Jim Jones Reads News - Talks of Move to USSR October 3, 1978.
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2025
- Jim Jones reads the news to Jonestown residents. While parts of the newscast may come from other wire services that Jones often used - the BBC, Voice of America, and European radio networks - he relies most heavily, and perhaps exclusively, on Radio Moscow and other Soviet news sources for this edition. It is not only the coverage of stories that reveals this, but the tone, the rhetoric and even the use of first-person pronouns when describing events in the Soviet Union and its allies. The bulletins of overt Soviet origin are scattered throughout the broadcast, including these items:
• Congratulations to the new democratic republic of Afghanistan;
• An award given to the president of Vietnam
• Congratulations to Guinea on the 20th anniversary of its republic;
• Support for a conference on African liberation movements and against apartheid;
• Soviet perspectives on a meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
• Expressions of friendship between Leonid Brezhnev and the Ethiopian government
• Soviet geologist exploration of coal deposits in Mozambique
• Soviet space mission sets records
• Economic council of Soviet-bloc countries meeting in Mongolia;
• Discussion of role of trade unions in USSR
• Soviet development of boat to allow for navigation of small, winding rivers
• Soviet dissident émigré to Israel disowned by father
As with other news tapes, however, it is not always clear when the editorial asides are part of the copy, or whether they come spontaneously from the reader. The name of the country “The Soviet Union” is almost always followed by “the avant garde of liberation of the world,” but that is language that is common both to Radio Moscow and Jim Jones. This is also the case with a three-time description of Washington, DC as “the center of world imperialism.” One commentary - “the USA and her Western imperialists were on the wrong side of every question and the Soviet Union and Cuba were on the right side of every issue” - seems to be part of the news copy which Jones is reading, but a longer string of anti-Western invective in the description of NATO - “the military adventurers, aggressive expansionist fascist imperialist lackeys of US imperialism” - likely comes from Jones.
But it is Jones himself who takes advantage of several opportunities to disparage religion. When reporting that the pope had died after about a month in office, Jones comments that “God’s representative on earth does not seem to be faring very well.” As he reports on monsoon floods destroying crops and killing thousands of people in India, he adds, “An act of God.” When he notes that scores of pilgrims en route to a religious festival, also in India, drowned in a boating accident, he comments, “It seems that God does not protect his own while they’re going to bow at his shrines of festivals and worship.” Finally, in describing the battle for Lebanon as one between government forces and Phalangists Christian fascists, he offers the aside that “Christians mostly all over the world are fascists except in Ethiopia.”
Jones is almost certainly the source of the several comments that the threat of nuclear holocaust will spin out to an inevitable conclusion. In reporting the talks between Vance and Gromyko on limiting strategic arms, he adds, “Let us hope it’s not too late before the terror of nuclear holocaust rains down upon North America.” A moment later, he expands upon a story from the Middle East to suggest that this is “the spot that would lead to World War III, which would mean the end of US society. Over 200 million of our beloved people there would die in less than 13 minutes.” Finally, he adds that an economic summit of Communist-bloc nations in Mongolia concluded with a statement that “nuclear war is still absolutely inevitable, but may be postponed. Let’s hope that they put the emphasis upon postponed, though most scientists say that, even within the year, nuclear war is likely.”
Other commentary is familiar to the people of Jonestown: he describes West Germany as “prid[ing] itself as being the successor to Hitler’s Third Reich,” he says “fascist South Africa [is] upheld by US tax dollars which burns my stomach every time I think of it,” and he labels the US condemnation of other countries’ human rights record as “hypocritical.”
Thank you dad
Monkey seller, pastor, healer, prophet, god, administrator, and news presenter. This man really was everything 🙄
Councilor, Historian, Raconteur, Spiritual Advisor, Engineer, Designer, Visionary, you name it! 😃Gone too soon
@@pauljones8801 don't forget gigalo lol
Lol, classic comments😂
I was in the middle of watching this video last night, when I clicked over to Google and saw the headline that Jimmy Carter had died 52 minutes ago...talk about creepy!!
“Turn off the news, just listen to me.”
Did I hear that right? I guess they didn’t have much choice once they were in Guyana
That's unfair to make fun of Guyana, they were trying their best but were very impoverish and didn't have the wealth that you take for granted Sir
@@pauljones8801 I dont think he making fun of guyana. They didnt have tv's or any phones over there, so they didnt have any choice but to listen to him
They were so screwed up. All they had to do was work, and listen to incoherent speeches by their incoherent leader. Work was very inherent during the times of when they were in Jonestown, because he had them work on buildings, and it was a socialist country. And at that time work was very inherent in Socialism.
Nah, some fleid into the jungle during the night.
Once he took their passports and surrounded the camp with armed guards there was no other option. Jones could control all information in, and out.
Can you imagine listening to that 24 hours a day?
He's a very eloqent and Charismatic narrator! Every word and syllable is carefully nuanced, emphasized and articulated perfectly
@@pauljones8801 some of the sentences that he stated were incoherent.
White night!!!!!!! White night!!!! White night!!!! This is an emergency!!! White night!!!!
Yesss! Cant wait to listen before bed 🎧
It's funny how people where more entertained by simple radio broadcast then, today everything is so available and yet people are more bored 😆😆
Nice emoji Kell
White dude in the jungle with black kids Hmmmmm
Are you against interracial mixing?, I had a neighbour who thought the same. He thought races should only be with their own too. What's the idea with that?
The leftist infantile focus on skin color.
@@pauljones8801 I heard someone discovered Jim Jones was part black. As in he has recent black ancestor. Although I haven't researched that for myself
@@Whatsahandle4 His mother was a Native American.
@@coryzachariasen-b7p That's a lie.
...and one month later, everybody would be dead.
Still more unbiased than CNN.
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One lie after the other...a master propagandist
I doubt it's lies, it's obvious he's reading from a newspaper
Creepy sounding
That's the ghost recording, they used the same tapes over and over but they didn't completely erase what was on it before and you can hear it some times 👻boo! hehe
What a mess.
He makes zero sense
By mid 1978, it started to be like that because his mind was messed up because of the drugs. That goes to show he was incoherent. Because people didn’t understand him. Even in the death tape, his voice was inherently slurred. It sounded like he had autism, even though he didn’t he was utterly incoherent.
He was mentally insane
Ha actually made a LOT of sense, in the beginning. That's what got so many people attracted to him. You gotta remember, nothing like this had ever happened before. We know better now, but a lot of people who now think they would've never followed him, might have back then.