{"id":90445,"date":"2019-06-26T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90445"},"modified":"2019-07-22T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:36:58","slug":"q160-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90445","title":{"rendered":"Q160 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 2<\/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> Labeled in part \u201cJuly 29, 1978 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> Tape contents consistent with identification note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. president
\nRichard Nixon, former U.S. President [by reference]
\nCyrus Vance, US Secretary of State
\nSen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass)
\nSen. Claiborne Pell (D-RI)
\nGen. Geryld Christianson, staff aide for Senator Pell
\nRep. Philip Crane (R-Illinois)
\nWilliam Webster, FBI Director
\nEdwin J. Sharp, head of the FBI\u2019s Organized Crime Section
\nRobert M. White, director of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
\nDr. Gordon J.F. McDonnell, Pentagon official
\nDr. Robert McCullough, technical adviser, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev, leader of Soviet Union
\nPham Van Dong, North Vietnam\u2019s premier
\nIndira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister
\nRajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi [by reference]
\nCharan Singh, Indian Minister of Home Affairs
\nMenachim Begin, prime minister of Israel
\nIdi Amin, president of Uganda
\nIan Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJohannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Guyana Prime Minister
\nDesmond Christian, Guyana regional minister
\nMichael Manley, Jamaica Prime Minister
\nFidel Castro, leader of Cuba<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
\nRobert Heard, Newton bodyguard
\nMichael Moriarty, actor
\nGerald Green, screenwriter
\nDr. R. Lee Clark, president, University of Texas medical school<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nDebbie Layton Blakey<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nPatty Cartmell
\nKay Nelson<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for July 29, 1978.<\/p>\n

The reading is familiar to Jonestown residents. Using principally Radio Moscow and Radio Havana as his sources of news, he invariably describes the United States as fascist, capitalist, or imperialist; American allies as racist lackeys and puppets; and Soviets and Cubans as the forces of liberation and freedom. He also invokes the specter of nuclear war several times, even going so far as to place the threat in the voice of someone besides himself.<\/p>\n

As he does in other readings, Jones periodically relates the news to a message he has for his followers, oftentimes \u2013 as in this case \u2013 comparing Jonestown favorably to the outside world. Following up on a story about the role of nitrates as a cancer-causing substance, he notes, \u201cwe don\u2019t have much of those chemicals here, so it wouldn\u2019t have as much effect. We don\u2019t have all those chemical additives which cause cancer in our foods. One of the things we should be grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before he begins his reading, however, Jones does inform his listeners that the word \u201cdictator\u201d is sometimes overused, and that \u201cI am not a dictator.\u201d After listing the attributes of a dictator, he adds, \u201cdon\u2019t ever make the mistake of thinking that the dictatorship of the proletariat means in any way the dictatorship in the sense of tyranny or fascism, because only one time \u2026 do you disagree with a dictator. One time, and that\u2019s the last time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the stories Jones covers:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Price control abuses in Guyana
\n\u2022 18,000 youth \u2013 including numerous Guyanese \u2013 attend Youth Festival in Havana
\n\u2022 Sen. Edward Kennedy criticizes President Carter on health care
\n\u2022 Government red tape contributes to cancer deaths
\n\u2022 Jogging reduces depression and psychiatric ills
\n\u2022 Suicide rates for blacks climbs
\n\u2022 Holocaust TV miniseries employed Nazis as consultants
\n\u2022 FBI uses news reporters as informers
\n\u2022 Black Panthers charged in assault
\n\u2022 IRS reverses position on tax-exempt groups presenting views of political candidates
\n\u2022 Arabs and Israelis build weapons stockpiles
\n\u2022 US faces problems of radioactive waste
\n\u2022 CIA uses weather modification as weapon
\n\u2022 USSR calls on China to stop playing into US\u2019 hands
\n\u2022 Algeria considers becoming first Muslim nation in Warsaw Pact
\n\u2022 US business leaders protest curtailment of trade with USSR
\n\u2022 UN supports free elections in Namibia
\n\u2022 Jamaica faces bankruptcy after IMF devalues currency<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/13\/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 24, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B68-9. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES reading the international news from Radio Moscow and Radio Havanna [Havana] and music.<\/p>\n

This tape was reviewed and nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of the murder 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 June 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 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cJuly 29, 1978 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90445","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=90445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90738,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90445\/revisions\/90738"}],"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=90445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}