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Jimmy Swaggart: Media

American televangelist

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Jimmy Swaggart before being defrocked
Jimmy Swaggart, shown in 1987, the same year he accused fellow televangelist Jim...
Lennox Mclendon—AP/Shutterstock.com
A tearful confession
Jimmy Swaggart crying during his “I have sinned” speech aired on live television...
© Robin Nelson—ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy