Have You Heard What Happened To Jimmy Swaggart?

Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman — two rival Assemblies of God preachers — collided in one of the most explosive scandals in American religious history. Jimmy Lee Swaggart, television evangelist and gospel singer, built a $150-million global broadcast empire from poverty in Ferriday, Louisiana. Frances Swaggart, his wife, managed the ministry's financial empire and fought to keep it solvent. Jerry Lee Lewis, his first cousin and rock-and-roll pioneer, represented the secular world Swaggart crusaded against. Marvin Gorman, a New Orleans pastor destroyed by Swaggart, launched a covert surveillance operation that captured photographic evidence of Swaggart's secret double life. Debra Murphree, a street prostitute, became the central witness whose testimony and media interviews shattered Swaggart's moral authority. The scandal ended with Swaggart's tearful on-air confession to millions, his defiance of a two-year church suspension, and the permanent fracturing of his evangelical empire. Subscribe for more history the official accounts leave out. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:27 Ferriday Cousins Origins 11:23 Marvin Gorman Revenge 24:15 Sunken Empire Falls #JimmySwaggart #MarvinGorman #TelevangelistScandal #JerryLeeLewis