{"id":68820,"date":"2017-03-15T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=68820"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:57:39","slug":"q294-transcript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=68820","title":{"rendered":"Q294 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 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 \u201c9-14-78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contents of tape consistent with label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jody Powell, White House press secretary
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advsier
\nSen. James Abourezk (D-SD)
\nSen. George McGovern (D-SD)
\nFormer Rep. Otto Passman (D-LA), indicted in Koreagate scandal [likely, by reference]
\nMilton Shapp, governor of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt
\nMenacham Begin, prime minister of Israel
\nReza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nIdi Amin, president of Uganda
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nHolden Roberto, leader of liberation group in Angola
\nJonas Savimbi, leader of liberation group in Angola
\nJomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya
\nAgostinho Neto, president of Angola
\nSam Nujoma, leader of SWAPO
\nHarry Oppenheimer, South African businessman<\/p>\n

Marti Ahtisaari, Finnish diplomat involved in UN negotiations
\nHannis Phillip [phonetic], Austrian Major General involved in UN negotiations
\nMarthenius Stern [phonetic], South African Administrator General
\nAndre du Pisani, Namibean political scientist<\/p>\n

Mao Tse-Tung, leader of People\u2019s Republic of China
\nHua Kuo-fenj, Premier of People\u2019s Republic of China
\nDeng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of People\u2019s Republic of China
\nJi Pengfei, Vice Chairman of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress
\nLi Xiannian, Vice Chairman of the China\u2019s Central Committee
\nPeter Kenilorea, Prime Minister of Solomon Islands<\/p>\n

Osvaldo du Pesce, leader in Italian Communist Party
\nNicolae Ceausescu, President of Romania
\nJosip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia
\nLeonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union General Secretary<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\nFidel Castro, leader of Cuba
\nMichael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
\nCarlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela
\nGonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan politician
\nOswaldo Alvarez Paz, Venezuelan politician
\nSimon Alberto Consalvi, Venezuelan politician
\nJose Lopez Portillo, Mexican president
\nJoachin Gamboa Pasquoe, Mexican politician
\nSantiago Royal Garcia [phonetic], Mexican politician
\nRudolfo Gonzalez Guevera [phonetic], Mexican politician<\/p>\n

Raymond Perrault, Canadian politician
\nRenaude Lapointe, Canadian politician
\nJames Jerome, Canadian politician
\nDonald C. Jamieson, Canadian politician
\nJules Leger, Canadian Governor General
\nPierre Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister<\/p>\n

Attila the Hun
\nHenry VIII, King of England<\/p>\n

Paul Harvey, radio news commentator
\nGerald Bender, UC-San Diego professor, expert on Angola
\nJoe Mazor, private detective, former \u201cconspirator\u201d [by reference]
\nMark Lane, attorney and author [by reference]<\/p><\/div>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nTim Stoen<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em>
\nWalter Duncan<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

(This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news for September 14, 1978.<\/p>\n

The last half of the reading consists of a lengthy article on efforts of the Chinese government to bolster relations with leftist governments throughout the Americas \u2013 Venezuela, Mexico, even Canada \u2013 and to encroach upon Soviet client states such as Romania and Yugoslavia. The article also includes an analysis on the impact of those efforts on Sino-Soviet relations.<\/p>\n

Jones also spends some time on a longer piece on initiatives to bring political stability to Southern Africa, including UN proposals to place peace-keeping troops in Namibia, and the negotiations between Angola and Zaire to settle border disputes.<\/p>\n

But most of the reading consists of rapid-fire news items which Jones repeats from an ongoing radio broadcast, virtually in real time. The repetition of the news channel playing indistinctly behind him means that he has fewer opportunities to insert lengthy editorial comments.<\/p>\n

He makes only passing denigrating references to Christianity, for example, in part because another newscast is playing in the background. Following a news story about fighting in Lebanon, Jones informs his listeners that \u201c[t]he Christians in Lebanon are the minority. The Muslims are the vast majority. So, it\u2019s only a matter of time until Christianity is put in its rightful place.\u201d Later, on an item about a Catholic priest deciding to become an Anglican in part so that he can marry, Jones points out that the Anglican Church was founded by Henry VIII only because he wanted to remarry, which leads Jones to conclude \u201call religion is founded in vomit.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the omission of commentary is not complete, as evidenced in Jones\u2019 expressions of his lifelong worry about nuclear war. While it was likely not included in the original article on China, he does highlight his understanding of China policy that, since nuclear war is inevitable, the world should get it over with so that the survivors can begin to rebuild. He also concludes his reading of the article by reminding the people of Jonestown that \u201c[w]e\u2019re in the only place that would not be affected by nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are only a couple of asides unrelated to the news. At one point, he says that former \u201cconspirator\u201d Joe Mazor had documented proof that Tim Stoen and the rest of the \u201cvicious\u201d relatives \u201cthat you think are so good and so noble\u201d were planning \u201cto fire rockets, after our lights were off, into our camps and cause confusion. And didn\u2019t make any difference how many they got back. If they got some killed, okay. They just wanted to show that they could overcome Jonestown.\u201d<\/p>\n

At another point, he reports that Mark Lane is coming to Jonestown, and \u2013 as he urged whenever guests are due to arrive \u2013 he implores everyone to clean up the camp. In addition, he implores everyone to produce to their full capacity \u2013 a call which has become routine in its daily reiteration \u2013 so that the community can grow and they can bring in more Temple members. At the tape\u2019s end, he urges people to study their Russian, because \u201cbelieve me, it\u2019s worthwhile to learn that language. That language will be valuable to you. If we never went there, it will be valuable to you, because you could get jobs anywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the other items he covers from the news:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Death penalty laws return to U.S.;
\n\u2022 U.S. Senate and House work on Civil Service reform bill;
\n\u2022 Camp David talks extend into eighth day;
\n\u2022 Rhodesian police crack down on Zimbabwean resistance;
\n\u2022 US efforts to invade Ethiopia thwarted by Soviet Union;
\n\u2022 Nicaragua in virtual civil war;
\n\u2022 Christian Phalangists call general strike in Lebanon;
\n\u2022 Shah continues to lose support in Iran;
\n\u2022 Cholera sweeps Indian subcontinent;
\n\u2022 Anti-apartheid activists blocked from offices in South Africa;
\n\u2022 15 members of Congress denounce South African regime;
\n\u2022 South African plans to destroy camps where blacks are warehoused;
\n\u2022 Jamaican economy in trouble, but Prime Minister Manley retains support<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/13\/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 May 31, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-39. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A politicized reading and commentary on the news by JAMES JONES.<\/p>\n

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

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted March 2017.<\/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,\u00a0Pt. 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 \u201c9-14-78 News\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68820","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=68820"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108023,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68820\/revisions\/108023"}],"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=68820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}