{"id":97572,"date":"2020-04-29T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97572"},"modified":"2020-05-04T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:35:32","slug":"q433-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97572","title":{"rendered":"Q433 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\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201cThur 27 July\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
\nCyrus Vance, Secretary of State<\/div>\n
Adolf Hitler, German F\u00fchrer
\nJosip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia
\nM\u00e1rio Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, prime minister of Portugal<\/p>\n

Elias Sarkis, President of Lebanon [by reference]
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nIdi Amin, dictator of Uganda
\nAgostinho Neto, President of Angola
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nPatrice Lumumba, assassinated Prime Minister of Zaire
\nMoise Tshombe, Prime Minister of Zaire<\/p>\n

Forbes Burhham, Prime Minister of Guyana [by reference]
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana
\nVibert Mingo, Guyana Minister of Home Affairs
\nLionel Luckhoo, Guyana attorney
\nCommander Lee, Guyana National Service<\/p>\n

Humphrey Bogart, American actor
\nShelley Winters, American actor
\nLouise Joy Brown, first test tube baby [by reference]
\nJohn and Doris Del Zio, parents of test tube baby [by reference]
\nRaymond Vande Wiele, doctor who protested cloning [by reference]<\/p><\/div>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nTim Stoen
\nJim Cobb
\nDebbie Layton Blakey
\nLiz Forman
\nMike Cartmell<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nRicky (almost certainly Corey)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nJakari Wilson<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for July 27, 1978.<\/p>\n

For much of the taping session, he reads the news quite slowly. Rather than being impaired by fatigue or other reasons, it is more likely that he is reading the information as it comes in over the wire, especially since he has several false starts on sentences and \u2013 for the most part \u2013 it has fewer editorial interjections, including of his usual rhetoric flourishes in describing different nations in the news or their motivations.<\/p>\n

It is not completely free of such content, however. The US is still imperialist on several occasions, her European allies are still her lackeys \u2013 especially Germany, which is the inheritor of Hitler\u2019s Third Reich \u2013 and Rhodesia\u2019s white minority government is still fascist and racist. His single reference to nuclear war \u2013 concluding an item about struggling peace efforts in the Middle East with the observation that, \u201cIt is hopeful that this will not be the end of a bargaining process in the troubled Near East that could lead to nuclear war anytime\u201d \u2013 is likely his own.<\/p>\n

The news from the outside world that affects Jonestown the most is the item that Guyana is not likely to require their community to accept local students into their school system.<\/p>\n

Jones spends the most time on an announcement of news from within Jonestown: the boy who had been lost in the jungle had returned, safe and unhurt from his ordeal. The community had sent out several search parties \u2013 including one which itself became momentarily lost \u2013 and the leadership was on the verge of calling in outside help. But according to Jones, the boy had heard the sound of his voice and had followed it back to Jonestown. Jones\u2019 protection had also saved him from the poisonous plants and animals in the bush. \u201cMoreover, a big tiger or panther brushed by him, \u2026 [but] Just thinking on Father and being quiet, the panther amazingly did not respond to his scent.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a larger lesson here, though, which is the reminder of his own protection. Despite the dangers of the jungle surrounding them, they\u2019ve had no snake bites and no big cats coming into the community. \u201cThat shows a power of socialism in my mind that needs to be respected, and we need to show more gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

    \n
  • Egypt expels Israeli diplomats ahead of proposed talks;<\/li>\n
  • Gabon expels citizens from neighboring Benin, which was planning a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat;<\/li>\n
  • Iraq expels British diplomats in retaliation for charges of terrorism made against it;<\/li>\n
  • Lebanon in turmoil, expels US citizens;<\/li>\n
  • Zimbabwean guerillas say peace settlement deal needs participation of British;<\/li>\n
  • Longtime enemies Angola and Zaire seek peace;<\/li>\n
  • The UN Security Council votes for independence for Namibia;<\/li>\n
  • Turkey asks the US to lift its arms ban;<\/li>\n
  • Non-aligned nations question the participation of Cuba at its conference;<\/li>\n
  • The US dollar declines again;<\/li>\n
  • Britain announces the first test tube baby;<\/li>\n
  • A court suit seeks to block atmospheric testing of French atomic bomb;<\/li>\n
  • A Guyana attorney uncovers many inefficiencies in the public services sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The reading ends with a geography lesson on the country of Zambia.<\/p>\n

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

    Date of transcription: 6\/26\/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 June 6, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B100-37. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    A recording of JIM JONES lecturing on current events.<\/p>\n

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

    The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking\u00a0 FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cThur 27 July\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97572","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97572","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=97572"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97613,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97572\/revisions\/97613"}],"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=97572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}