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Article: Jerry Falwell sculpted religious right; Moral Majority voice dies at 73.(NEWS)(Obituary)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- May 16, 2007
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Byline: Sue Lindsey
LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell collapsed at his campus office and died yesterday
after a career in which the evangelist used the power of television to transform the religious right into a mighty force in American politics. He was 73.
The founder of the Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse at Liberty University and pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later. Dr. Carl Moore, Falwell's physician, said he had a heart condition and presumably died of a heart rhythm abnormality.
Driven into politics by the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that established the right to an abortion, Falwell founded the Moral ...