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	Billy James Hargis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925, Texarkana, Texas - November 29, 2004, Tulsa, Oklahoma) was a far-right-wing Protestant Christian evangelist who, it could be argued, was one of the founding fathers of the Christian Right.
		Hargis was also a member of the John Birch Society, and made his pro-segregation stance clear, once accusing Martin Luther King Jr.
		Hargis was unintentionally also partly responsible for the existence of the Fairness Doctrine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_James_Hargis (744 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Dies; Spread Anti-Communist Message
		Hargis -- an enormous man with a recent history of heart attacks -- was a wailing, wheezing, impassioned presence on more than 500 radio stations and 250 television stations at his apex.
		Billy James Hargis was born in Texarkana, Tex., on Aug. 3, 1925.
		Hargis told attendees of his leadership school to watch their language -- "one wild, unfounded, bigoted statement could submarine our whole program," he once said -- but some of his followers ignored his advice, sometimes to loud applause.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A20975-2004Nov29?language=printer (872 words)

	Pastor found his calling in fighting communism \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The Rev. Billy James Hargis, a fiery evangelist and anti-Communist preacher who founded the Christian Crusade and reached millions in an international ministry that used radio, television, books, pamphlets and personal appearances, died Nov. 27 at a nursing home in Tulsa, Okla. He was 79.
		The Rev. Hargis, who began preaching as a teenager and later abandoned life as a pastor to engage in a lifelong crusade against communism, gained international prominence in 1953, when he went to West Germany and sent aloft thousands of balloons bearing biblical passages in hopes of reaching the people of Eastern Europe.
		Billy James Hargis was born Aug. 3, 1925, in Texarkana, Texas.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041205/news_lz1j4pastor.html (634 words)

	Billy James Hargis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dr. Billy James Hargis is Founder and Director of the Christian Crusade Ministries (Church of the Christian Crusade, Inc., Billy James Hargis Evangelistic Association, Inc.), an international Christian ministry dedicated to the fight "for Christ" and against godless Communism.
		Headquarters of the Billy James Hargis Ministries are located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and on the Rose of Sharon Farm in Neosho, Missouri.
		Billy James Hargis held right-wing views on the JFK assassination, blaming it squarely on the Communist conspiracy in America.
	karws.gso.uri.edu /JFK/The_critics/Hargis/Hargisbio.html (282 words)

	Biography: Billy James Hargis
		Billy James Hargis was born in Texarkana, Texas, on 3rd August, 1925.
		Hargis was a strong supporter of Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential Election.
		Despite his lack of formal qualifications, Hargis was ordained, aged 17, a minister in the evangelical Disciples of Christ denomination, and became a pastor at various churches in Oklahoma and Missouri.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKhargis.htm (2993 words)

	Billy James Hargis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Billy James Hargis, who died on Saturday aged 79, founded an interdenominational movement called the Christian Crusade and built up a huge broadcasting empire with outspoken attacks on Communism; but he distinguished himself by becoming the first American television evangelist to be brought down by allegations of sexual misconduct.
		Hargis had allegedly justified his acts by citing the Old Testament friendship between David and Jonathan and, just in case his victims were minded to consult biblical texts that were sympathetic, threatened to "fllist" them for life if they talked.
		Billy James Hargis is survived by his wife, Betty Jane, whom he married in 1951 and by his son and three daughters.
	www.rickross.com /reference/tv_preachers/tv_preachers24.html (927 words)

	Billy James Hargis - dKosopedia
		Billy James Hargis (born August 3, 1925, in Texarkana, Texas; died November 29, 2004, Tulsa, Oklahoma) was a far-right-wing Protestant Christian minister who, it could be argued, was one of the founding fathers of the Christian Right.
		Hargis was also indirectly responsible for the existence of the Fairness Doctrine.
		Hargis formed the American Christian College in 1971 in order to teach fundamentalist Christian right-wing principles.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Billy_James_Hargis (670 words)

	[Deathwatch] Billy James Hargis, evangelist , 79 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		November 29, 2004 Evangelist Billy James Hargis dies at age 79 Tulsa, Okla. Evangelist and fervent anti-communist Billy James Hargis, who once conceived a plan to float Bible verses behind the Iron Curtain in balloons, died Saturday in Tulsa.
		Hargis, who founded the Christian Crusade, was born in 1925 in Texarkana, Texas.
		Hargis' broadcast ministry spanned some 40 years on more than 500 radio stations and 250 television stations.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2004-November/000943.html (203 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		Billy James Hargis was ordained as a minister of the gospel of the Disciples of Christ Church, and was formerly the pastor of the First Christian Church, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, leaving the pastorate in 1952 to campaign against communism as a non-denominational evangelist, headquarters, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
		Hargis in a broadcast over a radio station located in Mexico, claimed that the Democrats, Republicans, anyone who had any wealth and George Washington were all Communists.
		It was reported that Hargis received $ 25,000.00 salary from the organization plus the organization foots all the bills including a home, utilities, furniture, color television, clothing, cleaning bills and traveling expenses.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/christiancrusade.htm (230 words)

