Willard Wesley Waggoner
March 29, 1914 — February 11, 1998
In the mid-1990s, a former missionary named Willard Wesley Waggoner sat down and read the entire King James Bible aloud — all 66 books, cover to cover, roughly 75 hours of audio. No dramatization, no music, no effects. Just a calm, steady, grandfatherly voice and the Word of God. That recording has since been downloaded millions of times and continues to bless listeners around the world.
Conservative Christians of Tennessee is proud to host a complete archive of this recording and to make it freely available to anyone who wants it — for personal use, ministry, or preservation for future generations.
His Story
Willard was born in Daund, Pune, Maharashtra, India — the son of Assemblies of God medical missionaries Rev. Harry Thomas Waggoner and Helen Beatrice Porter. His parents operated a leper colony and orphanage in Uska Bazar, Uttar Pradesh, near the Nepal border, for 34 years. He grew up immersed in missionary life, later attended Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, and followed his parents into missionary service in India.
He returned to the United States around 1944, eventually settling in the Greenleaf/Caldwell area of Canyon County, Idaho, where he raised his family with his wife Alice Carol Haight. He was the father of several children, including son Wesley Arthur Waggoner, a pastor who served churches in Idaho. After Alice’s passing in 1993, Willard remarried Mary in 1994.
In the final years of his life, Willard recorded the complete King James Bible for Praise Inc. (copyright 1996), distributed through eBible Productions / eBibleRadio.com. He passed away in Boise, Idaho on February 11, 1998, and is buried in Greenleaf Cemetery, Greenleaf, Idaho — just months before the internet would carry his voice to every corner of the world.
“Sounding like your grandfather reading the Bible to you” — the most common description listeners give of Willard’s voice. Clear, reverent, unhurried. Perfect for daily listening, memorization, or quiet study.
Usage Rights & Public Domain
The Waggoner KJV Audio Bible recording is freely shareable for non-commercial use. The King James Version of the Bible is itself in the public domain. Willard’s recording was made with the express intent that it be shared freely so that as many people as possible could hear the Word of God — a mission perfectly in keeping with his life’s work as a missionary.
CCOT hosts this archive in that same spirit. You are welcome to download, share, copy, and distribute these recordings freely for personal, church, or ministry use. We only ask that you honor his memory by keeping the use non-commercial and giving credit where it is due.
Download the Complete Archive
The complete Waggoner KJV Audio Bible — all 1,189 chapter mp3 files, every book of the Bible — is available as a single zip archive hosted here on tnchristian.com. Download it, keep it, share it.
1,189 mp3 files — approx. 2–3 GB — non-commercial use only
Individual chapters are also available directly on Archive.org and the complete Bible can be listened to on YouTube.
Conservative Christians of Tennessee is honored to preserve and continue sharing this treasure for the glory of God and in memory of a faithful servant. May the next generation hear these words as clearly as we have.