2 1988 newspapers Christian Evangelist JIMMY SWAGGART is EXPOSED for SEX SCANDAL

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2 1988 newspapers Christian Evangelist JIMMY SWAGGART is EXPOSED for SEX SCANDAL:
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2 1988 newspapers Pentacostal Televangelist JIMMY SWAGGART caught in SEX SCANDALforced to step down - inv # pictFeb2015X11

SEE PHOTO-----Two (2) ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs,the Los Angeles Times (CA) dated Feb 22, 1988 and the Los Angeles Herald (CA) dated Fec 23, 1988.

These contain front page headings and photos detailing the JIMMY SWAGGART SEX SCANDAL that forced him to step down (temporarily !!!!!) from his ministry with the Pentacostal Christian \"Assemblies ofGod.\"

Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal pastor, teacher, musician, author, and televangelist. He has preached to crowds around the world through his weekly telecast. According to the official website for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, his 1980s telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week.

Sexual scandals in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him, and to Swaggart temporarily stepping down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

In 1988, Swaggart was implicated in a sex scandal involving a prostitute that resulted initially in his suspension, and ultimately defrocking, by the Assemblies of God. Three years later Swaggart was implicated in another scandal involving a prostitute. As a result, Swaggart\'s ministry became non-affiliated, non-denominational and significantly smaller than it was in the ministry\'s pre-scandal years.

Swaggart\'s exposure came as retaliation for an incident in 1986 when Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies of God minister Marvin Gorman, who had been accused of having several affairs. Once exposed, Gorman was defrocked from the Assemblies of God, his ministry all but ended. As a retaliatory move, Gorman hired his son Randy and son-in-law Garland Bilbo to stake out the Travel Inn on Airline Highway in New Orleans. A camera with a telephoto lens was placed in the window of the motel\'s Room 12 and draped with a black cloth. When Swaggart arrived, he reportedly went into Room 7. Randy Gorman and Garland Bilbo proceeded to let the air out of Swaggart\'s tires and called Marvin Gorman, whose church was located nearby. The two had taken photos of Swaggart outside Room 7 with Debra Murphree, a local prostitute. Gorman arrived at the Travel Inn a short while later and asked Swaggart what he was doing there.

On February 21, 1988, without giving any details regarding his transgressions, Swaggart gave his now-infamous \"I have sinned\" speech as he tearfully spoke to his family, congregation, TV audience, and finally said \"I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that Your Precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God\'s forgetfulness, not to be remembered against me anymore.\" On a New Orleans morning news show four days later, Murphree stated that while Swaggart was a regular client, they had never engaged in sexual intercourse. The clip of Swaggart\'s confession was played repeatedly on news and tabloid television programs.

The Louisiana presbytery of the Assemblies of God initially suspended Jimmy Swaggart from the ministry for three months. The national presbytery of the Assemblies of God soon extended the suspension to their standard two-year suspension for sexual immorality. His return to the pulpit coincided with the end of a three-month suspension originally ordered by the Assemblies. Believing that Swaggart was not genuinely repentant in submitting to their authority, the hierarchy of the Assemblies of God immediately defrocked him, removing his credentials and ministerial license. Swaggart then became an independent, non-denominational Pentecostal minister, and Family Worship Center became non-denominational. Jimmy Swaggart Bible College (now World Evangelism Bible College) had lost many of its students by the end of May 1988.

On October 11, 1991, Swaggart, for a second time, was found in the company of a prostitute, this time Rosemary Garcia, when he was pulled over by a police officer in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the road. According to Garcia, Swaggart stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. She later told reporters, \"He asked me for sex. I mean, that\'s why he stopped me. That\'s what I do. I\'m a prostitute.\" This time, rather than confessing to his congregation, Swaggart told those at Family Worship Center that \"The Lord told me it\'s flat none of your business.\" Swaggart\'s son Donnie then announced to the stunned audience that his father would be temporarily stepping down as head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for \"a time of healing and counseling.\"

These 2 issues are thecomplete front news sectionsonly, NOT the entire newspapers. Great for display purposes !!!

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