sincere we would refuse to pay income tax as our money goes to overthrow governments.<\/p>\n
Jim commented on District Attorney of LA.\u00a0 Some of these people squeeze out of tough questions.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t say he was against capital punishment.<\/p>\n
Some people are having babies so they can get out of working.\u00a0 They stop working at 3 months. The way to have healthy baby is to keep up normal activity.<\/p>\n
Sex in jail.\u00a0 Every thing in prison is ok. Normal. Can\u2019t promise anything but masochists, sadists, some of you approve of capital punishment.\u00a0 You must be some kind of a god-damn idiot.\u00a0 poor people. black people.\u00a0 society created these criminals.\u00a0 Some of you aren\u2019t concerned about some white people were g0ing discriminated against.\u00a0 Jim said they must have a hearing, Some of you aren\u2019t ready to die.\u00a0 But anyone who comes to me who has been oppressed I am going to help them they need my help and you need me.\u00a0 I may attach the wrong pens. You better raise money so we can get to the P.L. if it were not for our child and our city Id be a principled person and I might last a week.\u00a0 We’ll defend ourselves if attacked\u00a0 but don\u2019t get into a fight outside by yourself.\u00a0 Get yourself away because you\u2019ll suck us all in.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke on verses of clapping for him and clapping when he claps.\u00a0 \u2018
\nHongisto told Jim Judge Brown postponed eviction when told PT would be at International Hotel on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Jim took offering by sum.<\/p>\n
Chris Cordell was up for slacking on security.\u00a0 Missed his shift several times, was rude to Joe Beam.\u00a0 He claimed he was student at Alameda College but questioning revealed he wasn\u2019t .\u00a0 He stayed back from trip.\u00a0 Jim says because he believed himself better than other people.\u00a0 Jim had his police record sealed.\u00a0 Jim appointed counselors to meet with him and decide what he is to do.<\/p>\n
B.C.Mann confessed to taking a pill today.\u00a0 Got it in his commune.\u00a0 He cant or didn\u2019t answer questions.\u00a0 Jim says we have to help this lad before he destroys himself.\u00a0 He is to talk to Council.<\/p>\n
Before you criticize, you try to lead for a while.\u00a0 Explaining again.\u00a0 \u201cI won\u2019t turn away from people\u2019s critical needs.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m living as bad as any of you, but I still don\u2019t get up and send the god-damn saint. He\u2019s referring to those who criticized him for not splashing strongly to Gain and others.<\/p>\n
Bill Hall as had to go to bathroom and took off.\u00a0 After questioning him Jim concluded that the situation was not as clear cut as it had been presented.\u00a0 As he had to leave, Jim asked council to talk to him.<\/p>\n
Jim gave some revelations. He dismissed the meeting at 10.40.<\/p>\n
The bus which was taking home not only 1029 Geary people, but these from the Divisadero St. commune, was very late. I got some indication that Tom Finch, the driver, had been under pressure and resented it.\u00a0 Phyllis Houston drove us home.\u2019
\nIt was about midnight.<\/p>\n
I read the newspaper.\u00a0 Went to bed about 1.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
20 January – 1977 Thursday<\/strong>
\nMarquita was back today, having moved yesterday..\u00a0 She had to do it by herself, as her brother left for Chino the day before and she was very tried.<\/p>\nI made corrections and additions to yesterday\u2019s work on ATS for Schuman and Galbraith. Did a memo for Maggie on Mag Card.<\/p>\n
Dor was in a relatively good humor, though we exchanged a few harsh words on the pardon of Tokyo Rose.<\/p>\n
Dor was working on the Cochina contract, a major effort which came in piecework and which was needed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Tim phoned me in response to my note left for him the other night.\u00a0 He will come by tonight at 9.00.<\/p>\n
During my lunch hour I walked up to the firm where I bought my typewriter and bought a typewriter ribbon.\u00a0 The Temple gave me money for it. The sun was out and the temperature was much warmer. I ate inside.<\/p>\n
Marquita told me of sorting on Tuesday with Betty Vasil and Dor on her personnel evaluations.\u00a0 Most comments were favorable, but Dor had indicated her \u201cwork habits\u201d needed improvement.\u00a0 Marquita was pleased but said she had no intention of changing her habits in the way indicated.\u00a0 Nevertheless she is getting along with Dor better than I at the present time.<\/p>\n
I typed more of the Weinberger materials.\u00a0 Betty Barclay has been doing some of it for us.<\/p>\n
I had little time to do any personal work.\u00a0 Barely managed to finish yesterday\u2019s journal entry.<\/p>\n
Had a phone conversation with Lor.\u00a0 I will spend Friday night at her apartment.\u00a0 Received a call from the Public Relations Office at San Francisco State.\u00a0 Jean Arnesen, Dr. Arnesen\u2019s wife, wanted to get in touch with me.<\/p>\n
Tonight I went directly to the Temple to eat and left with Edith Cordell on Muni before 6.00. I did my laundry.\u00a0 Had to wait for Brother Jeffery to finish his first. Did personal chores.<\/p>\n
Tim came at 9.00 and stayed a little over an hour.\u00a0 He is working so hard on his job that he rarely sees Jim. He is head of a unit which prosecutes organized crime cases, so he does not have to be involved with those of \u201cpoor people.\u201d\u00a0 He has a room at Leona Collier\u2019s and gets his meals there.\u00a0 Tim said the Temple was having a problem with some members who wanted to take notes during meetings and complained that I was allowed to do so.\u00a0 Tim asked me to stop taking notes during meetings until the matter can be cleared up.\u00a0 I told Tim all that disturbed me about communal life was the time I wasted while waiting and described some of my experiences this week.\u00a0 Tim was interested in how I was getting along on my job.<\/p>\n
After Tim left I washed my hair. Did my hand laundry. Had something to eat and read newspapers. Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
21 January – 1977 Friday<\/strong>
\nThe weather continued mild today and w=even a little rain was predicted, though I didn\u2019t encounter any.<\/p>\nGot my time card in.<\/p>\n
Did some more work on Weinberger\u2019s documentation for the audio-visual presentation on litigation.\u00a0 Marquita did not have much to do.\u00a0 Dor finished the contract for Cochina, even working through the lunch hour.\u00a0 She had told me Betty Vasil warned her that unless she turned in the required office reports, her own personal evaluation would suffer\u00a0 She admitted she hated to do them.\u00a0 She cold have worked on them today and let Marquita or me do the Cochina contract, but she doesn\u2019t like to give s complicated or rush jobs.<\/p>\n
I ate inside.\u00a0 Bought some niacinamide at the pharmacy downstairs as one brand was sold at 50% off.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon I did some more work on the Secretarial Manual.<\/p>\n
When I got home I packed a few overnight items and left on the bus for Lor\u2019s.\u00a0 I put a note on my door where I could be reached,\u00a0 I transferred on Muni to a street car going through the tunnel, then took the Park Merced bus.\u00a0 Arrived at Lor\u2019s about 7.00.<\/p>\n
