New revelations on Jonestown tragedy

Recordings indicate Jim Jones may have died
the day after the massacre

Oakland Tribune/October 31, 2004
By William Brand

Oakland -- One day after the Jonestown mass suicides in 1978 in the jungle of Guyana, Jim Jones and leaders of the ill-fated settlement were still alive and calmly discussed the suicides and the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan, a historian said Saturday. The tape found in Jonestown that the FBI labeled Q-875 appears to have been made many hours later, possibly on Nov. 19... The tape is one of 900...obtained from the FBI under a Freedom of Information Act request.

It was made later because the people on the tape -- apparently including Jones -- talked about what had happened, about the murder of Rep. Ryan and the mass deaths in Jonestown.