Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evangelist Billy Graham has spent the better part of the past five years carrying his crusades for Christ overseas, to Latin America, Australia, Korea, England, Germany. "Something is always breaking out somewhere," he says. Right now, as Graham sees it, things are breaking out in the U.S. Taking stock of the nation's spiritual climate, he decided that the U.S. was "in the worst state of spiritual decline and immorality in its history," and that he was needed more urgently at home than abroad. "I have canceled everything outside the U.S. The America I see now is so different...
...view of the fact that the Rev. Billy Graham and many others are at present condemning the U.S. Supreme Court for its decision in the Schempp-Murray Lord's Prayer and Bible reading in the public school cases, I am wondering how these critics of the Supreme Court's decision would bring a prayer into the public schools that would satisfy the Lutheran Synods [Aug. 23], let alone the Catholics, Jews and many other religious groups in our society. When a single denomination, such as the Lutherans, finds it difficult to engage in joint prayer...
...both Writer Graham and the Post, Burnett's memory seemed more than enough to go on. Neither bothered to go over the story with Wally Butts or Bear Bryant-on the grounds that they would only deny it. Nor did anyone consult Burnett's sometime business partner, John Carmichael, who said he knew all about the intercepted phone call and had seen the notes. No one at the Post deemed it necessary to study moving pictures of the Georgia-Alabama game -which might have supported, or cast serious doubt on the suspicion that the game had been fixed...
...court the accuracy of parts of the Post article was repeatedly challenged, not only by witnesses for Butts, but also by witnesses for the defense-including Burnett. Georgia Trainer Sam Richwine and Georgia End Mickey Babb joined others who disclaimed direct quotations attributed to them in the story. Writer Graham's astonishing excuse was that re-creating quotes is a "common practice in journalism." Carmichael testified that the Burnett notes produced in court were not the same ones that his former associate had shown...
...Post defense detectibly strengthened by depositions from Post Editor Clay Blair Jr. and Post Senior Editor Roger Kahn. In his statement, Kahn confessed to a "certain skepticism" about the Burnett story and said that he had urged Writer Graham to "be careful." Editor Blair's statement acknowledged both his own authority to kill the story and his decision not to do so-a decision that apparently fitted Blair's program of rejuvenating the ailing Post by "sophisticated muckraking," and his ambition "to provoke people, make them...