UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(See also Alaska; Anglo-American World Power; Hawaii; New York City; Supreme Court Decisions; World Powers)
(Note centered headings below: Jehovah’s Witnesses; List by State)
abortion: g93 5/22 6; w88 4/15 21; g87 4/8 4
Catholic bishops hire public-relations firms to discourage abortion: g90 7/8 29; g90 9/8 28
do-it-yourself abortions: g90 2/22 29
nonreligious burial of fetuses authorized: g86 1/8 29
priests urge abortion: g89 1/22 10
teenagers: g90 5/8 26; w88 4/15 3; g86 7/22 30
advertising:
cigarettes: g90 10/22 28
cosmetics: g90 6/22 18
cost: g88 2/8 4-5
restrictions regarding tobacco: g86 7/22 15; g86 8/22 30
agriculture:
peanut: g03 4/22 22-23
pollution: tp 16
soil loss: g86 9/22 8-10
alcoholic beverages:
alcoholism: tp 155-156
cost of abuse: w87 8/1 3; tp 156
decline in drinking: w87 8/1 3
involvement in traffic fatalities: tp 156; g86 3/8 3
youths’ knowledge of: g89 3/22 30
animals:
alligator comeback: g87 8/22 31
grizzly bear giveaway: g86 4/22 29
grizzly bears tracked: g88 11/22 30
mules in Grand Canyon: g87 7/8 31
prairie dog: g86 9/8 17-19
whales rescued: g89 3/8 30
astrology: g89 11/22 4
study on ability to interpret personality: g87 9/8 29
astronomy:
discoveries by Edwin Hubble: g 8/09 16-17
automobiles:
number produced: g00 5/8 30; g99 9/8 29
shootings over accidents: g87 6/8 30
traffic fatalities: g 7/07 22; g89 3/8 11; w88 3/15 20; g88 1/8 3; w87 8/1 6; g86 3/8 3
aviation:
bird patrol at New York’s Kennedy Airport: g87 10/22 30
close calls: g86 9/22 30
exit-row seats in passenger planes: g91 1/22 29
smoking ban: g90 1/22 28
banks:
failures: w88 4/15 11-12; g88 6/22 29; g86 10/22 6
reserves: g86 10/22 5-6
bicycles: g89 7/8 29
birds:
geese used for military guard duty: g86 12/8 30
ostrich farms: g88 9/22 29
boating accidents: g88 5/22 16-18
bridges:
Brooklyn Bridge upgrade: g86 9/8 31
Golden Gate Bridge 50-year anniversary: g87 11/8 31
business:
costs of document distribution: g88 6/8 30
costs of employee health care: g87 2/22 20
employee wellness programs: g87 2/22 20-24
exorbitant prices to government: w88 2/15 3
improving employee nutrition: g87 2/22 21-22; g86 3/22 29
time-wasting by employees: w88 2/15 3
workdays lost from pain: g87 3/22 29
children:
abuse: g99 1/22 28; g93 1/22 28; g86 8/8 30
computer use: g04 8/22 28
death: g97 8/22 28
illegitimate births: g00 4/8 6; w88 4/15 21; g86 5/22 31
infant homicide: g89 7/22 29
infant mortality rates: g90 11/22 28; w88 12/15 10
knowledge of presidents versus alcoholic beverages: g89 3/22 30
poor children: g92 12/22 29; g90 3/8 29
SIDS (crib death): g88 1/22 4, 6; g87 8/8 9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: g92 9/22 31
“Christian” nation: jv 684
colonization:
effect of Reformation: w87 10/1 24-25
Constitution: g87 10/22 24-26
First Amendment: g03 1/8 5, 9; g96 7/22 4, 7
appeal to, by Witnesses: w98 12/1 20; g98 4/22 22; g96 7/22 5; jv 698-699; g87 10/22 24-27
benefits: g88 4/8 28
Bill of Rights: g91 12/8 20-23
influence of Magna Carta: g02 12/22 14
courts:
AIDS-related cases: g89 5/22 28; g86 5/8 29
amount of litigation: g88 5/22 12-13
blood issue: w20.07 28; g94 5/8 28; jv 186; hb 21-22, 30
child-custody cases: kr 164-165; yb12 39; g97 12/8 6-7; g88 10/22 3-9
discrimination lawsuit between blacks allowed: g89 8/22 29
flag salute: re 92; g93 7/22 14-16; g91 12/8 22-23; g88 6/8 23-24; g87 10/22 26-27
freedom of speech: g98 4/22 20-24; g87 10/22 24-26
Holocaust’s reality sustained: g89 4/8 6
mothers responsible for effects of drug abuse on unborn: g89 10/22 29
New Jersey teachers defy court order: g87 11/22 30
patients’ rights: g90 8/8 28
posthypnotic testimony: g86 4/22 29-30
prisoner granted right to practice religion of witchcraft: w88 9/1 5-6
prisoners allowed pornography: g89 6/22 29
shunning removed or disassociated ones: w88 4/15 26, 28-29; g87 10/22 27
survey of prison sentences: w89 3/1 20
crime: g91 8/8 28; w90 10/1 5; g87 1/22 29; tp 18
average prison term for murder: g86 11/8 30
chance of becoming a victim: g89 5/8 28; g87 6/22 29
cheating on taxes: w88 2/15 3; w86 11/15 10
cities ranked: g92 1/22 29
computers: g89 10/8 28; g86 10/22 6
cost: g96 9/22 28; g95 1/22 28
cost of imprisonment: g88 7/8 29
health-care fraud: g95 4/22 4
involving dishonesty: w86 11/15 10
Mafia: g97 3/8 3-4, 9
massacre at California school: g90 5/22 3
massacre at Texas restaurant: g92 11/22 22-24
murder: g 4/08 30; g92 6/8 28; g90 4/22 28; g90 10/22 28; w87 5/15 10
rape: g93 3/8 3; g92 9/22 28; g90 10/22 28; w87 5/15 10; g86 5/22 24; g86 7/22 29
religious fraud: g97 9/22 10
report by American Bar Association: w89 4/15 28
shoplifting: g87 5/22 29
smuggling high technology: g86 5/8 29-30
survey on how to protect oneself: g89 5/8 28
tax evasion: w88 2/15 3
violent crime: g89 4/22 3; w88 4/15 11; g87 6/22 29
youths: g97 2/8 28-29
death:
accidents: g91 1/22 29
AIDS: g88 10/8 5; g87 6/22 29; g86 2/8 29; g86 3/22 15; g86 4/22 3-4; g86 5/22 29
babies: g90 11/22 28; g89 7/22 29; w88 12/15 10; g88 1/22 4; g86 5/22 29
blood transfusions: g88 10/8 14; g87 7/22 30; g87 8/8 31
boating accidents: g88 5/22 16
causes: g95 6/8 28
farm accidents: g89 1/8 30
guns: g93 11/8 28; g90 5/22 8
lightning: g89 5/22 18
murder: g90 4/22 28; g89 7/22 29; w87 5/15 10
suicide: g90 5/22 8-9; g90 9/8 3; g89 4/22 28; g89 11/8 29; g86 1/8 31; g86 5/22 29
tobacco-related: g89 4/22 28; g89 11/8 26; g88 8/22 14, 29; g87 5/8 6; g87 9/8 29-30; g86 4/8 8; g86 7/22 12-13, 16; g86 8/22 30
traffic accidents: g 7/07 22; g89 3/8 11; g88 1/8 3; g86 3/8 3
women: g88 8/22 14; g86 7/22 13
debt:
personal: g 7/12 8; g93 12/8 27
divorce: g18.2 2; g 2/10 3; w99 2/15 3; w94 2/1 32; g93 7/8 4; g90 9/8 5; w89 4/15 9; w89 5/15 10; w88 4/15 21; w88 11/1 20; g88 10/22 3-4; w86 11/1 26; g86 7/8 10
laws: w88 5/15 4
drugs: g 8/12 29; g90 8/22 29; g88 12/8 4, 10-11
hoax about tattoos with LSD: g89 5/8 28-29
Indians: g96 9/8 14
marijuana: g90 1/22 29
revenues: g98 4/22 28; g88 12/8 10
steroids banned by National Football League: g89 6/22 31
economy:
