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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Documents representing the arguments of one or more parties and other documents submitted to, or generated by, a court in a particular case. [USE FOR Court records]

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Miller F. Shurtleff papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239115212]
Identifier: MSS SC 2863
Scope and Contents Photocopies of typewritten and signed correspondence, newspaper articles and their translations, court records, and a travel itinerary, all collected by Miller F. Shurtleff while serving as a mission president in the Southeast Asia Mission. The materials deal with the arrest of two missionaries serving in Thailand for desecrating a Buddha statue by sitting on its head. The missionaries, Joseph K. Wall and Kimball Larson, spent six months in jail for the crime. Materials date from between...
Dates: 1972-1973
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Miller F. Shurtleff papers

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