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  1. Biography

     Earliest life  Second marriage and the Bahá'í Faith  Rising to national awareness  South Africa  Hand of the Cause  Crisis of the death of Shoghi Effendi  Tours in service  Finishing the Crusade  Under the Universal House of Justice  Final years 

  2. Thief in the Night

  3. Remembrances

  4. Bibliography of writings

     Plays  Books 

  5. Further reading

  6. Notes

  7. External links

{{other people|William Sears}}

William Bernard Sears (March 28, 1911 – March 25, 1992) was a writer and a popular television and radio personality in various shows culminating in the 1950s with In the Park but left television popularity to promote the Bahá'í Faith in Africa and embarked on a lifelong service to the religion, for some 35 years as Hand of the Cause, the highest institution of the religion he could be appointed to. He wrote many books about the religion, with Thief in the Night and God Loves Laughter being his most popular.

Biography

Earliest life

William Bernard Sears was born March 28, 1911 in Aitkin,[1]{{rp|p.1}} (near Duluth) Minnesota,[2] youngest of Frank and Ethel Sears' four children, and the only male.[1]{{rp|p.1}} Sears was from an Irish[3] Catholic background.[4]{{rp|9:53min}} Sears suffered from a bout of jaundice which was to affect his health later in life.[1]{{rp|p.31}} Grown during the period of the Great Depression in the United States, he worked under the name Bernard Sears as a playwright winning some awards in 1933,[5] and some plays were published of his in 1935-6 including Dad Cashes in which has biographical aspects[1]{{rp|p.3}}[6] and one produced.[7] The plays were not income enough and Sears got his first job in radio at WOMT in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.[1]{{rp|p.4}} His first wife, Kathleen Sears, died about 1934,[1]{{rp|p.6}} leaving him with two young sons, William and Michael, whom he and his second wife Marguerite Reimer Sears raised.[1]{{rp|p.6}}

Second marriage and the Bahá'í Faith

Marguerite and William met in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - he having attended the University of Wisconsin and she Marquette University.[8] She had only recently joined the Bahá'í Faith, despite hearing of it from her father earlier, after meeting Mary Maxwell. He was working in Iowa for the formerly WGRR station of Radio Dubuque having just applied for work in California.[4]{{rp|5:40min}} On the way to California for a job with KFBK (AM)[9] the Searses considered living in Utah because it was a goal area for the religion.[4]{{rp|6:23min}} They show up living in Salt Lake City in spring 1939,[10] (apparently as their contribution to Shoghi Effendi's call for Bahá'ís to relocate to support the religion)[11] where he was soon assistant manager of KUTA radio station (later KNRS (AM).)[12] Marguerite and William's marriage was arranged in San Francisco by Marion Holley during their visit out there for a radio broadcast Bill did in September 1940.[13] Between them there were two clear understandings. On her part it was that the religion was a prominent part of her life and he would have to work with it being a priority for her — affecting, for example, where they would live.[3][4]{{rp|4:05min}} On his side, it was that he had a year-old son with tuberculosis, and he needed someone to help care for him.[1]{{rp|p.6}} Marguerite left the Bahá'í book The Dawn-Breakers out for him to read. After picking it up and setting it aside once,[1]{{rp|p.9}} he read it three times in three weeks[4]{{rp|7:47min}} and by December 1939 was avowedly a Bahá'í,[14] officially joining the religion in 1940.[3]

Sears and Marguerite moved to San Mateo, California about Summer of 1942, where a Bahá'í Spiritual Assembly had lapsed,[15] and he gave an especially noted talk about using radio to promote the religion.[16] In San Mateo they were visible giving talks on the religion as late as February 1944.[17] He embarked on a national tour in 1945, beginning with talks in the New York City area in February,[18] then after a break gave 48 talks across August and September through Salt Lake City, Laramie, Denver, Omaha, Topeka, Kansas City, Independence, Milwaukee, Omaha, and into Canada in November, as well as Charlottetown.[19] He was back in New York in December giving a talk[20] and participating in a statewide conference of Bahá'ís.[21] During this period he was also on a committee that consulted on Bahá'í use of radio with Mildred Mottahedeh,[22] prominently appeared at a peace banquet with Dorothy Beecher Baker (also a future Hand of the Cause),[23] gave talks in 1946 at a meeting in Los Angeles with scholar Marzieh Gail,[24] and helped produce a higher profile radio segment in Denver.[25] There is a gap in public coverage of any talks until 1952, though his behind the scenes work continued and began to weave into his rising profile in the public eye and his service to the Faith.

Rising to national awareness

As early as 1946 Sears was more noticeable in public, working for various radio and television stations. He worked at WPEN AM radio, and by 1948 at WCAU-TV, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2][26] In between, in February 1947, Marguerite led a class in radio production at Green Acre Bahá'í School in Maine for which Sears acted as narrator and consultant before airing on WHEB[27] and by June Sears produced a set of radio spot announcements and national radio shows for the religion.[28] For commercial work he did various shows[2] including The Bill Sears Show,[29] while at the same time his first booklet publication came out: The Martyr-Prophet of a World Faith, a 19-page work with quotes from A. L. M. Nicholas, Francis Younghusband, E. G. Browne,[30] and then for WCAU Kid Gloves[31] while at the same time Sears taped an interview of Hand of the Cause Corinne True about her pilgrimage in 1907.[32] In December 1951 he began to host a television show In The Park initially on WCAU as a 15-minute program[33] which was picked up by WCBS-TV[34] as a 30-minute live program.[35] It featured conversations between Sears and puppets by Paul Ritts and Mary Donnelly[36][37][38] "… Sears (dressed in suit jacket, vest, string tie, and hat) as he sat leisurely on a bench and conversed with his puppet friends"[39] in the Central Park Zoo.[40] In July 1952 the show was advertised as costing $3250 to produce per week.[35] At the same time as the show was coming along, Sears was included in a profile of thinkers by Edward R. Murrow in his This I Believe radio series though none of the participants were allowed to name their religion,[41] (the series published as a book, with Sears' entry on pp. 167–8,[42] and released on the internet circa 2005.)[43] Sears began to give more public talks for the religion covered in the newspapers beginning with a funeral in Maine in summer of 1952.[44] The Ten Year Crusade, a major initiative to bring the religion to countries around the world, was announced in October and would soon figure prominently in the Sears' plans. In the Park was noted in many newspaper stories in December 1952 related to The Ed Sullivan Show,[45] and actually appeared twice on the show — January and March 1953.[46] Coverage of In the Park continued into May.[47] Meanwhile, he was attending the May 2 dedication of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette.[48] Progress in organizing the efforts of the Ten Year Crusade included the opportunity for Marguerite to attend the February conference[49] of Bahá'ís in Uganda.[4]{{rp|8:52min}} When Sears asked to leave his contract so he could go to Africa he was threatened with the fact that 56 people would lose their jobs.[4]{{rp|9:14min}} Meanwhile, the sponsor had a strike, canceled the contract, and the family left.[4]{{rp|9:34min}} The puppets went on to other shows.[50]

South Africa

{{main article|Bahá'í Faith in South Africa}}

Arriving about July 18,[51][52] Sears, his wife, and one of their children were near Johannesburg[4]{{rp|10:10min}} on an initial six month visa.[53] Intending to go on to Kenya, they stayed in South Africa.[1]{{rp|p.20}} This was during the period of Apartheid and just as some new laws segregating people were coming into play: Reservation of Separate Amenities Act and the Bantu Education Act. Sears suffered a heart attack a few days into their stay.[1]{{rp|p.20}} After recovering they stayed in Kampala Uganda at the home of Hand of the Cause Músá Banání just after Enoch Olinga left for Cameroon.[1]{{rp|p.21}} In April 1954 the Sears went on Bahá'í pilgrimage[8][54] with quick stops by Marguerite in the States sharing that pioneering doesn't magically transform someone[55] and on return their other son also moved to South Africa.[56] Among his comments of things Sears learned on pilgrimage was an attitude of service in pioneering:

"Over and over again these general principles were reiterated: pioneers going to Africa must efface themselves, they must realize that in going to Africa they go to teach the native African people, not the Europeans or others who have migrated there. Pioneers must show by actions, not by words alone, that they love the Africans and have come to Africa to serve them and show their love for them.… and (reporting the words of Shoghi Effendi) "to select those taught carefully, teach them thoroughly, strengthen them in their understanding. Give them the message in such a way as to create in them a desire to teach. Then the task is accomplished. Then let the whites disperse."[57]

After returning Sears and family moved to South Africa where they bought a farm.[1]{{rp|p.25}} They helped elect the local assembly of Johannesburg[1]{{rp|p.25}} and he was appointed to the Auxiliary Board for Africa[58] under Hand of the Cause Músá Banání.[59] Sears gained a job with the South African Broadcasting Corporation pre-recording radio programs and using the free time for trips to support the religion.[1]{{rp|p.26}} There was another brief trip to North America - Sears in Canada possibly while adjusting passports for a longer stay and gave a talk[60] while Marguerite was in Illinois.[61] Returned in 1956 Sears was elected as chairman of the new regional assembly for South and West Africa.[62] Among many trips[1]{{rp|p.38–44}} Sears drove into Zulu territory seeking out a pioneer with John Quigley[59] and also managed a quick trip to the States for a July televised program on the religion for Chicago educational television where he served as off-camera announcer as well as one of the interviewees.[63] However a new law in South Africa, the Industrial Conciliation Act, 1956, set a standard that mixed groups could only have one race governing the group. The Bahá'ís chose to elect only black African leadership.[64][65][66] While in South Africa circa September 1957 Sears finished off the preface to his first book - Release the Sun.[67] Sears was briefly in the States in October,[68] before returning to South Africa[4]{{rp|11:00min}} and learning he was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi, along with Enoch Olinga and John Robarts, with responsibilities for west and South Africa.[69] The telegram arrived late in October from Músá Banání,[1]{{rp|p.44}} just before Shoghi Effendi died Nov 4.

