The Jonestown Massacre (Recorded on November 18, 1978) (A ghost recording of pop music playing at half speed can be heard in the background) Jones: How very much I have loved you, how very much I have tried my best to give you the good life. Crowd: (Applause) Jones: In spite of all that I've tried, a handful of our people, with their lies, have made our life impossible. There's no way to detach ourselves from what's happened today. Not only– We're in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed the betrayal of the century, some have stolen children from others and are in pursuit right now to kill them because they stole their children, and we are sitting here waiting on a powder keg. I don't think this is what we want to do with our babies. I don't think that's what we had in mind to do with our babies. It was said by the greatest of prophets, from time immemorial, "No man [lay] takes my life from me, I lay my life down." Crowd: that's Right! Jones: So, to sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane (it's gonna be a catastrophe) ... Almost happened here, almost happened, the congressman was nearly killed here... But you can't steal people's children. You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. And, that's not so unfamiliar to us, either, even if we were Judeo-Christian, if we weren't Communists. The worldly kingdom suffers violence and the violent shall take it by force. If we can't live in peace, let us die in peace. Crowd: (Applause) Jones: We've been so betrayed, we have been so terribly betrayed, but we tried, and as Jack Beam often said (and I don't know where he's at right this moment, where is Jack?), he said if this only worked one day, it was worthwhile ... Crowd: (Cheers) (tape edit) Jones: Thank you. (tape edit) Of what's going to happen here in a matter of a few minutes, is that one of those people on that plane is gonna shoot the pilot. I know that. I didn't plan it, but I know it's gonna happen. They're gonna shoot that pilot, and down comes that plane into the jungle and we had better not have any of our children left when it's over, 'cause they'll parachute in here on us. I'm telling you just as plain as I know how to tell you, I've never lied to you... Crowd: (Cheers) Jones: I never have lied to you. Crowd: That's right. Right. Jones: I know that's what's gonna happen, that's what he intends to do and he will do it. He'll do it. What's there being so bewildered with many, many pressures on my brain, seeing all these people behave so treasonous, it was just too much for me to put together, but, uh, I now know what he was telling me and it'll happen. If the plane gets in the air even. So my opinion is that we be kind to children and be kind to seniors and take the potion like they used to take in ancient Greece, and step over quietly because we are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act. [Crowd: That's right] We can't go back. They won't leave us alone. They're now going back to tell more lies which means more congressmen. And there's no way, no way we can survive. Hmm? ... Anybody wishes to... (tape edit) Anyone that has any dissenting opinion, please speak ... Yes ... (tape edit) You can have an opportunity, but if our children are left we're gonna have them butchered. We can make a strike but we'll be striking against people that we don't want to strike against. And what we'd like to get the people who caused this stuff and some, if some people here are prepared to know how to do that ... go in town and get Timothy Stoen, but there's no plane, there's no plane, [guy: good.] you can't catch a plane in time. ... He's responsible for it. He brought these people to us. He and Deanna Myrtle. But people in San Francisco will not, not be idle over this. They'll not take our death in vain, you know ... Yes, Christine ... Christine [Miller]: Is it too late for Russia? Jones: Here's why it's too late for Russia. They killed. They started to kill. That's why it makes it too late for Russia. Otherwise I'd said, "Russia, you bet your life." But it's too late. I can't control these people. They're out there. They've gone with the guns and it's too late. And once we kill anybody, at least that's the way I've always... I've always put my lot with you. If one of my people do something, it's me. Man: That's right. Jones: ... And they say I don't have to take the blame for this, but I don't live that way. They said deliver up Ujara, who tried to get the man back here. Ujara, whose wi.. mother's been lying on him and lying on him and trying to break up this family and they've all agreed to kill us by any means necessary. You think I'm going to deliver them Ujara? Not on your life. No. Crowd: No! No! Ujara: Is there any way if I go, that it'll help? Jones: No, you're not going. You're not going. Crowd: No! No! Jones: You're not going. I can't live that way. I can not live that way. I've lived for