{"id":85728,"date":"2019-02-14T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85728"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:52:36","slug":"q1054-2-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85728","title":{"rendered":"Q1054-2 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To return to the Tape Index, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28703\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo read Tape Transcript,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85657\">click here<\/a>. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85664\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nListen to MP3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q1054%20Part%202%20(Side%20A).mp3\">Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q1054%20Part%202%20(Side%20B).mp3\">Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Part I<\/strong>, late 1972; <strong> Part II<\/strong> Fall 1972 (reference to July in the past, and to upcoming election in November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 75px; text-indent: -75px;\"><em>People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 75px;\"><strong>Part I<\/strong><br \/>\nFlowers (first name unknown, could be Judy)<br \/>\nJamaica<br \/>\nJudy<br \/>\nMarshall [could be Farris]<br \/>\nMaxine (likely Betts)<br \/>\nMonty<br \/>\nSheila<\/p>\n<p>Leona Collier<br \/>\nJeremy Griffith<br \/>\nJim Jones Jr. [by reference]<br \/>\nMarceline Jones [by reference]<br \/>\nGrace Love<br \/>\nLove Life Lowe<br \/>\nBirdie Marable<br \/>\nBea Morton<br \/>\nJane Mutschmann<br \/>\nHelen Price<br \/>\nEva Pugh<br \/>\nLorraine Smith<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II<\/strong><br \/>\nSister Jones <strong>(speaks)<\/strong><br \/>\nSister Price (relative of Helen Price)<\/p>\n<p>Lew Jones<br \/>\nMarceline Jones (<strong>speaks<\/strong>)<br \/>\nJane Mutschmann<br \/>\nHelen Price<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 75px; text-indent: -75px;\"><em>Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 75px;\"><strong>Part I<\/strong><br \/>\nRep. Ron Dellums (D-California)<br \/>\nDaniel Ellsberg, leaker of Pentagon Papers (by reference)<br \/>\nHarriet Tubman, black abolitionist<br \/>\nFrederick Douglass, black abolitionist<br \/>\nGeorge Washington Carver, black botanist<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II<\/strong><br \/>\nSister Reverend Davis<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bible verses cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>(<strong>Editor&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=63627\">here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all I\u2019m saying to you, as you think in your heart, so are you.\u201d [Proverbs 23:7, \u201cFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, repent or perish.\u201d [Luke 13:3 and Luke 13:5, \u201cI tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of one blood made all nations to dwell on the face of the earth. That means together. That means for the blood to flow together, and for them to integrate and amalgamate and assimilate all the characteristics of every group.\u201d [Acts 17: 24-26, esp. Acts 17:26, \u201c[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no respect of persons in God.\u2026 And God\u2019s no respecter of person\u201d [Romans 2:11, \u201cFor there is no respect of persons with God.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, did you understand the mystery? Some of you didn\u2019t understand the mystery.\u2026 Children, you\u2019re not embracing the mystery\u201d [several references to mystery of gospel and mystery of Christ, mostly in Ephesians, likely Ephesians 3:3-4, \u201cHow that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)\u201d].<\/p>\n<p>\u2018[The Bible] Says you cannot love God whom you have not seen. You love not your brother whom you have seen.\u201d [1 John 4:20, \u201c If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?\u201d]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same spirit that is here today in Los Angeles at Alvarado and Hoover, is the spirit that said, let there be light and let there be dry land.\u201d [Genesis 1]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it Judges 1, first chapter of Judges, the fifteenth [nineteenth] verse, it says, God was able to take care of the inhabitants of what? He was able to rid them in the self of the enemies, the inhabitants of the valley, was it? The mountain? You know that scripture? Where is that scripture?\u201d [What follows was a long deconstruction of Judges 1:19, \u201cJudge 1:19, And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManoah and his wife saw [God].\u201d [Judges 13].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhab saw [God].\u201d [1 Kings 18:38-40]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever you make your bed, there I\u2019ll be with you. Though you make your bed in hell, I\u2019ll go down there and rescue you.\u201d [Psalm 139:8, \u201c\u2026if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolomon looked out and saw him, and said his hair was as black as a raven. Described his own personal body, and said he had hair as black as a raven.\u201d [Song of Solomon 5:11, \u201cHis head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsaiah 7:20 said in the last days, he would come and God would manifest himself. And said God would after that day, shave with a razor just like you. He said in that day, God said. God, the body of God would shave with a razor. Don\u2019t think it\u2019s in the scripture? Don\u2019t look so puzzled, Sister. Isaiah 7:20 says, after that day God will shave with a razor [Isaiah 7:20, \u201cIn the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.