Word: bakkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tammy Faye Bakker's plea to those suing the PTL Club to drop their claim to millions of dollars embezzled by her husband, Jim Bakker...
Nightline (ABC, 1980- ). From the hostage crisis in Iran (which inspired ABC to start a late-night news program in November 1979) to teary Tammy Faye Bakker, all the decade's major stories were illuminated by Ted Koppel's probing questions. When a crisis is brewing, and even when one isn't, the most indispensable news broadcast on television...
Most Prurient Preachers. Holy Hypocrisy! America's first televangelist Jim Bakker paid some $265,000 to cover up a sexual misadventure. Later he was convicted of misspending millions of followers' dollars. Rival preacher Jimmy Swaggart called the Bakker scandal a cancer. That was before Swaggart was photographed visiting a prostitute named Debra Murphree. According to Murphree, he was "kind of perverted . . . I wouldn't want him around my children...