{"id":85530,"date":"2019-01-05T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85530"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:51:59","slug":"q756-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85530","title":{"rendered":"Q756 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<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong> Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note<\/strong>: <\/strong>One Tracs 60\/ \u201cNews April 19, 1978\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

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

<\/p>\n

Jimmy Carter, US President
\nBilly Carter, president\u2019s brother
\nRuth Carter Stapleton, sister of president
\nGloria Carter Spann, sister ofpresident
\nJeff Carter (misidentification), son of president
\nJudy Carter, daughter-in-law of president
\nJames Earl Carter, Sr., father of president (by reference)
\nHugh Carter, cousin of president
\nunnamed nephew of president<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Harold Brown, U.S. Secretary of Defense
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nWarren Burger, Supreme Court Chief Justice [by reference]
\n\u201cFBI Director Bates\u201d [unknown reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nNikita Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union
\nFidel Castro, leader of Cuba
\nAldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Rudy Perpich, Minnesota governor
\nJerry Brown, California governor
\nEd Davis, Los Angeles Chief of Police
\nLarry Flynt, publisher of Hustler<\/em>
\nAlthea Flynt, wife of Larry Flynt
\nRon Ridenour, editor of Los Angeles Free Press<\/em>
\nSandra Porter, official with National Organization for Women
\nDon Olson, Minnesota farmer activist<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Robert Christian
\nStanley Gieg
\nStephan Jones<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for April 19, 1978.<\/p>\n

This tape is fairly typical of the news readings throughout 1978. Jones apparently receives his information from news services in the Soviet Union and its client states in Eastern Europe. As such, it is often difficult to tell whether the constant descriptions of the United States as the fountainhead of monopoly capitalism and of imperialism, of Western Europe as the fascist puppet regimes of the US, and of white minority governments of Africa as racist, oppressive and belligerent, come from Jim Jones or the copy that he is reading. Certainly the interjection of such editorializing into an essay from Time<\/em>Magazine, comes from Jones himself.<\/p>\n

It is indisputable that the praise for the Soviet Union comes solely from Jones himself. As on many other occasions, the Temple leader describes the Soviet Union as \u201cthe great liberators of mankind, the avant garde of social justice,\u201d whose military is far superior to that of its Western adversaries. So too is his description of East Germany as \u201cthe most advanced communist society in the world outside of the Soviet Union, modern in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are several references to the inevitability of nuclear war, which will come about because of the West\u2019s development of the neutron bomb (and the Soviets\u2019 legitimate response to it), and because capitalists are concerned only about their immediate profit, without any thought towards the world\u2019s future. Jones\u2019 final reference comes as part of his plea for the people of Jonestown to work harder so that they might bring their comrades to safety from the US and free them from that catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Most of the reading is of short news items. The piece on which he devotes the most time is an American magazine article which praises socialism as having delivered on its promises to bring benefits to the people living in countries which are governed by it.<\/p>\n

Among the other items:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • The wealth of Jimmy Carter\u2019s family has grown since he became president;<\/li>\n
  • France deploys a neutron bomb at the request of US;<\/li>\n
  • Demonstrations in capitals of Western democracies protest neutron bomb;<\/li>\n
  • The US warns the Soviets over involvement in Ethiopia, which Moscow rejects;<\/li>\n
  • Italy\u2019s Red Brigade executes its prisoner, former Prime Minister Aldo Moro;<\/li>\n
  • The Los Angeles Free Press<\/em> closes;<\/li>\n
  • States files antitrust suits against national Organization of Women for use of boycott tactic;<\/li>\n
  • Minnesota governor withdraws state troopers who confronted protesters against high-voltage power lines;<\/li>\n
  • The US attempts to bring down the Zambian government;<\/li>\n
  • Vietnam and China trade border incursions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

    Date of transcription: 4\/11\/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 April 3, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62#73. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    A news broadcast by JIM JONES on the day of the death of ALDO MORRO of Italy. The broadcast contains numerous anti-capitalistic and pro-communistic references.<\/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.<\/p>\n

    Tape originally posted\u00a0January 2019.<\/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. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: One Tracs 60\/ \u201cNews April 19, 1978\u201d Date cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85530","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85530","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=85530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85593,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85530\/revisions\/85593"}],"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=85530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}