} Jehovah’s Witnesses Jehovah’s Witnesses are well-known for their aggressive door-to-door evangelism, their stance against blood transfusion, and their prophecies of the end of the world. This group was started in 1879 under the leadership of Charles Taze Russell, who was born on February 16, 1852, in Old Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Russell’s followers became known as Bible Students. After Russell’s death in 1916, Joseph Franklin Rutherford won control of the movement. In 1931 the group adopted the