Lor has two tenants.\u00a0 One, a man, was away.\u00a0 The other is a young Japanese woman who is studying English at SF State. Her fianc\u00e9, a Japanese psychiatrist, is visiting her and Lor spent a good part of the evening explaining to them how to go to the Monterey peninsula where they are going to stay with Dor Carnie.<\/p>\n
For dinner we had fish, baked potatoes, salad and ice cream. After dinner, Lor showed us the slides she took in the Santa Rosa area, many of Patty and Mike\u2019s baby.<\/p>\n
I read a little in Radicalism in America.\u00a0 Lor and I went to bed about 11.00<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
22 January – 1977 Saturday<\/strong>
\nLor and I got up about 8.00.<\/p>\nWe had some grapefruit and toast and talked a little.\u00a0 We talked about needing other people.\u00a0 Lor thinks I am happy since I have been in the temple.<\/p>\n
The Japanese girl came down and asked a question about the trip to Monterey.<\/p>\n
I read more in Radicalism in America.<\/p>\n
Lor prepared breakfast for the four of us: orange juice, pancakes with jam or honey and applesauce.\u00a0 I left on the bus at about 11.00, arrived home by 12.00.\u00a0 I saw no one from the Temple but the slip I had put on the door yesterday giving Lor\u2019s phone number had been taken down.<\/p>\n
I took the bus to the Coop.\u00a0 Deposited my ballot for the Coop election.\u00a0 I voted for the progressive slate.\u00a0 I purchased a number of items for breakfasts and lunches: oats, cracked wheat, orange juice, tofu, frozen bread dough, canned tuna, oranges, and 2 jars of decaffeinated coffee for which I had coupons.\u00a0 I bought an ice cream cone.<\/p>\n
When I got to off the bus, I went to the store and bought a Sunday paper and some grapefruit at the fruit stand. I swept the kitchen floor and vacuumed the rugs.<\/p>\n
I lay down and dozed for an hour. Dressed and left for the Temple at 5.40.<\/p>\n
The weather had been foggy at Park Merced but the sun came out for a while in my district.\u00a0 This evening was mild.<\/p>\n
Ate dinner. Few people from 1029 Geary were there.<\/p>\n
I talked to Lucille Payney.\u00a0 She said members had gone at Mother\u2019s request to meeting of blacks held at Aden Hall to discuss district election of supervisors.\u00a0 The buses at 10.30 took the 1029 people to the Temple where they waited until about 12.00.\u00a0 The meeting at Aden Hall started at 1.00 and lasted until abbot 5.00.\u00a0 Lucille said there were harsh arguments among those present.\u00a0 She was very tired and got a headache.\u00a0 Mom Taylor was near people who smoked which distressed her.\u00a0 Willie Brown.\u00a0 Lucille had no lunch.\u00a0 She thought many of our people were too tired to come tonight.<\/p>\n
Harry Williams opened the meeting at 7.30.<\/p>\n
Mildred Mercer has been giving much trouble lately.\u00a0 She has a nasty temper and has at times struck another person during service.\u00a0 Father has said she was jealous of Henry, they she could have been healed herself if she had a better disposition.\u00a0 Brother Mercer went on a trip and managing her has been a problem.\u00a0 She gets up on in the middle of the night, not knowing what time it is and wanders outside if not watched,\u00a0 The nurses had to decide on someone to stay with her as Hyacinth is on the trip.<\/p>\n
Tonight she wouldn\u2019t be seated and several workers were following her, unable to control her.\u00a0 A nurse and several other people failed to.\u00a0 She is ready to fight if stopped.\u00a0 Finally Johnny Brown had to be called to control her.<\/p>\n
Jean Brown led the congregation in singing.\u00a0 Ava Brown took an offering,<\/p>\n
Guy Young took a second offering.<\/p>\n
Jack Beam on the power of Jim Jones who can sweep you up in kindness or trample you and destroy .\u00a0 When we are truly amazed by the power it shows in every action we make,\u00a0 There is a strength of commitment behind that body.\u00a0 The enemy sizes us up.\u00a0 You don\u2019t mess with some people or you gotta mess with then all preparatory to taking another offering.<\/p>\n
While it was being taken, Marquitay entered about 9.00.\u00a0 She spoke of today\u2019s events.\u00a0 The situation looked bad at first but Father prevailed and we were admitted.\u00a0 She valued it as a teaching experience because by such events she understands what it means to be excluded. The second thing we learned is to be grateful for the tight ship.\u00a0 The arguments and hassle.<\/p>\n
Marcy said she was thinking of darkening her hair to make it more acceptable.\u00a0 The congregation in general likes her the way she is.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t thinking if doing it for us, but because she might begetter able to help us with others.\u00a0 It world be no sacrifice to do anything that would benefit the cause.<\/p>\n
Marcy had the children sing.<\/p>\n
Starting to take another offering Mother spoke of the injustice of Wendy Yoshimura\u2019s conviction while the right wingers in Southern California who gathered tons of explosives were released on their own recognizance.\u00a0 The jury in the Yoshimura case was a hung jury but the judge kept sending them back and the one black juror who had held out was harassed, called stupid, told she shouldn\u2019t be on the jury.<\/p>\n
Mother added that in the ordeal this afternoon the black leaders of the church stood by her and didn\u2019t forget she was their mother.<\/p>\n
Skit- \u201cGhetto U.S.A.\u201d – showing some of the perils encountered in the
\nghetto directed by Frances Johnson.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown took another offering.<\/p>\n
Tape of Jim\u2019s sermon.<\/p>\n
Marcy set tomorrow\u2019s service at 10.00 so that we can get though earlier and LA people can be on their way and avoid some of the fog.<\/p>\n
We were dismissed at 11.00.\u00a0 Father\u2019s picture was held up at each door for us to touch. The bus took home Divisadero as well as 1029 Geary communal people. I read the Sunday newspaper. Went to bed at 12.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
23 January – 1977 Sunday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 7.30.\u00a0 Bathed, dressed ate breakfast. I had grapefruit and rolled oats.\u00a0 Washed the dishes. The bus took us to the temple at 9.00.<\/p>\nI conversed with some people.\u00a0 Sue Ellen Gallie [Williams] is working at a sawmill in the valley. With overtime, she says she makes over $7.00 a month.<\/p>\n
Though the service was scheduled for 10.00, it was not called to order until 10.20 by Harry Williams.<\/p>\n
Jean Brown led the congregation in singing as she did last night.<\/p>\n
Those who weren\u2019t going to LA this next weekend were asked to stand.\u00a0 Names were taken.<\/p>\n
Henry took the offering.\u00a0 He was very talkative.\u00a0 Mother came in at about 11.00 and he became effusive.\u00a0 The offering was confused.\u00a0 We wound up passing the bucket twice.<\/p>\n
After a congregational song, Mother took another offering.<\/p>\n
Testimonials were heard.<\/p>\n
Mother says Jane Mutschmann will be back in about 2 weeks.\u00a0 She instructed security to admit her and the congregation to accept her fondly.<\/p>\n
Leona Collier said that Father told her he was grieved because no offering taken while he\u2019s been gone has met the budget.\u00a0 She pleaded for taking the disappointment away by giving liberally in another offering.<\/p>\n
Three little girls presented a skit taking place in a cotton field.
