Fundamentalist & Ecumenical sample

Excerpt (1-1/2 minutes) from tape T1 in Collection 139, oral history interview with niece Frances Rader Longino recorded by Bob Shuster on September 11, 1980.

SHUSTER: Was Paul Rader a well known figure around Chicago?

LONGINO: Very, yes. Even people that didn't attend the Tabernacle knew about him. And I can remember when I was in school (I was in an...a little Episcopalion school, private school)...and when I ...when I entered the two sisters there were...they were quite impressed, you know, that they had a niece of Paul Rader or that they had somebody with that name. And I asked if they knew them. "Oh yes, we know a lot about him," they said. "We don't go to his church, of course." [laughs]. But he was very well known. I...I found people in my Army ministry before I married that remembered hearing him, especially on...on that Back Home Hour. There...there is another pastor, he's in the charismatic movement, Ern Baxter, was a pastor up in Canada. He's an Australian. But he had a church in Can...Canada. And he would close the service a little early if possible, you know, and they had the radio fixed up in the back room. amd that whole church would go back there and listen to the Back Home Hour. So it was a very popular program. All through the middle of the country especially we found people that knew him and felt like they were personally acquainted because of that program.