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The Rise and Fall of Big Jim Voss

When word got out about Big Jim's recordings of Brenda Allen and the LAPD, the situation spiraled wildly out of control. The police was looking for these tapes that my father had related to Brenda Allen, and he wasn't giving them up. He was leading them on a wild goose chase. And then in the midst of the both grand jury trial, he committed perjury, implicating a police officer that Cohen wanted to go down. It was the fall of 1949, and Big Jim was in a tight spot. Everything was splintering. In that exact moment, the modern evangelical movement came crashing into Big Jim's life.

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