Summary

THE TRIAL OF CULT LEADER TONY ALAMO IN FT SMITH IS OVER A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY CAME BACK TODAY FOR ALAMO AT ABOUT 5:20 CENTRAL TIME JUST THREE HOURS AFTER CLOSING ARGUMENTS WERE HEARD

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 283145
Story Slug ALAMO NOT GUILTY (1991)
Location FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
Format PKG
Date 09/12/1991
Archive Time 10:32
TRT 1:31
Supers FT SMITH, ARKANSAS JEFF DICKSTIEN, ALAMO'S ATTORNEY DAN HOFFMAN, ALAMO'S BROTHER MIKE FITZHUGH, US ATTORNEY TRACY WINCHELL REPORTING
Video Description (COURTROOM SKETCHES NOT LICENSABLE) ALAMO GETTING OUT OF CAR, TALKING TO REPORTERS, JUDGE, SHOTS OF COURTHOUSE, COURTROOM SKETCH (NOT LICENSABLE), FILE-EARLIER THIS WEEK, SOTS
Description THE TRIAL OF CULT LEADER TONY ALAMO IN FT SMITH IS OVER A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY CAME BACK TODAY FOR ALAMO AT ABOUT 5:20 CENTRAL TIME JUST THREE HOURS AFTER CLOSING ARGUMENTS WERE HEARD
Script LEAD: THE TRIAL OF CULT LEADER TONY ALAMO IN FT SMITH IS OVER A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY CAME BACK TODAY FOR ALAMO AT ABOUT 5:20 CENTRAL TIME JUST THREE HOURS AFTER CLOSING ARGUMENTS WERE HEARD SCRIPT: HE IS STILL BEING HELD IN FT SMITH ON A CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGE FROM ANOTHER CASE THE 56 YEAR OLD EVANGELIST WAS ARRESTED IN TAMPA ON A WARRANT FROM ARKANSAS WHERE A FEDERAL INDICTMENT CHARGES HIM WITH THREATENING TO KIDNAP AND HANG A JUDGE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY ALAMO MADE TELEPHONE CALLS IN WHICH HE THREATENED TO KIDNAP US DISTRICT JUDGE MORRIS ARNOLD OF FT SMITH SO THE FEDERAL JUDGE COULD GO ON TRIAL BEFORE ALAMO THE EVANGELIST WAS ANGERED AT LOSING $50 MILLION WORTH OF PROPERTY AS THE RESULT OF A DECISION BY ARNOLD ALAMO COULD HAVE FACED FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND FINED $5,000 IF CONVICTED ALAMO A VOCAL ANTI-CATHOLIC AND HIS NOW-DECEASED WIFE SUSAN ALAMO FOUNDED A RELIGIOUS MINISTRY 25 YEARS AGO THAT GREW INTO A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CONGLOMERATE OF CHURCH RESTAURANTS CLOTHING STORES AND DOZENS OF OTHER BUSINESS VENTURES IN ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA AND TENNESSEE
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Keywords

CULT
TONY ALAMO
SUSAN ALAMO
THREATENING A FEDERAL JUDGE
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