Hand of the Cause

{{main article|Hands of the Cause}}

Crisis of the death of Shoghi Effendi

With the death of Shoghi Effendi the Hands of the Cause of God, now with its newest appointees, decided a select group would be voted on to act at the Bahá'í World Centre for the interests of the religion between the period of the leadership of Shoghi Effendi and promised election of the Universal House of Justice at the end of the Ten Year Crusade in 1963. These were called Custodians. In 1958 Sears attended the election of the French national assembly.[70] During this period the Sears were apart for about a year until she was able to live in Haifa and then they traveled further together.[1]{{rp|p.47}} Meanwhile, one of their sons had married and stayed in Africa.

Sears next appears in news in the States is 1959 following a redistribution of responsibilities[71] and attended the national convention of the US community along with Corinne True and Horace Holley.[72] He then undertook a long tour of talks across the United States and into Canada through to Spring 1960.[73][74] He interrupted his tour in September having already reached more than 2000 Bahá'ís across more than a hundred meetings.[75] Starting in June Sears wrote several telegrams reacting to the decision of fellow Hand of the Cause Mason Remey to call himself Guardian which initiated a Bahá'í division.[76] But this claim was almost universally rejected by the body of the Bahá'ís[77] and that group later broke into several other divisions,[78] and dwindled away.[79] In October 1959 Sears released a number of tapes as well as scripts individuals could use to make their own presentations for a number of occasions,[80] and a tape of his was used in an inter-racial meeting in Durham NC the same month.[81] Meanwhile, in July 1960 Hand of the Cause Horace Holley who had been elected to act as a Custodian died. Sears was named by the Hands to fill his place.[76] Sears also released his autobiographical God Loves Laughter.[82] He then continued the tour into Latin America, Central America, the Greater Antilles and northern South American countries by July 1960.[83]

Tours in service

Finishing the Crusade

Sears was one of the signatories to a letter urging the Bahá'ís of the west to continue the work for the crusade.[84] Sears' travels continued from December 1960 starting in Alaska and then into California[85] before proceeding widely through the rest of the U.S. and on into spring 1961.[86] And taped talks of his begin to circulate.[87]

There was special coverage of Sears helping to dedicate the Bahá'í House of Worship in Uganda in January 1961.[88] Sears' most famous book, Thief in the Night, was then published. It followed biographical elements of his interest in the history of the Báb.[89] His books began to be discussed at meetings; this continued through the years.[90]

In the spring Sears visited the Panamanian Bahá'ís,[91] attended the national convention of Guatemala[92] as well as visiting the newly elected International Bahá'í Council, a precursor to the Universal House of Justice.[93] While there he was a co-signatory to a letter to the Bahá'ís of Australia in their efforts in the concluding years of the crusade.[94] In 1962 he visited at the University of Urbana-Champaign[95] and then participated in a radio program on WLS (AM) in Chicago[96] before attending that year's U. S. national convention (where he advocated for easing enrollment conditions that were then common practice and shared prayers in an African language,)[97] and then the French Bahá'í summer school.[98]

In 1963 he attended the conclave of the Hands of the Cause in Haifa anticipating the election of the Universal House of Justice to be the new head of the religion[99] and sent a taped message to an all-Indian council of Bahá'ís held near Tucson.[100] Sears was in London for the first Bahá'í World Congress, which elected the Universal House of Justice. Sears spoke at the second evening giving a public address.[101]

Under the Universal House of Justice

Sears spent some years overseas from America[102] but in 1965 Sears was covered in various newspapers — Associated Press religion writer George W. Cornell wrote a piece on the religion including interviewing him.[103] His book Release the Sun was included by the Bahá'ís in donating to President JFK's Memorial Library, and echoed elsewhere.[104] He was interviewed on WBBY,[105] and present at different community meetings in the California area.[106] In late January 1966 the Bahá'ís organized a major conference in Fresno, California. Nine days, with a talk a day, were scheduled with Lisa Montell, Mildred Mottahedeh, Arthur Dahl, Florence Mayberry, William Sears, Russell Garcia, Gina Valentine, Eulalia Bobo, Sookha Winters, and Chester Khan.[107] In February Sears released a series of tapes discussing ideals and importance about contributions to the religion.[108] In May a conference of two Hands of the Cause, Sears and Zikr'u'llah Khadem, several of their auxiliary board members, and a representative of the national assembly, consulted in Waukesha, Wisconsin,[109] and Sears was interviewed on the NBC Today Show on May 23.[110]

He was overseas from America for much of 1967–8,[111] starting with attending the election of a regional assembly in west central Africa.[112] In 1968 Sears was at a centennial of Bahá'u'lláh's arrival at the prison of Akka in 1868 with 9 other Hands of the Cause and some 2300 Bahá'ís at a conference in Palermo, Sicily before going to Haifa as a group.[113] He then toured Bahá'í communities in the United Kingdom.[114] In December he helped dedicate a new Bahá'í center in San Bernardino, California[115] followed by attending several of the series of conferences arranged by the newly formed institution of the Continental Counsellors held across North America at Quebec, Ontario, Georgia, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, Saskatchewan and British Columbia into March 1969.[116] In April he attended the US National Bahá'í Convention, speaking several times,[117] and in September Sears helped dedicate a new Bahá'í center at Desert Hot Springs, California.[118] Meanwhile, God Loves Laughter was included in donations to a library[119] and taped talks of his were used for a youth conference in Australia[120] and Honduras[121] in 1968.

In 1970 Sears attended a statewide conference in February in Bradenton, Florida,[122] and another tape of a talk of his was sent to a youth conference in Indiana[123] and a summer school in Seattle[124] in June, however Sears was actually out of the country. In May he attended the French national convention[125] and in August an (Indian) oceanic conference in Mauritius[126] on the way to a task assigned by the Universal House of Justice. It had requested that Sears tour Iran with Marguerite, and their travels were aided by the Iranian National Spiritual Assembly, several of whom were to disappear in a few years.[1]{{rp|p.65–76}} They were able to visit many sites important in the History of the Bahá'í Faith — the homes of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, the site of the Conference of Badasht, the Siyah-Chal, the fortress of Maku, the site of the Battle of Fort Tabarsi, and the place of the Báb's execution — all despite various levels of harassment. Sears published The Prisoner and the Kings following this trip.[127] His next Bahá'í event was the Naw-Ruz opening of the Bahá'í new year celebration in a number of events in Los Angeles in March, despite the troubles of the February 1971 San Fernando earthquake, drawing participants from New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona. The talks and slides of the event were recorded.[128] While he was away in Iran a taped message was presented at the US national convention,[129] a general discussion tape on spiritual assemblies as an institution of the religion was released,[130] again Sears' God Loves Laughter was donated to a library[131] and a tape of a talk of his was used in a public meeting in Indiana.[132]

In Spring 1971 he sent a taped message to the US national convention while he was aboard ship underway to the national convention of Jamaica,[133] and another for the May conference of the Caribbean in Jamaica[134] while he was at the national convention in Germany,[135] and then a German national youth symposium.[136] Following events in South Carolina, wherein thousands of people were beginning to join the religion[137] Sears released a pair of hour-long taped discussions on the subject of mass engagement with and response of the public.[138] He appeared personally in December at an awards program in California.[139] In 1972 he again sends a tape to the US national convention,[140] a letter to the national convention in Chad,[141] and one to the combined convention of Swaziland and Mozambique[142] - this time he was away for the election of the new national assembly of Ireland.[143] In October he sent a taped message to the dedication of the new institute named after Louis G. Gregory in South Carolina.[144]

1973 represents an active year again - he published a biography of Lua Getsinger,[145] gave talks at several meetings around South Carolina in January at the Louis Gregory Institute,[146] addressed the delegates to the third international convention,[147] the US national convention,[148] and the third annual youth convention of the US (held in June in Oklahoma at which some 4000 Bahá'ís attended.)[149] In December he helped set up the first officially Bahá'í television series,[3] appearing in it as well as Mr. and Mrs. Russell Garcia. It was carried by an ABC affiliate in Hawaii.[150] In Spring 1974 he attended the national convention in Japan and met Bahá'ís in South Korea at a conference.[151] In July he attended the dedication of the Bosch Bahá'í School in Santa Cruz, California.[152] In August he had two major appearances: in early August he appeared an international youth conference in Hilo, Hawaii[153] and in late August he was at a musical program with Russell Garcia and Seals and Crofts in Illinois.[154]

In 1975 he started in January in New York,[155] and then the US national convention in April.[156] However he was unable to attend a conference in Montreal due to deterioration in his health such that he had to stop his appearances for a time.[157] He sent a letter to an Alaskan conference in September.[158] He was able to appear at one of the two conferences[159] of Bahá'ís in California in December.[160]