\nChildren who had to work in the fields: Maya Ijames, Patricia Pettit,
\nTobianna Stone.<\/p>\n
Tim Stoen spoke, making a moving appeal to the congregation to give more funds.\u00a0 Marcy joined with a request that everyone write on an envelope whether or not they had anything to give.<\/p>\n
Marcy had succeeded in getting only one person to go to the Valley to do security.\u00a0 Carol Stahl applied for help to guard thousands of dollars worth of property.<\/p>\n
Christa Amos recited a poem she wrote.
\nOllie Smith, daughter of a young girl, sang a song.
\nThe Gospel Singers sang
\nTape of one of Jim Jones sermons<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown took another offering, asking people to stand up with contributions.\u00a0 He asked people to stand with whatever they could give.\u00a0 As far as I could tell, though, even children, responded loyally.\u00a0 I could not see that he got any large contributions.<\/p>\n
Francine Mason and Rochelle Halkman have not been giving me any trouble.\u00a0 It is possible some one on Council spoke to them.\u00a0 Francine is noticeably pregnant and spends a good part of the time during services languishing.\u00a0 Helen Love made disparaging remarks about those who became pregnant to get out and work.\u00a0 She said they were \u201cmaking feet for stockings,\u201d that they hunted for a man to lie under to keep warm and the men hunted for a \u201chole for their dick.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcy dismissed the meeting at 2:10.\u00a0 The plan was to start the evening service early and to end early so that we could get out in time to see the first of the TV series, \u201cRoots.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mother gave revelations from Jim.\u00a0 Willie Mae Gentry was saved from being raped by a man who world have come through her fire escape.<\/p>\n
There were pictures of Jim at the door to touch.<\/p>\n
I stood in line for 45 minutes without making much progress and finally through the kindness of Helen Love and Ray Godshalk, I got my dinner which contained 3 kinds of starch.<\/p>\n
At 4.00 Helen Love and I went home.\u00a0 She has been ill during the past week and wasn\u2019t coming back.\u00a0 I intended to press clothes but decided to lie down and rest for a hour instead for assistant of the offering and dinner ordeal.<\/p>\n
Took Muni back for service at 5:30.<\/p>\n
After 2 offerings were taken, a number of young girls sang, \u201cThis little Light of Mine, Let It Shine.\u201d\u00a0 And \u201cI\u2019m So Grateful\u201d<\/p>\n
Little girls sang: A new routine asked \u201cCheck Me Out,\u201d \u201cJack Leg Preacher,\u201d \u201cGet Away,\u201d and another new one.<\/p>\n
Jim McElvane took another offering.<\/p>\n
Julius Evans sang.
\nTape of one of Jim\u2019s sermons<\/p>\n
Jack Beam: described what he had seen Jim do but the greatest was \u201cto make a compassionate individual out of me\u201d and \u201cstop black people from believing in a sky god.\u201d\u00a0 Marcy went down to collect from the audience.\u00a0 Despite all pleadings, she got little but small change.<\/p>\n
Mother gave revelations from Jim.\u00a0 One was for Vernetta Christian, who was healed of a blood disease from which her mother had died.\u00a0 Jim said that as she played the piano and sang she would be healed<\/p>\n
The meeting was dismissed at 8.10<\/p>\n
The Redwood Valley people were going to look at \u201cRoots\u201d on the TV in the Gold Room at 9.00 o\u2019clock before going up to the Valley.\u00a0 Nothing\u00a0 more was said abbot the program to other members of the congregation.<\/p>\n
We arrived at 1029 shortly before 9.00.\u00a0 I ate some grapes and read a while.\u00a0 Then I put the hem in a dress given to me by a woman in the church.<\/p>\n
Pressed the dress and other clothes for a week because our Temple schedule has been changed and we will be in LA next weekend.<\/p>\n
Read the newspaper.\u00a0 Went to bed at 12.00<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
24 January – 1977 Monday<\/strong>
\nMarquita was out all morning waiting for her telephone to be installed.\u00a0 She then learned that it could not be done today.\u00a0 She was in a very depressed mood.<\/p>\nI worked all day on the file list for the secretarial manual. I scarcely had time to finish yesterday\u2019s journal entry and fill in material in a few old ones.<\/p>\n
Ate lunch inside.<\/p>\n
Went directly to the church tonight and ate dinner,\u00a0 All the children were eating early.<\/p>\n
Saw Washington Sanders who had had his dinner after pamphleting.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t know how he was going to get home.\u00a0 I took him with me on Muni, on which he can ride because he has a cane showing that he is blind.\u00a0 He had some vision.\u00a0 When I went to take him home to Oak Street, I didn\u2019t realize he was blind.<\/p>\n
I washed my new dress, 2 skirts and tops in Wool Foam and hung them over the bathtub. Exercised.\u00a0 Typed in my journal from 8.30 to 11.00, finishing 5 pages. Read newspapers. Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
25 January – 1977 Tuesday <\/strong>
\nThe department resumed its regular meetings this morning with a program devoted to a discussion of Alyesha.\u00a0 William Sanders of the Pipeline Division showed some magnificent slide and described the project which is almost completed.\u00a0 Emphasis was put upon the litigation which has resulted involving Bechtel, particularly the charges of taking x-raying of the pipe welding.\u00a0 Coffee and doughnuts were served.\u00a0 The meeting was from 8.30 to 10.00.<\/p>\nI finished the Mag Card work I had been doing on the Secretarial Manuals.<\/p>\n
Marquita had a rush contract to do for Besnel but the system kept going down, so she and Mara spent most of the day talking.\u00a0 Dor continued to give her news about \u201cRoot,\u201d obviously uneasy because it portrays whites in such a bad light.\u00a0 Marquita has been very conciliatory since she got her raise and said nothing contradictory.\u00a0 She has not been watching the program.\u00a0 Dor cold have been working on her records but didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
At lunch a film on a cruise around South Africa was to be shown in the employee film series but it turned out to be South America, because of a typographical error.\u00a0 It was called \u201cLeisure Cruise\u201d and devoted a good deal of film to shipboard luxuries but there were interesting shots of many South American countries. I ate my lunch in the assembly room.<\/p>\n
