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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 return to the Tape Index, 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 Identified Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c9\/16\/78 Mark Lane\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contents of tape consistent with note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i><\/div>\n
Mark Lane, attorney (speaks)<\/strong>
\nDon Freed, author and screenwriter, associate of Mark Lane
\n 
\nMartin Luther King, assassinated civil rights leader
\n 
\nJimmy Carter, president of the United States
\nJohn F. Kennedy, assassinated US president
\nRichard Nixon, former U.S. President
\nJohn Mitchell, attorney general under Nixon
\nH.R. Haldeman, Nixon\u2019s chief of staff
\nJohn Ehrlichman, Nixon\u2019s domestic affairs adviser
\nRamsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General under President Johnson [by reference]
\n 
\nEdgar Hoover, FBI director
\nRobert Jensen, FBI agent investigating King assassination
\nArthur Murtagh, FBI agent investigating King assassination
\nSam Devine, FBI agent
\n 
\nJames Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King
\nGrace Walden, witness in investigation of King assassination
\nJim McCraw, witness in investigation of King assassination
\nCharlie Stephens, witness in investigation of King assassination
\nLloyd Jowers, witness in investigation of King assassination
\nEd Reddit, Memphis police officer
\n(first name unknown) Richman\/Richmond, Reddit\u2019s partner
\nFrank Holloman, Memphis police and fire chief
\nPhilip Canale, Memphis District Attorney
\nMerrell McCullough, undercover Memphis police officer
\nRenfro Hayes, investigator who assisted in Lane inquiry
\nSammy Cook, friend of Renfro Hayes
\nJoseph W. Evans, judge in Grace Walden case
\nAlexander Anthony Eist, London police inspector
\nJonathan Goldberg, English lawyer who exposed Eist
\n 
\nJames Lawson, minister active in civil rights movement
\nJesse Jackson, civil rights activist
\nAndrew Young, civil rights activist
\nRalph Abernathy, civil rights activist
\nBillie Kyle, Memphis minister
\nPercy Sutton, former president, NAACP
\nGeorge McMillan, author of book on King assassination
\nPriscilla Johnson McMillan, author and wife of George McMillan [by reference]
\n 
\nLee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy
\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\nReza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
\nSvetlana Stalin, daughter of Josef Stalin, high-profile Soviet defector
\nThomas Noguchi, L.A. county Chief Medical Examiner<\/div>\n

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Jonestown residents:<\/em><\/div>\n
Harriet Sarah Tropp<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

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

Mark Lane, an attorney noted for his work to uncover alleged conspiracies in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther king, speaks to the people of Jonestown one evening in September 1978. Lane had previously gone to Jonestown with writer Donald Freed, and each of the two men had pledged to tell the Peoples Temple story \u2013 Freed through a screenplay, Lane through his representation of the Temple in court, especially as the cases pertained to uncovering information which the government had allegedly collected on the group \u2013 and the purpose of Lane\u2019s second trip may have been to cement the relationship between himself and Jim jones.<\/p>\n

The speech which Lane gives focuses mainly on what he has learned in representing James Earl Ray, who had pleaded guilty \u2013 and then retracted his confession \u2013 in the King assassination. The case is on Lane\u2019s mind, because he has recently appeared before a congressional committee which is investigating the assassinations of the 1960s, in hopes of clearing his client\u2019s name. During the speech itself, Lane says little about the Temple, other than to suggest that the same forces that attempted to smear Dr. King might be familiar to Temple leaders \u2013 the intelligence establishment\u2019s use of \u201cthe news media is very similar to the methods that have been used, probably by the same people, in an effort to destroy Peoples Temple\u201d \u2013 but he closes with praise for the community, the accomplishments they have made, the principles under which they live, and the example they provide to the rest of the world.<\/p>\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 June 4, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-113. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recording of a lecture given by the attorney of JAMES EARL RAY, MARK LANE, where he states that GRACE WALDEN furnished him an interview about the assassination of MARTIN LUTHER KING, and also states that the FBI conspired to kill MARTIN LUTHER KING.<\/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

\u00a0<\/strong>Tape originally posted February 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, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2). FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Identified Individuals Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note:Labeled in part \u201c9\/16\/78 Mark Lane\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85701","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85701","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=85701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85835,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85701\/revisions\/85835"}],"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=85701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}