Falwell met Macel Pate on his first visit to Park Avenue Baptist Church in 1949 Macel was a pianist there. Jerry Falwell was a member of a group in Fairview Heights known to the police as "the Wall Gang" because they sat on a low concrete wall at the Pickeral Café. ![]() His paternal grandfather was a staunch atheist. His father shot and killed his own brother Garland and died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1948 at the age of 55. His father was an entrepreneur and one-time bootlegger who was agnostic. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.įalwell and his twin brother Gene were born in the Fairview Heights area of Lynchburg, Virginia, on August 11, 1933, the sons of Helen Virginia ( née Beasley) and Carey Hezekiah Falwell. ![]() He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. ![]() (Aug– May 15, 2007) was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist.
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