\u201d].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNebuchadnezzar \u2013 a evil racist king \u2013 saw him open the furnace door and looked and he said, \u2018I put three in there and now I see one as is two, the form of the son of God.\u2019 He said I put three in there, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and now I see Jesus Christ in there.\u201d [Daniel 3]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey shall know their God and do exploits.\u201d [Daniel 11:32, \u201c\u2026 the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the same today, yesterday, and forever, the God that changeth not.\u201d [Malachi 3:6, \u201cFor I am the Lord, I change not;\u201d].<\/p>\n<p>[Comparison of Matthew 1:1-16 to Luke 3:23-38]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they see God.\u201d [Matthew 5:8, \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world. I will never leave you.\u201d [Matthew 28:20, \u201c\u2026lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.]<\/p>\n<p>[Comparison of Luke 3:23-38 to Matthew 1:1-16]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came to his own and his own received him not.\u201d [John 1:11, \u201cHe came unto his own, and his own received him not.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shall fulfill the Word made flesh.\u201d [John 1:14, \u201cAnd the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when I come, you can receive me, ye shall receive the Father. You can receive me, and you\u2019ll receive Christ Jesus.\u201d [John 5:4, \u201c I am come in my Father&#8217;s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to have to have the truth, or you won\u2019t be set free.\u201d [John 8:32, \u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]f you take a picture of what I am, you can become greater than what I am, because that\u2019s the nature of God. [Jesus] said these things shall you do and greater, because I go to the Father\u2026 This is a greater day in Jesus. Jesus said it was. He said these things shall you 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<p>\u201cThe good scriptures tell you that they live in that principle, godly in Christ Jesus, they will suffer persecution. They say, all manner of things falsely against him for their namesake, persecute them, revile them, deliver them before the council, the synagogues, and even finally kill them, thinking they do God a service.\u201d [John 15:9 \u2013 16:2]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are truths in the scripture, but it says how can you hear without a prophet or a preacher, and how can he preach lest he be sent. It said faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. It didn\u2019t say faith cometh by reading the Bible and faith cometh by hearing the King James Version. But it said faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.\u201d [Romans 10:14-17]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese piker representatives up and down the streets, they want to be able to represent God. Know nothing, can\u2019t heal the sick, can\u2019t discern a spirit, can never tell you what\u2019s in the thoughts of the mind.\u201d [1 Corinthians 12].<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad you don\u2019t do what this verse says, it says women keep silence. In all the churches suffer not a woman to speak. [1 Corinthians 14:34, \u201cLet your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like the responsibility of being what I am, but I am what I am. I am what I am.\u201d [1 Corinthians 15:10, \u201cBut by the grace of God I am what I am\u2026\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shall become an epistle written and known of all men.\u2026 It\u2019s to let you become the living epistles, read and known of all men.\u201d [2 Corinthians 3:2-3, \u201cYe are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: orasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps now you\u2019re beginning to see the mystery\u201d [several references to mystery of gospel and mystery of Christ, mostly in Ephesians, likely Ephesians 3:3-4, \u201cHow that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)\u201d].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe God that I am incarnate and manifesting, he can do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you are able to ask or to think.\u201d [Ephesians 3:20-21, \u201cNow unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEphesians 6:5. Slaves? That\u2019s the way it is originally, servants. Many of you are servants. You\u2019ve been working as servants. We\u2019ve been made servants. Says servants \u2013 originally it says slaves \u2013 be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart. I can see some of you folk that are servants in house, are you going to tremble when you look at that master?\u201d [Ephesians 6:5, \u201cServants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holy Ghost has no tangible meaning, unless someone is willing, as Jesus was willing, to considerate it not robbery to be equal with God. It is written that Jesus was in the form of a slave or a servant, but he considered it not robbery to be equal to the task of being God [Philippians 2:5-7, \u201cLet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you nothing about Jesus\u2019 coming, I tell you that God is here, Christ is in you, the hope of glory.\u201d [Colossians 1:27, \u201cTo whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt says whatever state you find yourself \u2013 in Colossians 3:22 \u2013 slaves, obey in all things your master according to the flesh, not with eyeservice but in a singleness of heart, fearing God.