{"id":78045,"date":"2018-02-05T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78045"},"modified":"2019-02-24T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T19:32:31","slug":"q705-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78045","title":{"rendered":"Q705 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

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\nTo read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>.
\nTo read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 2<\/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>One Sony C90\/ \u201cGeorgetown Guyana Deliverance (illegible)\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 December 1974<\/p>\n

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

Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guyanese in attendance at Georgetown Peoples Temple service (phonetic)<\/em><\/p>\n

Ida Asbrook (woman healed in service)
\nAmelia Barnhart (woman healed in service)
\nEna Cross (woman healed in service)
\nClarice Dugan (woman healed in service)
\nAlbertina Fernandez (woman healed in service)
\nClarice Freitas (healed in service)
\nGonzales (woman healed in service)
\nRhoda Hedley (woman healed in service)
\nHenry (man healed in service)
\nIsaacs (healed in service)
\nJune (woman healed in service)
\nRamos (healed in service)
\nLily\/Billie Vanderyer (woman healed in service)<\/div>\n

 
\nTemple members in attendance at Georgetown service<\/em><\/p>\n

Archie Ijames (speaks)<\/strong>
\nNorman Ijames (speaks)<\/strong>
\nLarry Schacht (by reference)
\nDiana Wilkinson (sings<\/strong>)<\/div>\n

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

Lyndon Johnson, former U.S. president
\nDr. Flanders Dunbar, San Francisco psychiatrist<\/div>\n

 
\nPart 2:<\/strong>
\nTemple members named at Georgetown meeting of Temple leadership<\/em><\/p>\n

David
\nEric
\nJoy
\nMark
\nMartin<\/p>\n

Paula Adams (speaks)<\/strong>
\nBecky Beikman (speaks)<\/strong>
\nJohn Moss Brown
\nTerri Buford (speaks)<\/strong>
\nEugene Chaikin
\nTom Grubbs
\nArchie Ijames (speaks)<\/strong>
\nNorman Ijames
\nKaren Layton
\nMike Prokes (speaks)<\/strong>
\nRichard Tropp (speaks)<\/strong><\/div>\n

 
\nGuyana government figures:<\/em><\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana
\nCheddi Jagan, leader of opposition Peoples Progressive Party
\nHubert Jack, Guyana Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
\nGavin Kennard, Guyana Minister of Agriculture<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited (Part 1):<\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/em>Note<\/em><\/strong>: The verses appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMake a joyful noise unto God.\u201d (numerous references in Psalm, including 66:1, 81:1, 95:1, 95:2, 98:4, 98:6, 100:1)<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many have a Bible here? A hundred and fiftieth Psalm, but I don\u2019t see enough to sing it, we can put the Bible<\/em> to song, or we might sing something at this moment.\u201d (Psalm 150)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, I am the same today, yesterday and forever. The God that changeth not.\u201d (Malachi 3:6, \u201cFor I am the\u00a0Lord, I change not.\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Jesus said, be ye perfect, even as I and the Father are perfect.\u201d (Matthew 5:48, \u201cBe ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have faith, according to your faith, be it unto you\u2026 according to your faith, be it unto you\u2026 And according to your faith, be it unto you.\u201d (Matthew 9:29, \u201cThen touched [Jesus] their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cSelfishness is not the way of any<\/em> great religion, it\u2019s not the way of Christ. He said, deny yourself.\u201d (Matthew 16:24, \u201cThen said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus said in the judgment, when he came to separate those that were unjust from those that were just, of the sheep from the goats, he said I was hungry, and you fed me not.\u2026 Jesus said that we were to minister to the needs of humanity. Make God manifest. He said if we did not feed the hungry and clothe the naked, there would be no evidence that God was in the world. If we did not heal the sick, [if] we did not bring help, not only spiritually or esoterically or paranormal, but bring power to bring hospital care and medical care\u2026 do the most important<\/em> work of the gospel, to feed and to clothe, and to house.\u201d (Matthew 25:31-46).<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus said, these signs shall follow the believer\u201d (Mark 16:17, \u201cAnd these signs shall follow them that believe\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Jesus was taken away, he said for what good work do you stone me? They said, for no good work but because you, being a man, make yourself God. He said it is written, Ye all are Gods.\u201d (John 10:31-34)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, after I\u2019ve gone away these things shall ye do and greater, because I go to the Father.\u201d (John 14:12, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in apostolic cooperative living, as it was on the day of Pentecost, there is a solution for man\u2019s hunger, there\u2019s solution for man\u2019s poverty. There\u2019s solution for war! Because on the day of Pentecost, when they were filled with that great ecumenical spirit, when the Holy Ghost descended upon them and they were filled to overflowing, they shared their possessions. No one had to legislate it, no one had to enact laws to cause people to share. They shared from house to house, and it was said of them that they had all things common\u2026 We\u2019re asking for the signs and wonders that filled<\/em> the early church, that caused people to drop all<\/em> their possessions and their wares and their status symbols and follow the Christ. We\u2019re asking for a movement of the Holy Spirit in our midst today, that will cause<\/em> people to believe that there\u2019s hope\u2026 If the church is to do its duty and to stop the dangers of fanatical extremists, be they right or left, if the church is to be able to stop the inroads of totalitarian regimes<\/em>, the church must do<\/em> what it was instructed to do at the day of the apostles\u2019 creed, the day of Pentecost.\u201d (Acts 2)<\/p>\n

