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"BILLY GRAHAM AND HIS FRIENDS:A HIDDEN AGENDA"
BY THE RENOWN FREEMASON EXPOSER DR. CATHY BURNS,
FROM THE "WHO'S WHO?" MAGAZINE.
LET'S MEET SOME OF BILLY'S FRIENDS pp 51-58
He was also involved with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). The RIIA branch in America is known as the CFR. 403
On August 7, 1918 Baruch said:
"Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state." 404
Baruch was involved with the Rothschild bankers and in 1913 e along with others, "brought in Lev Trotzky to New York and paid for the recruiting and training of 300 Russian Jews, who became the leadership in the Communist revolution of Russia in 1917."4°5
John Foster Dulles tells us that "Mr. Bernard M. Baruch had, at times, cordial social relations with Mr. Gromyko when they were working together on the Atomic Commission!'" Gromyko was the Soviet foreign minister and a Communist who bragged: `Believe me, I sit here as one who helped to draft the U. N. Charter, and I had a distinct part in drafting this part of the charter with my own hands." 407
When Gromyko visited the United States, the first man he met with was none other than David Rockefeler. 408
Now, isn't it amazing that Baruch, a man who helped communism to Russia and who was involved in bringing in a one world government, would be interested in Billy Graham and thought that Graham's message was needed by America? Of course., Baruch's friend, Gromyko, also met with Billy Graham tells us in his autobiography: "In recognition of our presence, the Kremlin arranged for us to be received by the longtime foreign minister, Andrey Gromyko." 409
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
Another man that needs to be looked at is William Randolph Hearst. He was a publisher who had the San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Examiner, Boston Sunday Advertiser, New York Morning Journal, New York Evening Journal, Chicago Herald American, Boston American, Chicago Examiner, New York Daily Mirror, New York Journal-American, Cosmopolitan, Town and Country, Harpers Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, plus about a dozen or so other magazines. 410 Hearst was the first one who put Billy Graham in the limelight. 411 Graham writes in his autobiography about that event in 1949. He states:
"When I arrived at the tent for the next meeting, the scene startled me. For the first time, the place was crawling with reporters and photo hers. They had taken almost no notice of the meetings up until now, and very little had appeared in the papers. I asked one of the journalists what was happening.
"`You've just been kissed by William Randolph Hearst,' he responded.
"I had no idea what the reporter was talking about, although I knew the name. Hearst, of course, was the great newspaper owner. I had never met the man, but like most Americans I had read his papers. The next morning's headline story about the Campaign in the Los Angeles Examiner,, followed by an evening story in the Los Angeles Herald Express—both owned by Hearst stunned me. The story was picked up by the Hearst papers in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco, and then by all their competitors. Until then, I doubt if any newspaper editor outside the area had heard of our Los Angeles Campaign....
"Supposedly, he had sent a message to his editors, `Puff Graham.'... "4' 2
In fact, the night BEFORE the rally an editorial written by Hearst said: "Of all great assemblies to take place in the Los Angeles area this year, none, perhaps, will be more significant and with more far-reaching effects than the Billy Graham rally in the Pasadena Rose Bowl tomorrow evening." 413 How did Hearst know? Was there an orchestrated plan to promote Graham?
Not only did Hearst "puff Graham" in his newspapers, he also financed the first three years of Graham's crusades ! 414
When Bookstore Journal asked Graham in 1991: "What has been the highlight of your ministry so far?," he responded:
"I always think my most recent crusade is the highlight, but there have certainly been high points. One was our meetings in Los Angeles in 1949. We were supposed to be there three weeks, but we stayed for eight or 10. Mr. Hearst, the publisher, became interested in the meetings how, I don't know. Before his involvement, we didn't get any coverage at all in any paper, except for maybe a little note on a Saturday-edition page saying that the meetings were continuing.
"Then, all of a sudden, we were on the front pages of both of Hearst's local papers every day and we were in all of his papers across the country. Of course, the other papers have to pay attention then. Time magazine did an article, and I think that was before it had a religion section. That was a turning point." 415.
CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE Graham continue :
"Another significant thing happened in the early '50s in Boston. The Pilot which is the diocesan paper put `Bravo Billy' on the front cover. That made news all over the country. He and I became close, wonderful friends. That was my first real coming to grips with the whole Protestant/Catholic situation.
"I began to realize that there were Christians everywhere. They might be called modernists, Catholics, or whatever, but they were Christians. Jesus taught, `By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.' And that love is more important than anything else. I don't think I've ever departed from that [realization—Ed.]." 416
Who was Hearst and why would he promote Graham? One researcher says this:
"Hearst had built a newspaper empire, which he used to influence political events in the United States. He used his papers to demand war with Spain, which broke out in 1897. Five months prior to the assassination of president William McKinley on September 6, 1901, Randolph Hearst printed an editorial in his newspaper, which approved political assassination under extreme circumstances." 417
"In an editorial dated August 28,1933, William Randolph Hearst wrote, in part: `A politician will do anything to keep his job—even became a patriot.' " 418
"Hearst was not only deeply involved in dirty politics and dirty tricks, but in his private life he lived in adultery for some 30 years by having movie actress Marion Davies as his mistress. He built a fabulous castle on the California coast at San Simeon, where he entertained the rich and the famous people, particularly inviting decadent actors and actresses from Hollywood to come and stay as guests and flaunt their sinful way of living.
"Hearst never repented of his sins to become a Christian, but he became intensely interested in the Youth for Christ movement, and began to promote it through his papers. The official reason for this strange behavior of a rich sinful man, is given by the Billy Graham Association in the authorized biography of Billy Graham by John Pollock, page 35:
" `Hearst had become interested in Youth for Christ, which flourished exceedingly in his home city of Los Angeles, and promoted it by several editorials in his national chain of newspapers, not for religious reasons but because it provided moral standards for youth and was an answer to the growing problem of juvenile delinquency. '
"In retrospect, it becomes clear that Hearst was not interested in Youth for Christ as an organization, but his focus was on Billy Graham, who was the shining star of this move of God....
"On March 18, 1946 Torrey Johnson organized a tour to launch Youth for Christ to a war devastated Europe. Among the people who went on this trip was Billy Graham. But there were two other men on this trip who would greatly influence Graham. One was the Toronto Youth for Christ director, Charles Templeton, a former newspaper cartoonist. Templeton was an intellectual and had great difficulty in believing that the Bible was the Word of God. A few years later, he made an official decision of rejecting the Bible as the infallible Word of God.
"Here is what Billy Graham said of Templeton: `He helped me tremendously to broaden my whole vision. '
"The second man was Wesley Hartzell, a journalist on Hearst's Chicago American. He had been assigned by Hearst to travel with the Gospel team and write articles dealing with the success of the meetings, which were to be featured by the International News Service, reaching into nearly all American cities and large towns. At that time no one in the Christian community knew that the World Government had begun to build `AN ICON,' that later would be accepted by large masses of people as `A HOLYMAN' speaking for God. The team stayed in Great Britain for three weeks." 419 [Emphasis in the original.]
