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Article: PTL BANISHES BAKKER; AIDES ALSO OUT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 29, 1987
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FORT MILL, S.C. - The new PTL board banished television
evangelist Rev. Jim Bakker from the ministry yesterday and cut off
payments to Jessica Hahn, the former church secretary who had a
sexual encounter with Bakker seven years ago. Several of Bakker's
supporters also were swept off the board of directors.
Rev. Jerry Falwell said the board decided at a five-hour
meeting that Bakker and his wife, Tammy, no longer will receive
salaries or bonuses from PTL and that Bakker will not be allowed
to return as head of PTL. He also accepted the resignation of Rev.
Richard Dortch, a board member who succeeded Bakker as president of
the ministry.
Falwell said the growing sex-and-money ...