SPRINGFIELD (MO)
Springfield News-Leader
January 14, 2019
By Gregory J. Holman
Jim Bakker is again in the news.
Late last week, ABC News announced that the disgraced ’80s-era televangelist — who in recent years has been broadcasting and selling dehydrated food buckets from a church and condo development near Branson — would be the subject of a special two-hour episode of its “20/20” broadcast.
The Bakker episode is set to air Friday at 8 p.m. Springfield time.
In a promotional trailer posted to Facebook and Twitter late Jan. 11, ABC showcased what appears to be a sensational report promising new information about Bakker’s activities three decades ago.
An unidentified voice on the trailer calls Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye, “the Kardashians of the gospel.”
Another unidentified voice states, “The fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker was a huge story.”
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