all, and I'll die for all. Crowd: That's right. (Applause) (tape edit) Jones: I've been living on hope for a long time Christine and I appreciate– You've always been a very good agitator. I like agitation because you have to see two sides of one issue, two sides of a question. But what those people gonna get done once they get through, will make our life worse than hell, they'll make the Russians not accept us. When they get through lying ... They told so many lies between there and that truck that we are, we are done in as far as any other alternative. Christine: Well, I say let's make an airlift to Russia, that's what I say. I don't think nothing is impossible, if you believe it. Jones: But how we gonna air ... How're you going to airlift to Russia? Christine: Why, I thought they said if we got in an emergency, they gave you a code to let them know. Jones: No they didn't. They gave us the code that they'd let us know of an issue, not us create an issue for them. They said if we ... if they saw the country coming down, they'd create... they'd give us a code, they'd give us a code. You can check on there and see if it's on the code. Check with Russia to see if they'll take us in immediately, otherwise we die.. I don't know what else you say to these people. But to me death is not ... death is not a fearful thing, it's living that's treacherous. Crowd: (Applause) (tape edit) Jones: I have never, never, never, never seen anything like this before in my life. I've never seen people take the law ... and do ... in their own hands, and provoke us and try to purposely agitate murder of children. There's no use, Christine, it's just not worth living like this ... not worth living like this. Crowd: Right. Christine: I think that there were too few who left for twelve hundred people to give them their lives, for those people that left. Jones: Do you know how many left? Christine: Oooh, twenty odd ... that's, that's a small amount... compared to.. Jones: ... twenty-odd, twenty-odd... Christine: ...compared to what's here. Jones: ... twenty-odd. But what's gonna happen when they don't leave? I hope that they could leave ... but what's gonna happen when they don't leave? Christine: You mean the people here? Jones: Yeah, what's gonna happen to us when they don't leave? When they get on the plane and the plane goes down? Christine: I don't think it'll go down. Jones: You don't think it'll go down? Crowd: Yes it will... he said it will. Yes it will! Jones: I wish I could tell you you were right, but I'm right. There's one man there, who blames, and rightfully so, Debbie Blakey, for the murder, for the murder of his mother, and he'll sh... he'll stop that pilot by any means necessary. He'll do it. That plane will come out of the air. There's no way you can fly a plane without a pilot. Christine: I wasn't speaking about that plane. I was speaking about the plane for us to go to Russia. Jones: How do (sighs)... To Russia? Do you think Russia's gonna want .. no they're not gonna ... its its its .. Do you think Russia's gonna want us with all this stigma? We had, we had some value ... but now we don't have any value. Christine: Well, I don't see it like that. I mean, I feel like that as long as there's life, there's hope. That's my faith. Jones: Well someday everybody dies, someplace that hope runs out, 'cause everybody dies. Crowd: Right, right. Jones: I haven't seen anybody yet that didn't die. [Christine: not] And I'd like to choose my own kind of death for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell, that's what I'm tired of. Crowd: Right, right. Jones: Tired of it. Crowd: (Applause) (tape edit) Jones: ...twelve hundred people's lives in my hands and I certainly don't want your life in my hand but I'm going to tell you, Christine, without me, life has no meaning. Crowd: That's right! (Applause) Jones: I'm the best friend you'll ever have. Crowd: That's right! Jones: And once, once I have to pay, I'm standing with Ujara, I'm standing with those people. They're part of me. I can detach myself ... my attorney says detach myself ... no, no, no, no, no, no ... I never detached myself from any of your troubles. Crowd: That's right... Jones: I've always taken your troubles right on my shoulders Crowd: That's right! Jones: and I'm not gonna change that now. It's too late. I've been running too long. Not gonna change now. Crowd: (Applause) (tape edit) Jones: ... Maybe the next time you'll get to go to Russia ... the next time 'round ... This is, what I'm talking about to now is in the dispensation of judgment. This is a revolutionary ... this is a revolutionary suicide council. I'm not talking about self, self-destruction. I'm talking about what, we have no other road. I will take your call. We will put it to the Russians, and I can tell you the answer now, because I'm a prophet. Call the Russians and tell them and see if they'll take us. Christine: Not that I'm