bankruptcies: g99 9/22 29
debt: g90 9/22 29; g89 8/8 8
Great Depression: g 5/07 5; g87 3/22 24-27
“near poor”: g 5/07 3
stock market crash (1987): g89 5/8 5; g89 8/8 2-4
trade war with Japan and others: g87 8/22 2-8
value of dollar: g87 8/22 3-5
Wall Street: g89 8/8 2-10
employment:
effect of technology: g 5/07 11
families:
single-parent: g02 10/8 4; w98 4/1 4
farms:
deaths: g89 1/8 30
ostrich farms: g88 9/22 29
food: g 7/14 3
garbage: g02 8/22 3; g90 9/22 3-5
barge travels 6,000 miles: g87 12/8 30
glass: g95 11/22 26
government:
attitudes toward: g90 8/8 4
comments on world peace by delegates to Inter-Parliamentary Union (1986): w86 10/1 15
computer files on individuals: g88 2/22 3
disarmament proposals: g86 5/22 5
Marshall Plan (1948-1952): w11 6/1 5
presidential commission recommends fully informed consent for blood transfusions: g90 10/22 13
relationship with Britain: mrt article 125; re 253; w88 5/15 25-26; w86 2/1 5-6
support for tobacco exportation: g89 7/8 10
treaties with USSR to reduce arms: g04 3/8 3-5; g89 1/22 29; w88 6/15 27; g88 5/8 29; g88 8/22 3; g88 9/22 29
voting decline: g90 8/8 4
Grand Canyon:
mules for maintaining telephone line: g87 7/8 31
guns: g 5/13 3; g 6/08 30; g02 7/22 28; g98 9/22 28; g97 8/22 29; g95 1/8 28; g95 5/8 29; g90 5/22 4-5
clergy: g98 10/8 28-29
deaths from: g93 11/8 28; g90 5/22 8
dispute over control: g01 3/22 11
hospital costs from: g89 3/22 30
households having: g89 4/22 28
illegal sales abroad: g91 11/8 28
import ban causes rush: g90 5/22 5
number of people wounded: g 4/09 30
owned by a baby: g 2/08 29
owned by criminals: g90 5/22 4
owned by women: g90 5/22 6-7
suicides: g89 4/22 28
youths: g95 4/22 8
health and disease: w94 6/15 17-18
AIDS: g02 11/8 4; g96 6/22 28; g95 4/22 8; g92 8/8 8; g90 2/22 31; g90 10/22 7-8, 10-11; g89 8/22 29; g89 12/8 31; g88 10/8 5, 10-11; g88 11/22 29; g87 6/22 29; w86 12/15 15; g86 2/8 29; g86 3/22 15; g86 4/22 3-4; g86 5/22 29; g86 12/8 30
corporate wellness programs: g87 2/22 20-24
cost of health care: w94 6/15 17; g87 2/22 20, 23
deaths per day from tainted blood: g87 7/22 30
diabetes: g03 5/8 4
gonorrhea: g88 4/8 11
heart disease: g87 3/8 29
hepatitis, non-A non-B: g88 10/8 14; g87 8/8 31
leprosy: g 7/09 30
life expectancy: it-2 252; w88 6/15 27; g88 10/8 23; g86 10/22 21
mental illness: g94 8/8 28-29; w88 10/15 25
obesity: g04 7/8 29; g94 5/8 29
pneumonia: g90 9/8 29
public expenditures on pills: g88 10/8 30
sexually transmitted diseases: g97 5/22 29
skin cancer: g88 2/22 30; g87 9/22 12
study on benefits of showing love: gm 168
thirdhand cigarette smoke: g 2/15 8
tuberculosis: g96 6/22 31; g92 5/8 28-29
West Nile virus: g03 5/22 7
workdays lost from pain: g87 3/22 29
youths: g90 10/22 29
history:
civil rights movement: g87 6/8 23
imperial power: g90 10/8 21
Reformation’s effects on: w87 10/1 24-25; w87 11/1 25-26
homeless people: g 5/07 6; g92 4/22 29; g91 3/22 31; w88 4/15 11; g88 3/8 6
honeybees threatened: g88 7/8 30
ice storm (1998): g98 8/22 16-19
immigration: g86 6/22 14-16
green cards: km 2/93 3
illegal aliens: g86 6/22 14-15
illegal aliens selling own blood: g88 1/22 27
Independence Day: ijwfq article 59
Indians: g01 11/8 31; g97 11/8 31-32; g96 9/8 3-16
alcoholism: g96 9/8 14
Apache: g05 7/8 31; g98 3/8 13-18
Bible in Massachusett: g00 1/8 30; g99 5/8 25
Bible in Navajo: g99 5/8 25; g86 7/8 29
Bible translations: g99 5/8 25
Cahokia (prehistoric city): g03 3/8 14-18
Crazy Horse Memorial: g02 11/8 14-17
National Museum of the American Indian: g05 3/8 18-19
pottery: g96 3/8 24-26
relationship with Puritans: g 2/06 13
Sioux: g99 7/8 27
industry:
toxic leaks: g86 3/8 29
toxic wastes: g87 7/22 5-6
insurance industry:
crisis: g88 5/22 10-14
reinsurance companies backing: g88 5/22 10-11
language:
Japanese popular: g86 7/22 31
law:
contributions of Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb96 24; jv 698-699; g87 10/22 24-27
divorce: w88 5/15 4
green cards for immigrants: km 2/93 3
Mayflower Compact: w97 11/15 3
number of laws: w96 9/1 9
restrictions on smoking advertisements: g86 7/22 15
state law requiring parents to pay expenses of teen pregnancies: w86 6/15 14
state law requiring transfusion alert: g90 6/8 28
Witnesses are ministers: g88 4/22 30
Liberty Bell: w87 1/1 18
Library of Congress: g05 5/22 20-21
literacy:
deficient skills: g94 4/8 30
maps:
Apache reservations: g98 3/8 15
Cahokia (prehistoric city): g03 3/8 14
Niagara Falls: g01 7/8 27
Stratton, Ohio: g03 1/8 3
marriage: g00 1/22 28-29; g86 7/8 10
happiness of married versus unmarried: g89 7/8 29
older wives struck: g93 8/8 28-29
unwed couples: w06 1/1 26; g 6/06 30; g87 3/22 29
medicine:
blood bank profits: g90 10/22 5-6
centers for bloodless medicine: yb93 21-22; g93 1/22 21
CO2 laser treatment for tonsillitis: g88 3/8 29
contaminated blood not reported: w90 10/15 21
deaths from blood transfusions: g88 10/8 14; g87 7/22 30; g87 8/8 31
health-care fraud: g95 4/22 4
hepatitis from blood transfusions: w88 4/15 19
improved emergency care: g03 4/8 28
informed consent for blood transfusions: g90 10/22 13
plasma donation: g90 10/22 4
surgery without blood transfusion: rs 73-74
testing transfusion blood for disease: g87 7/22 30
unnecessary blood transfusions per year: g90 10/22 12
military:
air attack on Libya: w88 10/1 7
arms race: g90 10/22 28; g86 5/22 5-6
bushes used for security fencing: g89 5/22 28
Espionage Act (1917): yb17 173
geese used for guard duty: g86 12/8 30
hydrogen bomb dropped accidentally: g86 11/22 30
hydrogen bomb lost at sea: g89 8/22 28
Manhattan Project to develop atom bomb: g87 5/8 19
Objective Individual Combat Weapon: g01 3/22 8
Selective Service Act (1917): yb17 173
Selective Service registration: km 5/13 4; km 1/08 7
sensitive equipment sold on Internet: g 1/09 30
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): g88 8/22 6-7
suicide among veterans: g 8/13 3
Trident submarines: g86 5/22 3-4
weapons sales: g91 11/8 28; g89 11/22 29; g86 7/22 27
money: g87 8/22 3-5
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: g05 3/8 15
