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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 \u201c7\/14\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> Day of week specified \u2013 Friday \u2013 was July 14<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nAndrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations
\nJody Powell, White House press secretary
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy, former U.S. President
\nRichard Nixon, reference to his role as vice president
\nDwight Eisenhower, former U.S. President [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Sen. Barry Goldwater
\nRep. Edward J. Patten (D-New Jersey)
\nRep. John McFall (D-California)
\nHenry Kissinger, former National Security Adviser<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor
\nAdolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nWinston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II
\nCharlemagne, 9th century emperor
\nKing Frederick II, 18th century German king
\nNapoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
\nOtto von Bismarck, former German Chancellor
\nKonrad Adenauer, former West German Chancellor<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Natan Sharansky, convicted Soviet spy
\nAlexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nLaurence Mann, Guyana Ambassador to [by reference]
\nSir Lionel Luckhoo, Guyanese attorney
\nHarold Bollers, Chief Justice of Guyana\u2019s Supreme Court
\nDerrick Boston, Guyanese judge
\nClarence Price, Guyanese military leader friendly to Jones
\nBurnham, first name unknown, \u201ca relative of the prime minister\u201d<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive
\nSun Myung Moon, religious leader
\nElvis Presley, American rock and roll star
\nThe Beatles, British rock and roll group
\nDon Goldwater, Sen. Barry Goldwater\u2019s brother [by reference]
\nDon Bolles, assassinated Arizona newspaper reporter [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nPaula Adams
\nSharon Amos
\nMarceline Jones
\nDebbie Touchette<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for July 14, 1978.<\/p>\n

As in many of these broadcasts, the United States and its allies are characterized as fascist and racist, with West Germany \u2013 which Jones discusses as great length \u2013 coming under harshest criticism as the successor to Hitler\u2019s Third Reich. In comparison, the Soviet Union and its allies are seen as uniformly benevolent and superior.<\/p>\n

Even the news stories with seemingly non-political implications have lessons that can be drawn for the residents of Jonestown. A gas truck that blows up in Spain, killing several hundred people, could have had preventative maintenance, were it not for capitalism\u2019s greed; a Japanese gang war wouldn\u2019t have happened, had it not been for the decadence of American cinema to inspire the creation of these gangs.<\/p>\n

As elsewhere, Jones raises the specter of an upcoming nuclear war, and \u2013 as elsewhere \u2013 places it in the context of a story which has nothing to do with military or diplomatic relations between superpowers.<\/p>\n

His longest commentary is on the subject of religious freedom, which occurs near the beginning of the tape. \u201c[R]eligious freedom [in] USA \u2026 is a joke, in that no one can be a socialist and survive in USA or get anywhere at all, and \u2026 religion all supports the existing monetary system.\u201d Only conservative religious groups are tolerated in the US, and people who belong to such organizations as Peoples Temple are \u201cblistered night and day.\u201d The opposite is the case in the Soviet Union, where \u201cReligion is greatly unencumbered and free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the news items covered by Jones:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jimmy Carter\u2019s election fund is charged with receiving illegal gifts;
\n\u2022 A \u201cDump Carter\u201d movement gets underway among establishment politicians;
\n\u2022 Andrew Young faces possible impeachment;
\n\u2022 The Soviet Union sentences dissidents;
\n\u2022 White collar crime investigation of Hollywood doesn\u2019t go after big business;
\n\u2022 China makes trade agreements throughout Caribbean;
\n\u2022 Zaire and Angola try to normalize relations;
\n\u2022 Police in several US cities go on strike;
\n\u2022 Elvis Presley is revealed to be FBI informant;
\n\u2022 Sen. Barry Goldwater calls upon US to stop grain and computer sales to USSR;
\n\u2022 Ford Motor Company fires its eclectic president<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In news related to Guyana:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Guyana negotiates with IMF for assistance;
\n\u2022 The government investigates recent blackouts
\n\u2022 A government day-care center is modeled after the Jonestown example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Date of transcription: 5\/29\/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 29, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B70-36. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News of the day and commentary by JAMES JONES.<\/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 \u201c7\/14\/78 News\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90466","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=90466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107241,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90466\/revisions\/107241"}],"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=90466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}