afraid to die ... Jones: I don't think you are ... . Christine: by no means ... Jones: I don't think you are ... Christine: But uh.. But I look at all the babies and I [Jones: I] think they deserve to live ... Jones: I agree ... Christine: You know ... Jones: But also they deserve ... what's more they deserve peace. Crowd: That's right... Christine: We all came here for peace ... Jones: And we, have we had it? Christine and crowd: No ... Jones: I tried to give it to you. I've laid down my life, practically, I've practically died every day to give you peace ... and you still not have any peace. You look better than I've seen you in a long while, but it's still not the kind of peace that I wanted to give you. A person's a fool that continues to say that you're winning when you're losing... Woman: (unintelligible) Jones: Win one, lose two.... What? Woman: (unintelligible) Jones: I didn't hear you, ma'am, you have to speak up ... Woman: (I said *unintelligible* in time we die anyway) Jones: That's a sweet thought, who said that? ... (voices: Berry Darcy) Jones: Come on up and speak it again, honey. Stand up and say it about (slurs words) (tape edit) has taken off, no plane is taking off... It's suicide. They have done it. ... Stoen has done it but somebody ought to ... somebody... can they talk... can they not talk to San Francisco to see that Stoen does not get by with this infamy? Crowd: That's right! That's right! Jones: With this infamy. He has done the thing he wanted to do [Man: so true!], to have us destroyed. Voice: Dad Christine: When you, when you... When we destroy ourselves, we're defeated. We let them, the enemy defeat us. Jones: Did you see, did you see "I Live to Fight No More Forever"? Christine: Yes, I saw that. Jones: Did you not have some sense of pride and victory in that man, that he would not subject himself to the will and whim of people who tell that they are gonna come in whenever they please, and push into our house, come when they please, take who they want to, talk to who they want to... does this let living... that's not living to me. That's not freedom. That's not the kind of freedom I sought. Christine: But I think where they made their mistake is when they stopped to rest. If they had gone on, they would have made it. But they stopped to rest ... Jim McElvane: It's over, sister, it's over ... we've made that day ... we made a beautiful day and let's make it a beautiful day ... that's what I say. Jones: We win, we win when we go down. Tim Stoen has nobody else to hate... He has nobody else to hate. Then he'll destroy himself. I'm speaking here not as the administrator, I'm speaking as a prophet today... I wouldn't sit up in this seat and talk so serious if I did not know what I was talking about. Is there any way to call back... the immense amount of damage that's going to be done? But I cannot separate myself from the pain of my people. And you can't either, Christine, if you stop to think of it. You can't separate yourself. We've walked too long together. Christine: I know that. But I still think, as an individual, I have a right to ... Jones: You do, I'm listening ... Christine: ...what I think, what I feel, and I think we all have a right to our own destiny as individuals. Jones: Right ... Christine: And I think I have a right to choose mine and everybody else has a right to choose theirs. Jones: Mm-hmm ... Christine: In hopes .... Jones: Mm-hmmm. I'm not criticizing, I'm not (unintelligible) ... Lue Esther Lewis: Why don't you leave then? Jones: What's that? Lue Lewis: She's talkin' like she wants to leave, why don't she just go ahead ... you're own individual lives, that's what you're saying. Christine: That's what... (tape edit) Jones: ...said today, that's what twenty people said today with their lives. Christine: Well I think I still have the right to my own opinion. Jones: I'm not taking it from you. I'm not taking it from you. Jim McElvane: Christine, [Woman: You wanna leave?] you're only standing here because he was here in the first place. So I don't know what you're talking about having an individual life. Your life has been extended to the day that you're standing there because of him. (tape edit) Jones: ...Voice back there... she has as much right to speak as anybody else, too. What did you say, Luvee? (tape edit) Well, you will regret that this very day if you don't die. You'll regret it if you don't ... that you don't die. You'll regret it. Christine: You've saved too many people.. Jones: I saved them, I saved them but I made my example. I made my expression. I made my manifestation and the world was ready ... not ready for me. Paul said, "I was a man born out of due season." I've been born out of due season just like all we are and the best testimony we can make is to leave this god-damn world. ... Crowd: (Cheers) (tape edit) Man: Peace, peace... Lue Lewis: You must be scared to die. Christine: I'm not