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Roy Davis As The Shadow Founder
- Roy E. Davis was a traveling evangelist tied to early 20th-century white supremacist networks and helped shape Branham's early ministry persona.
- Davis co-authored Ku Klux Klan bylaws, acted as a Klan spokesperson, and planted the Pentecostal church in Jeffersonville where Branham began.
The Itinerant Conman Church Circuit
- Davis ran a multi-state circuit using aliases, setting up churches then moving on after extracting money and members.
- He and his brothers even robbed a bank in Texas, forcing Davis to expand his swindling from Oklahoma to Georgia and South Carolina.
Poison Drinking As Revival Theater
- Davis performed theatrical stunts like drinking alleged poison to convince Pentecostal crowds, and Branham participated in those stage acts.
- These spectacles read like stagecraft rather than orthodox Christian practice and influenced Branham's later performance ministry.


