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Article: Bakkers Cancel Nationwide `Farewell' Tour
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- The Washington Post
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- November 3, 1987
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Jim and Tammy Bakker's "Farewell for Now" tour, scheduled to
have kicked off in Nashville Nov. 17, was canceled yesterday.
Jeffrey Franklin, the Los Angeles-based producer of the tour,
said the Bakkers' concern for the future of the PTL ministry led to
the cancellation. The decision, Franklin said, had nothing to do
with the virtually nonexistent demand for tickets in Nashville and 25
other tour cities across the country.
For $20 a ticket, the Nashville audience would have seen the
former PTL leaders as they remembered them on television: Tammy Faye
singing and the now-defrocked Jim preaching. But although the
Bakkers had raised millions for PTL and their religious theme park, ...