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Jim Bakker, who built a huge TV following and evangelical empire with his first wife, Tammy Faye, which later collapsed in a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. https://to.pbs.org/4yua1JO

to.pbs.orgJim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and money scandals, dies at 86"The PTL Club," which at its peak in the mid-1980s drew 13 million nightly TV viewers, made Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 90s by ...

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