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<div>Graham's biographer has an article on Counterpunch. Graham's evangelical roots were in L.A., which explains why the LA Times of my youth carried such elaborate coverage of his mega-rallies at the Coliseum, 100,000 capacity at that time. </div><div><br></div><div><a class="enhancr_card_9783126586" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-and-the-gospel-of-fear/">Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear</a></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpf14b8307yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydpf14b8307ymail-preserve-class ydpf14b8307ymail-preserve-style" id="ydpf14b8307enhancr_card_9783126586" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, sans-serif; max-width: 400px;" contenteditable="false" data-size="MEDIUM" data-type="YENHANCER" data-url="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-and-the-gospel-of-fear/"><a class="ydpf14b8307yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; text-decoration: none !important;" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-and-the-gospel-of-fear/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><table class="ydpf14b8307card-wrapper ydpf14b8307yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width: 400px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table width="100%" class="ydpf14b8307card ydpf14b8307yahoo-ignore-table" style="border-radius: 2px; 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On Thursday, February 22, 2018 08:46:22 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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<p class="yiv3232476679" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;">Somebody should tell the truth about Billy Graham. He was a racist, rabidly anti-working class warmonger.</p>
<p class="yiv3232476679" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">CECIL BOTHWELL, cecil at <a class="yiv3232476679" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" href="http://braveulysses.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">braveulysses.com</a><br class="yiv3232476679">
Bothwell wrote the biography The Prince of War: Billy Graham’s Crusade for a Wholly Christian Empire. He just wrote the piece “Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear,” published by CounterPunch, which states: “When Graham succumbed to various ailments this week
at the age of 99 he left behind an organization that is said to have touched more people than any other Christian ministry in history, with property, assets and a name-brand worth hundreds of millions. The address lists of contributors alone comprise a mother
lode for the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, now headed by his son and namesake, William Franklin Graham, III. …</p>
<p class="yiv3232476679" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">“Graham first gained national attention in 1949 when the publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, searching for a spiritual icon to spread his anti-communist sentiments, discovered the young preacher
holding forth at a Los Angeles tent meeting. Hearst wired his editors across the nation, ‘puff Graham,’ and he was an instant sensation.</p>
<p class="yiv3232476679" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">“Hearst next contacted his friend and fellow [Time/Life] publisher Henry Luce. Their Wall Street ally, Bernard Baruch, arranged a meeting between Luce and Graham while the preacher was staying with
the segregationist Governor Strom Thurmond in the official mansion in Columbia, S.C. Luce concurred with Hearst about Graham’s marketability and Time and Life were enlisted in the job of selling the soap of salvation to the world. Time, alone, has run more
than 600 stories about Graham.</p>
<p class="yiv3232476679" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">“The man who would become known as ‘the minister to presidents’ offered his first military advice in 1950. On June 25, North Korean troops invaded South Korea and Graham sent Truman a telegram. ‘MILLIONS
OF CHRISTIANS PRAYING GOD GIVE YOU WISDOM IN THIS CRISIS. STRONGLY URGE SHOWDOWN WITH COMMUNISM NOW. MORE CHRISTIANS IN SOUTHERN KOREA PER CAPITA THAN ANY PART OF WORLD. WE CANNOT LET THEM DOWN.’ …</p>
<p class="yiv3232476679" style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; display: inline;">“Subsequently, Graham gave his blessing to every conflict under every president from Truman to the second Bush, and most of the presidents, pleased to enjoy public assurance of
God’s approval, made him welcome in the White House. Graham excoriated Truman for firing General Douglas MacArthur and supported the general’s plan to invade China. He went so far as to urge Nixon to bomb dikes in Vietnam — knowing that it would kill upward
of a million civilians — and he claimed to have sat on the sofa next to G.H.W. Bush as the bombs began falling in the first Gulf War.”</p>
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