talking to her. Will you let... will you let her or let me talk? Jones: You talk. Christine: Would you make her sit down and let me talk while I'm on the floor or let her talk? (Two or more women are shouting in the background) (tape edit) Man: ... proper to tell your leader what to do. It really isn't. (People are shouting in the background) Jones: I've listened to you. You asked me about Russia. I'm right now making a call to Russia. What more do you suggest? I'm listening to you. If Russia gives me one slight bit of encouragement, I just now instructed her to go there and do that. Lue Lewis: She wouldn't be no fuckin' good in Russia, god-damn it. Why didn't you get on that truck! Woman: She's not a lesbian. (tape edit) Man: Alright now everybody hold it, we didn't come ... hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it ... (tape edit) Jones: ... much longer to maintain. Crowd: That's right. Jones: To lay down your burdens, I'm gonna lay down my burdens, down by the riverside, should we lay them down here ... inside of Guyana. What's the difference? No man didn't take our lives, right now, he hadn't taken it, but when they start parachuting out of the air, they'll shoot some of our innocent babies. I'm not ... I don't want to see this, Christine. They gotta shoot me to get through to some of these people. I'm not letting them take Ujara. Can you let them take Ujara? Crowd: No-no! Christine: You wanna see John die? Jones: What's that? Christine: You mean you wanna see John, the little one, you're keeping here, die? Jones: I want to see– Crowd: (angry shouting and screaming) Jones: All right, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace. Marceline Jones: Christine, are you saying that you think he thinks more of him than other children here? Jones: John, John... Marceline Jones: But that's what you're saying? Jones: Do you actually, do you think I would put John's life above others? If I put John's life above others I wouldn't be standing with Ujara. I'd send John out, he could go out on the driveway tonight. Christine: No I called his name because he's young ... they're young. Jones: I know, but he's no different to me than any of these children here. He's just one of my children. I don't prefer one above another. I don't prefer him above Ujara. I can't do that. I can't separate myself from your actions or his actions. Woman: Never ends. Jones: If you'd done something wrong, I'd stand with you. If they wanted to come and get you they'd have to take me. Man: Dad, we're all ready to go. If you tell us we have to give our lives now, we're ready. I'm pretty sure all the rest of the sisters and brothers are with me. (tape edit) Jones: For months I've tried to keep this thing from happening but I now see it's the will ... it's the will of sovereign being that this happened to us. That we lay down our lives in protest against what's been done. That we lay down our lives to protest in what's being done. The criminality of people, the cruelty of people. Who walked out of here today? Did you notice who walked out? Mostly white people, mostly white people walked. Woman: James, Tom, Jenny.. Jones: I'm so grateful for the ones that didn't, those who knew who they are. There's, there's no point, there's no point to this. We ha.. We are born before our time. They won't accept us. And I don't think we should sit here and take any more time for our children to be endangered, for if they come after our children and we give them our children, then our children will suffer forever. Crowd: That's right! Christine: ... anybody with a different idea. Jones: I have no quarrel with you coming up, I like you. I personally like you very much. Christine: These people get hostile when you try to ... you know Jones: Oh well, some people do. But then ... just some people do. Put it that way. I'm not hostile. Lue Lewis: Quit starting shit! Jones: You had to be honest and you stayed and if you'd wanted to run, you'd have run with them because anybody coulda run today, they woulda wanted to. I know you're not a runner and I, I, um, your life is precious to me. It's as precious as John's. And I don't ... what I do, I do with weight and justice and judgment. I've weighed it against all evidence. Christine: Okay, that's all I've got to say. Jones: What comes now folks, what comes now? Man (in background): Everybody ... hold it! Man (in background): Sit down and stay seated ... Stay seated! ... (loud background noises, agitated) Jones (incoherent sounds): Stay peace, stay peace, stay peace, stay peace ... What's come? don't let .. take Dwyer on down to the east house. Take Dwyer on down (inaudible) Woman: Everybody be quiet, please. (tape edit) Jones: ... show you've got some respect for our lives. Woman: Shut up! Jim McElvane: That means: sit down, sit down, sit down. (tape edit) (A ghost recording of female operating HAM radio is heard in the background beginning