CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An Atlanta investment banker is auctioning off more than 15,000 videotaped episodes of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's iconic Christian talk show. "The PTL Club," which aired from 1974 ...
This story originally was published April 1, 1988. The Charlotte Observer won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service Thursday for revealing misuse of funds by Jim and Tammy Bakker’s ...
What happened to Jim Bakker after the fall of PTL? The PTL empire preacher Jim Bakker built with wife Tammy Bakker crumbled 30 years ago, after financial and sex scandals. Now, televangelist Bakker is ...
TV pastor Jim Bakker suffered a stroke recently and has taken a break from his show to recuperate, his wife, Lori Bakker, confirmed on Friday. Bakker’s son, Jay Bakker, described the stroke as “minor” ...
It takes just over 40 minutes for the new biographical film about Tammy Faye Bakker to reach its final destination of Charlotte, North Carolina, where the co-founder of the infamous PTL Club set up ...
Andrew Garfield spreads the word of God as televangelist Jim Bakker in the new movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The Oscar nominee, 38, however, stresses that Jim and his wife Tammy Faye's interpretation ...
The Oscar nominee portrays the late televangelist in the new movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye What started out as a mission to spread God's word turned into a scandal and years of public mockery for Tammy ...
You remember Jim Bakker? He’s the guy who hosted the televangelist program The PTL Club in the 1980s until it was revealed he paid off Jessica Hahn over rape allegations. Bakker would end up serving ...
Columbia, South Carolina is hot during the summer, such that the City adopted the motto “Famously Hot” a few years ago. Temperatures frequently exceed 100 degrees in the summer. On June 12, 1987, the ...
The new film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” chronicles the rise and fall of the PTL empire run by televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. But nearly a decade before their downfall, the couple established ...