{"id":62430,"date":"2014-12-19T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62430"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:26:42","slug":"q745-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62430","title":{"rendered":"Q745 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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FBI Catalogue:<\/strong>\u00a0Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:\u00a0<\/strong>One Certron C-60\/ “April 17 News Tape”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0News items consistent with date on identification note; Jones specifies \u201cMonday\u201d news, the day on which April 17 fell<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nCyrus Vance, Secretary of State [by reference]
\nSen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
\nRep. Charles Diggs (D-MA)
\nKenneth Crouse [phonetic], US Agriculture Department economist<\/div>\n

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Bert Lance, director of OMB in Carter cabinet
\nLaBelle Lance, Bert Lance\u2019s wife
\nJackson Thomas Stephens, stockbroker and Lance friend from Arkansas [by reference]
\nAgha Hasan Abedi, founder of BCCI bank in London<\/div>\n

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Mervyn Dymally, California Lieutenant Governor
\nGeorge Brown, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado<\/div>\n

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Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nVladimir Lenin, father of Russian Revolution, first leader of Soviet Union
\nAleksandro Voropaev, Tass reporter visiting Jonestown
\nLord David Owen, British Foreign Minister [by reference]
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Rupert Murdoch, Australian newspaper owner
\nPaul Robeson, black American singer
\nC. Delores Tucker, activist black woman leader in Pennsylvania [by reference]
\nAngela Davis, University professor, member of Communist Party
\nEnola Maxwell, San Francisco community activist
\nPaul Monaco, slumlord in New York
\nCiprian Septimo, young boy shot by Monaco
\nCiprian Septimo Sr., father
\nJose Torres, former light heavyweight boxing champ<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news for April 17. As he does for many of these newscasts, he depends heavily upon news wires from the Soviet Union and its allies as his sources, and he offers periodic editorial comments. His tone is less vehement and his rhetoric less inflammatory than in other recordings from this period, however.<\/p>\n

There may be a reason for this. The reading occurs near the end of the visit of two Tass correspondents, although, other than expressing his gratitude for their stay and his pledge of \u201csolidarity in the international struggle for Marxist-Leninist principles,\u201d there is no specific mention of the correspondents.<\/p>\n

Their presence affects the newscast in other ways as well. The first item is a lengthy homage to the \u201cthe socialists\u2019 way of life\u201d and features a reading of a speech given by Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev to a Communist Party congress in Moscow. At the end of the first segment, Jones signs off with his usual plea for increased production, but the exhortation mentions nothing of the hellish conditions within the US that Temple members are trying to escape, but rather offers Jonestown as \u201ca place of peace, where they can build and implement their socialist philosophy in this lovely agricultural project.\u201d<\/p>\n

As in the format of most of these addresses, Jones spends time on a longer story \u2013 in this case, likely from the British newspaper that broke it \u2013 and fills the balance with shorter news items on familiar topics. The story of the day is about Bert Lance, President Carter\u2019s friend and early Cabinet appointee who was forced out of office over financial improprieties, and the new allegations of further misdeeds, including his connection to a troubled British bank. Jones contrasts the lightness of the consequences for the former Carter official to the penalties paid by the Temple\u2019s political allies and supporters over seemingly-lesser infractions. His usual lacerations of the American political and economic system are missing, though.<\/p>\n

Among other news bulletins and stories:<\/p>\n