The television series he had worked on in Hawaii in 1973 had been taped and was made available in 1976[161] and was aired in Alaska.[162] He attended the Canadian national convention of Bahá'ís,[163] bringing to the US convention a gift of roses in honor of Charlotte Linfoot who had just sustained a serious stroke,[164] and then an Alaskan conference in July.[165] In October he was in Nairobi Kenya for an international conference of Bahá'ís.[166]

Following the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the treatment of Bahá'ís Sears wrote A Cry from the Heart: The Bahá'ís in Iran.[167] Meanwhile, some of his earlier books were donated to libraries or given away.[168] His A Cry from the Heart was included in testimony to the US Congress about events in Iran and donated to a library in 1982.[169] In 1983 George Plagenz took an interest in the analysis Sears did of Christian prophecies (without naming Thief in the Night) and it is carried in a few cities over time.[170] He addressed the US national convention and his comments were recorded.[171]

Final years

The Sears moved to Tucson in 1985 in part for his health as the climate was better for him.[1]{{rp|p.87}} He published All Flags Flying to tell anecdotes from his travels.[172] In 1986 he attended the dedication of the Lotus Temple and gave a talk that has been recorded.[173] The Sears' then began a project establishing Desert Rose Bahá'í School[1]{{rp|p.89}} which had its first meetings in 1988.[174] Despite having developed prostate cancer, in 1991 Sears initiated his last major project - he began to tour five cities of the United States and then extended the tour to nine more.[1]{{rp|p.91, 93}} But Sears died before reaching the eighth goal city, on the morning of March 25, 1992.[1]{{rp|p.94}} Along the way he published Run to Glory! with anecdotes of his life fictionalized and humorous.[175] He also had notes of works not published that were finished and published - In Grandfather's Barn[176] and The Half-Inch Prophecy.[177] He is buried in East Lawn Palms Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona.[178]

Marguerite died in 2006.

Thief in the Night

Sears' book Thief in the Night, or, The Strange Case of the Missing Millennium deals with the history and understandings of prophecies in relation to the Báb and includes references to number of issues from the 1844 Edict of Toleration, the William Miller's work on prophecy and the Millerism movement, the resulting Great Disappointment as it was understood in the West, and the History of the Bahá'í Faith in Persia. It provides an alternate understanding of Christian Scriptures that challenges current Christian thought on each of the issues brought up, (it can be considered that there is a unanimity about such matters within the Christian Faith,) while the book presents a Bahá'í understanding on these various themes.[179]

Between 1961 and 1997 it was reprinted 20 times[180] and is still labeled "a classic", if popular, book and is still listed in modern PhD's as a resource.[181] It "has remained one of the best selling of all Baha'i books since it was first published in 1961."[182] The book has been noted by many Bahá'ís: Dizzy Gillespie and friends including Flora Purim,[183] and several writers on diverse themes.[184]

Remembrances

  • Edward R Murrow said of him:"…who, we venture to emphasize, hasn't limited his talents to the coverage of a ball game or tennis match, but has put in some fruitful time studying the struggle of life itself and the rules it is best played by."[41]{{rp|4:00min}}
  • On the Rooftop with Bill Sears play about the life of Sears.[185][186]
  • {{cite AV media

| people =Bill Sears, Kevin McCloud, Taylor Hayward, Lena Selyanina
| title =Remember Bill Sears
| medium =audio
| publisher =Bahai-Library.com
| location =
| date =
| url =http://bahai-library.com/sears_remember_bill_sears}}
  • In 2010, he was honored at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival for achieving excellence as a professional media personality.[187]

Bibliography of writings

Plays

  • Dad Cashes in (under "Bernard Sears")[188]
  • The Cardigan kid; a comedy in 1 act ( under "William B. Sears")[189]
  • {{cite book|author=William B. Sears|title=The Undoing of Albert O'Donnell: A Comedy in One Act|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YgaDHAAACAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Dramatic Publishing Company}}[190]

Books

  • {{Cite book

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|first = W.
|year = 1995
|origyear = 1957
|title = Release the Sun
|publisher = Bahá'í Publishing Trust
|location = USA
|isbn = 0-87743-003-9
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ-Rab0n5CkC
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1960
|title=God Loves Laughter
|publisher=George Ronald
|location=Oxford, UK
|isbn=0-85398-019-5
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|origyear=1961
|year=2002
|title=Thief in the Night
|publisher=George Ronald
|location=Oxford, UK
|isbn=0-85398-008-X
|url = http://bahai-library.com/sears_thief_night
  • {{cite book|author=William Sears|title=The Prisoner and the Kings: How One Man Changed the Course of History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hpog6HLUI54C|date=1 January 2007|edition=revised 2nd|publisher=Baha'i Publishing Trust|isbn=978-1-931847-41-4}}
    • (revised from {{Cite book

|last = Sears
|first = William
|year = 1971
|title = Prisoner and the Kings, The
|publisher = Bahá'í Publishing Trust
|location = USA
|isbn = 1-931847-41-X
|url = http://bahai-library.com/sears_prisoner_kings

}})

  • {{cite book

|author= William Sears |authorlink=William Sears (Bahá'í)|author2=Robert Quigley
|year=1973
|title=The Flame: The Story of Lua
|publisher=George Ronald
|location=Oxford, UK
|isbn=0-85398-030-6
|url=http://bahai-library.com/sears_quigley_flame
}}
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1982
|title=A Cry from the Heart: The Bahá'ís of Iran
|publisher=George Ronald
|location=Oxford, UK
|isbn=0-85398-134-5
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1985
|title=All Flags Flying
|publisher=NSA of the Bahá'ís of South Africa
|isbn=0-908420-62-5
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1988
|title=Prince of Peace
|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust
|location=India
|isbn=81-85091-10-2
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1991
|title=The Wine of Astonishment
|publisher=George Ronald
|location=Oxford, UK
|isbn=0-85398-009-8
  • {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1991
|title=Run to Glory
|publisher=Naturegraph Publishers Inc
|location=
|isbn=0-87961-195-2
  • (post-humously) {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=1997
|title=In Grandfather's Barn
|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust
|location=USA
|isbn=0-87743-257-0
  • (post-humously) {{cite book

|first=William
|last=Sears
|year=2000
|title=The Half-Inch Prophecy
|publisher=NSA of the Bahá'ís of South Africa
|location=
|isbn=1-874801-94-0
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p6j-AAAACAAJ

Further reading

  • {{cite AV media

| people =Marguerite Sears, Bill Sears
| title =Marguerite Sears: Undying Flame
| medium =film
| publisher =National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States
| date =2006
| url =http://vimeo.com/29409228 }}
  • {{cite book

| author = Marguerite Reimer Sears
| title =Bill - A biography of Hand of the Cause of God William Sears
| publisher =Desert Rose Publishing
| date =2003
| location =Eloy, Arizona
| url =
| isbn =0-9743979-0-3}}

