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William M. Branham was born near Burkesville, Kentucky, on April 6, 1909, [10] [11] [12] [a] [b] the son of Charles and Ella Harvey Branham, the oldest of ten children. [15] He claimed that at his birth, a "Light come [ sic] whirling through the window, about the size of a pillow, and circled around where I was, and went down on the bed". [11]
Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden. On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [1] Perpetrators 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden fatally shot four students and ...
The first memorial service following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, took place the following day at the R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis, Tennessee. This was followed by two funeral services on April 9, 1968, in Atlanta, Georgia, the first held for family and close friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King ...
The Westboro Baptist Church ( WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group, [nb 1] and is known for its public protests against homosexuals and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags " and "Thank God for dead soldiers".
Website. jonesboro .org. Jonesboro ( / ˈdʒoʊnzbʌrə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. In 2022, the city had an estimated population of 79,876, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas.
Three people have been killed in an auto shop explosion that rattled an Ohio neighborhood, CNN affiliate WKRC reported. Firefighters in Highland County were dispatched to “an explosion and a ...
The Church Wars of Jonesboro were a series of conflicts in Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of the fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and the Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Members of Jeffers' congregation also attacked the mayor and police chief, resulting in Governor Harvey Parnell calling out ...
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. (July 15, 1940 – June 25, 1990) was an American mass murderer who killed 16 people over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987 and wounded several others. A retired military serviceman, Simmons murdered fourteen members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her ...