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Twice each week, armed guards escort Pastor William Lovell Hull of Jerusalem's nondenominational Zion Christian Mission into the maximum security cellblock of Israel's Ramla prison. As he enters, a sallow, thin-faced prisoner behind a thick glass partition snaps to his feet, bows and clicks his heels. Then the two men sit down, take up the earphones and microphones through which they communicate and open their Bibles. Pastor Hull then begins another session of trying to bring Adolf Eichmann back to the Christian faith he left...
With the approval of the Israeli government and the wary cooperation of the prisoner, Evangelical Preacher Hull has been Eichmann's spiritual adviser since his conviction. Hull and his wife, who serves as German-English interpreter, are the only strangers Eichmann is allowed to see, and they hope to convert him before the Israel Supreme Court rules, probably next month, on his appeal of his death sentence...
...Hull at first coldly visualized Eichmann "with a rope around his neck," and although now "God has given me a slight feeling of compassion," the preacher still feels that Eichmann had a fair trial and ought to hang for his crimes. "I'm not interested in his body," he says. "But I am interested in his soul. He should be given a chance to save it. As Christians, we are obliged to offer him that much...
...Hull, who has written widely on Irish and Welsh linguistics, literature and folklore, speaks Irish and has visited Ireland many times. Among his publications are several letters of (1988), A Collection of Welsh Riddles (with Arch Taylor, 1943), and The Exile of the Sons...
Story hasn't changed much. Come time, the Frakes all kerplump in the old man's crate and poot up to Dallas for the Texas State Fair, "the biggest state fair in the hull U.S.A." Mom Frake (Faye) wins the plaque for mincemeat. Pop Frake (Ewell) wins the grand prize for swine. Marge Frake (Tiffin) wins one of those TV fellers (Darin), and Wayne Frake (Boone) wins one of those fast girls (Ann-Margret) from back East, but she's too fast for Wayne and the tomfool lets her get away...