{"id":97534,"date":"2020-04-29T15:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97534"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:47:48","slug":"q254-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97534","title":{"rendered":"Q254 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0<\/strong>FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jim Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201cSpecial News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joseph Califano found in contempt of Congress, August 17, 1978; balloonists successfully cross Atlantis, August 16\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, US President
\nJohn Kennedy, assassinated US President [by reference]
\nRichard Nixon, former US President
\nJoseph Califano, Secretary, Health, Education and Welfare
\nGriffin Bell, Attorney General
\nCyrus Vance, Secretary of State
\nAlexander Haig, head of NATO<\/div>\n
Senator John Stennis (D-MS)
\nSenator Herman Talmadge (D-GA)
\nRep. John Moss (D-CA)<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German F\u00fchrer
\nMenachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nElias Sarkis, President of Lebanon
\nAgostinho Neto, President of Angola
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nHua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Chinese Communist Party<\/p>\n

Judge Perkins [first name unknown], Trinidad commission of inquiry
\nForbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nHamilton Green, Guyana Minister of Health and Labor<\/p>\n

Howard Jarvis, co-author of Proposition 13
\nLee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of JFK [by reference]
\nMartin Luther King, civil rights activist
\nJames Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King
\nGrace Walden, witness to King assassination
\nWayne Chastain, Memphis reporter on King assassination
\nBen Abruzzo, trans-Atlantic balloonist [by reference]
\nMaxie Anderson, trans-Atlantic balloonist [by reference]
\nLarry Newman, trans-Atlantic balloonist [by reference]<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for an unspecified date, likely August 17 or 18, 1978.<\/p>\n

In contrast to almost every other news tape from this period, the reading is remarkably free of invective rhetoric and rote characterizations of various nations of the world. The word \u201ccapitalism\u201d is used only as a description, not an insult, and the words \u201cfascism\u201d and \u201cimperialism\u201d do not appear at all.<\/p>\n

The reading covers a number of news stories, apparently as they are coming off the wire of the various services he uses, and he spends extra time with only one.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>, articulated by Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung) a few years earlier, holds that the world\u2019s two superpowers \u2013 the USA and USSR \u2013 represent the first world; industrialized nations, especially of Europe, comprise the Second World; and the underdeveloped nations represent the Third World, and are led by China. Jones has expanded upon it by representing the beliefs of current Chinese leaders that \u201cnuclear war is inevitable, and that it will be brought about soon. Some theorists say that China wants that to happen now rather than later, before there\u2019s a proliferation or spreading of nuclear weapons all over the world, which would mean the end of mankind.\u201d This belief also captures Jones\u2019 lifelong vision of the world ending in nuclear holocaust.<\/p>\n

As happens in other tapes, Jones does use stories in the news as an teaching opportunity or to show how world events affect Jonestown, usually by showing how Jonestown serves as a welcome alternative to some evil or, in this case, how the community actively promotes better living conditions. A ship carrying millions of dollars of marijuana has been seized, news to which Jones responds: \u201cWe are grateful in this community that no such dope is available, and we have no need for it, because of the light of living in a cooperative society and feeling productive. Everything that grows is a part of us, everything that is built represents each individual as well as a collective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other shorter news items include:<\/p>\n