{"id":66832,"date":"2016-05-02T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66832"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:37:55","slug":"q338-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66832","title":{"rendered":"Q338 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q338 (Side A).mp3\">MP3<\/a>. To return to the Tape Index, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28703\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n<p><strong>People named:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This tape is an undated live performance of the Jonestown band.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified woman sings numerous songs, including \u201cSummertime,\u201d \u201cYou Are So Beautiful,\u201d and an adaptation of \u201cAbraham, Martin and John.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peoples Temple periodically altered lyrics of both church hymns and popular songs to reflect the group\u2019s political beliefs. In this instance \u2013 as in other tapes with the same song \u2013 the band changed the lyrics of the song \u201cAbraham, Martin and John\u201d to include homages to Che Guevara and Guyanese slave Cuffy, as well as the song\u2019s original reference to Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n<p>While the woman singer does not identify herself, it is likely Diane Wilkerson or Marthea Hicks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date of transcription: 6\/18\/79<\/p>\n<p>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<p>On June 2, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-76. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n<p>A recording of a live performance by a black female singer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Tape originally posted May 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music FBI preliminary tape identification note: None Date cues on tape:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None People named:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None Bible verses cited: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None Summary: This tape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66832","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=66832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66876,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66832\/revisions\/66876"}],"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=66832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}