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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

\u00a0<\/em>FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mid-November 1976 (Unita Wright Blackwell spoke \u201ctwo weeks earlier\u201d)<\/p>\n

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

Members of Peoples Temple <\/em>
\nTim Carter
\nMarceline Jones
\nJoan Pursley (speaks)
\nTim Stoen [by reference]
\nRichard Tropp<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, President-elect of the United States
\nGerald Ford, President of the United States
\nHenry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State
\nSen. John Stennis (D-MS)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain
\nOrlando Letelier, assassinated Chilean ambassador to US
\nJohannes Vorster, prime minister of Republic of South AfricaBill Anderson, former soldier in army of South Africa (speaks)
\nUnita Blackwell Wright, mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi
\nThomas Dawsey, Kessler Air Force Base engineer (by reference)
\nLeon Joly, March Air Force Base engineer (by reference)<\/p>\n

William Farr, California journalist
\nShirley MacLaine, American actress
\nAlbert Kahn, author (speaks)<\/strong>
\nSteven Kahn, son of Albert Kahn
\nUnnamed wife of Albert Kahn<\/p>\n

Yvonne Golden, black educator in San Francisco (speaks)
\nCecil Williams, pastor of Glide Methodist Church
\nMr. Miller, member of San Francisco School Board
\nDr. Goosby [phonetic]
\nArt Rosenbaum
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician, newspaper publisher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

\u00a0<\/strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\u00a0<\/em>Over the years, Jim Jones invited a number of people to speak before the Peoples Temple congregation, and as the time grew closer to the mass migration to Guyana, the addresses delivered to the crowd became less and less religious in tone, and more and more political. This tape is an example of the latter. Recorded in November 1976, about eight months before the departures for Guyana began in earnest, this tape includes a description of the atrocities of the South African army and the conditions of blacks living in that country, given by a former soldier who was appalled by what he had seen during his service. The tape also has the beginning of a talk by Albert Kahn<\/a>, a writer of numerous books criticizing the US corporate\/military\/intelligence state, but the tape ends before he concludes. Also promised that evening was a talk by refugees from the dictatorship of Chile.<\/p>\n

Jones himself lauds the Temple\u2019s involvement in many issues of the day, an involvement which is almost unique among the churches in San Francisco. The Temple has become \u201can enigma\u201d to the political establishment of the city, which doesn\u2019t know \u201cwhat the hell to do with Peoples Temple, they have never seen several thousand church people that are all radical socialist.\u201d Among the church\u2019s actions have been its participation in demonstrations against the Bakke decision, the California Supreme Court\u2019s ruling reversing affirmative action policies in the state\u2019s university system; its defense of jailed newsman William Farr; its hosting of black Mississippi mayor Unita Wright Blackwell (including a mention of the spies from Mississippi who were outside the church during Blackwell\u2019s presentation); and its continuing support of San Francisco school principal Yvonne Golden, who also speaks briefly to the congregation.<\/p>\n

The speakers deliver the messages that have become the currency in Temple discourse. Bill Anderson, the former South African soldier, states that any black man who attempts to stand up for freedom is dealt with harshly because of the threat he represents to the apartheid system, and declares, \u201cthe South African government is not<\/em> of its own free will going to give away an inch of its power or its land and its domination, and the only way that change is going to come in South Africa is through an armed struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones picks up one theme from the speaker, that the Dutch Reformed Church has been a participant in the subjugation of blacks in that country. The Temple leader cries out that \u201cwhat he said about the church in South Africa, is no different than the church in America.\u201d In full rhetorical voice, he first returns to his earlier point \u2013 \u201c[W]e are not like other churches\u201d \u2013 and then expands upon it. \u201cI hate the name of church, because it doesn\u2019t even fit\u2026 I am not religious. I hate religion, and we\u2019ll never have freedom till the damn thing is done away with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 7\/6\/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 23, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B110-7R34. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A lecture by JIM JONES on spying by the CIA on the PT and a speaker who tells about South Africa. Also a lecture by a Dr. RAHN (phonetic) on the Spanish government.<\/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

\u00a0<\/strong>Tape originally posted\u00a0March 2017.<\/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,\u00a0Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking \u00a0FBI preliminary tape identification note: Date cues on tape:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mid-November 1976 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68838","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=68838"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112125,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68838\/revisions\/112125"}],"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=68838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}