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Image from BGC Archives Website exhibit.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the legendary Billy Graham revival movement that took place in Los Angeles a Website packed with archived material went live last week.
The multimedia online exhibit, “Into the Big Tent: Billy Graham & the 1949 Christ for Greater Los Angeles Campaign,” was created by the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
The site includes interviews, photographs, film footage, and recordings available to the public for the first time in 60 years. As reported in WORLD Magazine, the exhibit also includes correspondence, media coverage, and newspaper clippings that advertise “Billy Graham’s 5th Sin-Smashing Week!” with a shocked cartoon character exclaiming, “This can’t be Los Angeles!” as he watches men and women flock to Graham’s tent.
The exhibit also features a complete set of the audio recordings of Graham’s sermons from September through November (posted online in the exhibit on the day they were preached), as well as recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with participants.
The campaign lasted from September 25 through November 20, 1949. Initial plans included meeting for just three weeks on a $30,000 budget. Seventy-two services were held in the tent with a total attendance of 350,000. The largest crowd was 15,000 people on Nov. 7.
More articles by Alex Murashko at LA Church & State Examiner.
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