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Billy James Hargis (1925-2004) received a degree in theology from Burton College and Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served as a pastor to a couple of churches before becoming pastor of the First Christian Church in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, in 1948. From there, he founded the Christian Echoes Hour radio. In 1950, he resigned to create a national ministry, the Christian Crusade Against Communism. His decision was pursued by the production of programs that ran on hundreds television and radio stations. However, his career was full of controversy. Not only was he an anti-communist, he was also a supporter of racial segregation, and reputedly held anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic views. Even so, he launched an attack on sex education programs in 1968, just to be accused in 1974 of sexual relations with students at his college.
Object Description
| Event | Recording. Christian Crusade recruitment |
| Speaker | Hargis, Billy James, 1925- |
| Affiliation | Christian Crusade |
| Date of event | 1964-11 |
| File number | ve061co |
| Collection | Voices of Extremism: Conflicting Ideologies in United States Politics in the Decades Following WWII |
| Copyright | Copyright 2013, Illinois State University. All rights reserved. |
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| Event | (part 1) Introduction to Christian Crusade and Hargis |
| Background | Reverend Billy James Hargis, the founder of the conservative Christian Crusade, was a fundamentalist Christian broadcast evangelist who pledged to expose anyone who has modernist, leftist, socialist or communist aims. This recorded appeal to attract new members for the Christian Crusade, promotes a conservative political agenda, and urges Americans to follow the Founding Fathers in fighting a war against atheistic communism. Hargis champions less taxes, elimination of foreign aid, less government, more states rights and opposes welfare, government involvement in education, and liberals. He describes the reach of the Christian Crusade through its radio broadcasts, TV spots, rallies, audio albums, books, weekly and monthly magazines, youth and adult chapters, conferences, education and pro-conservative films. |
| Speaker | Hargis, Billy James, 1925- |
| Affiliation | Christian Crusade |
| Biography | Billy James Hargis (1925-2004) received a degree in theology from Burton College and Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served as a pastor to a couple of churches before becoming pastor of the First Christian Church in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, in 1948. From there, he founded the Christian Echoes Hour radio. In 1950, he resigned to create a national ministry, the Christian Crusade Against Communism. His decision was pursued by the production of programs that ran on hundreds television and radio stations. However, his career was full of controversy. Not only was he an anti-communist, he was also a supporter of racial segregation, and reputedly held anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic views. Even so, he launched an attack on sex education programs in 1968, just to be accused in 1974 of sexual relations with students at his college. |
| Location of event | Tulsa (Okla.) |
| Country | United States |
| Date of event | 1964-11 |
| Transcript | http://tempest.lib.ilstu.edu/voe/pdf/ve061a.pdf |
| Run time | 0:06:25 |
| Subject |
Anti-communist movements Christian Crusade Christianity--United States Conservatism--United States |
| Media type | MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3) |
| Original physical format | Reel-to-Reel Tapes |
| File number | ve061a |
| Repository | Illinois State University, Milner Library |
| Collection | Voices of Extremism: Conflicting Ideologies in United States Politics in the Decades Following WWII |
| Image permission | Billy James Hargis Papers (MC 1412), box 111, file 6, item 1. Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville. |
| Copyright | Copyright 2013, Illinois State University. All rights reserved. |
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