counterfeiting: g96 3/22 3-4
currency changes: g96 3/22 5; g86 7/8 30
dollar circulation (international): g98 11/8 28
“In God We Trust”: w03 9/1 13; g92 5/8 29
pennies unwanted: g96 2/8 29; g90 3/22 29
uncut bills for purchase: g87 8/8 29
moral standards (survey): w07 10/1 4
National History Day:
student presentations on Witness flag-salute cases: g91 12/8 24
national monuments:
Crazy Horse Memorial: g02 11/8 14-17
Devil’s Tower: g87 11/22 31
national parks:
Glacier: g89 6/22 9
Grand Teton: g01 10/22 16-19
number: g89 6/22 4
Olympic: g02 1/8 22-25
Yellowstone: g00 12/8 14-17; g89 6/22 3; g87 11/22 31
Yosemite: g90 5/8 31; g89 6/22 4
news media:
disinterest in world news: g02 11/8 31
underreported stories in 1987: g89 4/22 28
Niagara Falls: g01 7/8 25-27; g92 10/8 15-19
nuclear energy:
accidents: w94 8/1 4
security breach: g 7/13 3
nuclear waste: g90 9/22 9-10
police: g02 7/8 4-6
GPS-trackable devices: g 10/14 7
politics:
clergyman running for president corrected by letter to newspaper: g93 2/8 29
pollution: g88 5/8 4; tp 16
water: g90 9/22 10; g87 7/22 5-6; tp 16; g86 11/22 9-10
population:
census (1990): g89 9/22 29
census (2000): g02 4/22 28
centenarians: g95 6/22 14; g89 3/22 30
elderly: g89 3/22 30; w87 6/1 3
number born 1860-1924 still alive: g91 10/8 28
number of World War I veterans alive: g88 4/8 13; w86 2/15 5
shift to cities: g91 4/8 31
postal system: g93 4/8 16-19
pony express: w98 4/15 24; g93 4/8 17
poverty:
children: g92 12/22 29; g90 3/8 29
number below poverty level: g92 1/8 29
presidents:
Bush’s (George) airplane: g90 8/8 29
Bush’s (George) comments on new world order: g96 7/22 12; g93 10/22 3-4; w92 3/1 3; g92 10/22 3; w91 4/15 4; w91 6/1 17; w91 7/15 3
Carter’s (Jimmy) comment on religion and war: w88 2/1 17
Clinton’s (Bill) comments on new world: g93 10/22 3
Lincoln’s (Abraham) comment on government: g03 6/8 8
Obama’s (Barack) comment on need to pray: g 2/12 29
Reagan’s (Ronald) comments on Armageddon: g90 8/22 8; w86 10/1 3
Reagan’s (Ronald) comments on Bible: g89 10/22 22
Reagan’s (Ronald) comments on the economy: g 7/12 4
Truman’s (Harry) appeal for an Isaiah or a St. Paul: w02 7/1 9; Lmn 11
Washington’s (George) teeth: g 9/07 28
Wilson (Woodrow) calls World War I “war to end all wars”: w08 4/1 3
Wilson’s (Woodrow) promotion of League of Nations: w18.10 3; w86 2/1 6
prisons: g91 4/8 28
cost: g88 7/8 29
court allows pornography: g89 6/22 29
inmate granted right to practice religion of witchcraft: w88 9/1 5-6
number in prison: g 2/10 30; g 12/08 29; g99 9/22 29; g97 7/22 29; g88 7/8 29
number of ex-prisoners rearrested: g89 7/8 29
sentences for murder: g86 11/8 30
sentences for serious crimes: w89 3/1 20
religion: g91 7/8 28
19th century: g89 10/22 17
Bible reading: g01 11/22 29; w00 1/15 32; g98 3/8 28; w91 1/15 7
Bible sales: g 7/10 22; g86 6/22 29
Catholic bishops approve priestless services: g90 2/22 29
Catholic bishops assail new catechism: g90 11/8 28
Catholic bishops’ economic statement (1986): g87 4/22 9
Catholic bishops employ public-relations firm to convey antiabortion message: g90 9/8 28
Catholic bishops influence political choices: g 6/12 28
Catholic bishops reject Vatican policy paper: g89 2/22 29
Catholic decline: g 11/11 29; tp 82; g86 9/22 30-31
Catholic dioceses bankrupt: g05 12/8 29
Catholic Hispanics leaving Church: g91 5/8 29
Catholic parishes being closed (Boston): g05 1/8 29
Catholic prelates censured for liberal teachings: g87 1/22 30
Catholic priest homosexuality: g89 1/22 9-10; w87 11/1 15
Catholic priests molesting children: g93 4/8 31; w89 4/15 8; g89 1/22 10; g89 11/8 28
Catholics surveyed on acceptance of church teachings: g88 3/8 25
Catholics surveyed on homosexuality: g89 9/8 13
church attendance: w98 7/1 6
clergy carry guns: g98 10/8 28-29
clothing of church attenders: g99 7/22 29
confidence in, waning: g89 7/8 28; g87 4/8 29
converting others considered unimportant: g95 3/22 28
Darwin’s birthday: g 11/06 27
decline: g 11/15 4; g 1/10 12; w02 9/15 15; g97 5/22 29; g97 6/22 28; g91 1/8 28; g89 2/8 29; g89 11/22 21
divine name historically common: g04 1/22 3; w92 9/15 32
Easter customs: g86 3/22 4, 8
failure: sh 342
failure to promote evangelism by members: w90 6/15 30
forecast by panel of Protestant scholars: g86 6/22 29
fraud: g97 9/22 10
Hindu cow-protection plan: g86 4/8 30
homosexuality accepted: w96 7/1 6
ineffectiveness: w97 9/15 6
Islam: g01 12/22 29
Lutherans merge: g86 8/8 30; g86 11/22 29
marketing: g 2/07 6-7; g86 2/22 30-31
Methodists use nongender terms for God: w88 2/15 21
number changing religion: g 2/09 30
number taking seriously: g94 12/22 23
Pilgrims (Puritans): g 2/06 10-13; g96 11/22 24-27
political involvement: g 6/12 28; g87 4/22 3-4, 9
pope’s visit: g88 3/8 24-26; g87 12/8 29-30
prayer: g01 7/22 13; w98 7/1 6
racial prejudice: w99 8/1 32
reawakening: g87 4/22 29-30
Reformation’s effects on people: w87 11/1 25-26
Satanism: g89 10/22 3-4; w88 9/1 4-6
Southern Baptist clergy dismissals: g90 5/8 28; g89 3/22 30
survey of college students: g89 11/22 29
survey on belief in Bible: g17.3 3; g 11/07 30
survey on belief in God: g 9/06 3
survey on beliefs: g00 9/8 28
survey on church attendance and morality: w88 4/15 21
survey on church attendance and practice: g94 7/22 28
survey on efforts to follow Jesus’ example: w86 9/1 3
survey on going to heaven or hell: w94 2/15 32
surveys on belief in God and effect on daily life: w02 4/15 13
TV evangelists: g88 3/22 5-8; g88 7/8 31; g88 10/22 31; g87 7/22 29; w86 11/15 21
two of oldest religious magazines fold: g93 5/8 29
Vatican censure of liberal prelates: g87 1/22 30
witchcraft: w88 9/1 5-6
youths’ beliefs: g94 9/22 13; g90 3/22 25; g90 9/8 7-8
schools:
astrology school accredited: g02 7/8 29
biology made boring: g91 5/22 29
for the deaf: g98 9/8 20
use of electronic tablets: g 8/14 7
science:
Biosphere 2: g00 11/22 11-12
survey on belief in evolution: g 9/06 30
surveys on public literacy regarding: g89 6/8 28; g89 11/8 30
segregation: w18.05 5-6
sex:
adultery: w86 11/15 10-11
