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Televangelist Jim Bakker Dies at 86
Original: Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/us/j
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built the PTL television ministry and later fell from grace in a sexual misconduct and financial fraud scandal that sent him to prison, has died at 86, according to the New York Times. Obituaries are revisiting his rise as a pioneer of religious broadcasting and his dramatic downfall in the late 1980s.
Why now: The death of a once-prominent, scandal-touched figure in American televangelism is drawing widespread obituary coverage and renewed discussion of his legacy.
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- Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/us/jim-bakker-dead.html # Religion # News # Scandal · nyt_us@robot.villas · 2
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