John Hendrix is known for hearing a voice "as loud and as sharp as thunder" telling him to sleep on the ground for forty nights and that he would be shown the future of his land. He obeyed the voice and later had visions that foretold a city on Black Oak Ridge, and the Y-12 complex, and predicted that they "would help to win the greatest war that will ever be." The events that his visions foretold came to pass more than twenty-seven years after his death and were part of the Manhattan Project that ended World War II. The city in his vision became the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee after the war and earned John Hendrix the title "Prophet of Oak Ridge." This book details the visions and anecdotes about John's life, and provides details of his life that have never been reported in an account of the Prophet of Oak Ridge... how he killed a man, was jailed, was acquitted of murder, and how his first wife divorced him and he lost custody of his children, never to see them again. Remorse, regret, and anguish drove him nearly mad and he was confined, but he escaped. This book proves when this occurred based on court records. Statements from a neighbor and deed records are used to prove that his prophetic visions occurred a decade later than other writers have claimed. A genealogy of the Hendrix family is provided along with an account of the life and murder of John's only son with his second wife. The second edition is significantly expanded with even more information.
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