The Times has just devoted two whole pages of obituary to this devout preacher who became so prominent in the years following WW2. Billy Graham, America's pastor, has died Ron
My mother was at his Crusade at Madison Square Garden in 1957. She's often told us the story of how she and her girlfriends talked their way out of a speeding ticket from a Jersey cop that night by playing the 'six ladies in a station wagon with their bibles' card. She is in my avartar with her uncle in 1941.
He was a good man, a constant part of my childhood, with his crusade broadcasts regularly being broadcast on TV. He was one of the few evangelical TV preachers that actually lived what he spoke.
I think Billy Graham came to the Keswick Convention in my home county of Cumberland shortly after WW2 and then again as a guest preacher in 1975, the centenary year of the Convention.
