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Death threats against Jerry Falwell prompted an FBI probe of the homosexual community in Cincinnatti, Ohio, in 1983. The FBI questioned two anti-Falwell activists with two guns and 550 rounds of ammunition and someone sent a live scorpion in a box to Falwell's office, CNSNews.com reported Monday.According to files made available to Cybercast News Service under the Freedom of Information Act, FBI agents were alerted in June 1983 that two anonymous callers warned Falwell's Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg, Va., of an alleged plot. Someone in Cincinnati's gay community put out the word for Falwell's assassination on July 3 or 4, the callers warned, when the Moral Majority founder was scheduled to speak in Cincinnati. The FBI relayed the threats to agents in Cincinnati and to police in Evendale, the actual location for the event. They talked to a "source" in Cincinnati's gay community to evaluate the threats, the documents reveal.No suspect was found, and the threat was dismissed as a possible prank. However, police stopped two white males from Santa Cruz, Calif., on July 3, 1983, in the vicinity of the church where Falwell was to speak.They reported finding "a box of .38 caliber ammunition with 50 rounds...a loaded Glenfield .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, one loaded Colt .38 revolver and a box containing 500 rounds of .22 caliber ammo," which they held until after the event, which went off without incident.As in the days of Noah.....
