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The Alamo Christian Foundation (aka Holy Alamo Christian Church, aka Music Square Church, etc.) was a bizarre Pentecostal-inspired, evangelical Christian cult founded by Jewish-born petty criminal Tony Alamo (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman) and his wife Susan (born Edith Opal Horn) as a Hollywood street ministry in 1969. It later grew into a multimillion dollar network of churches and businesses scattered across numerous states before its ignominious downfall. By 1976, the Alamos street evangelism had attracted a few thousand members and they moved their operation to Alma, Arkansas, where they continued to expand their ministry to include dozens of business enterprises, including the popular Tony Alamo of Nashville jean jackets. The couple's worth grew to $9 million before Susan died of breast cancer in 1982. Tony Alamo became increasingly paranoid, conspiratorial and violent, took numerous underage wives and saw Catholicism as the root of all evil (he also bizarrely became increasingly anti-Semitic). He became a federal fugitive from 1988-91 for directing the beating of a member's 11-year-old son, and although he was later acquitted, he was imprisoned for four years for tax evasion. In 2009, he was convicted on child sex crimes and sentenced to 175 years in prison where he died in 2017. Many of the publications below were written and distributed by Alamo while he was on the run. All Alamo material is scarce, both institutionally and in commerce, with very few institutions holding any single title. The exception is Michigan State, which has the Tony Alamo materials collection. Included in this assembled grouping are 12 pamphlets (which includes two variants) and 8 issues of Alamo's newsletter, including: 1.) Schlanger, Harley; Tony Alamo. Waco Massacre, Probe â Experts' Behind Waco: Did the Cult Awareness Network (C.A.N.) and the A.D.L. Sucker the Feds into the April 19 Massacre? 4 pp. A conspiratorial view of the Waco siege. 2.) Tony Alamo: My Side of the Story. Press Release from Tony Alamo, New York - 08/09/89. Large eight-panel brochure written soon after Alamo went on the run, in which he proclaims his innocence and contends that the "Catholic FBI terrorists" sabotaged a clothing deal between Alamo and Mike Tyson and Don King (!). Many other fantastic claims. 3.) The Biggest Known Abuse By IRS. Six-panel brochure apparently issued by the International Coalition for Religious Freedom who offer a case study on the IRS persecution of Tony Alamo. Submitted to the Record, U.S. Senate, Committee on Finance, Oversight Hearings on IRS Abuses of April 28, 29 and May 1, 1998. 4.) Fugitive Pope: John Paul II, a Catholic Nazi World War II Criminal. Six-paneled brochure that claims that Pope John Paul II was previously a Polish Nazi salesman for I.G. Farben who upon becoming Pope established a front organization called the Jewish Federation, which kidnaps and "de-programs" Christians under the aegis of the Cult Awareness Network. Ironically written while Alamo was a fugitive. 5.) Fugitive Pope: John Paul II, a Catholic Nazi World War II Criminal. Abridged variant of the title above. 6.) Flying Saucers Are End-Time Prophecy. Six-panel brochure relating Alamo's experience with flying saucers and his belief that they represent the imminence of the end-times. 7.) The Heavenly Pharmacy. Six-panel brochure in which Alamo denounces his persecution by the IRS and Cult Awareness Network and reprints a letter from a private detective he hired to find out what the IRS had on him. He then encourages his readers to submit themselves to God, the great Physician. 8.) Slander from the Jewish Federation. Double-sided flyer in the form of a letter addressed to Rachel Andres/Jewish Federation defending accusations of child abuse against Tony Alamo. The Jewish Federation encouraged a boycott of Alamo Designs, a successful clothing operation, due to the allegations that Alamo had directed the beating of an 11-year-old member's son. 9.) The Messiah According t.
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