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Article: Moral Majority founder Falwell dies at 73
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- St. Joseph News-Press
- Article date:
- May 16, 2007
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LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell collapsed at his campus
office and died Tuesday 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
Majority in 1979. One of the conservative lobbying group's greatest
triumphs ...