at 20:38, continues for some time) Jones: ...I know ... Mmmm-mmmm-mmm. I tried so very, very hard. We're trying over here to see what can be, what can happen in Los Angeles... Who is it? Woman: Umm, Karl or Wesley driving truck, them and the security group Jim McElvane: ..Stan.. with about 10 of our folks on it. Woman: Joe... Jones: ... Get Dwyer out of here before something happens to him. (Somebody walks hastily) Someone in crowd: He told you take Ujara (tape edit) Jones: ... Dwyer? Man: Ujara? Jones: I'm not talking about Ujara, I said Dwyer. Ain't nobody gonna take Ujara, I'm not letting 'em take Ujara ... (pause) ... Gather in folks, it's easy, it's easy. Yes, my love ... (pause) Woman: At one time I felt just like Christine felt. But after today I don't feel anything because the biggest majority of the people that left here were white and I know it really hurt my heart because ... Jones: Broke your heart, didn't it? Woman: It broke my heart to think that all of these years that these white people have been with us and they're not a part of us. So we might as well end it now because I don't see ... Jones: It is too late, you must quit talking, the Congressman has been murdered. (14 seconds pause) Unknown woman speaking softly closeby: We're ready. Three background voices: It's all over ... Jones: It's all over, all over ... what a legacy, what a legacy. (ironic tone) But the Red Brigade's the only one that's ever made any sense anyway. They invaded our privacy, they came into our home, they followed us 6,000 miles away. Red Brigade showed them justice, the Congressman's dead ... (One person applaudes) Boy: You stop it. (One person gets slapped) Jones: Please get us some medication. It's simple, it's simple, there's no convulsions with it, it's just simple, just please get it before it's too late. The GDF will be here. I tell you get moving, get moving, get moving ... (unintelligible word) Voice in crowd: Get up! Hurry up! Voice in crowd: Oh no... (crying) Jones: Come on... Voice in crowd: Shhh! Voice in crowd: Shut your mouth! Who do you think you are?[@23:02] Voice in crowd: (unintelligible, crying) Jones: Don't be afraid to die ... (unintelligible words) ... if these people land out here, they'll torture some of our children here. They'll torture our people, they'll torture our seniors. We cannot have this. Crowd: That's Right, right. Jones: Are you gonna separate yourself from whoever shot the Congressman? I don't know who shot him ... Crowd: No, no, no, oh hell no. (tape edit) Jones: ...speak her peace and those had a right to go and they had a right to ... how many are dead? ... Oh, God almighty, God almighty ... Man: Patty Parks is dead. Jones: Mmmm ? ... Woman: shit.. Man: Patty Parks is dead. Jones: Patty Parks is dead? Child: Hey look! Voice: Good! Woman: shit.. (tape edit) Woman: ... you and the others to endure long enough in a safe place, to write about the goodness of Jim Jones ... Jones: Hmm. I don't know how in the world there ever gonna write about us. It's just too late, it's too late. The congressman is dead, the congressman's aide is dead, many of our traitors are dead, they're all laying out there dead. Crowd: Right on! Jones: Mmmm? ... Crowd: Good, good. (24:00) Jones: I didn't but, but my people did. My people did. They're my people ... Crowd: That's Right, right. Jones: ... and they've been provoked too much ... Crowd: That's right! Jones: ... They've been provoked too much. What's happened here's been too ... this has been an act of provocation ... [24:27] Voice of Woman 1: They did it thereselves! Voice of elderly Woman: That's right... Voice of Woman 1: THEY did it! ... Christine: No that's bullshit, sit that ass down ... Voice of Woman 1: Dad, [Jones: Yes?] haven't I got a right to just say how we feel?! Christine: If it's anyways possible to uh, have them to give Ted something to take him, I'm satisfied. O.K.? {Might refer to Teddy McMurry?} Jones: What's that? Christine: I said, if it's any way you can do, if you can have them to give Ted something so that he won't have to let him go, too, O.K.? And I'm satisfied. Jones: Yes, that's fine ... [Christine: Cause I was going to say, I was going to tell you] Ted, yes, yes, yes ... Christine: One more thing, I was going to tell you 'Cause I said "I never wanted to live if you died. So this is my thank you to you" ... and I appreciate you for everything. Jones: You're about... Woman: You are, you are the only, you're the only and I appreciate you ... Man in Crowd: Real Good. Jones: Thank you. (clapping in background) Christine: Said all I wanted to say (tape edit) Jones: Please, please. Can we hasten, can we hasten with that medication? You don't know what you've done ... (pause) ... (tape edit) (Voice of a Woman) Dad I wanted you to know you've given me the happiest days of my life. (Jones) I've tried. (clapping in background) ... (tape edit) Please move, please move... Woman: Approach here (straight to [unintelligible]) Man: Hey Dad...Wesley told me there were two GDF that were(unintelligible)...