MONTREAT, N.C. — George Beverly Shea, whose booming baritone voice echoed through stadiums, squares and souls during a decades-long career with evangelist Billy Graham, died Tuesday. He was 104. Billy ...
As a 19-year-old student at Multnomah Bible College at Portland, Oregon, I tried out and made the choir, which was invited to be part of the 2,000 voice choir for the Billy Graham crusade to be held ...
Luther Masingill woke up Chattanoogans on WDEF radio for over 70 years. Luther died in 2014 at the age of 92. In January, 2010, the National Radio Hall of Fame inductee talked about meeting Billy ...
This month marks the 75th anniversary of Billy Graham’s first major evangelistic crusade. It was held in Los Angeles. On Sept. 25, 1949, the 30-year-old blond evangelist stood on a platform in a ...
A tall, striking man with thick hair, stark blue eyes and a firm jaw, Graham was a commanding presence at his crusades. He would make the altar call in his powerful baritone, asking the multitudes to ...
“The man with his skin peeled off,” as some astonished back-country Nigerians called White Man Billy Graham, pressed on with his African crusade last week. Everywhere, he drew huge crowds and ...
A 1951 poster of the Billy Graham Crusade in Greensboro. The crusade was to planned to last four weeks but was extended to six. The late Eleanor Atkins was 15 in 1951 when she went to a Billy Graham ...