Template:Did you know nominations/Newell Snow Booth

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:33, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Newell Snow Booth

  • ... that during the Congo Crisis American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gun-point by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognised him? "Thirty and four years [1964] later Bishop Booth met me at the Elisabethville airport to travel together to the seat of the Central Conference. Driving toward Jadotville we were met by a military convoy and promptly halted. The bishop was wrestled into a ditch. a carbine at his throat. held there by an overly-energetic and not-reassuring young soldier. A lieutenant tumbled from a jeep. examined the young man's prize and ordered. "Give him his leave: he is a good man-a teacher-a man of God."' Their paths had crossed somewhere. I never knew where" from: "Booth, Bishop Newell S." (PDF). General Commission on Archives and History: Archives Center Catalog. United Methodist Church. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 06:12, 5 July 2020 (UTC).

  • General eligibility:

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Recently moved into the mainspace, long enough, all of the sentences are sourced, interesting hook, and no plagiarism. Jon698 talk 21:45, 9 July 2020 (UTC)