Winning an Oscar

William Branham claimed that he won an Oscar for "saving a life" in the matter of Leslie Douglas Ashley, the transexual stepson of photographer James Ayers and relative of photographer Ted Kipperman.  An oscar is a statuette given as an award for Excellence in the American and International film industry issued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  The Humane Society is unrelated to both the Oscars and Ashley's death sentence; The Humane Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of animals.  Ayers and Kipperman were the photographers who captured William Branham's "Houston Photograph", a relic and icon to "Message" cult history due to the way in which the lighting in the Houston Coliseum appears like a "halo" above William Branham's head.  Ashley's execution was stayed by reason of insanity after the court system heard his claim to be "Elijah the prophet", similar to William Branham's own claim.

I was going hunting with a friend, not knowing what was going to happen. And someone called me, the one that criticized me about that picture of the Angel of the Lord, the one that took it. I had to go to Houston about his son, for he was going in the death row and was going to be killed in a few days. And he met me in there and throwed his arms around me, said, "Think, the very man that I criticized comes to save my only son!" The humane society give me what they call an oscar, or whatever you want to call it, for saving a life.
Branham, William, 1965, Jul 25.  What is the Attraction on the Mountain (65-0725E)

Branham's "oscar acceptance speech" is critical to understanding the timeline critical to his claim to have stood directly underneath "seven angels" in what later would become "The Cloud", another relic and icon to "Message" cult history.  In later versions of William Branham's stage persona, Branham claimed that seven angels were above him as he and his peers hunted javelina hogs in Arizona, while in this version, there was an audible event (a blast) instead of a visual event.  According to the Arizona Game and Fish Department, javelina season in 1963 was open March 1 through March 10, which would align with the timeline of this version of William Branham's stage persona. 

According to the timeline of this version of his stage persona:

1. Branham and his peers were hunting in Arizona, and javelina season had not yet opened
2. James Ayers called William Branham pleading for help for his stepson, Leslie Douglas Ashley and Caroline Lima
3. Branham traveled to Houston Texas to excite the crowd enough to petition the court for the lives of Ashley and Lima
4. Branham preached "An Absolute" (63-0304) on March 4 during the first few days of javelina season
5. Branham returned to Arizona to hunt
6. Branham met the "seven angels"

The humane society give me what they call an oscar, or whatever you want to call it, for saving a life.  Then we went back, I went up in the mountain to hunt. There, Brother Fred and I, one morning when I walked out, and I--I had already got my javelina, and I looked and seen the place where they went. I said, "Brother Fred, go over on that mountain early in the morning now, about the break of day, and I'll get on the other one. I won't shoot at the hog, won't kill him. But if they start over this way, that herd, I'll shoot in front of them then run them back." Brother Fred went out there and there was no hogs. He waved at me and I seen. I went down in a canyon, some big chasms, the sun was just coming up. I come around the other side of the hill, not thinking nothing about the prophecies. Set down, waiting, resting; I thought, "What happened to those hogs?"  I picked up my... Set down like Indians do, you know, cross-legged. I looked on my overall leg, and there was a bullheader. I picked it up. And I said, "That's strange! Here I am, about forty miles northeast of Tucson. There's my little boy Joseph sitting there waiting for me." And as I started to look, I seen a herd of hogs come out about a thousand yards from me, up on a mountain, I throwed the bullheader down. I said, "I'll get them. I'll go get Brother Fred, and I'll hang up a piece of paper to let know which way to go, on this ocotillo here, and we'll get Brother Fred."  And I started up the mountain, running as hard as I could on the other side. All of a sudden, I thought somebody shot me. I never heard such a blast; it shook the whole country. And, when it did, standing before me was seven Angels in a cluster.
Branham, William, 1965, Jul 25.  What is the Attraction on the Mountain (65-0725E)