Historical Information

about the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses)

The following articles are presented through the courtesy of Randall Watters and Free Minds, Inc. All of the articles are written by him unless another author or "anonymous" is noted.

Book: Thus Saith Jehovah's Witnesses

A Sect Grows in Brooklyn (1991) (Phila. Inquirer)
1984 and "Big Mother"
Active Force Behind the Watchtower
Al Capone VS. Judge Rutherford 
Blacks and the Watchtower
Can the Truth survive the Internet?
"Community Facility" Draws Fire in Brooklyn - 1988
Cost Accounting Figures for magazines and Books from Bethel
Dates from the Watchtower
Dates - Comprehensive listing of all WT dates
Declaration of Facts and WT leaders' sympathy with Hitler
Fred Franz Discredits Idea of "Governing Body" 
Golden Age, the magazine 1919-1937
Governing Body: Guide Dog for a Blind Person
Governing Body, All About the
Governing Body members and current listing of officers
Hitler, The Watchtower and (compromise)
How Big Is the Watchtower? (growth figures)
Inheriting the Property of Non-JWs After Armageddon
Interview with Watchtower Attorney Hayden Covington
Is 607 BCE the correct date for the fall of Jerusalem?
Is the WT Predicting the end of the World in 2034 AD?
JWs: Proclaimers of God's Kingdom book review
JWs: A Brief History of A Century of Religious-State Conflicts
Listing of 1975 statements
Money: How the Watchtower Was Financed (pre-1990)
Money: The Watchtower Way of Laundering, (post-1990)
Money: Fraud in Donation Arrangement
Money: Scandal in Malta
Mystery Years of "The Judge" Joseph Franklin Rutherford in Missouri
New Light: "This Generation"
Newer Light: "This Generation" Returns by Popular Demand
New World Translation: Who were the translators?
Notes from the 1993 District Assembly re: Future Changes
Pagan Roots of Jehovah's Witnesses
Persecution and Resistance of JWs During Nazi Regime - review
Presidents: Summary of the Five Presidential Eras
Prophet, Doe the Watchtower Society claim to be?
Quackery and Medicine: The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery
REPORT, THE: Apostasy Knocks at Bethel's Door
Russell's Burial Site and Pyramid
Russell was not the WT's first president!
Rutherford: All you want to know about
Rutherford's Anti-Prohibition Stance
Secret Files of the Watchtower: Cover Up
Subliminal art in the Watchtower publications
Sleeping with the Enemy (Hitler)
Time: Does the Passing of Time Heal All in the Watchtower?
Two Claims of the JWs Examined
Undoing the "Judge" (Rutherford)
Warfare technology, Watchtower investments in  
Was C.T. Russell a Mason?  
Was J.F. Rutherford & WT officers exonerated in 1919?
Watchtower Property in New York (2002)
What Happened at the World Headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Spring of 1980? (original tract from 1981 by Watters)
What Happened in 1975?

Bethel History: the "Franz Incident" (1979-1980)

• The WTB&TS: The Critical Years (1975-1997)
• Crisis of Conscience: former GB member Raymond Franz Speaks Out
• Major Proposal Reveals Watchtower Magazine Cost

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