{"id":97552,"date":"2020-04-29T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97552"},"modified":"2020-05-04T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:08:32","slug":"q281-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97552","title":{"rendered":"Q281 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 (Part 1<\/a>;\u00a0Part 2<\/a>; Part 3<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0<\/em>FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201cAug 14 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consist with identification note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. president
\nJohn Kennedy, assassinated U.S. president
\nRichard Nixon, former US president
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt, former US president
\nWalter Mondale, US vice president
\nGriffin Bell, attorney general<\/div>\n
Jody Powell, White House press secretary during Carter Administration
\nHamilton Jordan, Carter Chief of Staff
\nFrank Moore, White House congressional liaison<\/p>\n

Sen. James Abourezk (D-SD)
\nSen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
\nSen. Frank Church (D-ID)
\nSen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC)
\nFormer Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY), assassinated presidential candidate
\nSen. Russell Long (D-LA)
\nRep. Tip O\u2019Neill (D-MA)
\nRep. John Rhodes (R-AZ)
\nGeorge Wallace, Alabama Governor
\nDennis Kucinich, mayor of Cleveland [by reference]<\/p>\n

Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of United Nations
\nAdolf Hitler, German F\u00fchrer
\nPaul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler\u2019s Minister of Propaganda
\nWinston Churchill, British Prime Minister
\nMargaret Thatcher, leader of Conservative Party in Great Britain
\nLord David Owen, British Foreign Minister [by reference]
\nPaul Dickopf, former president of INTERPOL [by reference]
\nJohannes Willebrands, head of the Netherlands Catholic Church [by reference]
\nLeonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary
\nAlexei Kosygin, Soviet Premier [by reference]
\nTodor Zhivkov, First Secretary of Bulgarian Communist party [by reference]<\/p>\n

Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAriel Sharon, Israeli Minister of Agriculture [by reference]
\nEzer Weizman, Israeli Minister of Defense [by reference]
\nAnwar Sadat, Egyptian president
\nYasser Arafat, leader of PLO [by reference]
\nReza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
\nGen. Emmanuel Erskine, leader of UN peace-keeping force in Lebanon
\nIan Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence<\/p>\n

Hua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Chinese Communist Party<\/p>\n

Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba [by reference]<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King, assassinated civil rights activist
\nJames Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King
\nHuey Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nDaniel Ellsberg, DOD analyst, leaker of Pentagon Papers
\nLewis Fielding, psychiatrist for Daniel Ellsberg [by reference]
\nGeorge Meany, labor leader, head of AFL-CIO
\nRupert Murdoch, newspaper magnate
\nDiane Nyad, long distance swimmer
\nVictor Marchetti, former CIA agent, whistleblower author [by reference]
\nFrank Olson, doctor who died in LSD-induced accident [by reference]
\nRockefeller Family, American family of great wealth
\nGarner Ted Armstrong
\nHerbert W. Armstrong, father of Garner Ted Armstrong [by reference]
\nWilliam Harris, member of Symbionese Liberation Army
\nEmily Harris, member of Symbionese Liberation Army
\nPatricia Hearst, newspaper heiress, kidnapped by SLA in 1974<\/p>\n

Richard Hongisto, Sheriff of San Francisco
\nDon Freed, author and screenwriter [by reference]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nGene Chaikin
\nLiane Harris
\nTeresa King
\nPam Bradshaw Moton
\nJoan Pursley
\nElizabeth Ruggiero [by reference]
\nRosie Ruggiero<\/div>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

Jim Jones reads the news for August 14, 1978. The reading consists of a major story and numerous shorter articles, including items likely read as they come over the wire services into the Jonestown radio room.<\/p>\n

The major story is that of a statement put out by James Abourezk, a Democratic U.S. Senator, on what he calls \u201cnightmare USA,\u201d a statement which reports on the continued surveillance of American citizens by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, in seeming contravention of the restrictions put on them in the post-Watergate era. Jones does insert himself quite often into the reporting, to the extent that, for the most part, it is impossible to tell where Abourezk leaves off and Jones begins. The comparisons between the dirty tricks of COINTELPRO and the \u201ctraitors\u201d of Peoples Temple are Jones\u2019, however.<\/p>\n

Another story that has lasted over a good part of the summer has been the worldwide tour of Chinese leaders to Warsaw Pact nations and to the Caribbean, ostensibly \u2013 according to Jones \u2013 to spread the concept of the Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a> and to draw those nations more into China\u2019s orbit. The expansion of the theory \u2013 the \u201cassur[ance] that there will only be a nuclear engagement between USSR and USA \u2026 \u00a0and the Chinese will be the winners that will pick up the pieces\u201d \u2013 is more of Jones\u2019, though, and fits into his lifelong anticipation of an upcoming apocalypse.<\/p>\n

He is able to bring other stories of the day into this worldview: Israel\u2019s policy of building settlements on the West Bank mirrors the prime minister\u2019s \u201cdesire to go up in the dust of a nuclear war before they\u2019ll give one grain of sand of conquered territory\u201d; there is a chance that the cardinals meeting in Rome to elect a new pope will choose someone who \u201cwill greatly involve himself with the terror that is in the world endangering World War III by nuclear weaponry\u201d; an orbiting Soviet space station may have an infraray weapon that \u201ccan hone in on [American] industries \u2026 and wipe them out if nuclear war was inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones also spends some time talking about the conspiracy against them, suggesting that its roots lie in the distant past and may in fact be a continuation of the conspiracy that led the U.S. both to start World War II \u2013 \u201cPearl Harbor was set up\u201d \u2013 and to want to make a deal with Hitler to delay its end. At various points in the lengthy reading, he asserts that the conspiracy which plagues them also played a part in the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n

Jones makes several announcements to the community, beginning with commendations for good socialist behavior to a number of residents. He also reminds his followers that guests are coming soon, that they need to work harder so the place will be spotless. He ends each segment of the multi-part tape with his declaration of love for the people of Jonestown.<\/p>\n

Among the other stories covered:<\/p>\n