[@25:22] (tape edit) Jones: ... They saw it happen and ran in the bush and dropped their machine guns, I never in my life ... let there be more ... (tape edit) Maria Katsaris: What is this? Stop it right there. [@25:50] Jones: You've got to move. Are you gonna get that medication here? You've got to move ... Woman: Hurry up! Jones: Marceline, they've got 40 minutes. (tape edit) Maria Katsaris: You have to move and the people that are standing there in the aisle go stand in radio room yard, but everybody get behind the table and back this way, O.K.? Woman: Please everybody hurry. Jones: There's nothing to it Maria: There's nothing to worry about, so everybody keep calm and try and keep your children calm. Woman: Have the older children give love to the little ones that might be scared. Maria: And the older children help love the little children and reassure them. (tape edit) They aren't crying from pain. It's just a little bitter tasting but, they're not crying out of any pain. Annie McGowan, can I please see you back ... (tape edit) Jim McElvane: ... things I used to do before I came here. So let me tell you about it; it might make a lot of you feel a little more comfortable. Sit down and be quiet, please. One of the things that I used to do, I used to be a therapist. And the kind of therapy that I did had to do with reincarnation and past life situations. Jones: Yes, yes, yes... Jim McElvane: And every time anybody had the experience of going into a past life, I was fortunate enough through father, to be able to let them experience it all the way through their death, so to speak. And everybody was so happy when they made that step to the other side. Jones: When you step, there is no other thing you can do but step that way, it's the only way to step. (Sound of babies crying in the background.) Jones: That choice is not ours now. It's out of our hands. Jim McElvane: If you have a body that's been crippled, suddenly you have the kind of body that you want to have– (Babies crying in the background) Jones in the background: Try to calm them... tell them it's something to give them a little rest, a little rest. Calm the children. Jim McElvane: It feels good, it never felt so good, family, I tell ya ... you've never felt so good as how that feels. (Babies screaming no!) Jones: And I do hope that those attorneys will stay where they belong and don't come up here ... what is it? Man: What happened? Jones: What is it? Man: What'd you say Johnny? Jones: Did what? Woman: Stop (unintelligible word) (Child is slapped) Child: Ooow! Jones: It's hard. It's hard, it's hard... only first, only at first is it hard. It's hard only at first. Living, you, you're looking at death. It only looks... living is much, much more difficult. Raising up every morning, and not knowing what's going to buh the night's bringing. It's much more difficult. It's much more difficult. (child sobs) Man: Let's get it on. [@28:40] Woman(Perhaps Irene Edwards): I just want to uh say something to everyone that I see that is standing around and are crying. This is nothing to cry about. This is something we should all rejoice about. We should be happy about this. They always told us that we should cry when you're coming into this world, but when we're leaving and we're leaving it peaceful ... I think we should be... we should be happy about this. Crowd: Right. Man: Oh god. Woman: I was just thinking about Jim Jones. He just has suffered and suffered and suffered. He is the only god and he don't even have a chance to enjoy his death here. (clapping and voices in background) Man: Oh god. Woman: ... I wanted to say one more thing. This is one thing I want to say. There is few of us gone and there's many more here. He's still – the way, that's not all of us, that's not all yes. There's just a few that has got a chance to get to the one that they should tell their stories and their lies to. So and I say I'm looking at so many people crying, I wish you would not cry, and just thank Father, just thank him. I have been here about ... (clapping and shouting) ... I've been here, uh, one year and nine months and I never felt better in my life. Not in San Francisco, but until I came to Jonestown. I've enjoyed this life. I've had a beautiful life. I don't see nothing for us to be crying about. We should be happy. At least I am. Let's all be the same ... (Shouting and clapping in background) (Many children crying in background) (tape edit) Woman: ... Wouldn't be alive today. I'd just like to thank Dad 'cause he was the only one that stood up for me when I needed him [voice: stop taking so long!] and thank you, Dad. (tape edit) Woman: (unintelligible words) and I'm glad you're my brothers and sisters and I'm glad to be here ... O.K. Jones: We don't have a lot of testimonies let's