{"id":91365,"date":"2019-08-22T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=91365"},"modified":"2019-09-18T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:48:50","slug":"serial-1200-intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=91365","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1200 – The HAM Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December 1978, an unknown ham radio operator contacted the FBI<\/a> with tapes of eight conversations he had recorded of Peoples Temple, which he said were operating in \u201cboth the legal and illegal radio ham bands.\u201d<\/p>\n

As happens with most of the ham radio recordings, there is much repetition of words \u2013 in part because of the degraded signal between Jonestown\/Georgetown and San Francisco \u2013 as well as a number of unintelligible words and sentences. In addition, much of the conversation is in code, with references which are unknown without a Temple codebook. Finally, the breaks between separate tapes sometimes seem arbitrary and sequential tapes may be more a case of a different transcriber picking up the work on the same tape.<\/p>\n

Several of the tapes \u2013 limited to the voices of an \u201cUnknown Male\u201d and an \u201cUnknown Female\u201d \u2013 were apparently conversations between the same two people. The ham radio operator said that he believed some of the conversations were between Paula Adams in Georgetown and Albert Touchette in Jonestown. While that may be the case, the expressions of love and affection between the two speakers suggest that the conversations could be between Paula Adams and her brother, Elton (Tom) Adams \u2013 who was one of the Temple\u2019s radio license holders \u2013 in the United States.<\/p>\n

The tapes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Serial 1200 Cover<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 1<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 2<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 3<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 4<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 5<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 6<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 7<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tape 8<\/td>\nPDF<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nText<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December 1978, an unknown ham radio operator contacted the FBI with tapes of eight conversations he had recorded of Peoples Temple, which he said were operating in \u201cboth the legal and illegal radio ham bands.\u201d As happens with most of the ham radio recordings, there is much repetition of words \u2013 in part because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87662,"menu_order":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91365","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=91365"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92788,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91365\/revisions\/92788"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}