Billy Gobitas

Letter from Billy Gobitas to the Minersville, Pennsylvania, school directors, explaining why the young Jehovah's Witness refused to salute the American flag, 5 November 1935.
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Introduction by Marvin Kranz
Read by Lynne Schrichte

Photograph above: Children saluting flag. Irwinville School, Georgia.

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