"Greater L.A.'s Greatest Revival Continues!"
Newspaper advertisement
Date: October 26, 1949
Source: Daily News (Los Angeles), October 26, 1949. Reproduced in the Billy Graham Center Archives. Wheaton College. Available online at http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/images/laad1.jpg; website home page: http://www.wheaton.edu (accessed April 23, 2003).
Introduction
Billy Graham (1918–), born in Charlotte, North Carolina, preached his first sermon in 1937. He was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1939. After a period as minister of the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Illinois, he became a traveling "tent evangelist," holding his first mass religious rally at Chicagoland Youth for Christ in 1944. The following year he became the field representative of a growing evangelistic movement known as Youth for Christ and...
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1940's Religion Primary Sources
The 1940's: Primary Sources
