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again, and for nearly six months he paid $75

every week to put a huge article in the

paper. It took up about a third or half page,

and it was either titled the name of my

church or it was titled “Robert Reed.” And

every week somebody would bring me the

paper, and I'd read it, and I'd pitch it aside.

I cut some of the articles out and stuck them

in my desk drawer in the office.

So finally one day somebody handed me

a paper, and I read it, and, boy, you talk

about slanderous. I picked up the phone

and said, "You name the place and time." So

at the Pickard Auditorium on August the

first and second, we went three hours each

night with moderators and filmed it. I

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