The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder by David R. Stokes,Bob Schieffer

By David R. Stokes,Bob Schieffer

The capturing Salvationist chronicles what could be the most renowned tale you may have by no means heard. within the 1920’s, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed opposed to vice and conspiracies he observed all over to a congregation of greater than 10,000 initially Baptist Church in fortress worthy, Texas, the biggest congregation in the US, the 1st “megachurch.” Norris managed a radio station, a tabloid newspaper and a invaluable tract of land in downtown fortress worthy. always at odds with the oil boomtown’s civic leaders, he aggressively defended his activism, watching, “John the Baptist was once into politics.”
 
Following the dying of William Jennings Bryan, Norris used to be a countrywide determine poised to develop into the prime fundamentalist in the USA. This replaced, besides the fact that, in a second of violence one sweltering Saturday in July whilst he shot and killed an unarmed guy in his church workplace. Norris used to be indicted for homicide and, if convicted, will be carried out within the kingdom of Texas’ electrical chair.
 
At a time whilst newspaper cord prone and nationwide outlets have been unifying American pop culture as by no means sooner than, Norris’ homicide trial used to be entrance web page information from coast to coast.  Set throughout the Jazz Age, while Prohibition was once the legislations of the land, The taking pictures Salvationist ends up in a court docket drama pitting essentially the most strong attorneys of the period opposed to one another with the lifetime of a wildly renowned, and both loathed, spiritual chief striking within the stability.
 

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