Television preacher Jim Bakker sentenced
- Title
- Television preacher Jim Bakker sentenced
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- 25 Oct 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:07
- Description
- Disgraced television preacher Jim Bakker finally learned his punishment yesterday - 45 years in prison and £300,000 in fines for swindling his followers of almost £2.5million. Bakker founded the PTL Ministry, Praise The Lord. He plans to appeal. Nick Peters reports from Washington including speech by Bakker when he was found guilty; Harold Bender, his lawyer; Jessica Haan, who had a affair with Bakker, says no amount of sentence is enough; Don Hardister, his former bodyguard, says Bakker has suicidal tendencies.
- Contributors
- Nick Peters; Jim Bakker; Harold Bender; Jessica Haan; Don Hardister
- Keywords
- USA; Fraud; Imprisonment; Sentencing; Evangelists; Jim Bakker; Tammy Bakker
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