{"id":66043,"date":"2016-02-11T23:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66043"},"modified":"2016-02-14T00:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T00:31:35","slug":"q383-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66043","title":{"rendered":"Q383 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, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part “5 Sep 78 Peoples Rally”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/p>\n

Senator John Stennis (D-Miss.)
\nThomas Dawsey, Air Force personnel allegedly spying for Stennis (by reference)
\nLeon Joly, Air Force personnel allegedly spying for Stennis (by reference)<\/p>\n

Vladimir Lenin, father of Russian revolution
\nMao Tse-tung, father of Chinese revolution
\nPaul Robeson, American black actor, musician, activist<\/p>\n

Carl Hampton, slain member of Black Panthers
\nFred Hampton, slain member of Black Panthers
\nMartin Luther King, slain civil rights worker
\nMalcolm X, slain black activist<\/p>\n

John Van De Camp, Los Angeles District Attorney (by reference)<\/p>\n

Joan Baez (song by)
\nDon Freed, playwright, friend of Mark Lane
\nCharles Garry, Peoples Temple attorney
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician and publisher
\nMark Lane, Peoples Temple attorney
\nJoe Mazor, detective<\/p><\/div>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike Cartmell
\nSuzanne Cartmell
\nLiz Forman
\nTim Stoen<\/div>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em><\/p>\n

Archie Ijames
\nChris Lewis (Temple member killed in 1977<\/div>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em><\/p>\n

Anita (likely Kelley)
\nBecky (several Rebecca\u2019s and Becky\u2019s)
\nBob (speaks) (numerous Robert\u2019s in Jonestown
\nDebbie (several in Jonestown, could be defector Deborah Layton Blakey)
\nTerry (like Terry Carter Jones, could be Teri Buford)
\nSteve (several Stephan\u2019s, could be Stephan Jones)
\nTom<\/div>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em><\/p>\n

Eric Baker
\nErnestine Blair (speaks)
\nGeorgianne Brady
\nEugene Chaikin (speaks)
\nFannie Ford
\nJohn Harris (speaks)
\nJoe Johnson
\nMarceline Jones (speaks\/sings)
\nChristine Lucientes
\nJim McElvane
\nJoyce McIntyre (speaks)
\nRussell Moton
\nKay Nelson
\nDale Parks (speaks\/sings)
\nRuletta Paul
\nRuthie Quinn
\nEugene Smith
\nChristine Talley (speaks)
\nRon Talley
\nMike Touchette (speaks)
\nTeena Turner (speaks)
\nKenny Wilhite<\/div>\n

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\nBible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

In this Peoples Rally held in early September 1978, Jim Jones prepares the residents of Jonestown for a press conference to be held in San Francisco within a couple of hours, during which Joe Mazor, a private detective who once worked for Concerned Relatives but who has since sided with Peoples Temple, will announce his change of heart.<\/p>\n

There are two halves of the rally. The first half begins with Jim Jones \u2013 in a mood which is alternately upbeat and reflective \u2013 speaking about his triumph in luring the detective over to his cause, with music and singing, and with reports from the various committees on the community\u2019s progress with farming, land clearing, animal husbandry, herbal gardening and use of insecticides. The second half features Jones addressing his followers on his familiar and more typical subjects of the Temple\u2019s enemies and their conspiracy to bring them down, the proposed move to the Soviet Union, and their lack of commitment to the cause.<\/p>\n

The music which opens the tape includes Marceline Jones singing a Joan Baez song, and Dale Parks and Jim Jones leading the crowd in two hymns \u2013 periodically accompanied by Marceline \u2013 which have been modified to reflect Jonestown\u2019s studied lack of religiosity. In altering the hymn \u201cFollow Me,\u201d for example, \u201cthe road to Calvary\u201d becomes \u201cfreedom road\u201d; the hymn \u201cReal, Real\u201d replaces every religious reference with ones to socialism.<\/p>\n

Once the meeting begins, Jones reminisces over the previous weeks of struggle, the efforts of people on the outside to tear them down, the wiretaps and the assassination attempts, but says those efforts will be for naught as soon as the press conference begins. \u201cOne hour and 43 minutes. This is going to be the most important one hour and 43 minutes we ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones says that Mazor says their chief adversary, Tim Stoen, is a CIA agent, and as a former INTERPOL agent himself, Mazor should know. Jones also says that Mazor says that Stoen is frightened of two things \u2013 that his betrayal of his former clients in the Temple will result in losing his law license; and that those CIA connections will be exposed \u2013 and that these fears are making Stoen increasingly desperate.<\/p>\n

Even with the press conference \u2013 even with their victory \u2013 Jones says Joe Mazor will still be in danger from their enemies, because \u201cthey have every reason in the world to bump him off.\u201d He interrupts the various committee reports to ask that San Francisco be warned about such plots against Mazor and suggests that for the community to truly protect him, he needs to come to Jonestown, something that \u201cthe man is begging for us to [do].\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, the tone of the meeting changes. Jones questions his followers\u2019 commitment to socialism, adding that he thinks they\u2019re more interested in their sexual relationships than they are in the success of the cause. Claiming that Lenin wouldn\u2019t allow people in his movement to marry, Jones then wonders \u201chow many are here because of their boyfriend or their girlfriend, or how many people are here because it\u2019s belief in socialism. That\u2019s what disturbs me so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

He soon turns the discussion to the proposed emigration to Russia, a move he both cheers as a demonstration of their success and uses as another cudgel on their commitment. They can make themselves useful to the Soviet revolution by offering themselves as communist pioneers to Africa. But some people in Jonestown don\u2019t want to go \u2013 some would even rather return to the US \u2013 and others who want to go aren\u2019t worthy of going. Some of them are fine with coming to Jonestown after all the work has been done to prepare a home for them, just as they are willing to go to Russia, although they didn\u2019t participate in their revolution or endure the hardships that the Russian have to build the Soviet state. \u201cYou fuckers make me sick. You always want to get in on the end<\/em> of the revolution.\u2026 Don\u2019t you goddamn people think that you\u2019ve got a right to go over there and enjoy her movies and her resorts, when you didn\u2019t sweat one goddamn bit to even build this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he does in other discussions of Russia during Jonestown\u2019s final months, Jones reminds his followers that they are not unhappy with all the benefits they have received from their South American host country of Guyana, and that, should they leave, they will need to be sure it is in good order for the people who take it over from them.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/18\/79<\/p>\n

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

On June 4, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-114. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Reverend JIM JONES giving a pep talk to the people at Jonestown and group singing with JONES leading the way. JONES talks about a press conference by a private detective, MAZER, who was slandering the People\u2019s Temple, being exposed and connecting him with the CIA through his toll records. Reports from the PT supervisors at Jonestown on the various sections.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part “5 Sep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66043","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66140,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66043\/revisions\/66140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}