• He was born on February 16, 1852 in Allegehney, Pa.
• Was troubled by church doctrines relating to Hell.
• Became exposed to William Miller's  ( Second Adventist movement) in 1870 which included the teaching that Christ would return to earth in October of 1843.  When that failed to take place, subsequent dates were set; all of which were failures.  Thus, we can see the term "false prophet" at the root stage.
• The Millerites gave Russell (a.) a religious denial of Hell, and (b) stimulating studies in eschatology (the end times prophecies).
• Founded the International Bible Students Association which led to the publishing subsidiary, Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, on December 18,1884.  (Note Millennial Dawn and Studies In The Scriptures).
• Published The Divine Plan of the Ages in in 1886. This projected that "the end times started in 1799 and that Christ returned in 1874.  He also taught that Armegedon would take place in 1914.  The date was changed to 1915, when Armegedon failed to take place at the first projected time.
• The Watch Tower's national headquarters established in Brooklyn, New York in 1909.
• Beacme legally seperated from his wife.
• All his prohecies failed.
• Died on October 31,1916

• Assumed control of the Society in 1916.
• Reworked Russell's chronologies and set dates of 1918 and later, 1925, as the Armegedon dates.
• "Beth Sarim" ( house  of princes ) built in San Diego, California.  This was to house the expected resurrection of King David, Samson, and Joseph.  They were expected to be in charge of a new world order.  Once again, a prohecy failed, addingRutherford to the "false prophet" list.
• In 1931 the church and publishing organizations merged to form the present organization.  The name "Jehovah's Wt\itnesses" was adopted at that  time.

• Took over Rutherford's position in 1942.
• Most noted for overseeing the completion of The New World Translation of the Bible in 1961.
• He worked with Fredrick Franz,Albert Schroeder, and George Gangas on this project.
• Of the four men, only Franz had any exposure to the biblical languages -- having studied Greek for two years at the University of Cincinati.  He was self taught in Hebrew and chaired the comitee.

• Assumed leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1977.
• Wrote "Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God", in 1966.  This work  determined  that "the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 CE (Christian Era )." * note - pg 29 if you  find and read it.
• This led to a major event of expectation by the organization's members, which included the sales of their homes and properties, in 1974.
• 1975 passed without the expected event, and Franz became one more "false prophet" as a result of the failed prediction.

The leadership of this organizaion has not shown one iota of the types of credentials most Churches require of their leadership.  It has shown itself to be a group of rebelious people when the facts are considered in the light of the time proven church organizations, whose histories are founded by good Biblical foundations and practices; which began with the church as it was established according to the Book of Acts.  While it is true that there is a small variation of Texts, between Catholic and Protestant Bible version - nothing there can be noted as to being on a scale of what the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is teaching.