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^ "1988: TV evangelist quits over sex scandal".^ The arrogance of power Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.^ "The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics".^ Swaggart Plans to Step Down New York Times."Reverend Jimmy Swaggart: Apology Sermon". Encyclopedia of American religion and politics. ^ Jimmy Swaggart, To Cross a River, Logos International, 1977.Both times she answered no this was determined by the polygraph examiner to be a lie. Murphree failed questions about whether she was paid or promised money to "set up" Swaggart, and whether she made up the story in order to make money from it. Levy stated that the Enquirer decided not to print her story due to the test results, her drug use, and the fact that she had arrest warrants in three states. Paul Levy, senior editor for the Enquirer, stated that the polygraph examiner had concluded Murphree was not truthful on six key questions, including one in which she was reportedly asked if she had fabricated the story. The test was administered after Murphree offered to sell the story to the National Enquirer for $100,000. The test administrator concluded that Murphree had failed to tell the truth on all key questions concerning her statement. The presbytery leadership of the Assemblies of God decided that Swaggart should be suspended from broadcasting his television program for three months.Īccording to the Associated Press, Murphree, who claimed to have posed nude for Swaggart, failed a polygraph test administered by a New York City Police Department polygraph expert. One of the men seen leaving Room 7 was Jimmy Swaggart. This was done in order to establish the fact that the room was being used for prostitution. Carlson was shown photos of several men coming in and going out of Room 7 at the Travel Inn Motel in New Orleans. He summoned Hamill and Gorman to fly to Springfield and arranged for an emergency meeting of the presbyters. Hamill in turn called Raymond Carlson, the Assemblies Superintendent. On February 16, 1988, Gorman contacted James Hamil, one of the 13-man Executive Presbytery of the Assemblies of God. Gorman waited almost a year, then hand delivered a note to Swaggart informing him his time was up, but Swaggart did not respond. Gorman offered to remain silent if Swaggart would state publicly that he lied about Gorman's affairs. During the 1970s the church grew from a one room church to a more modern building with new additions being built every couple years.Īccording to, Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist by Ann Rowe Seaman, Gorman secured a promise from Swaggart that he would publicly apologize to Gorman and start the process of Gorman's reinstatement to the Assemblies of God. The Family Worship Center grew from barely 40 members in 1970 to over 500 by 1975 and over 1000 by 1980. In the late 1960s, Swaggart founded what was then a small church named the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the church eventually became district-affiliated with the Assemblies of God. By 1969, Swaggart's radio program, “The Camp Meeting Hour,” was being aired over numerous radio stations throughout the American Bible Belt. In 1961, after graduating from Bible college, Swaggart was ordained by the Assemblies of God one year later, Swaggart began his radio ministry. In 1960, he began recording gospel music record albums while building up another audience via Christian radio stations. Swaggart began attending Bible college in 1957. It was then that Swaggart began developing a revival-meeting following throughout the American South. Preaching from a flatbed trailer donated to him, Swaggart began full-time evangelistic work in 1955.