I ran off a clean copy of the Secretarial Manual materials and delivered it to Betty Vasil. Typed up index cards the rest of the day. Dor and Marquita had further conversation on the history of slavery, much of it enormous.\u00a0 I took no part.<\/p>\n
Found that I have lost my Muni pass.\u00a0 Must have dropped it on the bus this morning.\u00a0 Had to pay a quarter tonight.<\/p>\n
Went to the temple and ate.<\/p>\n
I intended to walk home but one of our members insisted I should not.\u00a0 She lent me a quarter but I got on the bus without paying.\u00a0 I sorted old newspapers and threw those of the last few days to Sister Jeffrey who likes to read them.<\/p>\n
I exercised. Typed in my journal from 7.30 to 10.30 finishing 6 pages. Read newspapers.\u00a0 Went to bed at 12.20.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
26 January – 1977 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nDor was in a good mood.\u00a0 She had been much mollified by reading the story of \u201cRoots\u201d was fictional.\u00a0 She obviously did not wish to consider as fact that the black slaves may have had a cultured background.\u00a0 She said no race had a monopoly on cruelty, suggested that I give my opinion.\u00a0 So I presented my ideas concerning the conquest by northern barbarians of more civilized dark people.\u00a0 She heard my ideas fairly calmly, or at least seemed to.<\/p>\nI managed to do only yesterday\u2019s journal entry.\u00a0 Betty Vasil brought back the work I had done on the Secretarial Manual with some additions she wanted made.\u00a0 With Dor\u2019s help I figured out how to put them in.\u00a0 Then Maggie brought me back a document I had put on Mag Card on which she wanted changes.\u00a0 I started on this.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime the Bechtel Women for Affirmative Action presented Dorothy Kulvin of Western Women\u2019s Bank for a return visit speaking on \u201cFinance for Women.\u201d\u00a0 I had not heard her before.\u00a0 She spoke briefly and then answered questions.<\/p>\n
After lunch Maggie dictated to me a few memos and made some changes in a document I had done for her previously.\u00a0 I worked on these until closing time and was not able to finish.<\/p>\n
Marquita had nothing to do all day.\u00a0 Two new pieces of work came in but Dor worked on them herself, probably because she thought they presented particular difficulties.\u00a0 Marquita was very gloomy.\u00a0 Several of her relatives have serious health problems.<\/p>\n
I got on the bus tonight with out a pass.\u00a0 I went home and took the Temple bus with other residents to dinner and service.<\/p>\n
Took up my W-2 form and income tax forms and spoke to Ellen (formerly Martha) Klingman.<\/p>\n
Talked with Helen Love. She was telling Inez Connedy and me of her coming to the Temple.\u00a0 She was living in Philadelphia and was very ill.<\/p>\n
Dale Parks returned after having been in LA conducting services over the weekend.<\/p>\n
I was asked to go upstairs to the nurses quarters to speak to Joyce Parks.\u00a0 She needs some help in a four week course she is taking for her Master\u2019s degree.\u00a0 Among other requirements she must write for short papers on a topic in the field of bioethics.\u00a0 She is trying to get four people to write a paper each.\u00a0 The papers are due on 28 February.\u00a0 She outlined the topics.\u00a0 I told her I would try to write one on the legalization of laetrile.<\/p>\n
Marcy gave a message from Father to the children.\u00a0 Be good to your teachers.\u00a0 Be helpful and cooperative.\u00a0 Set an example of socialism.\u00a0 Treat each other kindly.\u00a0 In the end everyone is responsible for their own activities.\u00a0 Macy asked the adults for consideration of children who are trying to improve, instead of reacting negatively to children who have become labeled as trouble makers.<\/p>\n
A group of young people did a routine.<\/p>\n
Third offering taken with special emphasis.<\/p>\n
Mother read a commendation of Agnes Jones for visiting people in the hospital.\u00a0 Agnes spoke of her gratitude for Mom and Dad their love and discipline for her.<\/p>\n
There was a skit showing the various presidents of recent years and their wives.<\/p>\n
We saw the night\u2019s installment of \u201cRoots\u201d from 10.00 to 11.00.<\/p>\n
Dale took a final offering. He announced that we would have service tomorrow night.<\/p>\n
Dale and Johnny Brown asked for volunteers to go to the Housing Commission meeting tomorrow at 10.00, at which Jim will be present.\u00a0 Very few responded.\u00a0 After considerable pressure was exerted, more were obtained.\u00a0 Drivers had to be recruited as a bus drive may not be available.<\/p>\n
A revelation from Jim concerning Blanchard Washington was given by Dale, though Blanchard had left the meeting earlier, Jim told many details from her past and saved her from a stroke. Dale said he would get the message to her.<\/p>\n
The meeting was dismissed at 12.10.\u00a0 The bus took home the people from Divisidero as well as Geary and we didn\u2019t arrive home until nearly 1.00.<\/p>\n
As we will have a meeting tomorrow and leave for LA after the meeting Friday, I decided to do my laundry tonight, so I put the clothes in the washer and dryer while I read the paper.\u00a0 After sorting them I did not get to bed until 3.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
27 January – 1977 Thursday<\/strong>
\nFinished the 2 items for Maggie which I had on Mag Card.<\/p>\nThen I made the desired changes in the Secretarial Manual materials and printed out a copy for Betty Vasil.\u00a0 Filled in on Dor\u2019s copy the line numbers of the cards so they can be fed into the computer.<\/p>\n
Marquita phoned in sick as she said she was going to last night.\u00a0 Her wisdom tooth is giving her trouble.\u00a0 She is also expecting the telephone installer to come.<\/p>\n
Weinberger office brought some more of the seminar materials for retyping.\u00a0 It had been corrected by the original speaker but was still full of grammatical and typographical errors. Dor worked on it complaining constantly of the state of the material.\u00a0 She finally decided to make substantial changes to make the text conform to standard English.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch inside.<\/p>\n
Went to the stationery store and bought a card for Dorothy\u2019s (my sister) birthday and for Marquita\u2019s.\u00a0 Both were born on the 3rd of February.<\/p>\n
I wrote a note on Dor\u2019s card and addressed it.<\/p>\n
I finished some journal entries from December which had not been done.<\/p>\n