\u201d [Colossians 3:22, \u201cServants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlaves, exhort slaves to be obedient unto their own masters \u2013 Titus 2:9 \u2013 and to please them well in all things. Always be faithful to them.\u201d [Titus 2:9: \u201cExhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery week, every day, I tell you the intents of the heart, tell you your thoughts\u2026 What is the word of God? Hebrews 4:12. It\u2019s a little misinterpreted, but it is reasonably accurate. Hebrews 4:12 says that the word of God will do what? It\u2019s sharper than a two-edged sword. Already you\u2019ve felt its sharpness. It\u2019ll cut away your old foggy prejudices. It says it\u2019s sharper than a two-edged sword. It\u2019s mighty to the pulling down of strongholds, it\u2019s quick and it\u2019s powerful. It\u2019ll separate the bone from the marrow.\u2026 Hebrews 4:12 said that the word of God is quick and powerful. It will separate soul from spirit.\u201d [Hebrews 4:12, \u201cFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never forsake you, not even unto the end of the world\u2026 he said I will never leave you and I will never forsake you, not even unto the end of the world.\u201d [Hebrews 13:5, \u201cfor he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlaves \u2013 First Peter 2:18 \u2013 be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle\u2013 Aren\u2019t you glad Harriet Tubman didn\u2019t believe this? Aren\u2019t you glad that Frederick Douglass didn\u2019t believe this? Aren\u2019t you glad that [George] Washington Carver didn\u2019t believe this? It says slaves be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward, for this is thankworthy., if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully.\u201d [1 Peter 2:18-19, \u201cServants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt says women, obey your husbands.\u201d [1 Peter 3:1, \u201cLikewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the Alpha, I am the Omega, I am the Beginning, I am the End.\u201d [Revelation 22:13, \u201cI am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.\u201c]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note: <\/strong>This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The\u00a0editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This tape consists of portions of two sermons by Jim Jones. The first is most likely the latter of the two \u2013 it was likely recorded over an older tape \u2013 but they are also likely only a few months apart.<\/p>\n<p>The first portion of the tape is a midweek service held in Redwood Valley, probably late 1972. More a congregation-wide administrative meeting than a traditional sermon, it focuses on Jones talking about who should and should not be allowed to attend Temple services. As a general rule, Jones says they will welcome anyone who loves all people or who can identify with oppressed people, \u201ctouched by the feeling of their brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 infirmities.\u201dMore specifically, however, he wants to be sure any newcomers can be vouched for by current members.<\/p>\n<p>As he does throughout the Temple\u2019s history, Jones refers to his followers as \u201cniggers.\u201d The word has long since lost its shock value, but rather has been transferred into as an attribute. \u201cI\u2019m making a conversion of the word \u2018Nigger.\u2019 It means the oppression that\u2019s around us.<\/p>\n<p>He can do this, because \u201cGod can convert a word if he chooses. He can use the words that pleases him.\u201d For anyone who needs clarity on the point, he continues, \u201cIf I\u2019m privileged or allowed by you to raise the dead, \u2026 and to heal every known disease and the cancers to be spit up all around this\u2026 then I\u2019m permitted to take a word that I wish to use, and make it for good purpose, even though you\u2019ve known if for a bad purpose. I\u2019ll take that word and use it as it pleases me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones also reminds his followers what he has done for them, and what toll that service has taken on him. The diseases he cures don\u2019t evaporate but rather go into him, but even when he is ill, he continues to be their Father. He has been known to come to church with a temperature of 104, and to preach for four hours. The cancers in particular has cost him dearly, destroying his vocal cords, and so he has \u201clearned how to speak through my own chest, and to project words through my mouth without the usual instruments that you have. \u2026 I said, cancer, I shall not be moved, because I have a will to speak and I will speak on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the sacrifices he has made in the name of God socialism, he castigates those who complain about any physical discomfort they feel in church. He offers himself as an example \u2013 he has endure the heat of the Amazon, and stood in the cold without a jacket \u2013 because he is filled with the spirit of socialism. \u201cIf you\u2019ve got enough principle you won\u2019t be bothered by this heat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is all he wants them to do, he says, is to follow him, not just as a minister or father, but as an exemplar. \u201cI want you to look at me and copy me, and be as strong as I am in my strength, be as compassionate as I am in my areas of love. Get whatever wisdom there is in me\u2026 Lift yourself up in a higher dimension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not come here to stand and be praised