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Miller F. Shurtleff papers
Collection — Folder: 1
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