{"id":78067,"date":"2018-02-05T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78067"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:56:22","slug":"q1014-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78067","title":{"rendered":"Q1014 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 return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.
\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>Labeled in part \u201c10\/28\/73\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris (likely Chris Lewis)
\nSister Davis
\nJohn
\nSister Lacy (likely Georgia Lacy)
\nSister Lewis
\nMale named MutschmannBen Bowers
\nJohnny Moss Brown
\nTim Carter (likely, by reference)
\nEugene Chaikin
\nArchie Ijames
\nMarceline Jones
\nBea Morton, also known as Bea Orsot
\nJane Mutschmann
\nTim Stoen
\nLee Ethel Young<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (by reference)
\nJohnson, Joe, Assistant Deputy Mayor for Social Programs of San Francisco (by reference)
\nRev. Williams [several, including Cecil and Hannibal in San Francisco, and Baptist preacher in Redwood Valley]<\/div>\n

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

Lester Kinsolving, longtime antagonist of Peoples Temple<\/div>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Editor’s note<\/strong>: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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      \u201cHow lovely it would be, because I\u2019m<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      flesh<\/em><\/p>\n

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          of your flesh and bone of your bone.\u201d (Genesis 2:23, \u201cAnd Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh\u2026\u201d)<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \u201cBut I\u2019m the only man I know that won\u2019t give you back an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.\u201d (Exodus 21:23-24, \u201cAnd if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.\u201d Also, Leviticus 24:20, Deuteronomy 19:21; countered by Matthew 5:38-39.)<\/p>\n

          \u201cWe are gods and sons of the Most High\u201d (Psalm 82:6, \u201cI have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.\u201d)<\/p>\n

          \u201cWho will I send? Who will go for me? I want to hear somebody\u2019s heart, even tonight, some young person, say, here I am, Father God, here I am. Send me.\u201d (Isaiah 6:8, \u201cAlso I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.\u201d)<\/p>\n

          \u201cSeek and save those who want to be saved.\u201d (Luke 19:10, \u201cFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.\u201d)<\/p>\n

          \u201cI know what the future holds for all who will bear the marks of Christ.\u201d (Galatians 6:17, \u201cFrom henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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

          (This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The<\/em> editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

          This address to the members of Peoples Temple \u2013 which takes place in the auditorium of Benjamin Franklin Junior High in San Francisco in October 1973 \u2013 is partially a sermon, partially a collection of offerings (which the Temple rarely recorded) and partially, as he describes it, a business meeting.<\/p>\n

          The main item on the agenda is to determine where the Temple might re-locate a few months after a fire damaged much of its facility on Geary Boulevard. There are several options, but none seem to excite Jim Jones very much. He doesn\u2019t want to think about moving their Bay Area operations outside of San Francisco: \u201cthere\u2019s not much value having the mayor \u2026 of Sausalito behind us,\u201d he says with a laugh at one point. \u201c[I]n San Francisco with our church here, we have more political strength, and that\u2019s important.\u201d He raises two or three objections to a downtown site suggested by a woman in the congregation, and he doesn\u2019t want to move to the hardcore ghetto of San Francisco, even though the mayor has offered them some land cheap, because \u201cI don\u2019t like dirt and filth,\u201d and even if they refurbished a facility there, \u201ceverybody else will be threatened, they\u2019ll be throwing rocks at us, \u2026 they\u2019ll destroy what we got.\u201d<\/p>\n

          He does recognize the problems with the neighborhood where they\u2019ve been \u2013 and where they would ultimately restore the Temple. Highest on the minds of both Jones and his congregants is the Black Muslim temple on the same block. It goes beyond the disrespect with which he says the Black Muslims treat his own followers \u2013 although that certainly is present \u2013 but extends to the group itself. Jones criticizes the Muslims\u2019 belief in what he describes as a \u201cspaceship [that] is going to come down and take them up\u201d (actually, according to Elijah Muhammed, a Mother Plane or Wheel that was described in the visions of the prophet Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible). Jones lambasts the group\u2019s treatment of women and the clothes they are required to wear, and he couples that with a longstanding criticism of leaders of all faiths who drive around in Rolls-Royces instead of taking care of the people. He is also critical of the core tenet that 20 percent of the population will rule the other 80 percent. The belief goes hand-in-hand with their efforts to advance black capitalism. \u201c[There\u2019s] No use to turn the thing around and have the same black system that\u2019s been so ugly when the whites have been doing it. Just because blacks start doing it, don\u2019t make it any nicer,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

