Sunday, April 04, 2021

 These are images of the list of performers from the Eutaw churches who participated in the March 22, 1964 Easter music program at Eutaw Presbyterian and the recording of the LP of that program is also pictured. This church program and the LP record are valuable to collectors of Heaven's Gate suicide cult memorabilia because this performance was directed by Marshall "Herff" Applewhite, the founder of Heaven's Gate, whose members committed the largest mass suicide in American history in 1997. There is much to be learned about "Herff" Applewhite's years in Alabama. He taught at the University during the '61-'62 school year, the '62-'63 school year, the '63-'64 school year and by 1965 Applewhite's Alabama career was over due to inappropriate sexual behavior. During that time he directed community choirs organized in churches all around West Alabama and East Mississippi.

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