Friday, January 27, 2012

11- Comments on newspaper articles

About the "Before" articles"
1- *The talk was advertized for 4 PM
2- The Telegram article compared the Baha'is to the Mormons a couple of times
3- They got the business of The Bab all messed up
4- Many other details are also wrong.  I hope nowadays reporters are not that bad!
5- They're looking forward to seeing Him in some exotic clothing :-)
6- *He was invited by Prof. Blakeslee, chair of the history dept.

About the "After" articles
1- The clothes did make an impact on the reporters
2- Still got The Bab thing wrong
3- *He talked to ~500 people

4- The Master is 65 to 68 years old (that day was actually his 68th birthday)
5- *The talk was given at the Gymnasium
6- *After the talk there was a reception at the president's house
7- In Persia "59 per cent of the people are member of the new faith."!!!  I didn't know the Baha'is were the majority of the population :-)

*  These points are important (in my opinion) to reconstruct the series/sequence of events



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