	Guardian \| Billy James Hargis
		Standing 6ft 6ins and weighing nearly 20 stone, Hargis resembled the stereotypical southern sheriff more than a preacher, and his brand of fire and brimstone preaching came from a tradition known in the Ozarks as "bawl and jump".
		In 1976, however, Time magazine reported that a student couple, married by Hargis in the college chapel, discovered on their wedding night that both had lost their virginity to Hargis.
		Hargis denied the charges, saying communists and Satan were conspiring against him.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5082900-103684,00.html (592 words)

	By: Elliott Finesse Re: HONEYMOON HARGIS RIGHT WING REV. PERVERT OFFERS ADVICE ON FAMILY V
		According to two of those present, Hargis, who has a wife, three daughters and a son, admitted his guilt and blamed his behavior on "genes and chromosomes." Two days later Hargis preached a farewell sermon to his Tulsa congregation, then turned the presidency of the college over to Noebel.
		His resignation came only after the Hargis organization had agreed to cash in their $72,000 life insurance policy on Hargis and give him the money, and had guaranteed him a $24,000 annual stipend.
		Meanwhile, Hargis announced that he was retiring to his Ozarks farm because of ill health.
	www.skepticfiles.org /misc3/hargis.htm (1050 words)

	DEATHS ELSEWHERE Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hargis, who died Saturday, was ordained at age 17 in the Disciples of Christ denomination.
		Hargis had a long-running fight with the Internal Revenue Service when it removed his ministry's tax-exempt status, citing his mixture of religion and politics.
		Hargis continued working until early this year, when his son, Billy James Hargis II, stepped in to lead the ministry.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20041130/ai_n10997962 (839 words)

	America 1970-1979: Religion History: Billy James Hargis \| American Decades
		Billy James Hargis attracted public attention in the 1960s with his Christian Anti-Communist Crusade ministry, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
		In 1970 Hargis organized the American Christian College in Tulsa to teach "anti-Communist, patriotic Americanism." The following year he organized Americans for Life, one of the growing number of anti Abortion groups hoping to block the liberalization of Abortion laws.
		Meanwhile Hargis himself returned to the revival circuit, opening the Billy James Hargis Evangelistic Association in 1975, but he had passed the peak of his influence.
	www.bookrags.com /history/america-1970s-religion/sub24.html (166 words)

	Islamic Forum, discussion board
		First is the notorious Billy James Hargis, a confidence man so smooth that he even managed to get sizeable donations from the late patriot H.L. Hunt, until Hunt's agents discovered Hargis' unsavory practices.
		Although Hargis' sexual perversions were well known, and were even the subjects of stories in such national magazines as Time and Newsweek, the man was so utterly without shame that he refused to get off his lucrative gravy train.
		Although Billy Graham's passionate love for the State of Israel was never matched by his concern for the United States, he has become an elder statesman who is preparing to retire with his millions to his palatial mountain estate in North Carolina.
	www.islamcan.com /forum/islamboard/board1/171.shtml (2562 words)

	Oom-A-Gog Lives!
		Billy James Hargis II, however, will always be able to find a favorite childhood memory.
		Hargis, 38, is the son of the famed evangelist Billy James Hargis, who ran his anti-Communist Christian Crusade ministry from Tulsa in the '50s, '60s and '70s.
		So, when Hargis' high-school sweetheart came home from college for Thanksgiving break, and Hargis decided to surprise her by meeting her at the airport as Oom-A-Gog, he had no problem borrowing the suit from Channel 2's operations manager.
	tulsatvmemories.com /bigbill2.html (1068 words)

	TIME.com: Heavyweight Champ -- Aug. 17, 1962 -- Page 1
		Among American evangelists, Billy Graham earned national fame for the sincerity of his gripping, Bible-centered oratory, and Tulsa's Oral Roberts for his emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics.
		Hargis recalls that "the first promise I made was to read the Bible all the way through every year.
		He was ordained a preacher in the Disciples of Christ at the age of 17, and, with the encouragement of one of his Bible College teachers, began to tour the Southwest, preaching at revival meetings.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,870048,00.html (748 words)

	Constructing "Godless Communism": Religion, Politics, and Popular Culture, 1954-1960
		James W. Fifield, minister of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, recalled in 1954 that a man once speaking with John Dewey commented, “Mr.
		Billy James Hargis’ Christian Crusade reached millions each month through print and radio, and earned over a million dollars annually.
		Billy Graham equated the Constitution’s relation to the United States with the Bible’s relation to Christianity – both documents acting as time-tested arbiters of time-tested entities (“Our Bible”; 123).
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/spring_2005/aiello.htm (5273 words)

