Jerry Falwell: 1933 - 2007

Jerry Falwell evangelist church religious right
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Fallen Leader
The Reverend Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday May 15, 2007, after he was found unconscious in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

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