Paul Kopp
Paul Kopp was a Baptist minister in San Bernardino whose ministry overlapped geographically and institutionally with Roy E. Davis, William D. Upshaw, Lily Galloway, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Ussher-Davis Children's Orphanage "Americanization" scheme, placing him near a highly publicized Klan-adjacent fundraising operation that used Baptist respectability, temperance networks, and orphanage language to mask white supremacist organizing; his later connection with his brother LeRoy Kopp in promoting William Branham through Twentieth Century Prophet links the Kopp brothers to the same revival, media, and religious networks through which Branham's public image and Message mythology were advanced.
Paul Kopp was in San Bernardino, CA, at the same time Roy Davis and William Upshaw were in the area posing as "Baptists". At that time, Paul Kopp pastored the First Baptist church. In 1943, before Davis and Upshaw had setup their operation for the "Americanization" funded through the Ussher-Davis Children's Orphanage, Paul Kopp was in San Francisco.
In August of 1943, The San Bernardino Sun announced the orphanage scheme that Davis and Upshaw started apparently as a front for the Ku Klux Klan. Upshaw himself was in charge of the "Americanization", and was rallying involvement from the Baptist community. It was during the time of this "Americanization" scheme that Paul Kopp was asked to step in as interim pastor of the First Baptist Church of San Bernardino. Kopp was also affiliated with the Los Angeles City Baptist Mission Society, and with the Women's Christian Temperance Union — which Upshaw and his second wife, Lily Galloway, were deeply involved. Galloway who was president of the organization. It was very unlikely that Paul Kopp was unaware of the highly publicized court trial involving Davis and Upshaw; newspapers were filled with details, and it would have been the talk of the town. Roy E. Davis, William Upshaw, and Lily Galloway at the center of attention. Yet the former Congressman Upshaw would have been active in Paul Kopp's church while working with Davis to build the next wave of the Ku Klux Klan.
Paul Kopp and his brother LeRoy Kopp helped to promote William Branham's ministry with a short film, "Twentieth Century Prophet".