high school students: g92 9/22 29
homosexuality: g93 8/22 28; g86 3/22 13
multiple partners: g 3/08 27
pornography: g86 12/22 4, 6
teenage girls: g91 5/22 28
teen pregnancies: w88 4/15 3; g86 5/22 31
university students: g89 11/22 29
unwed couples: w06 1/1 26; g 6/06 30; g87 3/22 29
slavery: g02 6/22 6
smoking: g96 10/22 21-24
advertising restrictions: g86 7/22 15; g86 8/22 30
antismoking campaigns: g95 1/8 32
article by secretary of Department of Health and Human Services: g92 5/8 13
banned on most domestic flights: g90 1/22 28
congressional hearings (1994): g96 1/22 18; g95 5/22 8-9
cost: g89 12/8 12; g87 9/8 30; w86 5/1 6
deaths from: g98 11/8 29; g96 10/22 21; g94 4/8 31; g89 4/22 28; g88 8/22 14; g87 5/8 6; g87 9/8 29-30; g86 4/8 8; g86 7/22 12-14, 16; g86 8/22 30
deaths of nonsmokers from: g88 8/22 14
deaths of women from: g96 4/22 28
decline in: g96 10/22 24; g88 8/22 14
effect of Civil War: g86 4/8 5
effect of thirdhand smoke: g 2/15 8
number of smokers: g88 8/22 14
report by Centers for Disease Control: g90 10/22 28
report by U.S. surgeon general: g90 9/22 31; g88 8/22 29
restrictions: g96 10/22 21-22
states switch sides: g04 8/8 29
space efforts: g92 9/8 3-15
Apollo program: g92 9/8 6
COBE satellite: g99 6/22 5
Freedom space station: g92 9/8 12, 15
Global Positioning System (satellites): g99 11/22 21-23
Magellan spacecraft: g92 9/8 7-8
Mariner spacecraft: g99 11/22 16
Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander: g00 7/8 28; g99 11/22 14-17
motivation: g92 9/8 5-6, 10, 12-14
Pathfinder spacecraft: g99 11/22 16-17; g98 6/22 26-27
Pioneer spacecraft: g92 9/8 6
rescue of communications satellite: g92 9/8 14
shuttle: g92 9/8 3-4, 8-10
shuttle explosion: g01 2/8 6; g86 9/8 30
spy satellites: g92 9/8 8-9
Viking spacecraft: g99 11/22 17; g92 9/8 7
Voyager spacecraft: g98 12/22 29; g92 9/8 6; g89 12/8 29
Statue of Liberty: g86 6/22 12-16
suicides: g01 11/22 28-29; g96 10/8 28; g86 1/8 31; g86 5/22 29
elderly: g00 2/22 4; g89 11/8 29
Golden Gate Bridge: g96 2/22 28-29
home firearms: g89 4/22 28
youths: ijwhf article 32; g 5/08 29; g90 9/8 3; g86 1/8 31
Supreme Court:
flag salute: kr 154; re 92; jv 197, 670, 684-688; g88 6/8 23-24; g87 10/22 26-27
literature distribution: kr 140-142; re 92; jv 349, 684-688; g87 10/22 26
nonreligious burial for aborted fetuses: g86 1/8 29
number of Witness cases: jv 679, 687-688, 699
photo (1943): jv 686
U.S. held to be a Christian nation: jv 684
Witness preaching: kr 136-138; re 92; jv 688
television:
number of sets: g87 8/22 19
terrorism:
cost and effectiveness of security measures: g87 1/8 11
tipping: g86 6/22 24-25, 27
tobacco:
development of American: g86 4/8 5
smokeless products: g86 5/8 30; g86 8/22 30
UFO’s: g90 11/8 6-11
violence: g94 5/22 28; g91 8/8 28; g90 4/22 28; g89 4/22 3; w88 4/15 11
volcanoes:
Crater Lake (Oregon): g87 12/8 31
Mt. St. Helens (Washington): g87 7/8 3; w86 9/15 3
walking:
dangerous distractions: g 12/13 3
war:
Civil War (1861-1865): g95 5/8 13-14; g86 4/8 5
Vietnam: g87 6/8 22-23; g86 2/8 6-7
War of Independence (1775-1783): g89 9/8 19
World War II: g87 4/22 15-16
World War I veterans still alive: g88 4/8 13; w86 2/15 5
Washington, D.C.: g94 3/22 24-25
Codex Washingtonianus I: it-2 316; w11 3/1 2-3
Codex Washingtonianus II: it-2 316
Holocaust Memorial Museum: g05 3/8 15-18; g99 9/22 24-25; g94 2/8 30; g93 5/8 31; g93 11/8 16-19
museums: g05 3/8 14-19
National Gallery of Art: g05 3/8 18-19
Smithsonian Institution: g05 3/8 14-15, 18-19
water:
aquifer depletion: g86 11/22 5-7
consumption of bottled: g 11/08 30
pollution: g87 7/22 5-6; tp 16; g86 11/22 9-10
women:
death from lung cancer: g86 7/22 13
domestic violence: g95 4/22 5; g93 8/8 28-29; g88 11/22 3
number employed: g98 4/8 29
number owning guns: g90 5/22 7
world power: g 5/11 17; re 193-194; w88 5/15 25
when distinct as part of seventh: w12 6/15 15; g 5/11 15; re 190-191, 253
youths:
abortions: g90 5/8 26; w88 4/15 3; g86 7/22 30
amount spent in one year: g89 1/22 13
amount spent on cosmetics: g90 5/22 21
belief in astrology: w90 8/15 4
crime: w88 3/15 20
dishonesty: g93 6/22 28
driving while intoxicated: w88 3/15 20
goals of university freshmen: g88 5/22 29
guns: g95 4/22 8
lack knowledge of geography: g03 6/8 29; g88 11/22 30
marijuana use: g90 9/8 3
mental health decline: mrt article 76
number who contract sexually transmitted diseases annually: g90 10/8 24
pregnancies: g 10/09 30; g04 10/8 7; g01 9/8 29; g00 4/22 13; w88 4/15 3; g86 2/8 31; g86 5/22 31
religious beliefs: g94 9/22 13; g90 3/22 25; g90 9/8 7-8
risky behavior: g99 4/22 28
sex: g92 9/22 29; g91 5/22 28
student protests during 1960’s: g87 6/8 22-23
suicides: ijwhf article 32; g 5/08 29; g90 9/8 3; g86 1/8 31; g86 5/22 29
view of God: g86 2/8 15
views on religion, sex: g89 11/22 29
Jehovah’s Witnesses
annual and supplementary meetings (2001): w02 4/1 25-29
apostasy: jv 111, 620-621, 627-628
at Bethel (1917-1918): jv 66-68
Assembly Halls: km 1/04 1; yb00 46; yb97 24; km 5/93 7; km 5/91 7; sh 363; yb87 3-5, 7; g86 3/8 28; g86 11/22 27
Jersey City, New Jersey: w20.07 27-28; jv 331-332
Long Island City, New York: jv 328-329, 722
Newburgh, New York: yb04 25-26
standard design: km 1/04 1
auxiliary pioneers: km 3/00 3
Bethel family: yb95 5; yb94 7; yb93 18
1896: jv 295
1902: jv 209
1920: jv 217
members 25 years of age and under: w86 8/1 20
members reassigned (2005- ): yb09 16-19; km 9/07 1; km 9/06 1
size: yb03 24; yb97 28; yb96 8-9
Bible studies: km 5/09 4; km 2/93 1
blood issue: w20.07 28; jv 186; yb91 58-59
Connecticut supreme court victory (1996): w97 8/1 32; yb97 14
Florida appeal court victory (1996): yb97 14
Illinois victories (1997): g98 8/22 11
Iowa victory (2003): yb05 16
New York victory (1990): w20.07 28-29; yb91 59
Pennsylvania victory (2001): yb02 16-17
premature baby recovers without blood transfusion: g90 2/22 31
South Carolina supreme court victory (2002): yb03 20
book Religious Movements in Contemporary America: w94 4/15 14
Branch Committee: w22.09 31; w21.07 29; w12 7/15 21; yb03 22-25; w02 4/1 27
