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Rev. Jerry Falwell
dead at 73
The Rev. Jerry Falwell has died, a
Liberty University executive said Tuesday. He was 73. Earlier today,
Ron Godwin, the executive vice president of Falwell's Liberty University, had
said Falwell was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg
General Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse,
but said Falwell had "a history of heart challenges.
CNN BRAKING NEWS,
from the Web, May 15, 2007
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (AP) --
The Rev. Jerry Falwell has died, a Liberty University executive said Tuesday.
He was 73.
Earlier, the executive said Falwell was hospitalized in "gravely serious"
condition after being found unconscious in his office.
Ron Godwin, the executive vice president of Falwell's Liberty University, said
Falwell was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General
Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but "he has a
history of heart challenges."
"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He
went to his office, I went to mine and they found him unresponsive."
Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority, became the face
of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative
Liberty University and serves as its president.
Falwell survived two serious health scares in early 2005. He was
hospitalized for two weeks with what was described as a viral infection, then
hospitalized again a few weeks later after going into respiratory arrest.
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