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Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were confronted in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee, and fatally shot on August 15, 1868, by a group of masked men. The killers were believed to belong to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan , which had emerged as an insurgent force in the state in 1866.
Jim Taylor was an African American man who lived and worked as a sharecropper on a farm owned by James Hodge, two miles from Franklin. [1] He was described as "a very large negro", who was "feared by his own race and regarded as desperate" by The Daily American, [1] and as "a dangerous character" by The Leaf-Chronicle.
1974: The biggest rotary offset press in Europe was built in Augsburg: a 17-web COLORMAN with 62 printing units. 1979: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG (Offenbach/Main) was founded. This company was formed by the amalgamation of "Roland Offset- und Maschinenfabrik Faber and Schleicher" with "Augsburger M.A.N.-Druck- and Maschinenbau".
The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult which was founded in 1969 by Tony Alamo and his wife, Susan Alamo. [1] [2] Susan Alamo died in April 1982.After years of legal troubles during which he engaged in abusive behavior against his followers, [3] Tony Alamo was convicted of 10 child rape offenses in 2009.
An Erath County judge sentenced Cadenhead to an 80-year state prison sentence, citing his self-described status as a "cult leader". [ 37 ] [ 11 ] After Cadenhead's arrest in August 2021, the group was led by a 21-year-old from Timișoara , Romania, named Francesco (nicknamed "Riley"). [ 1 ]
As part of a counseling center, Lara hosted the first class in a mall in Memphis, Tennessee. [19] [20] The program was offered as small classes in retail and non-religious settings. [21] [22] She began hosting the program at Bellevue Baptist Church near Memphis in the 1990s.
Charles Manson suggested he was a killer long before he became the infamous cult leader who instructed his followers to commit a series of heinous murders, known as the Manson Murders, that ...
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [8]