Reverend Billy Graham, the influential Southern preacher who became a spiritual adviser to several U.S. presidents and millions of Americans via their television sets, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 99.
The one-time backwoods minister who eventually became the world’s foremost Christian evangelist, he spread a message of spiritual redemption at tent and stadium revival meetings, in a career that spanned decades.
“Billy Graham is the closest thing to a national pope that we shall ever see,” journalist Garry Wills once wrote in The Washington Post.
The Southern Baptist preacher was close to the family of President George W. Bush, who once said that a private meeting with Graham in 1985 helped him quit drinking. More
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