I telephoned a man (Ken White?) in Public Relations who is in charge of video tape.\u00a0 I inquired about the possibility of renting a machine to transfer my individual films to videotape.\u00a0 He gave me the names of 2 firms which could either make videotapes or make a copy of the film.<\/p>\n
I worked on journal cards for some time.<\/p>\n
Took the Temple bus to the Temple tonight and had dinner. Jim had retired and gone to the Housing Commission meeting, which many of our people attended. Patti Chastain who came back by air with Jim gave us an account of the meeting.\u00a0 My complaints were heard from tenants of government housing.\u00a0 The other Commissioners who always went to represent the matter for investigation or defer for a later hearing.\u00a0 Jim insisted on dealing with it now.<\/p>\n
Judy X, Lola Pikes opened the meeting. I didn\u2019t learn where the assistant ministers were.\u00a0 Mother arrived later. Attendance was very sparse.<\/p>\n
Two offerings were taken.<\/p>\n
Jim entered at 8.25.\u00a0 He chided those who had not gone on the trip because of their fear of cold weather.\u00a0 Nobody had been sick except one woman who didn\u2019t follow instructions to jog.\u00a0 The buses had got through when vehicles call around were stranded.<\/p>\n
The buses went on to Houston while Jim and those who had to work returned to San Francisco by air.\u00a0 Jim was leaving tonight for Houston to hold services here.\u00a0 Mother would be in LA over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Patti Chastain came back to work on the newspapers.<\/p>\n
Jim told how bad the racism is in the East.\u00a0 For instance, the black newscasters had have disappeared from the TV programs.\u00a0 In Chicago black children are let out of the school an hour early so they can get home before the whites who might harm them are out. A book called The Hoax of the 20th Century, which denies that Jews were killed in the concentration caps, is selling like wildfire in the east.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke on the enthusiasm of blacks for \u201cRoots.\u201d\u00a0 We can\u2019t expect anything helpful to come out of a big TV network.\u00a0 The series will end as an appreciation of the black experience in America, just wait and see.\u00a0 It will be shown how foolish it is to revolt.\u00a0 The author, Alex Haley, is a sell out.\u00a0 It took money to go back to Africa to learn about his ancestors.\u00a0 Jim isn\u2019t interested in where he came from.\u00a0 Haley refused to commit himself after Malcolm X was killed, he wanted t be impartial.\u00a0 The slave cabins look like luxury housing.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke on the difference between the sentences received by those who steal bread to feed their families and the sentences given to violators of anti-trust regulations and wealthy evaders of income tax.<\/p>\n
Jim described the Housing Commission meeting.<\/p>\n
He expressed much disapproval of some of the interests of our young members, rock records and so on.\u00a0 \u201cAll you talk about is shit.\u00a0 Socialism doesn\u2019t come out of your mouths.\u201d\u00a0 The day of retribution is coming for those who take special privileges.<\/p>\n
At 10.00 the screen was set up and the installment of \u201cRoots\u201d was shown. In this episode the young daughter of Kinta Kintay was punished for learning to read.\u00a0 Then for using a faked pass given to her by her white mistress she was sold t another owner who raped her.\u00a0 In the meantime her slave fianc\u00e9 had tried to escape, was dragged back and beaten.\u00a0 The only comment Jim made was that the audience did not see the beating.<\/p>\n
Jim took an offering, making special appeals.<\/p>\n
He healed some and distributed cloths.<\/p>\n
The meeting was out at about 12.15.<\/p>\n
When I got home I put my laundry in the washer and dryer, ate a snack while reading newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 4.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
28 January – 1977 Friday<\/strong>
\nI went back to sleep after the alarm rang and didn\u2019t get p until past 7.00.\u00a0 Phoned Dor at 8.15 that I would be late. Arrived at the office at 9.10.<\/p>\nMarquita was in.\u00a0 She was still having trouble with her tooth but she got her appointment straightened around and her telephone installed.<\/p>\n
I made out my time card.<\/p>\n
Told Dor I had seen last night\u2019s installment of \u201cRoots.\u201d\u00a0 She had started to look at it but went to sleep.\u00a0 I told her what had happened but she didn\u2019t pay much attention.\u00a0 Marquita and she had a discussion about the series.\u00a0 Marquita thought they shouldn\u2019t be shown as they might inspire hatred.<\/p>\n
Bob O\u2019Neill is ill and Garb had brought his shorthand notes to Betty Vasil to find someone to decipher them (Garb doesn\u2019t deal directly with Dor; she is aware of his unfriendly feeling and reciprocates them.\u00a0 There is no love lost between them).\u00a0 She inquired whether I cold do it.\u00a0 Though it took me some time I transcribed them, except for a few words which Garb filled in though I took a long time.\u00a0 There were two memos, fortunately rather short.<\/p>\n
Dor and Marquita worked on more notes from the seminar.<\/p>\n
At lunch time I heard a lecture by Harold Wong, a Bechtel engineer, on \u201cIndustrial Progress in the Peoples republic of China.\u201d\u00a0 He showed slides of an exchange mission he had been on.\u00a0 He interspersed scenic views with shots of machinery and factories.\u00a0 Even the latter were interesting.\u00a0 I was a little late and I had to stand against the wall.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon I had to type on the workload for Garb\u2019s unit.\u00a0 Dor had done part of it.<\/p>\n
Marquita was transcribing notes of telephone conversations, which Jim Hertts records on labor relations cases and she fond them very different.\u00a0 Dor and I both felt we had had some \u201coddball\u201d assignments today.<\/p>\n
I did not have any time for any personal work at all.<\/p>\n
On the way home I stopped and bought some chicken backs.\u00a0 If I had had my pass I probably would have gone to the Temple to eat, then come home, as I didn\u2019t want to go to the service.\u00a0 Instead I broiled the chicken backs and cooked some zucchini.<\/p>\n
I first did personal chores and washed my hair.<\/p>\n
Typed in my journal from 10.00 to 12.00.\u00a0 Finished typing the 1 to 15 January 1976 section.\u00a0 Proofed it. Read newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 2.00<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
29 January – 1977 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 9.00.<\/p>\nAte a piece of grapefruit.<\/p>\n
