It's There Alrighty

From Wikipedia:

On the night of January 24, 1950, an unusual photograph was taken during a speaking engagement in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas. As Branham stood at the podium, an apparent halo of fire appeared above his head. A photograph of this phenomenon was produced, the only one of its film roll that developed an image. George J. Lacy, an investigator of questioned documents, subjected the negative to testing [1] In his report he said "Based upon the above described examination and study I am of the definite opinion that the negative submitted for examination, was not retouched nor was it a composite or double exposed negative. Further, I am of the definite opinion that the light streak appearing above the head in a halo position was caused by the light striking the negative."

I was reading some of the editor's comments for this page on Wikipedia, and noticed that someone expressed unbelief that the picture was actually in the possession of the Smithsonian Institute (it's not, it's actually at the Library of Congress).

So here, for you, dear reader, I provide for you a link to the picture in the LOC's archives: the link.

If that link doesn't work (the LOC site seems very *ahem* flaky), go here and search for "William Branham". Or this link, which is a direct link to the picture but doesn't display any obvious Library of Congress branding.

Also, I personally saw the photograph in person at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, when I was 10 years old. It was an 8x10 glossy. I remember a couple of things about the experience:

- they kept the photograph at the front desk because it was so often requested

- they had to make frequent requests to the William Branham Evangelistic Association for replacement copies because it kept getting stolen turning up missing