Does this sound like the JW organization you know today?Yes, on July 17th, 1970, my wife and I were baptized as JWs at the "Men of Good Will" District Assembly (Convention today), at the Oakland, California Coliseum - where the Raiders play. Nearly 70,000 attended, and over 750 were baptized ... and it all made the news in the San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner and other newspapers and radio stations. Jehovah's Witnesses were barely over 1,000,000 worldwide by then, but were growing fast with big baptism numbers at District Assemblies. It was common to have 60 to 100 get baptized at Ciruit Assemblies, and several hundred up to nearly 1,000 at District Assemblies.
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