          But he reserves his harshest criticism for the group\u2019s hatred of whites. \u201cThey\u2019re like the Ku Klux Klan, they won\u2019t talk. They got their fill with hate,\u201d he says midway through the address, then returns to it later. \u201cI do not believe in hating people because of the color of their skin. I fought that in the Ku Klux Klan\u2026 and by God, I didn\u2019t come to San Francisco to get the same kind of thing dressed up and called Black Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n

          Part of Jones\u2019 antagonism towards the Black Muslims stemmed from his belief that the group was responsible for the August fire that caused $100,000 damage to the Geary Boulevard Temple, although the source of this belief is unknown. The arson attack is very much on his mind, though, as he recounts \u2013 as he has elsewhere \u2013 the miracles that happened that night to prevent anyone from being hurt or any Temple records from being destroyed. Even though he wasn\u2019t there at the time, the fact that the people had his picture on their walls and heard his voice directing them to safety is proof of his paranormal abilities.<\/p>\n

          The uncertainty in the Temple\u2019s status has led to discussion about the Temple\u2019s leadership and particularly the issue of a possible successor to him. While he voices support for a process that would \u201cbegin to produce the leadership that needs to succeed me,\u201d he also declares that it can\u2019t be done. It\u2019s not that the job is a difficult one, requiring great sacrifice, and embracing the loneliness that comes with it. It\u2019s because of who he is. \u201cGood God, there\u2019ll never be anybody as honest as I. Nobody\u2019ll ever fight for you like I. There never was a human that would die<\/em> and live for you like I.\u201d<\/p>\n

          There are also the responsibilities that he has, and the needs that he addresses by taking on those responsibilities, and the tension between them. Early in the address, he thunders to his followers, \u201cEverything here that\u2019s done, I order. Everything that comes about, I set it up. Everything that takes place, I <\/em>bring it about. Every plan, it\u2019s mine<\/em>. Every dream, it\u2019s mine<\/em>. Every administration, it\u2019s mine<\/em>. You need me. Oh God, you need me.\u201d<\/p>\n

          He recognizes that difficulty in replacing him, and reiterates how high \u2013 ultimately, impossibly high \u2013 the bar is that he has set. Early in the address, he states matter-of-factly, \u201cI have looked over all<\/em> creation. I\u2019ve looked high, and I\u2019ve looked low. I\u2019ve looked on every continent. I\u2019ve looked at the very bottom<\/em> of the earth. I\u2019ve looked at the top<\/em> of the earth, and I found nobody but me.\u201d He returns to the challenge a few minutes later: \u201cSo before you want to become my successor, you better know what you\u2019re in for. I\u2019ve set an awful hard line. I\u2019ve laid down an awful difficult road. I\u2019ve set down some very difficult steps for you to follow in. I wish sometimes I hadn\u2019t. \u2018Cause I\u2019m making it rough for my successor.\u201d<\/p>\n

          At the same time, he insists that his followers take advantage of him while they have him, to use him up. \u201cHere I am,\u201d he says. \u201cUse me.\u201d Even though he knows it will result in his demise, \u201cI have come<\/em> to be finished\u2026 <\/em>I\u2019ve come<\/em> to be expended.\u201d And while he wishes it were different \u2013 that he could be their friend, that he could hang out with them and drink tea \u2013 \u201cI cannot<\/em> because your survival<\/em> depends that I be high<\/em> and lifted up. And if I be lifted up, I<\/em> will draw, I<\/em> will save, I<\/em> will heal.\u201d<\/p>\n

          His later protests to the contrary \u2013 that they could train someone to be a successor to him \u2013 his true belief is revealed at the beginning of the address, when he declares that the Godship principle is among them right then and there, and only<\/em> then and there. \u201cI\u2019ve not pretended to be your cotton-pickin\u2019 God,\u201d he says ironically. \u201cI pretended to be and maintain<\/em> to be and declare<\/em> to be and exhibit<\/em> that I am and manifested<\/em> that I am, your only savior.\u2026 That\u2019s why then we must never<\/em> let God<\/em> get away from us. We\u2019re gonna keep God<\/em> in a body.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

          Date of transcription: 7\/3\/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 14, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B107-23. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

          JIM JONES monologue concerning miscellaneous topics such as God, people getting into trouble, and purchase of real estate.<\/p>\n

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

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

          Tape originally posted\u00a0January 2018.<\/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 return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2). FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78067","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78067","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=78067"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93524,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78067\/revisions\/93524"}],"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=78067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}