TUFF YFC'
Billy Graham asserts that he doesn't know why Hearst gave him publicity since he claims that he and Hearst never met, but earlier. in his autobiography he admitted that Wesley Hartzell, a Hearst:; newspaperman, traveled with Youth for Christ and Graham to Great Britain. 420 A Prophet with Honor, which Graham asked William Martin to write, says basically the same thing. 421 Listen to his story. He said that Torrey Johnson, Graham, and a few others were
"accompanied by Wesley Hartzell, a reporter for William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Herald-American. Hartzell...was assigned to this trip on an editor's inspired hunch that 'Graham might turn out to be a top newsmaker.' Hearst had already shown considerable interest in YFC [Youth for Christ], apparently because he liked its patriotic emphasis and felt its high moral standards might help combat juvenile delinquency. Not incidentally, he also figured that any movement attracting nearly a million people to rallies every Saturday night might help him sell some newspapers. According to Johnson, who never had any direct contact with Hearst, the reclusive publisher sent his Chicago editor a telegram shortly after the Soldier Field rally. It contained only two words: 'PUFF YFC:' A short time later, all twenty-two Hearst papers carried a full-page story on the YFC movement. Further coverage followed, and other papers picked up the story....As the old titan [Hearst] watched the organization grow, he apparently realized that Graham and Templeton were its two brightest stars and decided to assign someone to chronicle their ascent. Hartzell's reports of the British trip appeared not only in the Hearst papers but on the International News Service wire as well, providing potential exposure to virtually every significant newspaper in America." 422
William Martin continues:
"Accounts of Graham's career have typically portrayed the Hearst endorsement as a complete surprise, unsought and unexpected. The reality was less dramatic. All the Hearst papers had boosted YFC Hearst had sent his `Puff YFC' telegram in 1946 but none had done more for the organization than the Los Angeles Examiner, the largest West Coast newspaper at the time. Its publisher, R. A. Carrington, though not particularly religious himself, . admired the organization, gave its activities good coverage in the newspaper, did much of its printing free of charge, and arranged for the paper to sponsor various YFC projects. Most notably, Carrington had given YFC leader Roy McKeown a weekly column in the Sunday Examiner to report on YFC activities for a five-state region. A committee member for the revival, McKeown contacted Carrington to ask if the paper might give Graham and the meetings special attention. Carrington met with Graham then telephoned `the chief' (Hearst), and the rest was publicity....The next morning, the Examiner and the city's other Hearst paper, the Herald, gave him banner headlines, and twelve other papers in the Hearst chain also gave the campaign extensive coverage. Within days the Associated Press, the United Press, and the International News Service picked up the story, and Time, Newsweek, and Life followed soon afterward with major feature stories." 423
Several of those in leadership at Hearst's publications were Masons such as Frank F. Barham, Vice President and Director of Hearst Publishing Company; 424 Harry O. Davis; 425 William DeBeck; 426 William Franklin Knox, General Manager; 427 Merrill C. Meigs, Vice President and later President of Hearst Corporation in Chicago; 428 Frank J. Nicht, Director; 429 and Fred A. Walker. 430
AIDS PRAYER
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation (in 1984) gave $10,000 to Planned Parenthood (which encourages abortions). 431 Also funded (in part) by the Hearst Corporation was a Pulitzer Prize-winning play called "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" which was held at St. John the Divine Cathedral about 1994. This play contained an "AIDS prayer" which says in part:
"Let us pray. God: A cure would be nice....Enlighten the unenlightened: The Pope, the cardinals, archbishops and priests, even John [Cardinal Ed.] O'Connor, teach him how Christ's kindness worked: remind him, he's forgotten, make them all remember, replace the ice water in their veins with the blood of Christ, let it pound in their temples....Your silence, I must tell you, so steadfastly maintained, even in the face of our appalling need is outrageous.... So many have died this year alone: In case you were absent, God, or absent-minded....Where, God, are you?... So a cure for AIDS. For racism too. For homophobia and sexism, and an end to war, to nationalism and capitalism, to work as such and to hatred of the flesh....Don't expect that we will forgive you if you allow us to be endangered....Be thou more sheltering, God. Pay more attention." 432
A few other sponsors of this blasphemous play were Chase Manhattan Bank (controlled by the Rockefellers 433), Donald Trump, Prudential Insurance Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Philip Morris Companies, Robert de Rothschild, David Rockefeller, Mary C. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller, Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc., the Rockefeller Group, Inc., and Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Rockefeller. 434 Steven Rockefeller just presented the Earth Charter for approval at the Millennium World Peace Summit in late August 2000. He said that "the biosphere is in us, and we are in the biosphere." 435
Hearst is also into book publishing now and has published socalled Christian, pro-gay, occultic, and Satanic books. 436 One of these books was The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson which promoted the occultic technique of yoga (although under a different
e). 437 The publisher, William Morrow, was purchased by the Hearst Corporation a number of years ago. 438 About five years ago, William Morrow published a book by Peter Gomes who is a homosexual. 439 Prior to this, they printed Ruth Montgomery's book n Jeane Dixon (an astrologer 440) as well as The Book of Predic‑
ions 441 and The Eye of Shiva. 442 Oh, another book published by William Morrow was A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story (a book which is very favorable to Graham and which he asked to be written).