I borrowed a senior pass from Margaret Jeffery.\u00a0 She has a foot she can\u2019t walk on so I thought she would not be going any where.<\/p>\n
Took the bus to Masonic and walked to the Hayes Street neighborhood coop and brought fruits, vegetables and bread. Pulled my cart back to Masonic and took the bus home.<\/p>\n
Went to the nurse\u2019s quarters where lunch was given to us to take upstairs tomato soup and a bologna sandwich, whole wheat bread is being used now.<\/p>\n
I defrosted the refrigerator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Prophet\u201d by Giacomo Meyerbeer was being given from the Metropolitan Opera by KKHI.\u00a0 I listened to while completing the journal entry for Thursday night and yesterday\u2019s entry.<\/p>\n
Went to Hyde Street and bought the Sunday paper\u00a0 The weather had been rather nice when I came back from shopping today but had now turned cold.<\/p>\n
Took an hour\u2019s nap. At 5.00 dressed and prepared for the Temple service.<\/p>\n
The Temple bus came for us at 5:30. We had dinner.<\/p>\n
The service started at 7.00 tonight..\u00a0 Guy Young called the meeting to order.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown.\u00a0 Dave Harrison helped to conduct to the service.<\/p>\n
Program:
\nEver Rejoicing sang, \u201cHe\u2019s the One Who Comes to Set Us Free.\u201d
\nLittle girls did \u201cCar Wash.\u201d
\nMr. Ford and the Peanut Freak – William Klingman and Jim Arthur Jones
\nWomen song: \u201cSomebody Bigger Than You and I\u201d
\nRicky Cordell: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.
\nApostolic Singers- \u201cA Storm is Passing Over.\u201d
\nJulius Evans: \u201cI\u2019m Your Friend\u201d<\/p>\n
Three offerings had been taken.<\/p>\n
Tape of Jim\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Dale Parks took a third offering.<\/p>\n
We watched an hour\u2019s installment of \u201cRoots\u201d<\/p>\n
Soloist (woman): \u201cOver the Hill\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnny said we had to raise $300 and he did it by countdown.<\/p>\n
He gave revelations from Jim.\u00a0 A young white woman named Liz Ruggiero was saved from female cancer.\u00a0 Jim praised her for exchanging her way of life.<\/p>\n
Jim reported enthusiastic crowds in Houston.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown said because of depressed morale during Jim\u2019s absence, especially as Council in the offerings.\u00a0 Jim wanted each of us to receive a blue cloth and touch the altar with it at the end of each service.<\/p>\n
The meeting ended after the procession passed the altar at abbot 12.15.<\/p>\n
I made some toast with raisin bread bought at the neighborhood coop and read newspapers.\u00a0 Went to bed at 2.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
30 January – 1977 Sunday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8.00.<\/p>\nFor breakfast I had a chicken back with shirataki noodles.<\/p>\n
The Temple bus came at 9.45 for service at 10.45.\u00a0 The service at first was a little disorganized.\u00a0 Guy Young\u00a0 and Dave Garrison were conducting the service.<\/p>\n
Three offerings taken.<\/p>\n
Program<\/p>\n
Several routines.\u00a0 Of them, Outstanding were the little girls
\nand one boy doing \u201cCar Wash.\u201d
\nYoung man : Rendition Let Me Give you Some Advice<\/p>\n
Leona Collier took another offering. Note once have we come up to our budget since Father has been away.\u00a0 She asked everyone to write, \u201cI have nothing.\u201d on an envelope if that is the case.<\/p>\n
Johnny read a message from Father.\u00a0 Very distressed because we not more alert.\u00a0 Any inquiries at door or gate, say you know nothing about anyone\u2019s school.\u00a0 Take name and number and say person will be get in touch with.\u00a0 Trip on east of assassination attempts and bombings.<\/p>\n
Tape of Jim\u2019s<\/p>\n
Johnny conducted a cont down for $330 needed to make\u00a0 up the budget and finally succeed.<\/p>\n
He gave revelations from Jim.<\/p>\n
Everyone was to come up and touch the blue cloth received last night to the altar.\u00a0 Those who didn\u2019t get a blue cloth were to get one now.<\/p>\n
The meeting was over at 3: 15.<\/p>\n
I intended to go home directly, so as not to have the trouble I had last week, but I let Helen Love persuade me to stay and eat.\u00a0 She was going home afterwards and not returning as she doesn\u2019t want to see Roots. We got seats at the seniors table but space was extremely limited.\u00a0 I gave my seat to Lucille Payney.\u00a0 There was no indication of when we might be served so I decided to go home after all.<\/p>\n
I was delayed further because Verdella Duncan said her husband was coming for her and world give me a ride.\u00a0 However, something was wrong and he didn\u2019t come.\u00a0\u00a0 Verdella told me Mom Taylor said food was being served to seniors in the Gold room\u00a0 I went to check on this but no one was there.\u00a0 Yet most of the seniors were certainly not downstairs.<\/p>\n
I went home on the Muni.<\/p>\n
For food I opened a can of bonita and made a salad of cauliflower and onions.\u00a0 Also ate a sweet roll given to me this morning at the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Helen when she got home came over to see me.\u00a0 She and Rose of Sharon have no closet nor dresser.\u00a0 She said Rhavianna had no satisfactory alternative for them, she had 40 people needing rooms.\u00a0 Helen said she was unpleasant.\u00a0 Helen said Rose got food for the 3 of us soon after I left.<\/p>\n
I washed dishes.<\/p>\n
It was then time to get to the Temple as it happened, my clock was slow and I was\u00a0\u00a0 late, but the workers weren\u2019t listing peoples names.<\/p>\n
The service had not started yet.<\/p>\n
Harry Williams opened it.<\/p>\n
After the offering, and a number of minimal selections were given, individual ones by Vernetta Christian, \u201cHealing Me Softly With His Words\u201d to the tune of a pop song which referred to Jim\u2019s revelation the other night concerning her.<\/p>\n
Left the second offering, there were musical solos and poems.<\/p>\n
Tape of Jim\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Marcy entered during the tape at 8.00.\u00a0 She said when she arrived at LA a woman who had threatened her life before, is a sick woman and is the kind of person who has been used in assassination plots was threatening her again.\u00a0 Marcy had to be smuggled into the Temple at midnight for services the next day.<\/p>\n
Marcy spoke of the desire to close the LA Temple, held back by some of the LA people who don\u2019t want to give p their luxurious existence.
