Learn More in these related Britannica articles. Get exclusive access to content from our First Edition with your subscription. Jimmy Swaggart American televangelist, and gospel music performer. In Jimmy Swaggart Ministries launched the SonLife Broadcasting Network, an international Christian television network to air both live and prerecorded programs. His ministry through a monthly magazine, The Evangelistand through an interdenominational church known as the Family Worship Center of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, continued into the 21st century. Swaggart made a comeback in with the launching of the SonLife Radio Network on national radio stations and later internationally on the Internet. In October police in IndioCalifornia, found Swaggart in the company of a prostitute after stopping him for a traffic violation. Indeed, another rival televangelist, Marvin Gorman, whom Swaggart had also accused of having one or more extramarital affairs and who was subsequently defrocked, provided photographs of Swaggart at a Baton Rouge motel with a local prostitute.ĭespite his tearful on-air apology in FebruarySwaggart was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in April but continued to act as an independent Pentecostal preacher. In Swaggart publicly accused fellow televangelist Jim Bakker of immoral sexual behaviour. Swaggart soon garnered a large viewing audience across the country by the mids his weekly telecasts reached approximately two million households in the United States, making him one of the most popular and successful televangelists of the era. His continued success as a gospel music artist enabled him to launch a local television ministry, which began in with a weekly program. In he began The Camp Meeting Houra radio show featuring gospel music and preaching that was soon broadcast nationally. Swaggart recorded several gospel albums in the s. In he was ordained by the Assemblies of God. His cousins Jerry Lee Lewisa rock and roll pioneer, and Mickey Gilley, a country music singer, inspired him to attempt a career in music. He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in after a sex scandal involving prostitutes.
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