July 9, 1974 – Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: He arrived at the federal minimum security prison at Maxwell to begin serving his three-year sentence. It was a somber day, full of remorse and remembering. At 38-years-old he had been on top of the...
November 16, 1926 – Farm in Coffee County, Alabama: After trying to resuscitate the premature baby boy, the doctor shook his head and placed the lifeless body on the table. The baby’s grandmother walked over, picked up the 10-day-old infant, and quietly pleaded and...
1926 – Masonic Home and School, Ft. Worth, Texas: The Masonic Home Orphanage, which sat on 200 acres in east Ft. Worth, was started in 1900 for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Free Masons. The facility, a lonely depressing place, was home for...
Noon – Wednesday, September 23, 1857 – New York City: Jeremiah Lanphier waited in a small room on the third floor of the consistory building at the rear of the North Dutch Reform Church. The grand old church sat in the heart of the business district, just...
1904, Strasbourg, France: Albert Schweitzer, a 30-year-old Lutheran minister and theology professor at the University of Strasbourg, was paging through a Paris Missionary Society publication when he read an article by a doctor about the dire medical needs of people in...
Sunday, December 18, 1983 – Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Head Football Coach Lou Holtz had just returned from church when Athletic Director Franks Broyles called and asked him to come by his office. When Holtz arrived, Broyles got right to the point, “Lou, I want...