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Peoples Temple Collection; Box 14, Virtual Item 28 - A, Q397, News and commentary

 Digital Record
Identifier: ms-0183_14.28

Dates

  • Digitized: August 8, 1978

Creator

Summary Note

This tape consists of the news of the day read by Jim Jones. While the note on the tape box says the tape is from August 21, 1978, the news items are from August 7 or 8. As with many newscasts, Jones seems to rely upon Soviet or Eastern bloc news sources. The items themselves focus on more international news than most Americans are used to, especially in their coverage of Central America, Africa and Eastern bloc countries. The origin of the news services likely accounts for much of the use of adjectives in describing US or Western European interests. Their actions are uniformly “barbaric,” “insane” and “criminal,” their support of foreign nations is driven by fascist or racist impulses, and the nations themselves are lackey capitalist puppets of Western imperialism. Full FBI's summary of the recording available at Alternative Considerations of Jonestown website, along with the tape transcript.

Rights Statement Note

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Physical Description Note

Original audio cassette tape recording digitized and made available as .mp3 audio file.

Publisher Note

Publisher: The Jonestown Institute

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository

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