Fire, Brimstone, and a Loaded .38: The Rise and Fall of J. Frank Norris
By Jake Hinkson
November 6, 2014J. Frank Norris was a fundamentalist preacher who believed in the literal interpretation of scripture, but he was a little lax on the whole “turn the other cheek” injunction. On July 17, 1926 a man named D.E. Chipps stormed into Norris’s office at the massive First Baptist Church of Fort Worth and threatened to kill…