{"id":64,"date":"2006-03-02T21:39:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T21:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-03-02T21:39:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T21:39:39","slug":"the-jonestown-death-tape-fbi-no-q-042-november-18-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) (November 18, 1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"

An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult.<\/p>\n

Author: <\/span>The Rev. Jim Jones, et al. (The Peoples Temple cult)<\/a><\/span>
\nDate: <\/span>1978-11-18 00:00:00<\/span>
\nSource: <\/span>? > cassette > CD-R > Sound Forge > FLAC Frontend > FLAC<\/span>
\nRecorded by: <\/span>Unknown; FLAC’ed by Olen Sluder (olenATacmDOTorg)<\/span>
\nKeywords: <\/span>Spoken Word<\/a>; Historical<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Creative Commons license: <\/span>Public Domain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes<\/h2>\n

I acquired the source cassette tape c. 1979 from a high school friend whose father was an FBI agent.<\/p>\n

The sound levels were increased as close as possible to clipping when I transferred to CD-R from cassette and then normalized to -18 dB average RMS power (loudness) in Sound Forge after extracting from CD-R<\/p>\n

An interesting web site for further research is the Jonestown Institute (http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/), which contains transcripts as well as commentary on this and other recordings recovered by the FBI from Jonestown<\/p>\n

Individual Files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Whole Item<\/td>\nFormat<\/td>\nSize<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ptc1978-11-18.flac16_64kb.m3u<\/td>\n64Kbps M3U<\/td>\nStream<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ptc1978-11-18.flac16_64kb_mp3.zip<\/td>\n64Kbps MP3 ZIP<\/td>\n21.4M<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ptc1978-11-18.flac16_flac.zip<\/td>\nFlac ZIP<\/td>\n286.5M<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ptc1978-11-18.flac16_vbr.m3u<\/td>\nVBR M3U<\/td>\nStream<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ptc1978-11-18.flac16_vbr_mp3.zip<\/td>\nVBR ZIP<\/td>\n54.8M<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Audio Files<\/td>\nFlac<\/td>\nOgg Vorbis<\/td>\n64Kbps MP3<\/td>\nVBR MP3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Jonestown “Death Tape”<\/td>\n286.5M<\/a><\/td>\n40.8M<\/a><\/td>\n21.4M<\/a><\/td>\n54.8M<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

I came across this whilst checking up on the TCP stats at Archive.org, which are over 45,000 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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