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The cover carries the masthead, the date line ‘May 22, 1994’ and, in a panel across the lower third, the title ‘Youths Who Put God First’; three young people are photographed in colour in the foreground, standing before a wall of small portrait photographs of young people printed in a pale tint, some of them overlapping, cut off at the page edge or hidden behind the masthead and the foreground figures.

Claim ID claim-blood-1994-cover-describedConcerns 22 May 1994Context
Context · 22 May 1994 Supported

The cover carries the masthead, the date line ‘May 22, 1994’ and, in a panel across the lower third, the title ‘Youths Who Put God First’; three young people are photographed in colour in the foreground, standing before a wall of small portrait photographs of young people printed in a pale tint, some of them overlapping, cut off at the page edge or hidden behind the masthead and the foreground figures. JWfacts.com, 19 September 2026

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JWfacts.com, “Scan of the cover of Awake!, 22 May 1994, on the page ‘Blood Transfusions’”

19 September 2026 · pp.front cover

“YOUTHS WHO PUT GOD FIRST”

The cover carries the Awake! masthead with the date line ‘May 22, 1994’ and, in a bordered blue panel across the lower third, the title ‘Youths Who Put God First’ in yellow capitals. In front of a wall of small portrait photographs of young people, overlapping and printed in a pale washed-out tint, stand three young people photographed in full colour: a girl on the left, a boy in the centre and a girl on the right, all smiling at the camera. The background photographs are partly hidden by the masthead at the top and by the three foreground figures at the bottom, and some are cut off by the edge of the page.

No online copy located.

Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. The image was downloaded and viewed on 19 September 2026 and enlarged for examination; the description is of what can be seen in that scan. It is a low-resolution third-party scan with no stated provenance, so it is not treated as a verified reproduction of the printed cover. No reliable count of the background photographs can be made from it: the rows overlap, are obscured and are cropped at the page edge. At least twenty background portraits are at least partly visible.

Scan provenance. Hosted by JWfacts.com, an ex-member research site, on its page https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/blood-transfusions.php. The site states no provenance for the scan. The cover is © 1994 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.; the file is a 253 × 325 pixel GIF. The copy consulted is hosted by a third party and its lawfulness is not established, so no link to it is published here.

Corroborated by. src-g94d-cover-no-official-image

Notes. Recorded for location and description only. The site should describe the cover in words and, if it points anywhere at all, link rather than rehost.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g94d-cover-scan-jwfacts

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