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'Gays plotted to kill' Jerry Falwell in 1983

Wed 26 Mar 2008 In: International News View at Wayback

In 1983, just days before travelled to Cincinnati to make the now-famous speech in which he called AIDS "a gay plague," the vocally-homophobic Reverend Jerry Falwell was the subject of death threats that resulted in an FBI probe of the city's gay community, reports CNSnews.com. Targeted: The late Jerry Falwell Two anti-Falwell activists with two guns and 550 rounds of ammunition were questioned by police in Cincinnati. In another case, someone sent a live scorpion in a box to Falwell's office. According to files made available to Cybercast News Service under the Freedom of Information Act, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were alerted in June 1983 that two anonymous callers had warned Falwell's Liberty Baptist College of an alleged plot. "I have a message for Dr. Falwell," the first caller told an operator answering phones for Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour television broadcast. "There is a $10,000 reward in the Cincinnati area for the first person to kill him. I intend to be the one to collect that money." The CNSnews.com story continues on the link below.    

Credit: GayNZ.com News Staff

First published: Wednesday, 26th March 2008 - 1:31pm

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