{"id":97561,"date":"2020-04-29T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97561"},"modified":"2020-05-04T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:40:01","slug":"q282-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97561","title":{"rendered":"Q282 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

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

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c9-23-78 Sat News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consistent 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 US president
\nThomas Jefferson, former US president
\nSen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY)
\nSen. George McGovern (D-SD)
\nRep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German F\u00fchrer
\nJoseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda in World War II
\nLeonid Brezhnev, President of the Soviet Communist Party
\nAndrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nVasili Kuznetsov, Soviet Vice President
\nJean Canapa, leader in French Communist Party
\nMao Tse-Tung, leader of People\u2019s Republic of China
\nHua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Chinese Communist Party [by reference]
\nMuhammad Shamsul Haque, Bangladesh foreign minister [by reference]<\/div>\n

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\nMenachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nSuleiman Frangieh, former President of Lebanon
\nMohammad Mosaddegh, former premier of Iran [by reference]
\nHaile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia
\nOlusegun Obasanjo, head of military government of Nigeria
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nFidel Castro, Cuban president
\nAnastacio Somoza, President of Nicaragua
\nSantiago Roel Garcia, Mexico foreign minister [by reference]
\nAlfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King, civil rights leader
\nGrace Walden, witness to Martin Luther King assassination [by reference]
\nMarcus Garvey, Pan-African black nationalist
\nMalcolm X, black activist with Nation of Islam
\nJoan Baez, Singer\/songwriter of the 1960s
\nHelen Winter, Communist Party USA internal affairs secretary<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Dr. Richard Hammerschlag, Univ. of Calif. researcher
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician, newspaper publisher
\nMark Lane, Peoples Temple attorney
\nDon Freed, author and screenwriter
\nJohn Moore, Methodist minister, father of two Temple members<\/div>\n

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Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nMary Black<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

(Editor’s note<\/strong>: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTouch not mine anointed, do my anointed no<\/em> harm. Now remember that.\u201d (1 Chronicles 16:22 and Psalm 105:15, \u201cSaying,\u00a0Touch\u00a0not mine\u00a0anointed, and do my prophets no harm.\u201d)<\/p>\n

You are a hypocrite<\/em>, and are condemned forever to judgments that you do not choose.\u201d (Generally, Job, including Job 34:4, \u201cLet us\u00a0choose\u00a0to us\u00a0judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good\u201d; and Job 40:8, \u201cWilt thou also disannul my\u00a0judgment? wilt thou\u00a0condemn\u00a0me, that thou mayest be righteous?\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day we\u2019ll be able to sit under our own vine and fig tree in peace.\u201d (Micah 4:4, \u201cBut they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0of hosts hath spoken it.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cSaid, present your whole body as your living sacrifice.\u201d (Romans 12:1, \u201cI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a\u00a0living\u00a0sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [the slothful and lazy of Jonestown] are unable to be transformed but the renewing of their mind.\u201d (Romans 12:2, \u201cAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye\u00a0transformed by the\u00a0renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve me, I know the thoughts<\/em> of the mind, and I know the thoughts of the heart.\u201d (Several references to Jesus \u201cperceiving the\u00a0thought\u00a0of their\u00a0heart.\u201d e.g. Luke 9:47, but more likely Hebrews 4:12, \u201cFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the\u00a0thoughts and intents of the\u00a0heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember, it\u2019s a fearful<\/em> thing to fall into the hands of a living god.\u201d (Hebrews 10:31, \u201cIt is a\u00a0fearful\u00a0thing to fall into the hands of the\u00a0living God.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cBut try<\/em> the spirit and see if it be of God. Test<\/em> those that you need to test, and find out what you need to know, to be satisfied.\u201d (1 John 4:1, \u201cBeloved, believe not every\u00a0spirit, but\u00a0try\u00a0the\u00a0spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Jim Jones reads the news and makes announcements in a series of tapings on September 23, 1978.<\/p>\n

Much of the language Jones uses in the reading is familiar to the residents of Jonestown. The United States is consistently imperialistic and racist, most of its actions arising from the unsustainable social structure of class and economic system of capitalism. Its allies are lackeys, and the Third World powers that depend upon the US for military assistance are fascist. In contrast, both Cuba and the USSR represent the avant garde of liberation.<\/p>\n

Jones also expresses familiar laments about the stories of repression around the world \u2013 the concentration camps of South Africa, the installation of the Shah of Iran, the 40-year old dictatorships in Nicaragua and Paraguay \u2013 which are made possible by US tax dollars. These conditions \u201cshould cause great guilt to our hearts and a desire to work as work never before to increase the land and finish the buildings \u2026 that we need to build, to take care of our full community.\u201d There are just more of these references here.<\/p>\n

In addition, Jones fleshes out a belief he has expounded in recent weeks that, in the closing weeks of World War II, the Allies had agreed to leave Adolf Hitler in power \u2013 even to allow him to retain the concentration camps \u2013 if he would turn his forces against the approaching Soviet forces.<\/p>\n

Jones also gives voice to China\u2019s Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a> in greater detail than he has most other places.<\/p>\n

What is atypical \u2013 perhaps even unique among the tapes from Jonestown \u2013 is that Jones states that he delivered a sermon over the PA system that morning. He concludes one set of remarks near the end of the day with several biblical references which he has not made on tape since speaking to his congregation from the pulpit on California.<\/p>\n

The final segments are also more barbed and pointed than most, as he asks for the same trust, consideration, loyalty and love of the people that he gives to them. The final segment, less than a minute in length, is an expression of frustration that ends, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you try the shoe on your<\/em> foot and see if you would like this hypocrisy.\u201d What the immediate source of his irritation is remains unknown.<\/p>\n

Among the other news stories included in the address:<\/p>\n