Anticommunist preacher Billy James Hargis, a "bawl and jump" evangelist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died at age 79 on November 27

Christian Century, Dec 28, 2004

> Anticommunist preacher Billy James Hargis, a "bawl and jump" evangelist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died at age 79 on November 27. At his peak in the 1950s his program was carried on more than 500 television stations and 250 radio outlets. His popularity fell in the 1970s when his Christian Crusade organization was beset by problems, including unproven allegations of sexual misconduct by Hargis with male and female students at a college he started.