"You told me that when the door was closed and you and Jessica were in that room, that if anybody raped anyone, she raped you. "When I was there March 17, and confronted you with the story I had heard that you had raped some girl in a Florida hotel room, you advised me in a private meeting that you did not rape anyone, but that in fact your wife at that time was in love with another man, and that you were trying to win her love back and hoping to make her jealous, that John Wesley Fletcher another evangelist and follower of Bakker, per your request, brought a 19-year-old girl down from New York named Jessica Hahn. ![]() "If they can restore you and you're truly forgiven, I see no reason why you couldn't come back here," Falwell said he told Bakker.įalwell used Bakker's May 17 telephone call, in which he said he was ready to come back, to recount his version of the Hahn incident. "He asked, 'Do you ever think I could come back to PTL?' "įalwell said he told Bakker he might be able to return to PTL if he went through the restoration process with the Assemblies of God church. "I felt as a media minister we had a Christian responsibility to help this man," Falwell said.Īt that meeting, Falwell said, Bakker told him, "Jerry, I want you to take the ministry." When Falwell asked why, Bakker responded, "You're the only preacher I trust right now." He said the meeting was spurred by the knowledge that the Charlotte Observer was about to break the news that PTL had been paying Hahn to keep quiet about the 1980 incident. Either way, he certainly needs our prayers." At his 90-minute news conference, Falwell said his first meeting with Bakker occurred March 17 at Bakker's home in Palm Springs, Calif. "He either has a terrible memory, or is very dishonest or is emotionally ill. "I listened to his tape last night on Nightline," Falwell said Wednesday. "He said he would be a good caretaker," Bakker said, adding that he and his wife, Tammy, "were worn out. "He said he Swaggart was very vicious and that he was going to destroy me."īakker said Falwell told him he "would never touch my ministry. "He Falwell said that if he didn't stop Swaggart at my ministry that Swaggart would destroy his ministry next and so he was actually doing himself a favor by helping me," Bakker said. He said Falwell offered to serve as "caretaker" of PTL until the furor over the Hahn tryst died down to keep Swaggart from destroying the television ministry. On ABC's Nightline, Bakker said Falwell showed him a letter from Swaggart to Tennessee TV evangelist John Ankerburg outlining the takeover "plot."īakker said Falwell told him he had learned more about the plot by playing along with the conspirators. Enclose the largest possible May emergency gift, and will you mail it at your post office so we can stay one step ahead of the wolf?"Īsked at the news conference why he expected people to believe his word against Bakker's, Falwell said: "I've never been charged with immorality or confiscation of funds." ![]() "Without your gift next Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, this program will be off the air," he warned followers. ![]() News conference, he appeared on tape on the daily PTL Club television show to urge more and larger contributions.
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