{"id":90457,"date":"2019-06-26T17:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T00:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90457"},"modified":"2024-02-28T15:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:26:34","slug":"q205-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90457","title":{"rendered":"Q205 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 \u201cAug 3 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> News items \u2013 together with Jones\u2019 mention of day of the week \u2013 consistent with identification note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nJohn F. Kennedy, assassinated U.S. President
\nSen. George McGovern (D-South Dakota) [by reference]
\nAndrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations
\nHarold Brown, U.S. Secretary of Defense
\nGriffin Bell, U.S. Attorney General
\nPaul Warnke, SALT negotiator<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lewis Powell, Supreme Court Justice
\nThomas P. Gresai, Federal District Judge<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jerry Brown, California governor<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nLord David Owen, foreign secretary of Britain
\nMargaret Thatcher, leader of Conservative Party in Great Britain<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Menachim Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
\nColonel Moammar Khadafy, Libyan leader
\nSalim Rubai Ali, South Yemen assassinated president
\nAli Nasir Muhammad, South Yemen new president
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nJulius Nyerere, president of Tanzania
\nHuang Hua, Chinese Foreign Minister
\nKim Il Sung, President of North Korea
\nKim Bo-hyon, Kim Il Sung\u2019s grandfather [by reference]<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nViola Burnham, Prime Minister\u2019s wife
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana
\nFitz Uriel Alexander Carmichael, Guyana Minister of Forestry
\nGregory Gaskin, Guyana economic development regional director
\nComrade James, [FNU], Chairman of the Guyana General Workers Union
\nComrade Sinclair, [FNU], Guyana government official<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nadia Esther Cuevas, Puerto Rican nationalist
\nPablo Marcano Garcia, Puerto Rican nationalist
\nSteve Segal, lawyer for Cuevas and Garcia
\nLolita Lebr\u00f3n, Puerto Rican nationalist
\nRafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rican nationalist
\nIrvin Flores Rodriguez, Puerto Rican nationalist
\nOscar Collazo, Puerto Rican nationalist<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Martin Luther King, assassinated black leader
\nMalcolm X, assassinated black leader
\nElaine Brown, Black Panther
\nHuey Newton, Black Panther
\nBenjamin Hooks, president of the NAACP
\nAlan Bakke, plaintiff in landmark Supreme Court case
\nHelen Whitney, writer and director of Youth Crime<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nMabel Medlock
\nWade Medlock
\nTim Stoen
\nMarvin Swinney<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em>
\nJean Brown
\nVee Hollins
\nNorman Ijames
\nFlorida Johnson
\nFrances Johnson
\nNell Smart<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nBeikman [likely Rebecca]
\nRicky [several in Jonestown]<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nRheavianna Beam
\nPatricia Cartmell
\nPatty Cartmell
\nNena Downs
\nMary Ford
\nDavid George
\nTommy Johnson
\nStephan Jones
\nJim McElvane
\nKay Nelson
\nKen Norton
\nRose Peterson
\nCleave Swinney<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe denounce Bibles or any other books that say slaves must obey their masters.\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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for August 3, 1978.<\/p>\n

The tape consists of three segments, all recorded the same day. There are many aspects of this tape that are similar to others and familiar to the residents of Jonestown who heard these broadcasts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The sources of the news include the BBC, the New York Times foreign edition, the Voice of America, but Jones depended more heavily on Radio Sweden and Radio Moscow. While especially the latter sources likely included descriptive adjectives in their coverage, it is equally likely that many of the descriptions came from Jones. The United States is condemned for being racist, capitalistic, imperialist, and hypocritical; its allies are fascist lackeys and puppets; and the Soviet bloc is democratic, a force of liberation and freedom, and concerned about human rights. \u201cIt is obvious that the socialist systems are superior,\u201d he says at one point.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jones makes several references to the inevitability of nuclear war, and repeats his claim that China\u2019s \u201cDoctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>\u2026 is based upon the absolute acceptance by China that nuclear war is a reality, and attempts to bring about at least a constructive socialist world in the aftermath of that nuclear holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jones also exhorts his followers to work hard, presenting both carrot and stick incentives. Guyana is beautiful, and Jonestown is a showplace of pure communism and community accomplishments; in addition, the people back in the States long for freedom from oppression and especially from the conspiracy that threatens them all.<\/p>\n

This is one of the few tapes recorded in Jonestown in which Jones raises the subject of religion at all. There were no sermons per se<\/em> once the emigration to Jonestown was complete, and most of the references to the Christian Bible \u2013 other than invocation of the day of Pentecost \u2013 were critical. This tape offers one of those critical references. Using Karl Marx\u2019 words that religion is the opiate of the people, Jones adds, \u201cWe do not believe in such trash. We denounce Bibles or any other books that say slaves must obey their masters. We are our own masters of our own destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

What they do believe in is gratitude. \u201cLet us synchronize gratitudes. That\u2019s the matter of just the evolution of mind, not credulity, for we believe not in God, deity or supernatural, but we do believe that there are dimensions to the mind, and we center that in the office.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are a few lengthy readings. One is a Marxist perspective on Bakke, the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, describing it as \u201ca ruling class, monopoly class, capitalist weapon.\u201d He also closes the third segment of the reading with a report on a speech by a Guyanese minister which praises North Korea.<\/p>\n

The other segments close as do most of Jones\u2019 news tapes, with requests for increased work, stepped-up productivity, and ideas to make money in support of the project.<\/p>\n

Among the news items reported on this tape:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The dollar increases in value on world market after being propped up by banks;
\n\u2022 France captures terrorists at the Iraqi Embassy, and in Britain, there\u2019s been an assassination attempt on the Iraqi ambassador;
\n\u2022 The Arab League reconsiders the dollar as a medium of exchange;
\n\u2022 Tensions between North and South Yemen increase, causing split in Arab League;
\n\u2022 The British Conservative Party opposes sanctions on Rhodesia;
\n\u2022 Teen unemployment is rising;
\n\u2022 Five activists seize the Chilean consular office in Puerto Rico, demanding freedom for political prisoners;
\n\u2022 A proponent of impeachment of Andrew Young dies in a plane crash;
\n\u2022 Carter\u2019s plans for rebuilding fallout shelters meets with national criticism;
\n\u2022 A federal judge finds Griffin Bell in contempt of court;
\n\u2022 The head of the NAACP attacks rightwing forces in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/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 May 27, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-31. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News and commentary for Thursday by JIM JONES. News items included topics such as:<\/p>\n

1. ABC story re youth terror
\n2. Value of the dollar
\n3. Iraq
\n4. North and South Yemem [Yemen]
\n5. England
\n6. Israel
\n7. U.S. unenployment [unemployment] and racism
\n8. Syria
\n9. BAKKE decision<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous announcement followed and JONES continued to talk about other news such as:<\/p>\n

1. ELAINE BROWN and HUEY NEWTON
\n2. ANDREW YOUNG<\/p>\n

A late news bulletin by JONES was next read and then he started to talk about air raid shelters, California\u2019s Proposition 13, and Attorney General BELL and the FBI.
\nThe tape concludes with JONES talking about KOREA.<\/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 \u201cAug 3 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90457","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90457","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=90457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126119,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90457\/revisions\/126119"}],"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=90457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}