and be glorified,\u201d he adds. \u201cI have come that you might copy after me and be what I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he summarizes in the closing moments of this portion of the tape, \u201cI can still do what I have to do, because [there is] nothing more than will in this nigger body. I\u2019m just a nigger body just like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second portion of the tape was recorded in the Los Angeles church in the fall of 1972, a few weeks ahead of the November election. He does voice criticism of others, but \u2013 as differentiated from the in-house meeting \u2013 he goes after the more familiar targets, whether they be the oppressors in government, the \u201cjackleg\u201d ministers who preach that Jesus is coming and yet take their parishioners\u2019 money and drive around in their Rolls Royces and Cadillacs, or (perhaps most personally hurtful) those who leave his sermon in the middle before they\u2019ve had a chance to learn his truth.<\/p>\n<p>He reserves his greatest criticism, however, for the King James version of the Bible. Whether he is castigating the king himself as a drunk and a racist, or whether he is chronicling the atrocities in history that have been perpetrated in the name of \u201cthat black book,\u201d or whether he is going after the text itself \u2013 both its factual errors and the evil practices it condones, all detailed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14111\">The Letter Killeth<\/a><\/em> \u2013 little of the Bible escapes Jones\u2019 deconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>The address details several miracles he has performed. Beyond the accidents he has prevented and the diseases he has cured, beyond even the more mundane examples of his powers such as the lack of smog in Los Angeles whenever they go down there for services, he recounts the story of a vacation everyone took to a beach in Mexico, and how he drove sharks out of the water, \u201cliterally walking out on the water above the ocean waves, above the surf\u201d to make sure they were gone. In the course of inviting his followers from LA to come to Redwood Valley for Thanksgiving, he informs them that they won\u2019t run out of food, no matter how many people show up, and then tells the story of providing roasts the previous year when others thought they would come up short.<\/p>\n<p>He is able to do these things, he notes, because just as Jesus came as God in a body, so has he. He quotes Jesus\u2019 words from the Gospel that he would be with his people forever, that he would never leave them. \u201cIf there\u2019s ever been a time that Jesus hasn\u2019t had a body, he was a liar,\u201d but as we all know, Jesus wasn\u2019t a liar.<\/p>\n<p>At times, he presents this concept in overtly Christian terms \u2013 \u201creceive me in faith and know that I have come in the name of Jesus, in the name of God\u2026 And thus what happens when you do? You reincarnate the same spirit\u201d \u2013 but art others, it is clear he is not speaking just of Jesus. \u201cYou say, \u2018Well, I believe in giving God the credit.\u2019 I am <em>indeed<\/em> giving God the credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both of the address\u2019 major themes \u2013 his rejection of the King James version of the Bible, and the divinity of his own presence as part of the recurring promises of that same book \u2013 come together, seemingly inadvertently, late in the sermon as he lambasts one verse in particular. Usually adept at recalling the chapter and verse of a particular passage, he finds himself lost trying to find one. \u201cYou know that scripture? Where is that scripture?\u201d he asks one woman \u201cI\u2019m not interested in it anymore. I\u2019m tired of your fairy tale book, and I\u2019ve laid it aside\u2026 Open up that book. Maybe it\u2019ll be the last time some of you\u2019ll open it.\u201d In the next breath, however \u2013 after he has located the verse \u2013 he points that that \u201cWhen I have to get it, I can get it, \u2018cause I was there when it was put together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the answer to the question of what Jim Jones believed about himself \u2013 Was he literally God? Did he take on the mantle of God as part of his performance? \u2013 eludes definition. \u201cNobody [is] going to take you out of this mess until you do something about this mess you\u2019re going to stay in this mess,\u201d he cries out near the end of the tape. \u201cThat\u2019s why I say shocking things, like saying I\u2019m God manifested. That\u2019s why I shock you, so you\u2019ll be able to <em>shock<\/em> yourself into seeing that <em>you<\/em> are <em>what I am<\/em>, that you have to be exactly what I am, or you\u2019re not going to get out of your mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date of transcription: 6\/21\/79<\/p>\n<p>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<p>On June 15, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B108-15. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n<p>JIM JONES conducting an evening church service. He discusses church finances and possibilities for expansion and a building program and expansion of church membership. JONES interrupts the service to expell [expel] some Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and states, \u201cYou racist honkies, I\u2019ll put a rattlesnake in your bed.\u201d JONES later relates some more of his \u201cmiracles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tape originally posted\u00a0February 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2). 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