Notes

1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 {{cite book| author = Marguerite Reimer Sears | title =Bill - A biography of Hand of the Cause of God William Sears | publisher =Desert Rose Publishing | date =2003 | location =Eloy, Arizona | url = | isbn =0-9743979-0-3}}
2. ^1 2 * {{cite web | title =Bill Sears | publisher =Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia | date =2002 | url =http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/billsears-wpen.html | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015 }}* {{cite web | title =Bill Sears | publisher =Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia | date =2002 | url =http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/billsearsbio.html | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
3. ^1 2 3 {{cite encyclopedia |last= Smith |first= Peter |encyclopedia= A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith |title= William Sears |year= 2000 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location= Oxford |isbn= 1-85168-184-1 |pages= 307–308}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite AV media| people =Marguerite Sears, Bill Sears | title =Marguerite Sears: Undying Flame | medium =film | publisher =National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States | date =2006 | url =http://vimeo.com/29409228 }}
5. ^* {{cite news | title =Green Bay author wins first place in play tournament | newspaper =Oshkosh Daily Northwestern | location =Oshkosh, Wisconsin |page=3 | date =Mar 29, 1933 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1564998/bernard_sears_aka_william_b_sears/| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Production honors in rural play go to Allenville man | newspaper =Oshkosh Daily Northwestern | location =Oshkosh, Wisconsin | page =11 | date =Apr 8, 1933 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1564986/bernard_sears_aka_william_bernard/ | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015 }}* {{cite journal | title =News and Notes; Dramatics | journal =Quarterly Journal of Speech | volume =19 | issue =3 | pages =451–460 (see 454) | date =1933 | doi =10.1080/00335633309379973 }}
6. ^* Dad Cashes in (under "Bernard Sears") - {{cite journal | title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =8 | issue =9 | page =267 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1935 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig81libr#page/267/mode/1up| accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Dramatic Club delights crowd | newspaper =New Castle News | location =New Castle, Pennsylvania | page =12 | date =18 Apr 1936 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1566965/dad_cashes_in_play_by_william_sears/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* The Cardigan kid; a comedy in 1 act ( under "William B. Sears"- {{cite journal| title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =9 | issue =5 | page =184 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1936 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig91libr#page/184/mode/1up | accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}* The Undoing of Albert O'Donnell; a comedy in 1 act (under "William B. Sears") - {{cite journal| title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =9 | issue =5 | page =184 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1936 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig91libr#page/362/mode/1up | accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}
7. ^Wisconsin community plays - {{cite journal| title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =9 | issue =5 | page =173 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1936 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig91libr#page/173/mode/1up | accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}
8. ^1 {{cite news | title =Mrs Sears to tour world in interest of Baha'i Faith | newspaper =The Milwaukee Sentinel - | location =Milwaukee, Wisconsin | page =7 | date =Jan 15, 1953 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19530115&id=70UxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7371,5559218| accessdate = }}
9. ^{{cite journal | title =Behind the Mic | journal =Broadcast and Broadcast Advertising | volume =16 | issue =3 | page =38 | location =Washington D.C. | date =Feb 1, 1939 | language = | url =http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1939/1939-02-01-BC.pdf| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015 }}
10. ^{{cite news | title =Settlement of the nine areas | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =6 | date =April 1939 | volume = 2 |issue = 124 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=148| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
11. ^{{cite news | title =Convention greetings and gratitude to pioneers | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =3 | date =June 1939 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=161| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
12. ^{{cite news | title =Teaching activities0 | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =6–7 | date =September 1939 | volume = 2 |issue = 129 | url = http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=191| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
13. ^{{cite book| author= Marguerite Sears | title =Bill : a biography of Hand of the Cause of God William Sears | publisher =Desert Rose Pub. | date =2003 | location =Eloy, AZ | page =9 | url =https://www.worldcat.org/title/bill-a-biography-of-hand-of-the-cause-of-god-william-sears/oclc/646625272&referer=brief_results | isbn = 0974397903}}
14. ^{{cite news | title =Teaching Achievements | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =5 | date = January 1940 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=217| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
15. ^{{cite news | title =National and Regional Teaching Activities | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =4–6 (see page 6) | date =August 1942 |issue = 155 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=502| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
16. ^{{cite news | title =Radio | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =6 | date =July 1943 | issue = 164 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=567| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
17. ^{{cite news | title =K. Y. A. | newspaper =The Times | location =San Mateo, California | page =8 | date = Feb 11, 1944 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/278209/bahai_marguerite_sears_talks_at_meeting/| accessdate = Jan 9, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =K. Y. A. | newspaper =The Times | location =San Mateo, California | page =8 | date =Feb 18, 1944 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525957/bahai_william_sears_gives_talk/ | accessdate = Jan 9, 2015}}
18. ^* {{cite news | title =Baha'i Faith | newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location =Brooklyn, New York | page =5 | date =Feb 3, 1945 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525976/bahais_eldelira_quiroz_and_william/| accessdate = Jan 10, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Brotherhood week session to convene at Flatbush church | newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location =Brooklyn, New York | page =12 | date = Feb 16, 1945 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525981/bahai_william_sears_among_list_of/| accessdate = Jan 10, 2015}}
19. ^{{cite news | title =Teaching Circuits | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =6 | date =May 1945 | issue = 174 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=706| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}
20. ^{{cite news | title =Flatbush minister addresses Bahais | newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location =Brooklyn, New York | page =4 | date = Dec 16, 1944 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525971/bahai_meeting_with_talks_by_william/| accessdate = Jan 10, 2015}}
21. ^{{cite news | title =Regional Committees | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =5 | date =May 1945 | issue = 174 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=705| accessdate = Jan 9, 2015}}
22. ^{{cite news | title =Directory; National and Regional committees; Radio | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =5 | date =February 1945 | issue = 172 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=693| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
23. ^{{cite news | title =Milwaukee, Wisconsin | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =15 | date =November 1945 | issue = 177 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=767| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
24. ^{{cite news| author = Virginia Foster | title =The Los Angeles Public Meeting | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =7 | date =March 1946 | issue = 181 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=803| accessdate = Jan 11, 2015}}
25. ^{{cite news | title =Denver public meeting | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =5–6 | date =April 1946 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=813| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
26. ^{{cite news | title =WPEN - 950 | newspaper =Pottstown Mercury | location =Pottstown, Pennsylvania | page =12 | date =Apr 1, 1947 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498902/later_bahai_bill_sears_on_wpen/| accessdate = Jan 9, 2015}}
27. ^{{cite news | title =Radio script writing at Green Acre | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =8–9 | date =February 1947 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=944| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
28. ^{{cite news | title =Teaching by air | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =8 | date =June 1947 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=02&page=992| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
29. ^{{cite news| last =Morton | first = Al | title =TV Notes by | newspaper =Delaware County Daily Times | location =Chester, Pennsylvania | page =42 | date =27 Apr 1950 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498916/bahai_bill_sears_tv_show_on_wcau/| accessdate = Jan 9, 2015}}
30. ^{{cite book|author=William B. Sears|title=The Martyr-prophet of a World Faith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p___GwAACAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Bahá'i Publishing Committee}}
31. ^{{cite news | title =Radio and Television Highlights for Tuesday | newspaper =Delaware County Daily Times | location =Chester, Pennsylvania | page =10 | date =May 22, 1951 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498924/bahai_bill_sears_with_tv_show_on_wcau/| accessdate = Jan 10, 2015}}
32. ^{{cite AV media| people =Corinne True, William Sears | title =Memories: Bill Sears interviews Mrs. True | medium =audio | publisher =Bahai-Library.com | date =1951| url = http://bahai-library.com/sears_interviews_corinne_true}}
33. ^{{cite thesis| author = Brandi Scardilli | title =Love, Luck and Lollipops; Children's television programming in Philadelphia, 1948-1969 | journal =Masters Degree | pages =23-4, 46 | publisher =Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | location =Camden, New Jersey | date =May 2010 | url =http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1009.113&rep=rep1&type=pdf| accessdate = Aug 27, 2018}}
34. ^{{cite news | title =Television and Radio Programs | newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location =Brooklyn, New York | page =20 | date =Dec 23, 1951 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498486/bahai_bill_sears_tv_show_in_the/| accessdate = Jan 10, 2015}}
35. ^1 {{cite journal | title =Available network package programs (TV) | journal = Sponsor | volume =6 | issue =14 | pages =149–150 | date = July 14, 1952 | url =https://archive.org/stream/sponsor52sponno2#page/n151/mode/1up| accessdate =Jan 12, 2015 }}
36. ^{{cite web| author = Kevin S. Butler | title =The Ritts Puppets | publisher =TVparty! | date =2006 | url =http://www.tvparty.com/lostny2ritts.html | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
37. ^{{cite news| author = Dennis McLellan | title =Mary Ritts, 95; She and Husband Had a Long TV Run With Ritts Puppets | newspaper =Los Angeles Times | location =Los Angeles, California | date =May 25, 2006 | url =http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/25/local/me-ritts25| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015 }}
38. ^{{cite news| author = Stephen Miller | title =Mary Ritts, 95, Half of a TV Puppeteer Team | newspaper =The Sun | location =New York, NY | date =May 26, 2006 | url =http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/mary-ritts-95-half-of-a-tv-puppeteer-team/33465/| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
39. ^{{cite web | title =The Ritts Puppets | work =Puppets & Puppeteers | publisher =TV Acres | date =2013 | url =http://www.tvacres.com/puppets_ritts.htm | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
40. ^{{cite web | title =Mary Ritts and Puppets | publisher =Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia | date =2006 | url =http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/maryritts.html | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
41. ^1 {{cite news | title =National Radio; This I Believe | newspaper =Bahá'í News | location = | page =10 | date =September 1952 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=03&page=648| accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
42. ^{{cite book|author=Edward R. Murrow|title=This I Believe: the Living Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women in All Walks of Life|url=|year=1952|publisher=Simon and Schuster|pages = 167–8}}
43. ^{{cite AV media| people =Bill Sears | title =Closer Than My Own Back Yard | medium =radio/audio | publisher =This I Believe, Inc. | date =2005 | origyear= 1952| url = http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16972/}}
44. ^* {{cite news | title =Miss Maud Mickle | newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald | location =Portsmouth, New Hampshire | page =3 | date =Jul 25, 1952 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525985/funeral_of_bahai_maud_mickle/ | accessdate = Jan 10, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =William Sears Baha'i speaker | newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald | location =Portsmouth, New Hampshire | page =2 | date =Jul 28, 1952 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525987/bahai_william_sears_gives_talk/ | accessdate = Jan 10, 2015}}
