Jimmy Swaggart
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Jimmy Lee Swaggart was an American Pentecostal televangelist, pastor, media mogul, author and gospel music artist.
Swaggart in 2009
This image of Swaggart brought to tears while delivering his "I have sinned" speech has often been used as a representation of the televangelist scandals of the late 1980s.
Ferriday, Louisiana
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Ferriday is a town in Concordia Parish, which borders the Mississippi River and is located on the central eastern border of Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ferriday had a population o
Jimmy Swaggart
…March 15, 1935 – July 1, 2025) was an American Pentecostal televangelist, pastor, media mogul, author and gospel music artist. Swaggart was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, into a musically and religiously active family that included cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. Swaggart was ordained as a pastor by the…
Downtown Ferriday
Ferriday welcoming sign on LA 15
Delta Music Museum
The Concordia Parish Library in Ferriday