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Jimmy Swaggart Dies: Sex Scandal-Plagued Televangelist Was 90
Jimmy Swaggart, who was one of the most popular televangelists of the 20th Century until sex scandals made him the butt of jokes, died July 1.
Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most popular televangelists of the 20th Century until his tear-streaked televised confession to a sex scandal all but dashed his career and turned him into late night comedy fodder, died this morning, July 1. Swaggart’s strutting, sweaty fire and brimstone style was a throwback to earlier eras of evangelism, a seeming rejection of the slicker, smiling approach popularized in the 1980s by fellow televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Jerry Falwell. Three years after his confession, on October 11, 1991, Swaggart was pulled over by a police office in Indio, California for driving on the wrong side of the road.
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