45. ^* {{cite news| author = Ed Sullivan |authorlink = Ed Sullivan | title =Little old New York Men and Maides, and Stuff | newspaper =The Corpus Christi Caller-Times | location =Corpus Christi, Texas | page =31 | date =25 Dec 1952 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498520/bahai_william_sears_in_show_in_the/ | accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news| author = Ed Sullivan |authorlink = Ed Sullivan | title =Little old New York Men and Maides, and Stuff | newspaper =The Morning Herald | location =Uniontown, Pennsylvania | page =4 | date = Dec 27, 1952 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498721/bahai_bill_sears_tv_show_in_the_park/| accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}
46. ^{{cite book|author=David M. Inman|title=Television Variety Shows: Histories and Episode Guides to 57 Programs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiYTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|date=16 November 2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2198-5|page=79}}
47. ^* {{cite news | title =On Toast | newspaper =Independent Press-Telegram | location =Long Beach, California | page =49 | date =Jan 11, 1953 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498735/bahai_bill_sears_with_tv_show_puppets/| accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }} * {{cite news | title =Toast of the Town | newspaper =The Freeport Facts | location =Freeport, Texas | page =4 | date =Mar 20, 1953 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498805/bahai_bill_sears_on_ed_sullivan_show/ | accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Study of puppet co-stars essential to TV performers | newspaper =Pampa Daily News | location =Pampa, Texas | page =12 | date =Apr 6, 1953 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498828/bahai_bill_sears_profile_with_tv/| accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news |author =Terry Vernon | title =Tele-Vues; Changes | newspaper =Independent Press-Telegram | location =Long Beach, California | page =44 | date =May 17, 1953 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1498862/bahai_bill_sears_tv_show_in_the_park/| accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}
48. ^{{cite news| author = Bruce Whitmore | title =The dedication of the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of the West | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =12–17 (see page 15) | date =April 1975 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=924| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
49. ^{{cite magazine | title = The Guardian's Message to the first Intercontinental Conference |magazine= Bahá'í News |date=March 1953 |pages=1–3 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=03&page=727| issue = 265}}
50. ^{{cite news | title =TV Roundup - Menageries set for 'Comeback' | newspaper =Philadelphia Inquirer | location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | page =18 | date =August 6, 1956 | url =http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer%201956/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer%201956%20a%20-%201845.pdf| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
51. ^{{cite news | title =First Pioneer Report | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =1 | date =August 1953 | issue = 270 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=03&page=927| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
52. ^{{cite news | title =World Crusade Report | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =7 | date =March 1954 | issue = 277 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=03&page=1018| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
53. ^{{cite news| author= Judy Jennings | title =Monday Morning Gossip of the nation | newspaper =Philadelphia Inquirer | location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | page =11 | date =August 10, 1953 | url =http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer%201953/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer%201953%20g%20-%201679.pdf | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
54. ^{{cite web| author = William Sears | authorlink =William Sears (Bahá'í) | title =Pilgrimage to Haifa | work =Pilgrims' notes | publisher =Bahai-Library.com | date =1997 | url =http://bahai-library.com/sears_pilgrimage_haifa | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
55. ^{{cite news | title =News from Africa | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =4–5 (see page 5) | date =July 1954 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=5| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
56. ^{{cite news | title =Eighth Pioneer Report | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =4 | date =July 1954 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=4| accessdate =Jan 12, 2015 }}
57. ^{{cite news | title =United States Africa Teaching Committee; Goals for this year | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =10–11 (see page 11) | date =September 1954 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=41| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
58. ^{{cite news | title =United States Africa Teaching Committee; Africa News | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =7–8 | date =February 1955 | issue = 288 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=109| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
59. ^1 {{cite news | title =Central and East Africa; Newsletter tells of two African tours | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =5–6 | date =March 1957 | issue = 313 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=488| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015 }}
60. ^{{cite news | title =Canada | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =11 | date =October 1955 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=225 | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
61. ^{{cite news | title =Central States Conference in Decatur | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =12 | date =December 1955 | issue = 298 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=259 | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
62. ^{{cite news | title =The very life blood | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =10–11 (see page 11) | date =June 1956 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=345| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
63. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i Faith presented on Chicago television | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =13 | date =September 1956 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=400| accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
64. ^{{cite conference | author = Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report| chapter = Regional Profile: Eastern Cape and Appendix: Statistics on Violations in the Eastern Cape| title = Volume Three - Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report|pages=32, 146| publisher = Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report| date = 1998-10-29| chapter-url = http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/Volume%203.pdf|url=http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/| accessdate = March 8, 2017}}
65. ^{{cite web| author = National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of South Africa| title = Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission| publisher = Bahá'í International Community| date = 1997-11-19| url = http://info.bahai.org/article-1-9-1-7.html| accessdate = 2015-01-15}}
66. ^{{cite conference| author = Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa| chapter = various| title = Volume Four - Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report| pages = paragraphs 6, 27, 75, 84, 102| publisher = Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa| date = 1998-10-29| chapter-url = http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/Volume%204.pdf|url=http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/| accessdate = March 8, 2017}}
67. ^{{cite book|author=William Sears|title=Release the Sun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ-Rab0n5CkC&pg=PR12|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Baha'i Publishing Trust|isbn=978-1-931847-09-4|page=12}}
68. ^{{cite news | title =Eliot Baha'is honor Bab | newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald | location =Portsmouth, New Hampshire | page =5 | date =Oct 23, 1957 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526007/bahai_observance_with_victor/| accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}
69. ^Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957, Author: Shoghi Effendi, Source:US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1971, p 127
70. ^{{cite news |author = Sally Sanor | title =First national spiritual assembly of France, formed Ridvan 1958, becomes twenty-seventh pillar of Faith of Baha'u'llah | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =17–18 | date =July 1958 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=807| accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
71. ^{{cite news | title =William Sears, Hand of the Cause, to serve in the Western Hemisphere | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =1 | date =February 1959 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=921 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
72. ^{{cite news | title =869 Delegates and visitors find renewed inspiration at fifty-first U.S. national convention in Wilmette | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =6–9 | date =June 1959 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=986 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
73. ^* {{cite news | title =Hand of Cause William Sears to speak in ten states during September, October | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =2 | date =September 1959 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=386 | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =List itinerary of William B. Sears in U. S. and Canada through August 9 | newspaper = National Bahá'í Review | pages =3–4 | date =June 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/016.pdf | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Hand of Cause William Sears to speak in ten states during September, October | newspaper = National Bahá'í Review |page=2 | date =September 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/019.pdf | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
74. ^* {{cite news | title =Baha'i center to hear address by noted speaker | newspaper =Santa Cruz Sentinel | location =Santa Cruz, California | page =7 | date =May 29, 1959 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526009/bahai_william_sears_speaks_at/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =NCA calls conference to discuss paramount end of the Ten-Year Plan | newspaper = National Bahá'í Review |page=1 | date =June 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/016.pdf | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}} but he didn't make them all — see {{cite news | title =2000 Bahá'ís Hear Hand of Cause Sears on Eight-Month Tour of U.S. and Canada | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | page =2 | date =November 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/021.pdf | accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}`* {{cite news | title =Speaker listed at Baha'i school | newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald | location =Portsmouth, New Hampshire | page =3 | date =Jul 11, 1959 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526014/classes_and_speakers_at_green_acre/| accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =The Laurentian Bahá'í school, Quebec… | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =15 | date =November 1959 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=1087 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Teaches Quebec school course | newspaper =Oswego Palladium-Times | location =Oswego, New York | page =10 | date =Aug 7, 1959 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526026/lautentian_bahai_school_reviewed/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Hear William Sears speak on… | newspaper =The Kansas City Star | location =Kansas City, Missouri | page =4 | date =Aug 22, 1959 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526030/bahai_william_sears_talk/ | accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =A Baha'i speaker | newspaper = The Kansas City Star | location =Kansas City, Missouri | page =17 | date =Aug 27, 1959 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526033/bahai_william_sears_talk_i/ | accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =William Sears crusades for a faith | newspaper =The Kansas City Star | location =Kansas City, Missouri | page =2 | date =Aug 30, 1959 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526036/bahai_william_sears_profiled_for_talk/ | accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Baha'is to present Ex-TV star tonight | newspaper =Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | location =Fairbanks, Alaska | page =5 | date =Feb 10, 1960 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/349997/bahai_bill_sears_with_god_loves/ | accessdate =Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Baha'i New Year to be observed | newspaper =Arizona Republic | location =Phoenix, Arizona | page =26 | date =Mar 19, 1960 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526045/bahai_william_sears_gives_talk_with/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Speaker announced for Baha'i program | newspaper =Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | location =Fairbanks, Alaska | page =5 | date =Mar 9, 1960 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526039/bahai_william_sears_to_give_talk_over/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}
75. ^{{cite news | title =2000 Bahá'ís Hear Hand of Cause Sears on Eight-Month Tour of U.S. and Canada | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | page =2 | date =November 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/021.pdf | accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}