\n\u2018
\nMarcy took a quick offering.\u00a0 She gave Jim\u2019s revelations.<\/p>\n
All came to the altar to touch it with their blue cloths.\u00a0 The congregation was let out early at 8.15 so that we could go home and see the concluding installation of \u201cRoots.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, I decided to spend the time getting my income tax records in order, to turn over to the Temple accounting office.\u00a0 I worked an hour on these and found everything I need except that the Coop has not sent me a statement of interest on my certificate.<\/p>\n
I borrowed Margaret Jeffery\u2019s Muni pass to use tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 12.15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
31 January – 1977 Monday<\/strong>
\nNone of us had much work to do today.\u00a0 Dor was finishing up the editing of the transcripts from the seminar.\u00a0 I proofread a couple for her and retyped a page or two.\u00a0 Dor and Marquita spent part of the day doing a mag?? questionnaire.<\/p>\nI typed some more index cards for my journal use.<\/p>\n
Weinberger sent in an announcement making some new appointments.\u00a0 Galbraith was appointed over Butler as Litigation and Legislative Counsel and Virginia Duncan who was brought in by Weinberger, was made Administrator and Management Officer of the department. There was much disappointment expressed by Butler\u2019s staff, plus the unhappiness of many of the secretaries on account of the crowding resulting from the remodeling.\u00a0 I wondered if Betty Vasil\u2019s position was affected by Virginia\u2019s assignment.\u00a0 I believe Dor talked this over with Betty, but did not let us have the information.<\/p>\n
I ate inside.<\/p>\n
I left at 2.45, taking sick leave for my eye exam, although my appointment was not until evening.\u00a0 I wanted to make up the time I would lose.<\/p>\n
I typed from 3.30 to 5.30 on my journal.\u00a0 Finished the corrections for 1 to 15 January 1976 section and made calendar entries.<\/p>\n
I waited for some time for the Temple bus, finally took the Muni.<\/p>\n
At the Temple one bus had arrived carrying people who had to get\u00a0 back to work.\u00a0 Jim was with another bus which stayed in LA as a meeting was to be held tonight.\u00a0 The other buses were on their way from Houston.<\/p>\n
The bus had arrived about an hour previously and people were in line for dinner.\u00a0 Everyone I spoke to said the trip was wonderful except that they hadn\u2019t had baths for two weeks.\u00a0 They hadn\u2019t minded the cold, but they saw plenty of snow.<\/p>\n
At length I was served my dinner.\u00a0 It was then 7.00 o\u2019clock so I decided to go directly to Kaiser for my appointment at 7.40.\u00a0 If I could have left the building alone I would have gone on Muni, but x___ McMann [Probably Betty McCann],<\/em> Paul [probably McCann, s]<\/em> took me to Kaiser.\u00a0 She also has a daughter, Eleanor [Probably Eileen McCann, who was an African dancer] <\/em>who dances with the African Dancers.<\/p>\nDr. Uno examined my eyes.\u00a0 He recommended no change in prescription.<\/p>\n
Took the Muni home.\u00a0 Arrived about 9.00.<\/p>\n
Worked another hour on my journal.\u00a0\u00a0 Read the 16 – 31 January section. I cut out coupons to turnover to Rheavianna.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 12.40.<\/p>\n
End of January Journal
\n=======================================
\n[page C-2-A-5 (2)\u00a0 of Roller notes — Her note: “15 Jan p4- misplaced?”] <\/p>\n15 January – 1977 – Saturday <\/strong>
\nWorry about hour of starting. Jim says they can make it but doesn\u2019t care if they don\u2019t get to inauguration, but will make it.<\/p>\nJane Mutschmann was raped.\u00a0 She wants to come back.\u00a0 Of course she can come back.\u00a0 Warning: don\u2019t go out.<\/p>\n
One woman said she couldn\u2019t go, had no warm coat.\u00a0 Jim said we got plenty of extra coats.\u00a0 One was found for her.<\/p>\n
Woman with white coat wants to exchange it for black one.\u00a0 She says others told her Father doesn\u2019t want her to wear white. \u201cI want you to wear it out.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give it away to anybody. I hope they live the life as much as they who tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Talk on criticism of strategy today.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>January 1977 Journal References<\/strong><\/p>\nTemple Members <\/strong>
\nCrista Amos
\nChristine Bates
\nJack Beam
\nJoe Beam
\nRheavianna Beam
\nMaggie Becker
\nElsie Belle
\nMaxine Bets
\nMary Black
\nDon Bower
\nAva Brown
\nJohnny Brown
\nMildred Callahan
\nLeona Collier
\nZiti Cannon
\nRuby Carroll
\nTim Carter
\nPatti Chastain
\nRob Christian
\nVernetta Christian
\nInez Connedy
