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Photos A Look Back at 70 Years of Sharing the Gospel
  • Billy Graham's 1949 Crusade in Los Angeles, California, was supposed to last three weeks but ran for eight as the evangelist preached the Gospel. The crowds and his message caught the attention of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The resulting national and international news coverage launched Billy Graham into prominence. The next year, on September 15, 1950, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) was formed.
  • In the decades to come, the ministry team—consisting of Billy Graham, Cliff Barrows, George Beverly Shea and others—would travel the world sharing God's love. In 1957, Billy Graham preached almost nightly during a marathon three-month Crusade in New York City. Besides the iconic Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium, he took the Good News to the people in Harlem and around the city. Here, secretaries, clerks and bankers stand shoulder to shoulder in Manhattan's financial district during their lunch hour.
  • Billy Graham visited troops in Vietnam around Christmastime 1966 and returned in 1968. His son Franklin Graham, CEO and president of the BGEA, shared: “My father felt it was important to go and minister to the U.S. Military. He went to Vietnam not because he supported the war, he was going there to minister … to men that were dying on the battlefield.” Five decades later, Franklin Graham returned to this southeast Asian country to share the Gospel through the Hanoi Festival of Hope. This historical event marked the first time a large-scale Christian event was held in the communist nation.