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In 1929, it was the church, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, who effected the release of the Centralia prisoners. This report appeared in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America in one of their weekly bulletins. The man chosen to investigate the case on behalf of the churches was lawyer DeWitte Wyckoff, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary. In November 1929 he arrived in the Pacific Northwest where he worked with a cooperating committee who had been appointed by several churches in the area.
