Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who died Tuesday in Baton Rouge at age 90, was a world-famous preacher, but he was also one of the bestselling gospel music artists of all time. Swaggart, a cousin of ...

By 1984, Swaggart had overtaken Robert Schuller and Oral Roberts as America's top televangelist. The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast reached nearly 2 million viewers a week on 500 stations.