Q: When did Billy Graham give his first speech?
A: Billy Graham was roughly 12 years old when he gave his first speech during a school event. He remembers the story in his autobiography, Just As I Am:
“In about 1930, I gave my first speech. I portrayed Uncle Sam in a pageant at Woodlawn School, with a long beard and a tailcoat. My mother was a nervous wreck after teaching me the speech and listening to me practice it until I knew it word perfect. My knees shook, my hands perspired, and I vowed to myself that I would never be a public speaker! But Mrs. Boylston, the principal of Woodlawn, told Mother I had a gift for it.”