76. ^1 {{cite book|title=The Ministry of the Custodians, 1957-1963: An Account of the Stewardship of the Hands of the Cause|url=http://bahai-library.com/uhj_ministry_custodians|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Bahá'í World Centre|isbn=978-0-85398-350-7|pages=12, 212–217}}
77. ^{{cite encyclopedia |last= Smith |first= Peter |encyclopedia= A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith |year= 2000 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location= Oxford |isbn= 1-85168-184-1 | pages = 175–177, 292–293}}
78. ^{{cite web | last = Momen | first = Moojan | title = The Covenant and Covenant-Breaker | publisher = bahai-library.com | year = 2003 | url = http://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_covenant#5.%20Dealing%20with%20Covenant-breaking | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
79. ^*{{cite book | last = Stone | first = Jon R. (ed) | year = 2000 | title =Expecting Armageddon, Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy | place = New York | publisher = Routledge | pages = 269–282 | isbn = 0-415-92331-X | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XMnbqiSjKsMC}}
80. ^* {{cite news | title =First of new series of recordings released by audio-visual committee | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | page =3 | date =October 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/020.pdf | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Radio Committee Lists Tapes, Scripts For Proclamation of Faith | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | page =3 | date =October 1959 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/020.pdf | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
81. ^{{cite news| author = Mary Jean MacKay | title =Many Communities Report Warm Response to .InterracialTeaching Activities | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | pages =3–4 | date =March 1960 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/025.pdf| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
82. ^{{cite book |first=William |last=Sears |year=1960 |title=God Loves Laughter |publisher=George Ronald |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=0-85398-019-5}}
83. ^{{cite news | title =New victories announced at World Center | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =1–2 | date =September 1960 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=123 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015 }}
84. ^{{cite news| authors = Corinne True, Hermann Grossman, Dhikru'lláh Khadem, William Sears| title =Hands of the Cause in the Western Hemisphere Call Us To Become "Apostles of Baha'u'llah" Through Teaching | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review |page=13 | date =August 1960 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/030.pdf | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
85. ^{{cite news | title =Hand of Cause William B. Sears addresses large meetings in Los Angeles | newspaper = Bahá'í News | page =4 | date =February 1961 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=192| accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
86. ^* {{cite news | title =Speaker - William Sears, author… | newspaper =Pasadena Independent | location =Pasadena, California | page =84 | date =Mar 15, 1962 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526065/bahai_william_sears_talk/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Speaker - William Sears, author… | newspaper =Pasadena Independent | location =Pasadena, California | page =84 | date =Mar 15, 1962 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526065/bahai_william_sears_talk/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Hear Mr. William Sears tell of… | newspaper =Wisconsin State Journal | location =Madison, Wisconsin | page =2 | date =Mar 18, 1962 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526066/bahai_william_sears_gives_talk/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}
87. ^* {{cite news | title =Significance of Baha'i new year discussed | newspaper =The San Bernardino County Sun | location =San Bernardino, California | page =12 | date =Mar 24, 1961 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526057/bahai_william_sears_tape_and_slides_at/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Bahá'í Faith to celebrate 100th year | newspaper =News-Journal | location =Mansfield, Ohio | page =13 | date =Apr 25, 1963 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526068/bahai_william_sears_taped_talk_at/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Bahá'í Faith to celebrate 100th year | newspaper =Butte Bahá'ís to note centennial | location =Butte, Montana | page =6 | date =Apr 27, 1963 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526071/bahai_observance_with_taped_talk_by/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Baha'is observe World Peace Day with luncheon | newspaper =Santa Cruz Sentinel | location =Santa Cruz, California | page =2 | date = Sep 27, 1964 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526084/bahai_observance_with_taped_talk_by/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}
88. ^* {{cite news | title =Sears, Quigley at dedication | newspaper =The Anniston Star | location =Anniston, Alabama | page =20 | date =Jan 29, 1961 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/305878/the_anniston_star/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =TV Personalities help dedicate Uganda Temple | newspaper =The Ottawa Journal | location =Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | page =60 | date =Feb 4, 1961 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526054/bahais_william_sears_and_robert/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | author= Ward Cannel | title =In the 99th year; Baha'i looks to global centennial | newspaper =The Pantograph | location =Bloomington, Illinois | page =4 | date =Dec 25, 1961 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525944/bahai_faith_profiled_notes_quigley/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =TV producer visits Africa on business; likes it so much he wants to return | newspaper =The Austin Daily Herald | location =Austin, Minnesota | page =20 | date =December 29, 1961 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/343760/profile_of_bahai_bob_quigley_notes/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}
89. ^*{{cite book |first=William |last=Sears |origyear=1961 |year=2002 |title=Thief in the Night |publisher=George Ronald |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=0-85398-008-X | url = http://bahai-library.com/sears_thief_night }}
90. ^* {{cite news | title =Book review slated for Baha'i meeting | newspaper =The Terre Haute Star | location =Terre Haute, Indiana | page =9 | date =Jun 22, 1960 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526047/discussion_of_william_sears_book_by/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Baha'is books at library | newspaper =The Sun and the Erie County Independent | location =Hamburg, New York | page =18 | date =Aug 25, 1960 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526051/bahai_william_sears_books_donated_to/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Baha'i services set | newspaper =The Terre Haute Star | location =Terre Haute, Indiana | page =7 | date = May 20, 1961 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526063/bahai_william_sears_book_thief_in_the/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title = Church News | newspaper =The Sun and the Erie County Independent | location =Hamburg, New York | page =19 | date = Jan 30, 1964 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526076/bahai_book_discussion_for_adults/ | accessdate = Jan 11, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Church News | newspaper =The Sun and the Erie County Independent | location =Hamburg, New York | page =1 | date =Feb 6, 1964 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1599466/bahai_classes_with_sears_thief_in/ | accessdate = Jan 18, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Baha'is to hear book reviewed | newspaper =El Paso Herald-Post | location =El Paso, Texas | page =3 | date =Aug 12, 1967 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1600018/bahai_david_lightfoot_talksreviews/ | accessdate = Jan 18, 2015}}
91. ^{{cite news | title =Panama | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =4 | date =July 1961 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=272| accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
92. ^{{cite news | title =Indians of Guatemala stiffed by visit of Hands of Cause | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =4 | date =September 1961 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=306| accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
93. ^{{cite news | title =Newly elected international council holds first meeting | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =1 | date =August 1961 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=287 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
94. ^{{cite news|authors = A. Furutan, Hasan Balyuzi, Jalál Kházeh, John Ferraby, Paul Hany, A. Q. Faizi, William Sears | title =Hands Stress Home Front In Message to Australian Conference | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | pages =1–3 | date =October 1961 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/044.pdf| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
95. ^{{cite news | title =Producer-turned-missionary… Sears, Baha'i Speaker, to visit UL | newspaper =Daily Illini | location =Urbana-Champaign, Illinois | page =3 | date =5 January 1962 | url =http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19620105.2.18# | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
96. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i in the news; On January 7 the half-hour program… | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =15 | date =March 1962 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=413 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
97. ^{{cite news | title =Tidings of electrifying victories highlight fifty-fourth U. S. national convention | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =8–11 | date =June 1962 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=454 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
98. ^{{cite news | title =Attendants, including Hands of the Cause… | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =3 | date =October 1962 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=525 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
99. ^{{cite news | title =Annual gathering of the Hands announced for April 1963 | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =1 | date =October 1962 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=523 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
100. ^{{cite news | title =Great Council Fire | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =17 | date =April 1963 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=637 | accessdate = Jan 14, 2015}}
101. ^{{cite news | title =Bahá'í World Congress Ridvan 120 | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =7 | date =June 1963 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=663 | accessdate =Jan 14, 2015 }}
102. ^{{cite news | title =Members of Baha'i Faith in meeting | newspaper =The Bakersfield Californian | location =Bakersfield, California | page=7 | date =Oct 2, 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526134/bahai_regional_conference_with_talk_by/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015}}
103. ^{{cite news| author = George W. Cornell | title =Religion in the News | newspaper =The La Crosse Tribune | location =La Crosse, Wisconsin | page =2 | date =Jan 23, 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526088/profile_of_bahais_with_interview_with/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}
104. ^{{cite news | title =S. J. Baha'i donates four books | newspaper =The News-Palladium | location =Benton Harbor, Michigan | page =16 | date = Feb 1, 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526108/donated_bahai_books/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
105. ^{{cite news | title =Bob Quigley, Hollywood producer… | newspaper =The Edwardsville Intelligencer | location =Edwardsville, Illinois | page =9 | date =9 Apr 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526110/bahai_bob_quigley_interviews_william/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
106. ^* {{cite news | title =Those of Baha'i faith to stress race unity | newspaper =The Bakersfield Californian | location =Bakersfield, California | page =19 | date =Jun 12, 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526128/bahai_observance_with_meetings_at_hugh/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Baha'i members plan rally | newspaper =Redlands Daily Facts | location =Redlands, California | page=4 | date =Oct 1, 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526130/bahai_william_sears_speaks_at_regional/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Members of Baha'i Faith in meeting | newspaper =The Bakersfield Californian | location =Bakersfield, California | page=7 | date =Oct 2, 1965 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526134/bahai_regional_conference_with_talk_by/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015}}
107. ^* {{cite news | title =Baha'i Faith plans week of activities | newspaper =The Fresno Bee The Republican | location =Fresno, California | page =5 | date =Jan 22, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1465133/listing_of_famous_bahais/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =250 from all over nation will attend Baha'i week | newspaper =The Fresno Bee The Republican | location =Fresno, California | page =21 | date =Jan 28, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526142/bahais_conference_with_talks/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Celebrities here for Baha'i week from Education, Science, Entertainment | newspaper =The Fresno Bee The Republican | location =Fresno, California | page =6 | date =Jan 29, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1465141/bahai_week_of_speakers/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =9-day Baha'i week will end tomorrow | newspaper =The Fresno Bee The Republican | location =Fresno, California | page =4 | date = Feb 5, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526148/bahai_conference_with_speakers/ | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
108. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i distribution and service department | newspaper =National Bahá'í Review | page =3 | date =February 1966 | url =http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/US_Supplement/096.pdf| accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
109. ^* {{cite news | title =Waukesha Baha'is set observance, TV program | newspaper =Waukesha Daily Freeman | location =Waukesha, Wisconsin | page =4 | date = May 20, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1599868/bahai_jim_sander_beasley_talks_at/ | accessdate = Jan 18, 2015}}* {{cite news| last = | first = | title =Waukesha Daily Freeman | newspaper =Waukesha, Wisconsin | location = | page =4 | date =Sep 13, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1599904/bahais_talked_at_meeting/ | accessdate = Jan 18, 2015}}
110. ^* {{cite news | title =William Sears on 'Today' Show | newspaper =The Amarillo Globe-Times | location =Amarillo, Texas | page =25 | date = May 20, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/257922/hand_of_the_cause_william_sears_to_be/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Television schedule | newspaper =Independent | location =Long Beach, California | page =6 | date = May 23, 1966 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1578429/brief_note_of_bahai_william_sears_on/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}
111. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i official to be honored | newspaper =Desert Sentinel | location =Desert Hot Springs, California | page =10 | date = Mar 20, 1969 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1602733/bahais_honor_william_sears/ | accessdate = Jan 18, 2015}}
112. ^{{cite news | title =Spiritual assemblies throughout the world | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =13 | date =February 1968 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=73| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
113. ^* {{cite news | title =Sicily greets first oceanic conference | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =3–6 | date =October 1968 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=207| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =The commemoration at the World Center | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =4–7 | date =November 1968 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=228 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
114. ^{{cite news | title =News Briefs | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =11–12 | date =January 1969 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=271| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
115. ^{{cite news | title =Bahá'í Center in San Bernardino | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =11 | date =April 1969 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=311| accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}
116. ^{{cite news | title =Nine conferences inspire rededication | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =2–4 | date =June 1969 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=334| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
117. ^{{cite news | author1 = Nancy Alison | author2 = A. L. Lincoln | title =US national convention 1969 | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =12–15 | date =June 1969 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=345| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
118. ^{{cite news | title =Opens new center | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =10–11 | date =December 1969 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=466 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
119. ^{{cite news | title =Library gets Baha'i books | newspaper =Casa Grande Dispatch | location =Casa Grande, Arizona | page =5 | date =June 5, 1968 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526156/bahai_books_donated_to_library_by_mr/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
120. ^{{cite news | title =Australian youth school brings inspiration to many | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =9 | date =July 1968 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=152| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
121. ^{{cite news |author = Shirley Warde | title =British Honduras forges ahead | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =12–13 | date =December 1968 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=256| accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}
122. ^{{cite news | title =Bradenton, Florida | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =13–14 | date =April 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=541 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
123. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i Club for youth to organize | newspaper =The Kokomo Tribune | location =Kokomo, Indiana | page =7 | date = June 27, 1970 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526159/bahai_club_meeting_with_taped_talk_by/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
124. ^{{cite news | title =Northwest Baha'i summer school | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =19 | date =December 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=699| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
125. ^{{cite news | title =France | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =11 | date =September 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=635| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
126. ^* {{cite news | title =Seven national assemblies to be formed next Rid̨van | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =1 | date =October 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=649| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Mauritius - Indian Ocean | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =4 | date = November 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=664 | accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Mauritius | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page=5 | date =November 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=665 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
127. ^{{Cite book|last = Sears|first = William|year = 1971|title = Prisoner and the Kings, The|publisher = Bahá'í Publishing Trust|location = USA|isbn = 1-931847-41-X|url = http://bahai-library.com/sears_prisoner_kings}}
128. ^{{cite news | title ="Wake Up America" exhorts Hand of the Cause Sears | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =1–3 | date =June 1971 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=809 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
129. ^{{cite news | title =61st National convention | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =23–24 | date =June 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=583| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
130. ^{{cite news | title =Audio-visual and special materials | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =15 | date =July 1970 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=599| accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}
131. ^{{cite news | title =Present books to Litchfield Library | newspaper =Nashua Telegraph | location =Nashua, New Hampshire | page =40 | date =14 Apr 1971 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526164/donated_books_by_bahais_susan_bower/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015}}
132. ^{{cite news | title =To sponsor fireside meetings | newspaper =The Kokomo Tribune | location =Kokomo, Indiana |page=5 | date = August 7, 1971 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526170/bahai_william_sears_in_taped_talk_at/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015}}
133. ^{{cite news | title =Annual Report | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =7 | date =September 1971 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=839| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
134. ^{{cite news |author = Natalie DiBuono | title ="The floating institute" to and from Jamaica | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =2–4 (see page 4) | date =August 1971 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=858| accessdate = }}
135. ^{{cite news | title =German National Convention | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =16 | date =July 1971 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=848| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
136. ^{{cite news| author = Carolee E. Brackett | title =Youth symposium - Langenhain, Germany | newspaper = Bahá'í News | pages =2–3 | date =September 1971 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=882| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
137. ^{{Cite thesis | last =Venters | first =Louis E., the III | title =Most great reconstruction: The Baha'i faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 | publisher = Colleges of Arts and Sciences University of South Carolina | year = 2010 | url =http://bahai-library.com/venters_bahai_south_carolina | isbn = 978-1-243-74175-2 | id = UMI Number: 3402846| pages =380–382}}
138. ^{{cite news | title =New cassettes | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =23 | date =July 1971 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=855| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
139. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'is will present human rights awards | newspaper =Arcadia Tribune | location =Arcadia, California |page=2 | date =Dec 12, 1971 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526180/bahai_awards_go_to_with_guest/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
140. ^{{cite news | title =United States convention, 1972 "Poised for overwhelming victory" | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =12–16 (see page 14) | date =June 1972 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=108| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
141. ^{{cite news | title =Second national convention in Chad | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =14 | date =September 1972 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=182| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
142. ^{{cite news | title =Convention of Swaziland and Mozambique | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =16 | date =September 1972 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=184| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
143. ^* {{cite news | title =Universal House of Justice announces thirteen new national assemblies to be elected | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =1 | date =January 1972 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=985 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =First national spiritual assembly of the Republic of Ireland | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =22 | date =June 1972 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=118 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
144. ^{{cite news |author=Ruth Hampson | title =Dedication of the new Louis G. Gregory Bahá'í Institute | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =8–9 | date =December 1972 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=247 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
145. ^*{{cite book|author= William Sears |authorlink=William Sears (Bahá'í)|author2=Robert Quigley|year=1973|title=The Flame: The Story of Lua|publisher=George Ronald|location=Oxford, UK|isbn=0-85398-030-6}}
146. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i Faith leader sets visit to Pee Dee | newspaper =Florence Morning News | location =Florence, South Carolina | page =5 | date = Jan 20, 1973 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1398072/bahais_in_sc_bill_sears_at_lgi/| accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
147. ^{{cite news | title =Third Bahá'í international convention | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =5–7 (see page 7) | date =July 1973 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=412| accessdate =Jan 19, 2015}}
148. ^{{cite news | title =National Convention of the Bahá'ís of the United States held in Wilmette, Illinois on May 18, 19, 20, 1973 | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =12–15 (see page 14) | date =July 1973 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=419| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
149. ^{{cite news | title =Meeting largest in America | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =17 | date =August 1973 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=448| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
150. ^{{cite news | title =Hawaii: Television series | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =5 | date =February 1974 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=583| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
151. ^{{cite news | title =Around the World | newspaper = Bahá'í News | pages =1–3 (see page 2) | date =July 1974 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=698| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015 }}
152. ^{{cite news | title =Dedication of the John and Louise Bosch Bahá'í School | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =19–21 | date =July 1974 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=716| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
153. ^{{cite news| author = Salvatore A. Pelle | title =Hawaii 1974: Bahá'í International youth conference | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =11–17 | date =August 1974 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=732| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
154. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i program set | newspaper =The Edwardsville Intelligencer | location =Edwardsville, Illinois | page =4 | date =Aug 24, 1974 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526184/bahai_meeting_with_talk_by_william/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}
