Jerry Falwell: 1933 - 2007
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Takeover Battle
Falwell assisted fellow evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in raising money for their PTL Club and Heritage USA, and then, when the Bakkers became enmeshed in controversy, took over the ministry himself.
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