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TIL of the Church War of Jonesboro, a bloody feud in early 1930s Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Things got out of hand so bad, the Arkansas National Guard had to be called in.

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