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Televangelist Jim Bakker dies at 86
Original: Jim Bakker, influential TV evangelist and PTL founder, dies at 86
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who founded the PTL television ministry and became one of America's most recognisable broadcast preachers, has died at the age of 86. The announcement of his death is drawing attention to his decades-long career in religious television, as well as the scandals that ended his PTL empire and led to his imprisonment in the late 1980s.
Why now: The death of a prominent and controversial figure in American televangelism is major news for religious and media audiences.
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