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THE WORLD TOMORROW

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I'm looking to acquire a copy of an old broadcast of The World Tomorrow, hosted by Garner Ted Armstrong. The intro was voiced by Art Gilmore, the announcer on Highway Patrol. These programs aired in almost every market...and my wife, who is a minister, has never heard one. Would anyone on this site have an old reel around somewhere, that was produced and aired between let's say 1968 and 1971?

I'd appreciate having a chance to copy one.
 
> I'm looking to acquire a copy of an old broadcast of The
> World Tomorrow, hosted by Garner Ted Armstrong. The intro
> was voiced by Art Gilmore, the announcer on Highway Patrol.
> These programs aired in almost every market...and my wife,
> who is a minister, has never heard one. Would anyone on this
> site have an old reel around somewhere, that was produced
> and aired between let's say 1968 and 1971?
>
> I'd appreciate having a chance to copy one.
>
I have a 15-minute copy of a show he did in 1976. At that point, the show was more of a shortened "commentary". Not sure if at that point he had split with his father yet. This show was not called "The World Tomorrow", but I think the intro was voiced by the same person.
 
> I'm looking to acquire a copy of an old broadcast of The
> World Tomorrow, hosted by Garner Ted Armstrong. The intro
> was voiced by Art Gilmore, the announcer on Highway Patrol.
> These programs aired in almost every market...and my wife,
> who is a minister, has never heard one. Would anyone on this
> site have an old reel around somewhere, that was produced
> and aired between let's say 1968 and 1971?
>
> I'd appreciate having a chance to copy one.
>
go to this link and click on the sermon by Garner Ted from 1972, it has a radio station ID and the complete show http://www.thejournal.org/archives/hstaudio.html
 
> > I'm looking to acquire a copy of an old broadcast of The
> > World Tomorrow, hosted by Garner Ted Armstrong. The intro
> > was voiced by Art Gilmore, the announcer on Highway
> Patrol.
> > These programs aired in almost every market...and my wife,
>
> > who is a minister, has never heard one. Would anyone on
> this
> > site have an old reel around somewhere, that was produced
> > and aired between let's say 1968 and 1971?
> >
> > I'd appreciate having a chance to copy one.
> >
> I have a 15-minute copy of a show he did in 1976. At that
> point, the show was more of a shortened "commentary". Not
> sure if at that point he had split with his father yet.
> This show was not called "The World Tomorrow", but I think
> the intro was voiced by the same person.
>


is that the guy that said there is no hell????
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He and his Dadbelieved roughly what the Severnt Day Adventists believed, that rather than dancing around flames for all eternity, the soul is destroyed. In fact, Armstrong would say "the words 'immortal soul' are no where in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation". Which he was right about. Guy did have a convincing voice and delivery.<P ID="signature">______________
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Should have mentioned the belief also is that no one goes anywhere until the second coming.<P ID="signature">______________
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They also didn't celebrate Christmas or Easter.

The interesting thing was GTA was heard for the most part not on stations that sold time to preachers, but on music and talk stations. In Philadelphia he came on country music station WRCP-AM each day at noon (while music continued on their simulcast FM). The show was on WOR in the evening. He was on top 40 and MOR stations in major markets. They must have spent a fortune, and must have brought a lot more in.

The announcer's intro was catchy: "The WORLD TOMORROW! Ambassador College presents Garner Ted Armstrong, bringing you the Plain Truth about today's world news, and the prophecys of The World Tomorrow". This was followed by a half hour sermon/commentary. ('The Plain Truth' was also their publication.) The show was started by his father; after they had a falling out the father took over the show (must have been in his 80's) and the show lost most of its stations after that.

I have an aircheck of country station WCMS in Norfolk, Va. from 1976 promoting a concert with Buck Owens and 'special guest' Garner Ted Armstrong! He seemed to always have alligned himself with the secular world to promote his ministry.
 
Re: THE WORLD TOMORROW!

GTA was quite a charachter, apparently. Did seem that the week befoe Christmas he (or Herbert W.) would do a sermon against Christmas (darn it, now I have to return all those gifts I was going to give!). GTA had a good announcer voice, even with the "live" read he did for the Plain Truth magazine. Herbert W. claimed to have come up with his theology on his own, but he did seem to borrow liberally from other traditions. GTA and HWA had their split around 1979. I did hear them on secular stations that had block eligious, but, like you said, plenty of music stations bailed out of regular programming for "The World Tommorrow".

After HWA's death, the Worldwide Church of God repudiated his beliefs. Several splinter groups, including Gerald Flurry's Philadephia Church of God, remain.<P ID="signature">______________
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Herbert W.Armstrong started off in the 1920's as a minister of the Church of God 7th Day, a denomination formed in the 1850's. It's monthly magazine the Bible Advocate began publication in 1863 and continues today. That group is headquartered in Denver Co. and has a web site. Herbert left that church in the early 1930's. His core beliefs stem from COG7. I became acquanted with Garner Ted Armstrong in 1979 when he left the Worldwide Church of God. He discarded most of the doctrine added by his father and was in fellowship with COG7. His brother in-law,Dr. David Antion pastors the Church of God Southern California and heads Guardian Ministries, both with web sites. It is in fellowship with Ron Dart, who hosts the daily Born to Win broadcast on many stations. Old Garner Ted Armstrong broadcasts can be found on a number of sites thru a Google search.
 
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Interesting stuff!<P ID="signature">______________
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