The book did not mention Smith was into White Supremacy and closely connected with the Christian Identity movement.  The Identity movement has a local chapter in the next town.  Smith was a big union buster hired by  wealthy industrialists.  He was a rabid anti-Semite and taught Jesus was not actually a Jew.  Smith ran for President under a simple platform stating we must do something about the Jews.   This preacher believed that Congress knew about his friend Hughey Long's death months before the assassination. He taught followers the fascist salute and was so close to the Third Reich during World War II a federal agent spent a year living with him.  The agent later would assure the wife that Smith never was unfaithful to her.  Old timers in the area knew Gerald as a harsh man who was hard to work for. The wife was regarded as a kind and dear lady.

     Smith's assistant, Charles Robertson, was a follower of Amiee McPherson.  He carried the project to its completion after Smith died.  There has been several movies about the life of Aimee and her faked death.  When she did finally die she wanted a phone buried in her tomb so the Lord could call her when He returned.  One local I met shuddered as to how the world would respond to the play if they only knew the background?

    Smith would not have liked the bookstore's selling of Black author's works.  Tony Dungy, former NFL coach, was listed as well as Black pastor Eddie Long.  Gerald would not have approved of Niebuhr's serenity prayer being sold.  He would not have liked the Creationist museum's claim that all races came from Noah.  His friend, a mentor to David Duke, by the name of Wesley Swift, taught Identity followers that the flood did not cover the entire earth and Black people did not experience the flood.  Thus they did not have a common ancestry with Anglo Saxons through Noah.
     The founder would have liked the fact that David Barton books were sold in the bookstore.  Smith, like Barton taught that America was an official Christian nation.  He would have loved the corny song sung by the Texans that ended the patriotic music at the pre-play supper.  The chorus repeated itself several times stating, "One nation under God, there is no separation."
     I went on to Branson, Missouri for another round of entertainment.  I found a host of Obama jokes and a continued God and country theme to end the shows in Branson. Gerald would have liked that also.