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It must also be appreciated that the picture of the basketball players is from 1969, almost 20 years after the photograph of William Branham was taken. It is likely that the lighting for a church gathering would have been set up completely different from that of a basketball game and also likely that the light fixtures would have been completely different 20 years earlier. | It must also be appreciated that the picture of the basketball players is from 1969, almost 20 years after the photograph of William Branham was taken. It is likely that the lighting for a church gathering would have been set up completely different from that of a basketball game and also likely that the light fixtures would have been completely different 20 years earlier. | ||
=The Role of the FBI= | |||
[[File:George J Lacy.jpg|left|George and Lucile Lacy]] | |||
William Branham stated many times that the FBI was somehow involved in authenticating the Houston photograph: | |||
:''The next morning, they flew the picture away to Washington, DC for a copyright. Before it could be released, it had to go before the FBI examinations. <ref>50-0714 AT.THY.WORD MINNEAPOLIS.MN</ref> | |||
:''And George J. Lacy, the best there is in United States, on research was brought from California to Houston, Texas, for to take the negative under consideration. He kept it for days. He looked through the lights; he looked at the camera. He took everything, and 'fore he could sign, because he's a FBI agent today, the best they got.<ref>52-0713A EARLY.SPIRITUAL.EXPERIENCES</ref> | |||
:''And now, this great Pillar of Fire that's absolutely identified even by scientific cameras, that's here on the earth today. There's the picture of It hanging there. I believe it's still there, isn't that right? Is it there? Scientifically proven by the best we got. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI for fingerprint and documents, said, "I called it psychology myself, Reverend Branham, but," said, "the light struck the lens. I put it under ultra-ray lights and had an examination here for four or five days. And the light struck the lens. And this lens won't take psychology." Now, that's identified.''<ref>64-0823E QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN</ref> | |||
George Lacy was the fifth president of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners. He owned and operated an indepedent forensics lab in Houston, Texas. There are a number of things that William Branham was not honest about relating to Mr. Lacy's involvement with the picture: | |||
#Mr. Lacy was not an employee of the FBI. He was '''NEVER''' the head of the FBI for fingerprint and documents. | |||
#The FBI had no involvement with the examination of the Houston photograph. | |||
#Mr. Lacy lived and practiced in Houston and was not brought from California to Houston to examine the photograph. | |||
William Branham appears to have invented all of these various stories in an attempt to hype the Houston photograph. | |||
=The Hall of Religious Art in Washington, D.C.= | |||
William Branham stated that a copy of the Houston photograph was in Washington, D.C.: | |||
:'''''And one of them is in Washington, DC, in the religious Hall of Art, with a note under it, "The only supernatural being was ever photographed in the history of the world."''' And now, then, if you're ever through there, drop in, see it.<ref>63-0606 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER TUCSON.AZ</ref> | |||
The problem with William Branham's statement is that there is no '''Hall of Religious Art''' in Washington, D.C. There is a copy of the picture that someone sent to the Library of Congress for their records. But the photo does not hang on the wall and there is no caption underneath it. Rather, it sits in a manila folder in a filing cabinet. | |||
=Report by George J. Lacy= | =Report by George J. Lacy= | ||