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- <text id=94TT0892>
- <title>
- Jul. 11, 1994: Released:Jim Bakker
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jul. 11, 1994 From Russia, With Venom
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 15
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- <body>
- <p> RELEASED. JIM BAKKER, 53, disgraced televangelist; after 4 1/2
- years in federal prison; in Jesup, Georgia. The boyish Bible
- thumper was convicted in October 1989 on charges of selling
- $158 million worth of largely nonexistent time-shares at his
- Heritage USA Christian theme park. While in prison he lost both
- his empire and his wife Tammy Faye. The former owner of luxury
- digs across the country will now reside in a Salvation Army
- halfway house in Asheville, North Carolina.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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