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The Filming Salvationist chronicles what would be the most famous report you haven't heard. Within the 1920's, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he noticed all over the place to a congregation of more than 10,000 initially Baptist Church in Fort Worthy of, Texas, the greatest congregation in America, the first "megachurch". Norris manipulated a radio stop, a tabloid magazine and a valuable system of land in downtown Fort Worthy of. Constantly at odds with the olive oil boomtown's civic market leaders, he aggressively defended his activism, observing, "John the Baptist was into politics." Following the death of William Jennings Bryan, Norris was a nationwide figure poised to be the primary fundamentalist in America. This modified, however, in an instant of assault one sweltering Saturday in July when he taken and wiped out an unarmed man in his chapel office. Norris was indicted for murder and, if convicted, would be executed in the point out of Texas' electric chair. At the same time when newspaper wire services and nationwide merchants were unifying American popular culture as nothing you've seen prior, Norris' murder trial was leading page news everywhere. Set through the Jazz Get older, when Prohibition was the law of the land, The Filming Salvationist leads to a courtroom play pitting some of the most powerful attorneys of the time against the other person with the life span of the wildly popular, and similarly loathed, religious head hanging in the total amount.
