<TITLE>10. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 And then that night at eleven o'clock, that was sent to Washington, DC to be copyrighted. On the following day it was flown back again. And they called in George J. Lacy. He's the head of the FBI in fingerprint and documents, the best there is in the world, the best in the United States. So being American, we say he was the best in the world to us.
And so he's the head of the FBI. And they brought him in, and he took it to the Shell Building under examination of ultra-ray lights and so forth, everything he tried. He went out and he measured the distance, and took the camera to see if it was a double exposure, and he--he done everything that he could do to find out. And on the... about the fourth day he said they was going to meet in the Shell Building and give the announce what it was. So that day he said, "Whose name's Branham?"

L-36 I said, "Mine." Bunch setting there, a lot of the newspapers and things wanted to see what his report was.
He said, "Stand up." I stood up. He said, "You're going to pass out of this life someday like all mortals, Reverend Branham."
I said, "I'm aware of that, but thank God," I said, "Jesus Christ has saved me from sin."
He said, "I've been one of your critics." See? And so the man when he brought up there, he said, "Reverend Branham, it's always been said that that was psychology." Said, "I've heard of your meetings and said that it was psychology, wasn't nothing to it. It was just imagination. When that light would come in, everybody'd say, 'There it is. There it is,' and people would say, 'Well that's...' Everybody just imagined it."
It was took once before by a newspaper, but it wasn't--it wasn't real. They wouldn't let it go, because it wasn't by the American Photographer Association. It wasn't a member of it, so they wouldn't pass it, but this was strictly the American Photographer Association.

L-37 And he said, "Reverend Branham, I have said it was psychology, but the mechanical eye of this camera will not take psychology." Said, "The Light struck the lens." Everybody begin crying.
So they called me forward to present the picture to me, and I said, "Well, it's not mine. It belongs to them."
He said, "Do you know that's worth a hundred thousand doll..."
I said, "Brother, do you mean to tell me just what you got through saying? That the first time in all the world's history that a supernatural Being was ever photographed." And here's what he said. Said, "The old hypocrite..." (he meant the unbeliever)... "The old..." (unbeliever) "has always said, that there was no scientific way to prove a supernatural Being." Said, "Now, they can't say that no more. Here's absolutely, scientific proof that there is a supernatural Being." See? And scientifically proved by this mechanical camera here that took the--the light of that Angel standing there, and said, "It's absolutely is the truth."

L-38 And I said, "Well, if Jesus Christ thought enough of me to come down and have His picture taken by me for the first time in all the world, you think I'm a little enough to commercialize this picture?"
And he said, "No, I wouldn't think that."
I said, "I turn it over to the Douglas Studios."
He said, "There ought to be some kind of an agreement."
I said, "Sure. They can sell it." And I said, "They can, as long as they keep it cheap enough that poor people can get it."
He said, "Someday, Reverend Branham, you may be dead and gone," but said, "it'll be sold in ten cent stores."
And I--I said, "Well, for the glory of God that would be fine."


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