\nChris Cordell
\nEdith Cordell
\nJimmie Cordell
\nRicky Cordell
\nMildred Crenshaw
\nMillie Cunningham
\nHazel Dashiell
\nDavis Twins
\n___ Davis
\nEllihue Dennis
\nJulius Evans
\nAmanda Fair
\nTom Finch
\nHue Fortson
\nWillie Mae Gentry
\nMark Gosney
\nViola Gotshalk
\nRay Gotshalk
\nPauline Groot
\nPat Grunnett
\nJann Gurvich
\nBill Hall
\nRochelle Halkman
\nPat Hess
\nJewel Hickson
\nBernie Hicks
\nTed Holliday
\nPhyllis Houston
\nNorman Ijames
\nArchie [Ijames]
\nMaya Ijames
\nLee Ingram
\nRev Cleo Ivy
\nC.J.Jackson
\nRonnie James
\nFrances Johnson
\nBrother Jeffery
\nMargaret Jeffery
\nMabel Johnson
\nAgnes Jones
\nJim Arthur Jones [Bishop]
\nMother = Marcy Jones
\nRay Jones
\nStephanie Jones
\nNettie Jones
\nAnita Kelley
\nCarol Kerns
\nPenny Kerns
\nCris Kice
\nTheresa King
\nWanda King
\nMartha Ellen Klingman [Cole]
\nMarie Lawrence
\nLisa Layton
\nShantiki Leroy
\nHelen Love
\nB.C.Mann
\nFrancine Mason
\nIrene Mason
\nBrother Henry Mercer
\nMildred Mercer
\nJudy Merriam
\nPam Moton
\nBea Morton (Orsot)
\nJane Mutschmann
\nJean Newsome
\nBetty McCann
\nPaul McCann
\nEileen McCann
\nCarol McCoy
\nJim McElvane
\n___McIntyre
\nDale Parks
\nJoyce Parks
\nLucille Payney
\nBeulah Pendleton
\nPatricia Pettit
\nLola Pike
\nMike Prokes
\nJoan Pursley
\nEver Rejoicing
\nWesley Robinson
\nGloria Rodriguez
\nJoyce Rozynko
\nWashington Sanders
\nRose of Sharon
\nAndy Silver
\nJerome Simon
\nMichael Simon
\nPauline Simon
\nAlbertha Smith
\nDeeDee Smith
\nOllie Smith
\nHelen Sneed
\nEunice Stanford
\nCarol Stahl
\nRichmond Stahl
\nTim Stoen
\nTobianna Stone
\nBob Stroud
\nMother Taylor
\nHyacinth [Thrash]
\nDick Tropp
\nPreston Wade
\nBarbara Walker
\nBlanchard Washington
\nHarry Williams
\nSue Ellen Gallie [Williams]
\nPeter Wotherspoon
\nGuy Young<\/p>\nApostles Epistle
\nBus Trip Jan 16-28 77\u00a0 Houston +
\nP.L. – Promised Land (JT)
\nSoul Steppers<\/p>\n
Temple Members in JT<\/strong>
\nAnthony Simon<\/p>\nApostate<\/strong>s
\nMedlocks<\/p>\nNon Temple Names<\/strong>
\nDr. Tony Abelde
\nCongresswoman [Laura] Allende [daughter of Chilean president Salvador Allende]
\nBooker T. Anderson
\nJean Arneson & Dr. Arneson -SF State
\nAttorney General Bell
\nPrince Bernard
\nMargie Bohen
\nRev. Amos Brown
\nBen Brown
\nMrs. Donneta Brown
\nGovernor Brown
\nWillie Brown
\nPres. Carter
\nFernando Flores, Economic Minister of Chile
\nRoberto Gonzales
\nChe Guevarra
\nRev. Glenda Hope
\nDiane Feinstein
\nJames B Flynn
\nSF Police Chief Gain
\nGains (from Chicago)
\nCharles Garry
\nAlex Haley
\nJoseph Hall
\nJoe Hill
\nHitler
\nSheriff Hongisto
\nDr. Horn
\nE.Howard Hunt
\nGeorge Jackson
\nM.L.King Jr
\nKinta Kintay
\nKlan
\nDorothy Kulvin; Western Women\u2019s Bank
\nOrlando Letelier
\nMalcolm X
\nSenator Milton Marks
\nWallace Marshall
\nMayor George Moscone
\nElijah Muhammed
\nLeo McCarthy, Speaker of House
\nHuey Newton
\nSenator McCarthy
\nWendy Oshimura
\nPinochet
\nLibee Reeves
\nRev. A.R.Robinson
\nRockefeller
\nRosenbergs
\nPres. Roosevelt
\nSan Quentin 6
\nLarry Spain
\nValor St. John
\nCecil Templeton
\nTrotskyites
\nNat Turner
\nDr. Uno
\nSacco-Vanzetti
\nKen White
\nCecil Williams
\nRodney Williams
\nWindmiller
\nDr. Winn<\/p>\nEdith\u2019s Sisters\/Relatives<\/strong>
\nDor<\/p>\nBechtel \/ People \/ Edith Work<\/strong>
\nATS [IBM Administrative Terminal Alyesha
\nSystem–Data Storage]
\nBesnelBetty Barclay
\nBWAA- Bechtel Women for Affirmative Action
\nJon Bramen
\nSteve Butler
\nDor Carnie (Monterey)
\nMary Carolina
\nMarie Crivella
\nDor
\nVirginia Duncan
\nGalbraith unit
\nGarbIan – Lor\u2019s son & family
\nRobert Galbraith
\nPhilippe Lamy
\nMag Card [IBM – selectric system w\/memory]
\nMaggie
\nMarquita
\nMike & Patty & baby Bob O\u2019Neill
\nPinto Valley Project
\nDenise Price
\nWilliam Sanders
\nDebbie Schroeder
\nSchuman
\nWillis Turner
\nBetty Vasil<\/p>\nWorks\/Places<\/strong>
\nKKHI radio SF
\nKQED TV (PBS SF)
\nTV program \u201cWorld Press\u201d KQED
\nTV mini-series \u201cRoots\u201d book\u00a0 by Alex Haley
\nFilm \u201cCar Wash\u201d
\nFilm \u201cThe Omen\u201d
\nFilm \u201cUp Tight\u201d Dir Jules Dassin 1968<\/p>\nAngola
\nChina
\nCuba
\nSouth Africa
\nSoviet Russia
\nVenezuela
\nVietnam<\/p>\n
Black Panther Party
\nNational Socialist Party
\nNational Council of Churches
\nNourse Auditorium [SF]
\nBougainville Copper Project<\/p>\n
Peoples Forum
\nTime
\nNewsweek
\nReader\u2019s Digest
\nFreedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, 1975
\nHoax of the 20th Century by Arthur Butz
\nRadicalism in America. by Sidney Lens, 1966
\nMein Kampf<\/p>\n
Glide Memorial
\nKaiser [Medical Cener]
\nNAACP
\nSF Housing Commission
\nInernational Hotel
\nPink Palace – SF housing
\nNazis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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