#ThrowbackThursday: Motel pool serves as baptistery in 1974
· THE OKLAHOMAN
Family and friends crowd poolside and the overhead walkway as Jehovah's Witnesses are baptized in July 1974 in the swimming pool at the Holiday Inn West, I-40 and S Meridian. The baptismal event was part of a four-day assembly of more than 8,400 Jehovah's Witnesses at the Myriad Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. About 300 people were baptized in the motel pool. This photo was published in the Oklahoma City Times. [JIM ARGO/THE OKLAHOMAN]
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