get on with it please. Please ... for God's sake, let's get on with that we've lived ... we've lived as no other people have lived and loved. We've had as much of this world that you're gonna get. Let's just be done with it. Let's be done with the agony of it ... (clapping and shouting in the background) (tape edit) It's far, far harder to have to watch you every day die slowly and from the time you were a child to the time you get gray you're dying. ... (tape edit) dishonest and I'm sure that they'll pay for it, they'll pay for it. This is a revolutionary suicide. This is not a self-destructive suicide. So they'll pay for this. They brought this upon us and they'll pay for that. I leave that destiny to them. Woman: You're alright, you're alright, you're alright... please? [@31:43] (tape edit) Jones: ...who wants to go with their child has a right to go with their child. I think it's humane. I wanna go ... I want to see you go, though. They can take me and do with me whatever they want to do. I wanta see you go. I don't wanna see you go through this hell no more. No more, no more, no more. (Babies crying in background) Woman: Can we make it a quick death? Jones: ... We're trying. If everybody will relax. The best thing you do to relax and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. (tape edit) Jim Macelvane: ... of the children here ... a great deal because of Jim Jones. And, the way the children are laying there now, I'd rather see them lay like that than to see them have to die like the Jews did, which was pitiful anyhow. And I'd just like to thank Dad for giving us life and also death, and I appreciate the fact the way our children are going because, like Dad said, when they came in, what they're going to do to our children, they're going to massacre our children. And also the ones that they take, capture, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies like they want them to be and not grow up to be a Socialist like the one and only Jim Jones. Voices in the background: That's right. Jim Macelvane: So I'd like to thank Dad for the opportunity for letting Jonestown be, not what it could be, but what Jonestown is. Thank you, Dad. Crowd: (Clapping) (tape edit) Jones: It's not to be feared. It is not to be feared. It's a friend, it's a friend. (tape edit) ...sitting there. Show your love for one another ...(tape edit) Man: (turn it down?). Don't let him drink. (tape edit) Jones: let's get calm, let's get calm, let's get calm. (Babies screaming in background) Woman: Oh my God. [@33:56] (tape edit) Jones: ... to us ... we had nothing we could do, we can't, we can't separate ourselves from our own people. (pause, children crying in background) ... (tape edit) ...for twenty years laying in some old rotten nursing home ... (pause) (tape edit) ...taken us through all these anguished years. They took us and put us in chains and that's nothing. ... (stuttering) ... there's no comparison to that, to this. They've robbed us of our land, and they've taken us and driven us until we tried to find ourselves ... we tried to find a new beginning, but it's too late. You can't separate yourself from your brother and your sister. No way I'm gonna do it. I refuse. I don't know who fired the shot, I don't know who killed the Congressman. But as far as I'm concerned, I killed him. You understand what I'm saying? I killed him. He had no business coming. I told him not to come. Marceline: That's right. (tape edit) (long pause, children crying) (tape edit) Jones: ... die with respect, die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity. Don't lay down with tears and agony. It's nothing to death, just like Mac said. It's just stepping over into another plane. Don't, don't be this way. Stop this hysterics... This is not the way for people who are Socialists and Communists to die ... no way for us to die. We must die with some dignity ... Man: That's right. ... (pause) Jones: ... soon we'll have no choice. Now we have some choice. (tape edit) You think they're gonna send, allow this to be done and allow us to get by with this? ... Jones: You must be insane. (tape edit) Jones: ... But children, it's just something to put you to rest ... Oh, God ... (Babies crying in background) (One small child is forced to drink, then coughs) Child (crying): Daddy...it's so bitter. Jones: ... mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, please, mother, please, please, Woman (Possibly Bonnie Simon?): Don't take my children! Jones: please, don't, don't do this, don't do this ... (tape edit) lay down your life with your child, but don't do this ... (tape edit) Marceline: We want the children out of S.C.U. (tape edit) Jones: Free at last. Crowd: (Clapping) (tape edit) Jones: ... please, keep your emotions down, keep your emotions down ... children, it will not hurt if you will be, if you'll be quiet, if you'll be quiet. (Children crying in background, pause) (tape