The Associated Press
March 15, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL
New lawyer signals new strategy in Alamo case
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — California lawyer Danny Davis has wanted to separate jailed evangelist Tony Alamo from the abuse allegations that trail his ministry.
Los Angeles Daily News
March 27, 1988
By: CARMEN RAMOS CHANDLER
ALAMO BLASTS MEN WHO PROMPTED RAID
Religious leader Tony Alamo said Saturday that the two Orange County fathers who had their sons removed from Alamo’s Saugus commune were out to hurt his foundation.
”Those boys are embezzlers and crooks, and my attorneys have proof of what I’m saying,” Alamo said in a telephone interview from New York.
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Los Angeles Daily News
March 26, 1988
By: CARMEN RAMOS CHANDLER
FATHER SAYS SEIZING BOYS WAS JUSTIFIED
Robert Miller said Friday that he and his brother had sheriff’s deputies remove their sons from a Saugus religious commune because they feared for their emotional and physical safety.
”We had to get them out of there. The Alamo is a crazy religious cult that brainwashes people into believing that everyone not in the group are devils,” said Miller in an interview.
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San Jose Mercury News
April 2, 1988
SECT LEADER DENIES CHILD ABUSE
Fundamentalist Christian leader Tony Alamo insisted Friday that children were not abused at his commune, saying there was no foundation for issuing an arrest warrant for him on that charge.
Nine members of Alamo’s sect were arrested Thursday at his northern Los Angeles County commune, four of them for investigation of felony child abuse.
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CAN (Cult Awareness Network) News
February 13, 1988
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The Newhall Signal
October 13, 1989
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Arkansas Democrat
October 9, 1989
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CAN (Cult Awareness Network) News
August 1, 1989
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Chicago Sun Times
October 13, 1987
The leader of a fundamentalist Christian sect, notorious for his anti-Roman Catholic propaganda and attempts to raise his first wife from the dead, is entangled in a child custody dispute in which an Elk Grove Village has been unable to find her children.
Mary Lou Weinzetl, 23, is trying to find her children, 4-year-old Jacquelyn M. Amundson and 2-month-old Brendan M. Broderick, whom she left this summer at the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation of Alma, Ark., when she broke from the sect. She was unable to find them when she returned for them this month.
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Newsday Inc.
August 17, 1989
He insists his faith is firmly rooted in the good book, but critics of Tony Alamo – the self-anointed leader of a Christian sect – contend his is the handiwork of the devil.
The saga of Tony Alamo and his Holy Alamo Christian Church is unfolding in rural country towns and major cities, fueled by impassioned anti-Catholic rhetoric and a rigid adherence to the Bible.
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