How Billy Graham Killed Communism with Kindness

Politics and Power How Billy Graham Killed Communism with Kindness Graham preached behind the Iron Curtain, driving his critics crazy. David Aikman

The Billy Graham of the 1950s reflected the political mood of the United States of that era. His visceral anticommunism expressed itself during the Greater Los Angeles crusade of 1949 in his assessment of the looming Soviet threat. “Sleek Russian bombers,” he said, were poised to strike America. “Do you know,” he thundered at wide-eyed listeners, “that the Fifth Columnists, called Communists, are more rampant in Los Angeles than any other city in America?” Communism, ...

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