Jimmy Lee Swaggart is an American Pentecostal televangelist.
Swaggart in 2009
This image of Swaggart brought to tears while delivering his "I have sinned" speech has become a symbolic illustration of the televangelist scandals of the late 1980s.
Swaggart in 2011
Swaggart's son, Donnie, preaching in Florida in 2018
Televangelism and occasionally termed radio evangelism or teleministry, denotes the utilization of media platforms, notably radio and television, for the marketing of religious messages, particularly Christianity.
Brazilian TV ad for the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
S. Parkes Cadman, one of the first ministers to use radio, beginning in 1923
Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the first televangelist.
Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network.