branch office: yb03 23-25; je 9-10
address for financial matters: km 5/08 3; w07 11/1 20
address for literature requests: km 7/04 3
Allegheny (1884): w09 5/1 23; jv 54, 208
Allegheny (1889): kr 28; w09 5/1 23; jv 54, 208-209
Brooklyn (1909): kr 29, 69; w09 5/1 22-24; w09 8/15 23; jv 59, 216
Brooklyn (1911): jv 59
Brooklyn (1919): jv 76, 577-578
Brooklyn (1920): w09 5/1 22-23; jv 217, 578
Brooklyn (1922): w09 5/1 23; jv 580
Brooklyn (1927): kr 204; w09 5/1 23; jv 584-585
Brooklyn (1950): jv 99
equipment: yb88 24-25; yb87 6, 8; g87 1/8 23-27
expansion: w12 8/15 17; w98 8/1 23-24; yb97 27; yb95 31; jv 584-585, 591-592; yb91 10-15; br78 9-10; g89 4/22 23-27; yb88 24-25; yb87 6, 8; g87 8/22 16-18; g87 12/22 16-18; w86 1/1 17, 25; g86 2/8 21-25
legal department (1930’s): jv 82, 679
neighbors invited to tour office complex (2016): yb17 16-18
obtaining Kingdom Hall addresses and meeting times: km 4/08 7
oversees Alaska (2006- ): yb13 13
oversees Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, U.S. Virgin Islands (2013- ): w16.08 7; km 6/13 4
oversees Bahamas (2011- ): yb13 13; km 8/11 8
oversees Hawaii (2010- ): yb13 13; km 11/10 8
oversees Jamaica, Cayman Islands (2014- ): yb15 41
photos: jv 352-356
Pittsburgh (1879): jv 54, 208-209
Pittsburgh (1918): jv 71, 75-76, 208, 577
production of literature: w09 7/1 15; yb90 59
telephone numbers: km 3/08 3; km 9/00 2; km 8/99 7
Watchtower Educational Center (Patterson): w09 5/1 24; yb00 46-47; w99 11/15 8-12; yb99 18-19; yb96 14-15, 20-21; jv 352; yb93 25; yb92 10; yb91 12-15; g91 8/22 27; km 12/91 3-4; km 12/90 9-12
Watchtower Farms (Wallkill): yb17 7; w09 5/1 24; w09 7/1 15-17; yb06 13, 28, 30; w05 12/1 8-12; yb05 22-24; km 9/05 1; yb04 22; km 9/04 1; km 9/03 1, 3-6; jv 354, 356, 591-592; yb87 6, 8; g87 2/22 25-27
children:
newspaper publishes seven-year-old’s letter to Jehovah: yb12 63-64
circuits, districts: km 9/05 1; km 9/00 3
clergy opposition: re 168; jv 656-659; w89 5/1 4; ws 33-34
Catholic Action: jv 85
incite government: jv 69-70, 552, 647-650
incite mobs: jv 70
World War I: re 168; jv 552, 647-656
commendation by mayor of Gainesville, Georgia: g92 9/8 31
congregations: jv 500; km 12/93 2; yb88 20-21
monthly service instruction sheets (1930’s): jv 640
Navajo nation: g04 1/8 22-23
sign language for deaf: w09 8/15 27
conventions: yb95 254-255; yb90 13-14; yb88 13; w87 1/15 31; g86 12/22 24
Cedar Point, Ohio (1919): w19.10 4-5; w16.05 28-29; kr 62-63, 176; jv 257-259
Cedar Point, Ohio (1922): w22.10 3-5; kr 176; jv 259-260
Chicago, Illinois (1893): w12 5/15 32; km 5/01 3
Cleveland, Ohio (1942): w12 9/15 29; w10 9/15 4; jv 262
Cleveland, Ohio (1946): w02 3/1 22; jv 97-99, 270-271, 588
Columbus, Ohio (1931): kr 63, 177; jv 261-263
international (1998): yb01 209; yb99 7-12
Los Angeles, California (1939): jv 265
New York, New York (1939): w95 12/1 21-22; jv 657-659
New York, New York (1950): w24.09 14; w15 5/15 32; jv 99, 262-263, 271, 274
New York, New York (1953): jv 99-100, 263, 272-273, 275
New York, New York (1958): kr 177; yb08 200-201; jv 101-102, 264, 270-271, 273-274, 282; pe 198-200; br78 11, 24
New York, New York (1969): w19.02 29
St. Louis, Missouri (1941): w10 9/15 4; jv 262
Tacoma, Washington (1917): yb17 172-173
Washington, D.C. (1935): w21.01 14-15; kr 53, 63, 177; w12 9/15 29; jv 261, 266-267
conversation with Governor Wallace of Alabama: g86 7/22 20
court cases:
bloodless surgery: yb12 38-39
blood transfusion: w20.07 28-29; jv 186; yb91 58-59
child custody: kr 164-165; yb12 39; yb97 15; g97 12/8 6-7; yb88 28-29; g88 10/22 5-9
company-owned towns: g98 4/22 23-24
flag salute: kr 154; re 92; jv 197, 670, 684-688; g88 6/8 22-24; g87 10/22 26-27
house-to-house preaching: bt 186; kr 136-138, 147; yb05 16; w04 3/15 12-13; yb04 17; yb03 13, 19-20; g03 1/8 3-11
Knorr’s comment (1943): w17.06 12
literature distribution: kr 140-142; w04 3/15 12-13; w98 12/1 20; jv 349, 684-688
noncustodial Witness parent: yb16 36
not peddlers: g87 10/22 26
not solicitors: g88 4/22 30
ordinances restricting witness work: jv 683-687, 697-698
over shunning disassociated person: w88 4/15 26, 28-29; g87 10/22 27
regarding Stanley Theater, New Jersey (1984): w20.07 27-28; jv 331-332; yb87 3-4
Rutherford and associates (1918/1919): w18.10 4-5; w16.11 29-30; kr 23-24; w08 9/15 8; w00 10/1 26-27; jv 69-70, 650-654; w87 6/15 16
Supreme Court (1937-1953): jv 499
Supreme Court (1938-1943): jv 699
Supreme Court (1955): kr 151-152
Supreme Court (number of cases): jv 679, 688
Supreme Court defeats: jv 684-686
Supreme Court victories: kr 136-138; re 92; jv 684, 686-688; g88 6/8 23-24; g87 10/22 26-27
divisional campaigns (1930’s): km 5/11 2; jv 82-83, 691-692
flag salute: kr 154; jv 669-672; w87 6/1 21-23
growth: g 8/10 3; jv 54, 500, 563-564; km 7/89 1; km 1/87 2
1924-1957: foa article 8
one million publishers: w10 9/15 7; w99 1/1 20; km 8/98 1; km 11/98 3
peaks of publishers: km 3/00 4
World War II: jv 457
honesty: w86 11/15 12-14
Hospital Information Services: yb93 19, 21-23; yb92 8-9; yb91 35-37; g91 3/8 12; g91 11/22 8-11; km 9/88 4
hospital visits by local elders: km 9/08 3
information marching: lfs article 8; w18.10 18; jv 567
Kingdom Halls: yb94 14; jv 320-324; yb88 20-21; g87 1/22 14; g87 3/22 31
first (New Light church): kr 203
form Information Regarding Ownership of Kingdom Halls (T-36): km 11/02 7
Kingdom Hall Fund: km 9/02 3; km 12/89 3; yb88 21
Navajo reservation: g04 1/8 22-24
Regional Building Committees: kr 204
tax matters: km 12/08 7
Kingdom Ministry School: yb96 15
Kingdom Schools: w10 9/1 27; w95 12/1 22; w93 9/15 10-11; jv 671-672; g93 7/22 14; w87 6/1 21-22
legal corporations: w09 5/1 25; km 1/02 7; jv 229; br78 6; je 8-9
legal matters: w25.07 29
contributions to constitutional law: w01 5/15 32; w98 12/1 20; g98 4/22 22; g96 7/22 5; jv 698-699; g87 10/22 24-27
contributions to medical law: yb96 24
durable power of attorney (DPA) card (medical directive): km 12/04 7; yb02 16-17
literature in mailboxes and mail slots: km 10/10 4; km 11/01 7; km 6/91 3
