Christian Crusade [48 issues, with related ephemera]

Tulsa, OK: Christian Crusade, 1969. Magazine. Forty-eight issues of the anti-Communist religious magazine, 8.5x11 inches, generally very good but with penciled notes such as "Anti-Communist" at top of many issues. Issues present are Vol. 10 No. 1, 5, 8, 9; Vol. 12 No. 5-7, 9-12; Vol. 13 No. 1-7; Vol. 18 No. 8-11 (two different issues numbered 11); Vol. 19 No. 1-9, 11, 12; Vol. 20 No. 1, 3-6, 7-12 (8 and 9 are a double issue); Vol. 21 No. 1, 3-9 (8 and 9 are a combined double issue). Also included are eleven leaflets and letters to subscribers on various themes, with penciled notes such as "Right wing and anti communist." Classic Red Scare rhetoric about godless commies and their breakdown of the American Way. Hargis was one of the most popular right-wing preachers of his heyday, but his career withered after accusations of sexual impropriety with choir singers (many of them male, despite the Reverend's lamentations about the "abomination of homosexuality"). In 1976, Time published an article titled "The Sins of Billy James," bringing the scandal to national attention. An unforgettable passage from the Time article: "...On the honeymoon, the groom and his bride discovered that both of them had slept with Hargis.