![]() ![]() We turn from the woes of a TV minister to those of a make-believe megachurch. Mark Ethridge, former Charlotte Observer managing editor WFAE board vice-chair Wigger, University of Missouri, chair, Department of History author, PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire He joins Mike Collins, along with a former Charlotte Observer editor involved in the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on PTL. That gaudy and turbulent era is chronicled in a new book by University of Missouri historian John H. A sex scandal and financial abuses uncovered by The Charlotte Observer led to Bakker’s resignation, and within three years Bakker was headed to federal prison. In March 1987, as The Charlotte Observer investigated financial and sexual improprieties, Jim Bakker resigned from PTL.īut 30 years ago, a chain of events began that led to PTL’s collapse. ![]()
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