{"id":90468,"date":"2019-06-27T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90468"},"modified":"2019-07-22T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:33:40","slug":"q766-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90468","title":{"rendered":"Q766 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> One Tracs 60\/ News<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> Three news items from last week of March 1978<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. president
\nSen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.)
\nSen. Frank Church (D-Idaho)
\nRep. Charles Diggs (D-Michigan)
\nAndrew Young, U.S. ambassador to UN
\nOtto Kerner, former governor of Illinois <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Clarence Kelley, former FBI director
\nWilliam Webster, FBI director
\nCharles Bates, head of FBI in San Francisco<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Ian Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister
\nClemens Mutuurunge Kapuuo, Western-installed leader of Namibia [by reference]
\nKwame Nkrumah, former president of Ghana<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Fred Wills, foreign minister of Guyana [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bruce McMarion Wright, New York judge
\nEdward M. Davis, former LA police chief, gubernatorial candidate
\nHuey P. Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nCharles Garry, Temple attorney
\nWilliam E. B. Du Bois, black liberationist
\nDavid Graham Du Bois, adopted son of W.E.B. Du Bois [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Charles Dederich, leader of Synanon
\nBetty Dederich, deceased wife of Charles
\nWilliam Dederich, son of Charles and Betty<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jordan, unknown, in context with Andrew Young, could be Barbara Jordan<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

(This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news for a day in late March 1978.<\/p>\n

There are several segments of moderate length, including his reporting \u2013 and commenting \u2013 on a speech given by an FBI official in San Francisco who attacked lenient judges and the Black Panther Party. Jones also read portions of an interview with Panther leader Huey Newton, and a long piece on the troubles of Synanon, a drug rehabilitation program. He spends the most time giving a geography lesson on Africa, emphasizing where various countries appear on the map and what their governments are. <\/p>\n

The only news affecting Jonestown itself is his report of a discussion on the possibility of building a cannery in the community. <\/p>\n

Other news items include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 African leaders meet to discuss the future of Rhodesia
\n\u2022 Japan defends its trade policy with Union of South Africa
\n\u2022 A black US Senator declines to defend an embattled black congressman
\n\u2022 A judge in New York is dismissed from the bench over rulings favoring blacks
\n\u2022 San Francisco TV stations air racist Tarzan movies
\n\u2022 The racist admissions practices of California universities are upheld<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jones\u2019 tone is fairly subdued throughout, and his rhetoric about the imperialism of the US, the blind loyalty of its allies, and the advances of the Soviet Union is muted.<\/p>\n

There is only one reference to death, a passing reference in the context of the interview with Huey Newton who \u2013 coincidentally, in this case \u2013 coined the term \u201crevolutionary suicide.\u201d Jones declares that Newton could be suffering from \u201cthe typical paranoia and schizophrenia that obsesses people who are afraid of dying, when death should be a privilege if it\u2019s revolutionary death, a revolutionary suicide.\u201d <\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 3\/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 March 19, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62#83. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News announcements made by JONES to his constituents in Jonestown. Includes comments on a speech made by SAC CHARLES BATES in the Bay Area Tarzan movies and a suit brought against Synannon [Synanon].<\/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 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: One Tracs 60\/ News Date cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90468","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=90468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90735,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90468\/revisions\/90735"}],"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=90468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}