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Article: Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell dies at 73
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- May 16, 2007
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SUE LINDSEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-16-2007
Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell dies at 73 -- Guided the religious right to political power
By SUE LINDSEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 05-16-2007, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
Biographical: JERRY FALWELL
LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Rev. Jerry Falwell collapsed at his campus office and died Tuesday after a career in which he used the power of television to transform the religious right into a powerhouse in American politics. He was 73.
The founder of Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse at Liberty University and pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later.
Falwell founded Moral Majority in 1979 ...