{"id":85683,"date":"2019-02-14T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85683"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:36:24","slug":"q176-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85683","title":{"rendered":"Q176 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 Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3<\/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 \u201cNews Oct. 20, 1978\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i><\/div>\n
Jimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nHodding Carter, State Department spokesman
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, Carter national security advisor
\nPaul Warnke, US arms negotiatorMohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
\nSamora Machel, president of Mozambique
\nIan Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia
\nLeabua Jonathan, prime minister of Lesotho
\nJohannes Vorster, prime minister of South Africa
\nA.N.C. Kumalo, South African poet<\/p>\n

Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Cabads
\nAnastasio Somoza, president of Nicaragua
\nJuan Pereda Asbun, dictator of Bolivia
\nHugo Banzer, former dictator of Bolivia
\nAugusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile
\nSalvador Allende, deposed president of Chile<\/p>\n

Pham Van Dong, prime minister of Vietnam
\nAlbert Henry, prime minister of Cook Islands
\nTom Davis, leader of Cook Islands opposition party<\/p>\n

Mother Jones, U.S. labor organizer
\nTony Boyle, president of UMW
\nJock Yablonski, UMW organizer, opponent of Tony Boyle
\nFred Wright, union activist
\nMaxine Klein, director of play on Mother Jones
\nEllen Field, actress portraying Mother Jones
\nJames Oesterreich, composer
\nPhilip Agee, CIA critic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news on October 20, 1978.<\/p>\n

The second half of the recording features regular news items, but during much of the first half, Jones seems to be reading items from a leftist publication published in the United States. There are several reviews, including of a play about militant labor organizer Mother Jones, as well as of several books and pamphlets which are available through addresses in the U.S., which Jones includes in his reading.<\/p>\n

As is characteristic of most of these readings, Jones\u2019 references to the United States are accompanied by such epithets of imperialist and monopoly capitalist; American allies are described as fascist lackeys and dictatorships; and the liberation movements in Latin America and Africa are popular, and are most often Marxist-Leninist. He also bemoans American tax dollars going to prop up the authoritarian, racist regimes of the right.<\/p>\n

Also typical of these addresses, Jones uses several news items to express his opinion \u2013 at least once inserted into the news story itself as though it is among its facts \u2013 about his longstanding apocalyptic view that nuclear war is \u201cabout to break out\u201d or is inevitable.<\/p>\n

His only message to the community at large comes at the end, when he urges people to figure out ways to get ten hours\u2019 worth of work into eight hours, which would allow them to have more time off. Regular days off seem to be in the past, though, since he specifies that those will be announced, usually the evening before.<\/p>\n

There are only two reference to death during the 45-minute reading, the more significant one in his closing remark. \u201cI love you very, very dearly, enough to live for you,\u201d he concludes. \u201cIt would be easy to die for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the longer news items:<\/p>\n

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  • Popular resistance to the Shah of Iran, and the armed response to it;<\/li>\n
  • Sandinistas demands in Nicaragua, the Somoza government reaction, and responses from Central American governments;<\/li>\n
  • A review of a play based on the life of Mother Jones and of union organizing in the minefields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The reviews of leftist-oriented pamphlets, periodicals, and books which Jones reads include:<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Speeches by Mozambique\u2019s Marxist-Leninist president;<\/li>\n
    • Connections between blacks in the US and South Africa;<\/li>\n
    • Efforts to declare Hawaiian independence from the US;<\/li>\n
    • Covert actions by US intelligence agencies;<\/li>\n
    • South African poets;<\/li>\n
    • Women living under apartheid in South Africa;<\/li>\n
    • The Zimbabwe liberation Front.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Shorter news items include:<\/p>\n

        \n
      • US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to Moscow for SALT II talks;<\/li>\n
      • A Canadian postal strike continues;<\/li>\n
      • The New York Yankees enjoy a ticker-tape parade;<\/li>\n
      • The US will press ahead with plans for a neutron bomb;<\/li>\n
      • The worldwide problem of rats;<\/li>\n
      • The new Bolivian dictator cracks down on peasants and progressive movements;<\/li>\n
      • The high court of the Cook Islands orders the ruling party out of power;<\/li>\n
      • Lesotho seeks closer relations with Mozambique;<\/li>\n
      • NATO plans to seek closer ties to South American regimes run into resistance;<\/li>\n
      • Rhodesian troops launch raids into neighboring Zambia;<\/li>\n
      • Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith on speaking tour in US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

        Date of transcription: 6\/18\/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 1B69-1. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

        Broadcast of Friday news by JIM JONES to include topics such as the revolution in Iran, Angola, Hawaii, SALT\/Middle East Talks, Postal Strike in Canada, Stock Market Report, and Rhodesia.<\/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\u00a0February 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 return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cNews Oct. 20, 1978\u201d Date cues on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85683","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=85683"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85830,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85683\/revisions\/85830"}],"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=85683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}