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More Than One Life
Dr. Gene Neill was a
professional race car driver, and served honorably in the United States Marine Corps in
the Far East during the Korean War. He majored in Philosophy in undergraduate
school, and graduated with a Doctorate in Law, cum laude, from the University of
Miami School of Law in 1961.
Neill served as a Public Defender in Miami for three years, and was later appointed as a
Prosecuting Attorney in the Special Prosecution Division of the Dade County State
Attorney's Office in Miami. In that capacity he prosecuted many of the organized
crime and Mafia figures in the East Coast underworld, and he later became a very
successful criminal defense attorney in Miami.
When he was forty, Neill became deeply involved in organized crime, and was sentenced to
serve fifty years in a Federal penitentiary. Indictments under which he was
sentenced included large-scale narcotics distribution, possession of machine guns, a
pistol with a silencer, massive insurance frauds and related conspiracies.
But in a little dimly-lit underground solitary isolation cell in a maximum security
Federal penitentiary, he had a dramatic conversion experience. After a total of two
years and thirteen days in prison he was miraculously set free, and has been a full-time
prison minister and evangelist in great demand around the world since his release
twenty-three years ago.
An ordained minister with the oldest and most extensive international prison ministry in
the world, Neill is the author of the current international best-selling book, "I'm
Gonna' Bury You!", published in five languages. Since his release from prison he has
spoken in thousands of churches and prisons, and his ministries have taken him through 44
countries on five continents.
Neill has been seen and heard many times on all of the international Christian television
and radio media; he spent three months ministering in the "Underground Churches"
of the former Soviet Union, where he was arrested three times by the Soviet Secret
Police. He and his family lived for six months in mainland Communist China; recently
he was invited to Havana, Cuba, where he met and talked with Fidel Castro; and he also
conducted a speaking tour of the prisons of Israel at the invitation of the Ministry of
the Police of Israel.
Gene and his wife Dorothy reside in Florida, from where they direct
World-Wide Prison Ministries and other international Christian outreach programs. |
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