Article: Jerry Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, dies at 73.(Obituary)

Byline: Lisa Anderson and Margaret Ramirez

CHICAGO _ The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a four-star general in the Religious Right's culture wars and a televangelist whose Moral Majority group forged conservative Christians into a formidable political force, died suddenly Tuesday after collapsing in his office in Lynchburg, Va.

Falwell, an influential man with a booming voice and a penchant for provocative statements, was 73. Speaking at a news conference Falwell's personal cardiologist Dr. Carl Moore said Falwell had suffered from heart problems and likely had died from cardiac arrhythmia, a heart rhythm abnormality that occurs without warning and cannot be ...

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