Word: gatlinburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lynchburg, Va. Faced with a recent decline of $5.4 million in contributions to his own TV ministry, Falwell has just stopped purchasing time from 50 of the 340 stations that carry his show. Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye, basking in the resignation news at their mountaintop home near Gatlinburg, Tenn., said they were certainly willing to return if the creditors wished. Of course, Bakker could face a court hearing or two of his own, what with a federal grand jury and various investigators on the prowl...
Bakker has acknowledged having sex with her but claims she was the seducer. He lives in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and has an unlisted phone number...
...Hull and Riley, getting an insight into Jim Bakker proved a bizarre experience. As the pair interviewed the controversial PTL founder at his home in Gatlinburg, Tenn., the questions inevitably became sensitive. Bakker grew livid. Recalls Hull: "His eyes smoldered. He got more fidgety. Then he leaped from his living-room chair and dashed to the kitchen in a huff. I started to follow after him, but was dissuaded by Bakker's cadre of supporters, who said a prayer for us." To many of Bakker's admirers, reporters seemed to need straightening out. "I endured long lectures by Bakker...
...week earlier Jim and Tammy Bakker had been supervising $300,000 worth of renovations to their Gatlinburg, Tenn., home, which they bought for $148,000. Hammer in hand, Bakker greeted two TIME correspondents at the house, high above the resort town in the Great Smoky Mountains. Both Jim and Tammy vowed either to return to Fort Mill or to begin their own ministry, perhaps in California. For an hour Bakker defended himself as a "visionary" who had a "dream to build something very special for God's people." He asked, "Even if Jim and Tammy did everything we're accused...