edit) Jones: It's never been done before you say? It's been done by every tribe in history, every tribe facing annihilation. All the Indians in the Amazon are doing it right now. They refuse to bring any babies into the world. They kill every child that comes into the world, because they don't want to live in this kind of a world. (tape edit) So be patient, be patient ... death is ... I tell you I don't care how many screams you hear, I don't care how many anguished cries ... death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life. If you knew what was ahead of you, if you knew what was ahead of you, you'd be glad to be stepping over tonight. Woman: Death is right. (tape edit) Jones: Death, death, death is common to people ... and the Eskimos, they take death in their stride. Let's, let's be dignified. If you'll quit telling them they're dying, if you adults will stop some of this nonsense ... Adults, adults, adults, I call on you to stop this nonsense. I call on you to quit exciting your children when all they're doing is going to a quiet rest. I call on you to stop this now. If you have any respect at all... Are we black, proud and Socialist, or what are we? Now stop this nonsense, don't carry this on any more, you're exciting your children. Crowd: Right, right. (tape edit) Jones: All over and it's good. (tape edit) No, no sorrow that it's all over. I'm glad it's over... (tape edit) Hurry, hurry my children, hurry. All I say, let's not fall in the hands of the enemy. Hurry, my children. Hurry ... there are seniors out here that I'm concerned about. Hurry, I don't want to leave my seniors to this mess. Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly ... (tape edit) sisters, good knowing you ... (tape edit) no more pain now ... no more pain I said, Al, no more pain. (tape edit) Jim Cobb is laying on the airfield dead at this moment ... Crowd: Yeah!! (Cheers, shouting and clapping) Jones: ... remember though this Oliver woman said she, she'd come over and kill me if her son wouldn't have stopped her. These, these are people that are peddlers of hate. All we're doing is laying down our life. We're not letting them take our life. We're laying down our lives ... (Background voices) (tape edit) Jones: ... not taking their lives. We just want peace. (tape edit) Man: All I'd like to say is that my so-called parents are filled with so much hate. Jones: Parents! Stop this, stop this, stop this, parents, stop this crying, all of you. (tape edit) Man: ... hate and treachery. I think you people out here should think about how your relatives was and be glad about, that the children are being laid to rest and all I can say is that I thank Dad for making me strong to stand with it all and make me ready for it. Thank you. ... (tape edit) Jones: (unintelligible words) ... All they're doing is taking a drink, to take to go to sleep ... That's what death is, sleep ... (tape edit) tired of it, I'm tired of it all. (tape edit) Woman: ... loving thing we could have ever done, the most loving thing all of us could have done and it's been a pleasure walking with all of you in this revolutionary struggle. No other way I would rather go than to give my life for Socialism, Communism and I thank Dad very, very much. (tape edit) Woman: ... that Dad's love and mercy and goodness and kindness and bring us to this land of freedom, his love, his mother was the advanced, the advanced God to Socialism and his love, his mercy shall go on forever, unto the (unintelligible word) of time. Jones: Where's the vat, the vat, the vat? Where's the vat with the green C thing? CN. Woman: His love is to go on unto the (unintelligible word) of time. ... and thank you, Dad. Man: Who has that vat? Jones: The vat, with the green CN please. Bring it here so the adults can begin ... (tape edit) beg you, don't, don't, fail to follow my advice, you'll be sorry ... you'll be sorry ... (unintelligible word) ... (tape edit) that we'll do it than that they do it. Voices in the background: That's right, that's right. (tape edit) Jones: ... Must trust, you have to step across ... We used to sing: "this world, this world's not our home." Well, it sure isn't. ... (tape edit) We were saying, it sure wasn't ... Woman: That's right Dad. Child: I don't want to (tape edit) Jones: ...Really doesn't want to, tell him he all he's doing if they will tell him. Assure these ch... Can some people assure these children of the relaxation of stepping over to the next plane? (tape edit) We've set an example for others. We've set 1,000 people who say, "We don't like the way the world is" .... Crowd: That's right, that's right (tape edit) Jones: ... who's come (tape edit) ... take our life from us, we laid it down, we got tired. We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. ... (Jones breathes audibly into the mic a couple times & the recording ends here) (music heard at this point is a ghost recording)