Famed televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 1, his family and publicist announced. He was 90.
The Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism had been in critical condition at a Louisiana hospital after going into cardiac arrest on June 15, family members said during a prayer service last month.
Once one of the nation’s most popular evangelists, first with a radio network and later with his televised programs, Swaggart fell from grace in the 1980s after accusations of paying for a sex worker, and later delivering what is known as his “I have sinned” speech in 1988 on live television…