Upon his untimely death in 2010, I managed the website and made sure the funds were properly deposited into Cynthia's bank account, which was Ray's main hope even though no proper succession had been put in place. Towards the end of his life, he had hoped to find someone who could take over the management of Commentary Press, his publishing imprint, but no viable candidates presented themselves. Ray was very happy with this system because it required no labor and the few hundred dollars a month it generated helped supplement his meager retirement savings as well as allowed his work to be read in a format that may have been more appropriate for someone trying to keep evidence of their doubts hidden from family members still in the Witnesses. I cobbled together a system that automatically emailed a link for a protected PDF file using a code to access it once payment had been made. Shipping physical books was hard on Ray after his stroke, and so we prepared a PDF version of Crisis of Conscience that could be sold online. Some backstory: I assisted Ray Franz for many years in page layout and technical support, including building his first website for him. I'm going to try to set the record straight here on what really happened to Raymond Franz' works after he passed.
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