Idaho Experience

Idaho's Mail-Order Messiah

Season 2 Episode 5 | 26m 48s | Video has closed captioning.

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After a revelation from God, Frank B. Robinson founded Psychiana in Moscow in 1929. Psychiana had no churches, no ministers, no services, but through advertising and mail order, became one of the largest employers in northern Idaho and one of the largest mail-order operations in the U.S.

Aired: 04/25/19

Rating: TV-G

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Idaho Experience is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV.

Major Funding by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation. Additional Funding by Anne Voillequé and Louise Nelson, Judy and Steve Meyer, Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation, the …

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