ordinances restricting witness work: jv 683-687, 697-698
petition to release representatives from prison (1919): w19.10 3; w18.10 5; jv 74-75
Sunday witnessing: jv 82-83, 690
video Legally Defending the Good News: lff lesson 21
meetings: kr 17-19, 123; jv 44-45, 49-50
Memorial: w15 2/15 31; km 10/15 4; km 8/09 8; km 9/04 1; km 2/02 3; km 3/00 5; jv 54-55; km 1/88 7
invitation campaign (2007): yb08 11-12
Ministerial Training School: yb96 17; jv 545; yb92 11; yb90 22-24
minority-language field: yb07 16-17; yb03 24; km 9/03 1; km 7/02 1; yb01 50; yb90 59
Albanian: yb10 128, 130-131, 134-135, 137, 142, 166-168
American Sign Language: yb11 7; yb07 21-22; yb04 9; km 6/01 1; yb97 63-64
Filipino: yb03 244
French: yb94 154-155; g94 4/8 15-16
Hungarian: yb96 69-70
Navajo: g04 1/8 22-23; yb03 26-27
Polish: w10 9/1 26; yb94 178-180
Portuguese: w01 5/1 28
Russian: w17.06 11; yb08 80; g00 2/22 24-27
Spanish: w09 1/15 20; yb07 16-17; yb03 24; yb90 59
persecution: jv 10, 669-671; w89 6/15 27; g88 6/8 22-23; w87 8/1 23; w86 10/1 29; ws 33-34
arrests: jv 679-680
arrests for Sunday witnessing: jv 82
mobs: w10 9/15 3; w01 2/1 25-27; w99 12/1 23; jv 70, 671
Rutherford and associates imprisoned (1918-1919): w18.10 4-5; w16.11 29-30; kr 23; w08 9/15 8; re 39-40, 167-169; g01 11/22 19-21; w00 4/1 19; w00 10/1 26-27; dp 286-287; jv 69-75, 424, 650-654; w89 4/1 9; w89 5/1 4; w87 6/15 16; w86 2/1 13; ws 33-34
World War I: w18.10 4-5; w16.11 29-30; jv 69-70, 423-424, 552, 577, 649-656
World War II: w10 9/1 27-29; w10 9/15 3-4; g98 4/22 21-24
persons:
Abbott, Eva Carol: w86 10/1 26-30
Abernathy, Josefa ‘Pepita’: g93 2/22 13-17
Adams, Don: w03 3/1 25, 29
Adams, Joel and Mary: w24.12 26-29; w03 3/1 25-26, 28-29
Adams, Karl: w24.12 28; w03 3/1 26, 29
Allen, Carol: w00 10/1 24-29
Allen, Malcolm and Grace: w13 10/15 17-20
Anderson, Charles H.: jv 68
Barber, Carey W.: w07 10/15 31; w02 4/1 27; jv 116, 226-227
Barnette, Marie and Gathie: jv 686
Barney, Eva: w23.10 2
Barr, John E. and Mildred: w11 5/15 6; w02 4/1 28; yb00 130; jv 116; w87 7/1 26-31
Barry, Melba: w01 4/1 24-29
Barry, W. Lloyd: w99 10/1 16-17; w99 11/15 12; jv 116
Berry, James B.: w01 2/1 24-29
Betler, Edward and Opal: kr 86
Bogard, Kathryn: jv 298
Booth, John C.: w96 6/15 32; jv 116, 226, 669
Borchert, Helen: kr 46
Borys, Feliks: g94 2/22 20-23
Brandt, Blossom: w18.03 8, 12; w93 10/1 5-9
Brenisen (Brenneisen), Edward W.: jv 64, 222-223
Brenisen, Edith: jv 238
Bright, Walter and Erika: w18.03 19-22
Bristow, Avery and Lovenia: kr 67
Brumley, George: w92 12/1 21-25
Brumley, Philip and Elizabeth: w25.07 26-30
Burford, Hazel: w23.10 3
Burgess, A. E.: jv 64
Cain, Gerald: jv 500
Campbell, Olga: w08 3/1 26-29
Cantwell, Newton and Esther: kr 136-138
Carrbello, Peter and Billie: w14 9/1 10-12
Ciranko, Robert and Ketra: w11 8/15 19-20
Claus, Arthur: w22.10 3-5
Couch, George: w98 8/1 19-24
Covington, Hayden C. and Dorothy: kr 137-138; jv 89, 91-92, 679
Davis, Willie and Lois: w94 9/1 22-25
DeCecca, Giovanni: jv 75, 652-653
DeCecca, Grace: jv 298
Dies, Harold: g95 5/22 19-23
Dixon, Russell: g88 4/8 17-21
Dugué, Virgil: g90 3/22 21-24
Dyson, James: g90 7/22 19-23
Edgar, John: jv 64
Estep, Grace: jv 669-670
Evans, William: w00 1/1 24-25
Fekel, Charles: w18.10 5; jv 585
Few, Addie Clinton: g94 7/22 19-23
Fisher, George H.: jv 64, 67-68, 652-653
Fleegle, Gage and Nadia: w24.02 28
Franz, Frederick W.: w18.10 5; w93 3/15 31-32; jv 89, 91, 100, 109, 116, 295, 298; w87 5/1 22-30
Friend, Samuel B.: w86 8/1 22-26
Gangas, George D.: w94 12/1 31; jv 116
Gaskins, Sharon: w93 6/1 28-31
Glass, Ulysses V.: w99 8/1 26-31
Gobitas, Walter: jv 685
Gobitas, William: kr 154; jv 670, 685-686
Gott, Tarissa P.: jv 68-69; w87 6/1 20-23
Green, Alexander B.: jv 500
Hall, Lottie: w91 3/1 10-13
Harris, Harley: w10 9/15 3-5
Haslett, Mabel: jv 75
Hatzfeld, Robert: w94 8/1 21-26
Henschel, Milton G.: jv 100, 116
Herd, Samuel F. and Gloria: w18.05 3-8; w00 1/1 29
Hersee, William: jv 222
Hetzel, Ora: kr 69
Hibshman, David Z.: w00 1/1 24-27
Hirsh, Robert: jv 64
Hoskins, Isaac F.: jv 64-65
Hudgings, W. F.: jv 73
Hyde, Audrey: w20.08 7; w04 7/1 23-29
Jackson, Geoffrey and Jenny (deceased), Loraini: w15 8/15 3-8
Jackson, William K.: jv 683
Jaracz, Theodore and Melita: w15 9/15 28-32; w02 4/1 27-28; jv 116
Jedele, Jody and Damaris: w25.10 30-31
Johnson, Carl: jv 452
Johnson, Lennart: w87 10/1 26-30
Johnson, Paul S. L.: yb17 174; jv 627-628
Jones, Rosco: jv 685-687
Keefer, Malinda: jv 285
Kendall, Mary: g94 4/8 14-17
Kennedy, James: g86 7/22 17-20
Kennedy, Mary: ijwcl article 26
Kikot, John and Laura: w21.07 29
Kilin, Maria: w12 12/1 12-15
Klein, Karl F.: w22.02 11-12; w19.09 3-4; w01 5/1 31; jv 116
Klose, Lillian (Gobitas): kr 154; jv 670, 685-686; g93 7/22 12-17
Knorr, Nathan H.: w17.09 16-17; w04 7/1 26-28; jv 89-109
Koerber, Anton: w93 9/15 30-31; jv 640
Kraker, Simon: kr 149-151; w86 2/1 22-26
Kurzen, Russell: w01 11/1 19-24
Landis, Robert and Pauline: w23.02 26, 30
Larson, Max: jv 586; w89 9/1 23-30
Leffler, Ralph: foa article 8
Lett, M. Stephen and Susan: w11 8/15 18; w02 4/1 27; w00 1/1 29
Lloyd, Max and Elsie: w12 7/15 17-21
Lobo, Alinio de Santa Rita: g93 9/8 20-24
Lösch, Gerrit and Merete: w14 7/15 17-22; w94 11/1 29
Louisidis, Constantine: g93 11/8 12-15
Lovell, Alma: jv 684
Macmillan, Alexander H.: jv 61-63, 68, 222, 652-653
Malaspina, Francis and Gloria: w95 1/1 20-23
Marks, Helen: w02 1/1 23-28
Marsh, Grace: g98 4/22 20-24
Marshall, R. Stuart: w08 12/1 26-29
Martin, Emma: w20.10 4-5
Martin, Robert J.: jv 91, 580, 652-653
McCabe, Jim: g87 2/8 9-13
McLain, Thomas and Bethel: w16.10 3-7
Molohan, Charles and Lila: w18.10 17-21
Morris, Anthony: w15 5/15 3-8; w11 8/15 21
Moyer, Clara Gerber: w00 3/1 20-24
Naish, George: w25.10 3
Nisbet, Laurel: w01 9/15 17-18; g93 1/22 18-21; g93 9/22 9
Noumair, Mark: w11 8/15 19
Olson, Mildred: w14 10/15 18-22
Page, William E.: jv 64
Pappas, Ruth E.: w09 1/15 17-20
Parker, Wesley and Aster: lfs article 13
Parkin, Ronald J.: w16.08 7
Pater, Jennifer: kr 164-165
Pavlow, Marlene: g93 3/22 20-23