155. ^{{cite news | title =Special teaching plan launched in New York | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =9–12 | date =March 1975 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=897| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
156. ^{{cite news | title =Mr. Sears urges believer to prepare for enrollment by troops in America | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =14–15 | date =May 1975 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=950| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
157. ^{{cite news | title =Proclamation, deepening activities highlight commemoration of `Abdu'l-Bahá's visit | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =7 | date =November 1975 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=123| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
158. ^{{cite news | title =National conference on teaching held | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =10 | date =February 1976 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=195| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
159. ^{{cite news | title =New teaching projects begin | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =11–12 | date =February 1976 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=196| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
160. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'i meeting | newspaper =Independent Press-Telegram | location =Long Beach, California |page=6 | date = Dec 27, 1975 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526193/bahai_meeting_speakers_firuz/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
161. ^{{cite news | title =TV series on Faith is now available | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =17 | date =July 1976 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=317| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
162. ^{{cite news | title =Baha'is airing own tv series | newspaper =Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | location =Fairbanks, Alaska | page =39 | date =10 Apr 1976 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1525951/bahai_program_on_kfah_in_alaska_with/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}
163. ^{{cite news | title =National assembly elected | newspaper =The Brandon Sun | location =Brandon, Manitoba, Canada | page =14 | date = May 8, 1976 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526201/canadian_bahai_election_with_hands/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}
164. ^{{cite news | title =Charlotte Linfoot ill, praised at convention | newspaper =Bahá'í News | page =16 | date =June 1976 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=306 | accessdate =Jan 19, 2015 }}
165. ^{{cite news | title =God's call to the Arctic | newspaper =Bahá'í News | pages =7–10 | date =September 1976 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=354 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
166. ^{{cite news | title =Nairobi: catapult for heroism | newspaper =Bahá'í New | pages =2–6 | date =November 1976 | url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=09&page=389 | accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
167. ^{{cite book|author=William Sears|title=A Cry from the Heart: The Bahá'ís in Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XocTAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1982|publisher=G. Ronald|isbn=978-0-85398-134-3}}
168. ^* {{cite news | title =Free Book Offer | newspaper =The San Bernardino County Sun | location =San Bernardino, California | page =57 | date = May 3, 1979 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526229/books_offered_for_free/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Baha'i Peace Day | newspaper =Santa Cruz Sentinel | location =Santa Cruz, California | page =9 | date = Sep 16, 1981 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526240/bahai_observance_with_talk_by_paul/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015}}
169. ^* {{cite news | title =Congress acts for Baha'is | newspaper =The Pantograph | location =Bloomington, Illinois | page =6 | date = Jul 17, 1982 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526252/letter_to_the_editor_by_john_travis/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}* {{cite news | title =Santa Cruz Sentinel | newspaper =Santa Cruz, California | location = | page =35 | date =26 Nov 1982 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526257/bahai_club_at_ucsc_meeting/ | accessdate =Jan 15, 2015 }}
170. ^* {{cite news| author = George Plagenz | title =Saints and Sinners; The Baha'i teachings | newspaper =The Index-Journal | location =Greenwood, South Carolina | page =3 | date =May 14, 1983 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526279/profile_of_bahais_christian_issues/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news| author = George Plagenz | title =Baha'i Faith appears to various people | newspaper =The Baytown Sun | location =Baytown, Texas | page =24 | date =12 Jun 1983 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526284/echo_of_profile_of_bahais_reviewing/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}* {{cite news| author = George Plagenz | title =Bahai faith says Christs' return occurred in 1844 | newspaper =Indiana Gazette | location =Indiana, Pennsylvania | page =6 | date =26 Mar 1990 | url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526292/profile_of_christian_prophecy_as/ | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
171. ^{{cite AV media| people =William Sears | title =Address to the National Convention | medium =audio | publisher =Bahai-Library.com | location =Chicago, Illinois | date =1983 | url = http://bahai-library.com/sears_address_national_convention}}
172. ^{{cite book |first=William |last=Sears |year=1985 |title=All Flags Flying |publisher=NSA of the Bahá'ís of South Africa |isbn=0-908420-62-5 }}
173. ^{{cite AV media| people =Collis Featherstone, William Sears, and Afshin | title =Echoes from the Lotus | medium =audio | publisher =Bahai-library.com | location =New Dehli, India | date =1986| url = http://bahai-library.com/echoes_lotus}}
174. ^{{cite web | title =History | publisher =Desert Rose Bahá'í School | date = | url =http://www.drbi.org/DRBI/drbI-about-us-history-9.html | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
175. ^*{{cite book |first=William |last=Sears |year=1991 |title=Run to Glory |publisher=Naturegraph Publishers Inc |location= |isbn=0-87961-195-2 }}
176. ^{{cite book |first=William |last=Sears |year=1997 |title=In Grandfather's Barn |publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust |location=USA |isbn=0-87743-257-0 }}
177. ^{{cite book |first=William |last=Sears |year=2000 |title=The Half-Inch Prophecy |publisher=NSA of the Bahá'ís of South Africa |location= |isbn=1-874801-94-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p6j-AAAACAAJ }}
178. ^{{cite web | title =William Sears | publisher =Find-a-grave | date =Mar 16, 2006 | url =https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13629045 | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
179. ^{{cite web | title =Thief in the Night or The Strange Case of the Missing Millennium, by William Sears: Review | work =Book Reviews | publisher =Bahai-Library.com | date = 1998 | url =http://bahai-library.com/review_sears_thief_night | accessdate = Jan 15, 2015}}
180. ^{{cite journal| author = William P. Collins | title = Millennialism, the Millerites, and historicism | journal =World Order | volume =30 | issue =1 | pages =9–26 | date =1998 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=rEglAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Thief+in+the+Night%22+sears&dq=%22Thief+in+the+Night%22+sears&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GnO1VKOSBcuYNtCbhJgL&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBzge| accessdate = Jan 19, 2015}}
181. ^* {{Cite thesis | author=Jiling Yang | title =In Search of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist and Peace Advocate in the Early Twentieth Century | publisher =Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University | date = Jan 12, 2007|url =http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=wsi_theses | isbn = |pages=43, 98 }}* {{Cite thesis | last =Venters, III| first =Louis E. | title =Most great reconstruction: The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 | publisher = Colleges of Arts and Sciences University of South Carolina | year = 2010 |url =http://bahai-library.com/venters_bahai_south_carolina | isbn = 978-1-243-74175-2 | id = UMI Number: 3402846| page =20 }}* {{Cite thesis | author=Beard G. Mwanza| title =Towards a history of the Bahai Faith in Zambia | publisher = University of Zambia | date = 2011| url =http://dspace.unza.zm:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1824/1/mwanza.pdf | isbn = | page =89 }}
182. ^{{cite book| author= Moojan Momen|editor=Moše Šārôn|title=Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMX4xSQtkEAC&pg=PA97| chapter=Millennialist dreams and apocalyptic nightmares |chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMX4xSQtkEAC&pg=PA97|date=1 January 2004|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13904-4|page=113}}
183. ^{{cite journal| author=E. Taylor Atkins | title =Sacred Swing: The Sacralization of Jazz in the American Bahá'í Community | journal =American Music | volume =24 | issue =4 | pages = 383–420 | date = 2006 | jstor = 25046049}}
184. ^* {{cite book|author=Steven Gottlieb|title=Once to Every Man and Nation: Stories about Becoming a Bahá'í|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmARWIjLf4MC|year=1985|publisher=G. Ronald|isbn=978-0-85398-211-1|pages = 56–67}}* {{cite book|author=Aleia N. O'Reilly|title=Rainbow Warriors Awake!: An Invitation to Remember|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICDOUVkQEXsC&pg=PA139|date=June 1995|publisher=Little Hummingbird Publishing|isbn=978-0-9642096-0-2|page=139}}* {{cite book|author1=John Ankerberg|author2=John Weldon|title=Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions: Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Mind Sciences, Baha'i, Zen, Unitarianism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayMvAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Harvest House Publishers|isbn=978-0-7369-0074-4|pages=16, 22}}* {{cite book|author=John Huddleston|title=Standing up for humanity: thoughts on the world economy, the politics of world peace, and the role of religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YLYAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Baha'i Pub. Trust|isbn=978-81-86953-43-3|page = 368}}* {{cite book|author1=Justice Saint Rain|title=My Baha'i Faith: A Personal Tour of the Baha'i Teachings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D17hR4_f98IC&pg=PA89|year=2003|publisher=SPECIAL IDEAS|isbn=978-1-888547-15-3|page=89}}* {{cite book|author=Druzelle Cederquist|title=The Story of Baha'u'llah: Promised One of All Religions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spsMfeD23BIC&pg=PR11|year=2005|publisher=Baha'i Publishing Trust|isbn=978-1-931847-13-1|page=11}}* {{cite book|author=Gary L. Matthews|title=The Challenge of Baha'u'llah: Does God Still Speak to Humanity Today?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGbZMLCmE1IC&pg=PA212|year=2005|publisher=Baha'i Publishing Trust|isbn=978-1-931847-16-2|page=212}}* {{cite book|author=Fazel Naghdy|title=A Tutorial on the Kitab-i-iqan: A Journey Through the Book of Certitude|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ac0YzGH1gNMC&pg=PA531|date=1 February 2012|publisher=Fazel Naghdy|isbn=978-1-4663-1100-8|page=531}}* {{cite book|author=Ronnie Cohen|title=The Reality of It All: Our Soul, Life and Death, God and Religion, and a Whole Bunch of Science with a Little Humor Mixed in|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YGagLj7PfUC&pg=PA92|date=11 July 2012|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4759-3283-6|pages=91–92}}
185. ^{{cite web | title ='On the Rooftop' dramatizes the life of TV pioneer, William Sears | work = | publisher =The Drama Circle | date = | url =http://www.dramacircle.org/History/rooftop.html | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
186. ^{{cite web| author = Robert W. McDowell | title =The Drama Circle and Flying Machine Theatre Company Preview: On the Rooftop with Bill Sears Finds Its Title Character at a Crossroads | work = | publisher =Classical Voice of North Carolina | date =April 15, 2004 | url =http://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=343 | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015 }}
187. ^{{cite web | title =2010 Dawn Breakers International Film Festival Honoree | work = | publisher =KDK Factory | date =November 26, 2010 | url =http://www.kdkfactory.com/en/william-sears-honoree/ | accessdate = Jan 12, 2015}}
188. ^{{cite journal | title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =8 | issue =9 | page =267 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1935 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig81libr#page/267/mode/1up| accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}
189. ^{{cite journal| title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =9 | issue =5 | page =184 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1936 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig91libr#page/184/mode/1up | accessdate =Jan 13, 2015}}* {{cite news | title =Teacher's Guide to good plays - The Cardigan Kid, by William B Sears… | newspaper =The Interscholastic Leaguer | location =Austin Texas | page =3 | date =February 1937 | url =http://www.uiltexas.org/files/leaguer/leaguer-archives/LE-1937-02.pdf | accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}
190. ^{{cite journal| title =Class D - Dramatic Compositions | journal =Catalog of Copyright entries; Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions - Motion Pictures | volume =9 | issue =5 | page =184 | publisher =Library of Congress | date =1936 | url =https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig91libr#page/362/mode/1up | accessdate = Jan 13, 2015}}

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  • {{cite AV media

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  • A number of his audio tapes are available online - see Search for all author names: "William Sears", Bahai-Library.com
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