\u201cSo God<\/em> is no respecter of person\u2026 So you see, God is no respecter of persons\u201d (Acts 10:34, \u201cThen Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:\u201d See also 2 Samuel 14:14, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Romans 2:11, Colossians 3:25, 1 Peter 1:17)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe church must take care of the necessities of the saints.\u201d (Romans 12, esp. Roman 12:13, \u201c[The ministry] Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are to be his disciples, we are to be living epistles, living Bibles, read and known of all men everywhere.\u201d (2 Corinthians 3:1-4)<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you think in your mind, so are you.\u201d (2 Corinthians 10:7, \u201c\u2026if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2013important as the fruits<\/em> of the spirit.\u201d (Galatians 5:22-23)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe church must \u2026 minister first to the household of the faith. (Galatians 6:10, \u201cAs we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cLuke<\/em> was a great physician.\u201d (Colossians 4:14)<\/p>\n

\u201c[Do the most important<\/em> work of the gospel] \u2026 to minister to the orphans and widows in their affliction (James 1:27, \u201cPure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhosoever loveth is born of God and knoweth God\u2026 whosoever loveth is born<\/em> of God.\u201d (1 John 4:7, \u201cBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that\u00a0loveth\u00a0is born of God, and\u00a0knoweth\u00a0God.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time that we either get ourselves in a condition of being hot or cold, because the lukewarm<\/em> will be spewn out of the mouth of God.\u201d (Revelation 3:16 \u201cI know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe the healing as described in the early church, the herbs and the leaves were for the healing of the nation.\u201d (Revelation 22:2, \u201cIn the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

(This tape was transcribed by Kathryn Barbour, who also wrote a contextual note<\/a>. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

This recording consists of two parts: the first is the only known time that Jim Jones led a church service in Georgetown, Guyana before an audience of Guyanese nationals. The second is a meeting held soon afterwards during which the Temple leaders discuss what the service accomplished and strategize what they need to do in order to solidify their influence with the national government.<\/p>\n

Many aspects of the church service at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Georgetown at the end of 1974 would have been familiar to a Temple audience: Jones runs through a litany of the achievements which the Temple has accomplished to bring social welfare to the people of northern California (and, as he explicitly states near the end, potentially to the people of Guyana\u2019s North West District); he speaks of the benefits of cooperative living, which Guyana struggles to do and which Jonestown will attempt to embody; and he performs several healings, complete with a woman who presents a \u201cgrowth that has passed\u201d to the congregation.<\/p>\n

What is different from usual Temple services \u2013 and yet similar to those services held outside of its California churches \u2013 is that Jones speaks much more in the language of a traditional Protestant Holiness preacher. He prays directly to God, invokes the power and the presence of Christ a dozen times, and characterizes the work they need to do as manifestations of the Holy Spirit. He praises the Bible \u2013 with specific references rather than unattributed quotes \u2013 as a source of wisdom and holiness. The Temple\u2019s plans for the Jonestown community \u2013 including its anticipated outreach to provide medical services and food to the local population \u2013 are cast as the fulfillment of the biblical imperative at Pentecost. And while the healings are evidence of miracles, he lays them at the feet of God, and adds his insistence that \u201cwe do not believe that this ministry takes the place of medical science.\u201d It is, in essence, a presentation of Peoples Temple to its new neighbors.<\/p>\n

Uncommon in these recordings is acknowledgment of Jones\u2019 descent from the pulpit at the front of the church into the crowd itself. On numerous occasions, a church worker admonishes the people to stand back and form an aisle for the preacher to pass through, and Jones himself tells people to stop pushing him.<\/p>\n

The balance of the tape consists of a strategy discussion which Jim Jones held with several of his leaders and with a Guyanese government official. The agendas of the two seem different. The official wants to tell Jones about the political and cultural history of the North West District, and the area\u2019s needs for capital development. Jones is more interested in whether anything he said during the service will change the commitments he has received from the government, especially since those commitments have been made only as verbal assurances. He is specifically concerned whether the official knows of any threats against the Temple either from the government or from the organs of the press which it controls.<\/p>\n

Given the poor quality of the recording quality, the fact that numerous people talk over each other, and that there is at least one speaker \u2013 possibly two \u2013 with thick Guyanese accents, much of Side 2 of the tape is incomprehensible. With that in mind, we invite anyone who can recognize additional dialogue in this part of the tape to submit it to this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 3\/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 March 7, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62-22. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Side A \u2014 Sermon by Jim Jones<\/p>\n

Side B \u2013 Group Discussion by Several Unknown Individuals<\/p>\n

Sermon by Jim Jones<\/p>\n

Nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

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

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tape originally posted\u00a0January 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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