Pederson, Emilia: w09 1/15 17-20
Peloyan, Harry: w06 5/1 8-13
Peterson, Harry: w17.03 5; w93 12/15 13
Pierce, Guy H. and Penny: w14 12/15 3; w11 8/15 20-21; w00 1/1 29
Pierson, A. N.: jv 65
Reed, Robert D. and Earline: g90 3/8 16-19
Reinmueller, Alex and Sarah: w11 8/15 19
Reusch, Lyle: w91 7/1 20-23
Ridley, Donald and Dawn: w20.07 26-30
Ritchie, A. I.: jv 65
Robison, Corwin: w16.02 3-7
Robison, Frederick H.: jv 64, 652-653
Rockwell, Henry C.: jv 64-65
Rosam, Eugene and Camilla: lfs article 8
Rubin, Larry: g94 11/22 20-23
Rumph, Jacob and Inga: w25.10 30-31
Rusk, Fred and Marjorie: w11 10/15 18-22
Russell, Charles T.: yb16 175; jv 42-64, 404-407, 419-422
Rutherford, Joseph F.: jv 59, 64-89, 650-654
Ryan, Roy A.: w91 12/1 24-27
Samuelson, William and Angela (Angie): w17.03 3-7
Sanderson, Mark: w13 7/15 26
Sargent, Melvin: jv 574; w87 8/1 21-25
Schafer, David and Krista: w11 8/15 19
Schenck, Brett: g 4/13 6-7
Schmidt, Edmund and Brigitte: w10 9/1 26-29
Schroeder, Albert D.: w06 9/15 31; jv 116; w88 3/1 10-17
Schwoerer, Karl Heinz: g 12/07 22-25
Scribner, Paul: w01 7/1 24-30
Sexton, E. D.: jv 73-74
Seymour, Susan: g 12/06 21-23
Sicurella, Anthony: kr 151-152
Sinclair, David and Livija: w17.09 13-17
Sinutko, Charles: g04 8/22 19-23
Spill, W. E.: jv 68
Splane, David H.: w11 8/15 21; w00 1/1 29
Stansel, Ladd: g87 11/22 21-23
Stigers, Zerah: w07 8/1 12-15
Stubenvoll, Thomas and Christine: g 12/09 24-27
Sturgeon, Menta: jv 63
Suiter, Grant: jv 100, 166, 247, 274
Sullivan, Thomas J.: jv 71, 77, 100
Sunal, Jetha: w03 3/1 23-29
Sunal, Rudolph: jv 453
Swingle, Lyman A.: w01 7/1 31; jv 91, 100, 116
Sydlik, Daniel: w07 1/1 8; jv 116
Thompson, James A. and Geraldine: w11 12/15 3-7
Thorn, Walter J.: yb16 173; w15 2/15 7; w12 8/15 32; jv 79; w90 9/1 19-20
Valentino, Luiggi D.: w01 5/1 24-28
Van Amburgh, William E.: jv 64-65, 68, 74, 91, 652-653
Walden, Bill and Eva (deceased), Betty: w20.08 5-6; w13 12/1 8-10
Wallen, Robert and Lorraine: w14 4/15 13-16
Warienchuck, George and Evelyn: w09 10/15 22-25
Weaver, Leon, Jr. and Ruby: w22.09 28-31
White, Bob Lee, Sr.: g04 11/8 20-23
Winder, Jeffrey and Angela: w24.02 28-29
Wise, Charles A.: jv 74, 577-578
Woodworth, Clayton J., Jr.: kr 80
Woodworth, Clayton J., Sr.: w00 10/1 25-29; jv 67, 650-653
Woodworth, Eldon: w17.03 5
Worsley, Arthur: w86 3/1 21-25
Wright, J. D.: jv 65
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: w14 2/15 30-31; kr 29, 71; yb14 172; jv 56, 60, 422, 561-562
pioneers: km 9/07 1; yb97 18; w87 1/1 6; w86 8/1 20; km 9/86 1
Pioneer Service School: yb98 16; jv 300
places:
Brewery Gulch (Arizona): g97 4/22 30; g96 7/22 22-24
printing: w20.10 2-3; w05 12/1 11; jv 577-581, 591-592; br78 9-10; w87 1/1 31
bookbinding: w22.10 2; w09 7/1 15; w05 12/1 9; yb05 23; yb04 21-22; jv 588-589, 593
magazines: w09 7/1 15; yb97 7
number of languages: w09 7/1 15; jv 355-356
offset: jv 595
presses: w20.10 3; w10 9/15 10; yb06 30; yb05 23-24, 27; yb04 22; jv 587
typesetting: jv 581
racial integration: mwb22.03 13; w21.10 31; w18.05 6, 8; w11 12/15 6
relief work:
California earthquake (1989): g90 2/22 20-21
California earthquake (1992): g92 12/22 15-16
Florida hurricanes (2004): w12 3/1 6; yb06 18; g 8/06 24; km 9/05 1
for needy: w86 10/15 16, 18
for non-Witness disaster victims: g93 1/8 17-18, 20-21; g86 10/8 23-24
homes repaired: g93 2/22 31
Hurricane Andrew (1992): jv 315, 712; yb93 16-17; g93 1/8 16-21
Hurricane Hugo (1989): g90 2/22 16, 19-20; g89 12/22 29
hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005): w09 1/15 15-16; w09 9/15 19-20; g 10/09 23; g 8/08 16-19; w07 10/1 24-25; g 6/06 16-17, 19; g 8/06 23-24; km 3/06 3
Texas flood (2001): w03 6/1 6; w03 8/15 22; g03 7/8 30; g02 11/22 19-24
Yuba River flood (1986): jv 313; g86 10/8 21-25
Rotary Club invites Witnesses to speak: g96 11/22 18-20
service experiences: yb93 59; w92 2/15 18; w89 2/15 23-24; yb87 25
Amish people: w09 12/1 18-19
convention handbills: yb07 8-10
couple who rejected authority: w10 5/1 28-29
Hindu woman seeking a mala: yb04 51-52
homeless veteran: g 5/15 4-5
Memorial invitation campaign (2007): yb08 11-12
Mormon youth: w13 2/1 8-9
Navajo people: yb03 26-27; w97 8/15 23-25
New World Translation in sign language: yb11 7
prayer to find interested person: jv 550-551
prayer to send Witnesses: yb12 59
prison inmate: g 11/07 25
prison programs: g05 4/8 13; g01 5/8 10; g01 11/22 18-22
prodigal son: w13 1/1 10-11
proud, independent man: w14 10/1 14-15
Russians: g00 2/22 25-26
schoolteacher who made fun of Witnesses: yb17 55-57
science teacher comforted by Creator book: g04 6/22 32
ships: yb98 64
shopping malls: w08 9/15 25-26
special metropolitan witnessing: km 12/13 5
Taiwanese woman views Bible as book for Westerners: km 12/13 5
thought he knew Bible: yb11 57-58
visitor to Bible display at Bethel: yb17 17-18
Witness student uses teacher’s laptop: yb13 55
wrong phone number: yb12 62-63
serving where need is greater:
emigrating from U.S.: w18.07 4, 6; w16.07 3-4; w09 4/15 20-21
moving within U.S.: w16.10 3-5; yb97 18; jv 500
New York (Wallkill, Warwick): w15 1/15 3-7
West Virginia: w92 3/1 28-29
special metropolitan public witnessing: w20.10 22; yb16 22; yb13 16-17; km 10/13 4
subscriptions: yb91 15
traveling overseers: w22.09 30-31; w18.05 7-8; w11 12/15 5-6; w10 9/15 4-5; jv 298-299
unassigned territory: yb97 18; jv 499-500
world headquarters:
Brooklyn, New York: kr 29; w09 5/1 22-24; jv 59, 352-354; g89 4/22 23; yb88 24-25
Legal Department: mwb23.07 3; w99 11/15 11; yb97 13; yb93 23-24; yb92 14
Warwick, New York: yb17 7, 10; yb16 18; w15 1/15 3; yb15 10-15; yb14 8-9; yb13 10-11; w12 8/15 17
Worldwide Design/Construction Department: yb15 16-17
World War I: w18.10 4-5; jv 577; w89 5/1 4
World War II: jv 456-457, 586; w89 9/1 27
military exemption not granted: jv 194
Witnesses in prison: w16.02 4-5
youths:
art wins prize at Holocaust Museum: g03 1/8 31
blood cases: g94 5/22 9-12, 14-15
boy who died of bone cancer: g 8/06 26-27
defends stand on Trinity: yb14 56-57
essay wins prize in contest: g89 10/22 21-22