	Our Daily Dead » Blog Archive » Billy James Hargis, 79, Pastor and Anticommunist Crusader, Dies
		Billy James Hargis, 79, Pastor and Anticommunist Crusader, Dies
		The Rev. Billy James Hargis, a fiery evangelist and anticommunist preacher who founded the Christian Crusade and reached millions in an international ministry that used radio, television, books, pamphlets and personal appearances, died on Saturday at a nursing home in Tulsa, Okla. He was 79.Mr.
		Hargis, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died at St. Simeon’s Episcopal Home, where he had lived since last July, said his daughter, Becky Jean Frank.
	www.ourdailydead.com /billy-james-hargis.htm (177 words)

	For Christ's Sake \| Your Comments
		Tulsa OK Billy James Hargis, Christian author and evangelist, has died at the age of 79 in Tulsa of unspecified causes.
		Hargis was a charismatic preacher at one time vying for the spotlight with heavyweights Oral Roberts and Billy Graham.
		An avid anti-communist Hargis' career dwindled as fears of socialism declined.
	www.jesus21.com /comments.php?id=P344_0_1_0 (218 words)

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		He is still remembered of course by both his friends and enemies of old within the Churches of Christ and its institutions, but elsewhere his legacy, considering its impact at the time, seems to have relatively little appreciation, considering its continuing relevance.
		On RM-Bible, the word from Duane Warden is that James D Bales died last night in his sleep.
		A study of Bales' writings on the subject over 30 years ago in his book Modernism, Trojan Horse in the Church reveals and eloquence and perspicacity into contemporary issues facing our churches which are truly remarkable considering when how much they predate the generally perceived origins of the public controversy.
	www.jamesdbales.us /index.html (1526 words)

	Guide to the KVOS Channel 12 Film Records 1961-1967
		Hargis and his organization, Christian Crusade, are devoted to denouncing communism.
		Hargis supports a boycott on goods produced in communist nations, such as Polish Hams.
		Ford, both a disciple and brother-in-law of Billy Graham, is known today (2005) as president of the Leighton Ford Ministries, and as honorary life chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
	nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu /findaid/ark:/80444/xv75590 (6669 words)

	Council for National Policy (CNP) - N-Pa - Member Biographies
		Hargis, who has a wife, three daughters and a son, admitted his guilt and blamed his behavior on "genes and chromosomes".
		Hargis announced that he was 'led of the Lord to come back to Tulsa.' Since then he has been flamboyantly establishing a new base: He has bought a six-story building for his downtown headquarters, though the city has refused him permission to put his name atop it in lights 85 ft. long...."
		Hargis from Korea, where he was touring, and confronted him with the allegations.
	www.seekgod.ca /cnp.n-pa.htm (4696 words)

	Hypocrisy at home in both political parties
		Billy James Hargis, 1960s-1970s critic of The Beatles and founder of the Christian Crusade, saw his career unravel after marrying two young graduates of a college he established.
		On their wedding night, the bride tearfully confessed that she had slept with the Rev. Billy James, only to have the groom tearfully confess that so had he.
		Hargis would blame "genes and chromosomes" for his errors.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/287476_joel04.html (964 words)

	View 338 November 29 - December 5, 2004
		Billy James Hargis goes to his reward, which, from my experience with him will be a warm one: Hargis and the Reverend Bob Wells once got hold of a study document I was working on for North American Aviation.
		It had an imagined scenario in which peace breaks out in both the USSR and China (not the same firm at all in 1965) so, since we couldn't think of any way that Mao would allow such a thing, we had him commit suicide.
		I did not come away from the meeting with a favorable impression of the Reverend Billy James Hargis.
	www.pournelle.com /archives2/archives2view/view338.html (3707 words)

	Anticommunist preacher Billy James Hargis, a "bawl and jump" evangelist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died at age ...
		Anticommunist preacher Billy James Hargis, a "bawl and jump" evangelist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died at age 79 on November 27.
		At his peak in the 1950s his program was carried on more than 500 television stations and 250 radio outlets.
		His popularity fell in the 1970s when his Christian Crusade organization was beset by problems, including unproven allegations of sexual misconduct by Hargis with male and female students at a college he started.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_26_121/ai_n8642298 (166 words)

	Council for National Policy Database N-Z
		The Summit appeal quotes James Dobson: "I consider Summit Ministries to be one of the very best resources available, and I don't say that lightly." Also D.
		James Kennedy: "The Summit provides a solid spiritual foundation to help keep your child's faith secure when the storms of godlessness and unbelief confront him." The color brochure has more endorsements including one by Michael Farris and states that Summit Ministries has existed since 1962.
		Knight of Malta, James Buckley, was head of U.S. propaganda against Eastern Europe at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the Reagan Administration.
	watch.pair.com /database2.html (9273 words)

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