List by State
Alabama:
Witnesses mobbed in Selma: w99 12/1 23
Witness legal battles (World War II): g98 4/22 21-24
Arizona:
Brewery Gulch: g97 4/22 30; g96 7/22 22-24
Grand Canyon mules: g87 7/8 31
Kitt Peak National Observatory: g88 11/22 31
Navajo people: g04 1/8 22-24; w97 8/15 23-25
saguaro theft: g 8/09 30
water-table drop: g86 11/22 6
California:
antismoking campaign: g95 1/8 32
Death Valley: g 11/06 14-17
earthquake (1906, San Francisco): w13 10/15 31-32
earthquake (1989): g94 7/22 16; g90 1/22 28; g90 2/22 15, 20-21
earthquake (1992): g94 7/22 16-17; g92 12/22 13-16
earthquake (1994): g94 7/22 15, 17-18
earthquakes: g94 7/22 15-18
Golden Gate Bridge: g87 11/8 31
gold rush (1848): g05 9/22 24
gunman massacres schoolchildren: g90 5/22 3
languages in San Diego: w05 12/1 24
law requiring transfusion alert: g90 6/8 28
Malathion spraying suspended to protect kangaroo rats: g90 9/22 29
Newport Beach Municipal Code recognizes Witnesses as ministers: g88 4/22 30
Point Lobos: g90 5/22 15-19
San Francisco: g94 2/8 25
synchronized traffic signals in Los Angeles: g 4/14 3
traffic shootings: g87 6/8 30
Witnesses repair homes of needy fellow Witnesses: g93 2/22 31
Yosemite National Park: g90 5/8 31; g89 6/22 4
Yuba River flood (1986): jv 313; g86 10/8 21-25
Colorado:
University Hospital in Denver has nonblood program: g93 1/22 21
Connecticut:
supreme court victory on blood issue (1996): w97 8/1 32; yb97 14
Florida:
appeal court upholds noncustodial Witness in teaching religious views to own children (2014): yb16 36
appeal court upholds Witness in blood case (1996): yb97 14
Everglades: g97 1/22 13-17
guns: g90 5/22 5
Hurricane Andrew (1992): yb93 14-17; g93 1/8 14-21
Looe Key: g87 1/22 15-17
supreme court upholds mothers’ right to refuse blood: g94 5/8 28; yb91 58-59
Georgia:
gold: g92 5/8 32
Idaho:
plutonium pollution: g90 9/22 10
Illinois:
Cahokia (prehistoric city): g03 3/8 14-18
Chicago: g94 1/8 10, 12
courts award damages for forced blood transfusions (1997): g98 8/22 11
fossilized rain forest: g 3/08 27
supreme court upholds girl’s refusal of blood: g94 5/22 15
supreme court upholds minor’s right to refuse blood: yb91 59
Iowa:
supreme court upholds right to refuse blood: yb05 16
Kansas:
Court of Appeals upholds right to out-of-state bloodless surgery (2011): yb12 38-39
Supreme Court victory on child custody (2011): yb12 39
Louisiana:
Hurricane Katrina (2005): g 6/06 14-19; g 7/06 29
Massachusetts:
Boston: g05 1/8 29; g94 1/8 10, 12
Gloucester statue of fisherman at helm: w05 10/15 32
Mississippi:
Witness relief work after Hurricane Katrina (2005): g 6/06 19
Missouri:
divine name in Old Cathedral near Gateway Arch: w08 6/1 22
earthquakes that altered Mississippi River (1811-1812): g03 11/22 18-20
Supreme Court victory on child custody (1978): g88 10/22 5-6
Witness girl’s poem on smoking wins: g04 5/8 31
Montana:
Glacier National Park: g89 6/22 9
grizzly bear giveaway: g86 4/22 29
Nebraska:
supreme court victory on child custody (1996): yb97 15; g97 12/8 6-7
Nevada:
Catholic churches for gamblers: g95 9/8 29; g95 9/22 10
New Jersey:
connection of name with Jersey, Channel Islands: g86 4/22 18
Cooper Hospital-University Medical Center, Camden, bloodless program: w95 8/1 30
Englewood Hospital bloodless program: g98 8/22 10
garbage museum: g90 9/22 29
University Hospital, Newark, bloodless program: g98 8/22 10-11
witnessing in shopping mall: w08 9/15 25-26
Witness victory regarding preaching without a permit (1999): yb00 26
Witness victory regarding Stanley Theater (1984): w20.07 27-28; jv 331-332; yb87 3-4
New Mexico:
Balloon Fiesta (Albuquerque): g04 3/8 17-19
Carlsbad Caverns: g01 5/22 25-27
Sacramento Peak Observatory: g90 3/8 22-27
Sandia Peak Tramway: g92 2/8 31
New York:
appeals court upholds mother’s right to refuse blood: w20.07 28-29; yb91 59
Brooklyn Bridge upgrade: g86 9/8 31
manual on disaster law: g 5/12 29
Niagara Falls: g01 7/8 25-27; g92 10/8 15-19
subways (New York City): g97 3/22 20-22
terrorist attack on Twin Towers (2001): yb03 8-10; g03 1/22 29; g03 6/22 12; g02 1/8 3-12; g02 8/22 30; g02 9/8 3, 6
Ohio:
Supreme Court of Ohio upholds right of parent to communicate religious values (1992): kr 164-165
U.S. Supreme Court upholds right to preach without permit (2002): lff lesson 21; kr 147; yb05 16; yb03 13, 19-20; g03 1/8 3-11; g03 9/8 30
Oklahoma:
Tulsa Race Massacre: w21.10 31
Oregon:
Crater Lake: g87 12/8 31
Pennsylvania:
long-overdue book returned to state library: g86 4/22 30
Quaker origins: g 11/06 11-12
teaching intelligent design in school held unconstitutional (2005): g 9/06 30
Witness victory on blood issue (2001): yb02 16-17
South Carolina:
discovery of microorganisms deep underground: g89 4/22 29
Hurricane Hugo (1989): g90 2/22 14-17, 19-20; g89 12/22 29
supreme court victory on blood issue (2002): yb03 20
South Dakota:
mountain sculpture of Crazy Horse: g96 9/8 13, 15
Sioux tribal lands: g96 9/8 13
Tennessee:
court holds that life begins at conception (1989): g90 10/8 26
Texas:
Dallas: g94 2/8 26-27
Galveston hurricane (1900): g05 7/22 6
massacre at restaurant: g92 11/22 22-24
massacre at school (2022): mrt article 52
tornadoes and hail (1995): w96 12/1 3, 5-6
water-table drop: g86 11/22 6
Witness relief work after flood (Houston, 2001): w03 6/1 6; w03 8/15 22; g03 7/8 30; g02 11/22 19-24
Witness relief work after Hurricane Rita (2005): g 6/06 19
Witness relief work for victims of Hurricane Katrina in Astrodome (2005): g 6/06 16-17
Utah:
Kennecott copper mine: g93 3/8 23-25
Skytram at Bridal Veil Falls: g93 7/8 31
Virginia:
massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (2007): w08 9/1 30
Washington State:
Mt. St. Helens: g87 7/8 3; w86 9/15 3
Olympic National Park: g02 1/8 22-25
Witness convention praised: g86 12/22 24
West Virginia:
first place of worship constructed for meetings of Bible Students: kr 203
Wyoming:
Devil’s Tower National Monument: g87 11/22 31
Grand Teton National Park: g01 10/22 16-19
Yellowstone National Park: g89 6/22 3; g87 11/22 31