What is amazing is that Hearst would take an interest in someone like Billy Graham in the first place. As was already mentioned, Hest was not a Christian and was living in adultery, yet he was drawn to Graham.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. was even instrumental in helping out with Graham's 1957 Crusade in Madison Square Garden. A Prophet with Honor states:
"Seldom, if ever, has a crusade been able to boast of more competent and influential leadership. The crusade committee, chaired by Roger Hull, vice-president of Mutual of New York, included in its number Chase Manhattan's George Champion, Norman Vincent Peale, longtime Graham backers Russell Maguire and J. Howard Pew, corporate executives Walter Hoving, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jeremiah Milbank, Readers Digest senior editor Stanley High, and media moguls Henry Luce, William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Herald Tribune editor Ogden Reid, and ABC president Robert Kintner. With this kind of clout at the top, and with solid encouragement from members of the Dodge, Phelps, Vanderbilt, Gould, and Whitney families,...finance chairman Howard Isham, vice-president and treasurer of U. S. Steel, found it relatively easy to raise a large portion of the projected $600,000 budget." 443
The liberal press has helped Graham in more ways than one. One author reveals:
"Apparently, Billy Graham has a special tie-in with the liberal media as well since they covered up a report that himself to two teenaged girls. There was also a- story about a $23 million slush fund scandal [see Chapter 7 for more about this] which briefly threatened the Graham empire, but that also suddenly disappeared from mention in the national media." 444
The World Book Year Book mentioned that "Graham drew criticism from some of his supporters for having concealed the existence of a $23-million educational fund." 445 This book adds: "There were also charges in the publishing world that Graham's best-selling How to Be Born Again reproduced, without acknowledging it, a great portion of one of his earlier books, issued by a different publisher. " 446
It sure has paid Graham to have friends in "high places." BROOKS HAYS
Another individual in "high places" was Brooks Hays. Hays was a Congressman from Arkansas, a Mason, 447 and an assistant to the late President Kennedy.`" He was also a Council on Foreign Relations member. 449 Additionally, he was one of the people who sponsored the ungodly Temple of Understanding (which will be covered later). 450 Hays states: "I must say at the outset that I do not accept all of the Bible as literally true.... [the literal inerrancy position of inspiration is D.W.C.] anti-biblical—for it tends to make an idol of printed pages... [it is D.W.C.] Bibliolatry...as dangerous as any other form of idolatry. "45
What does Graham think of Hays? He writes in his autobiography: "I called my old Christian friend Congressman Brooks Hays from Arkansas and asked his advice. '452 Sadly, Hays' statement about the Bible sounds a little bit like what Billy Graham told the Saturday Evening Post in April 1963: "I am not a literalist....If you try to accept the literal meaning of every word in the Bible, you get into all sorts of trouble." 453 Unfortunately, Graham will get into far more trouble on judgment day by not believing the Bible!
PRESIDENTS AND ROYALTY
Just briefly, let's look at some of Graham's friendships with leaders around the world. The following quotations are taken from Graham's autobiography Just As I Am.
"During the eight years of Reagan's administration, we saw each other a number of times. I especially appreciated his kindness in inviting Ruth and me to several state dinners for visiting foreign leaders....
FROM THE "WHO'S WHO?" MAGAZINE.
LET'S MEET SOME OF BILLY'S FRIENDS pp 51-58
He was also involved with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). The RIIA branch in America is known as the CFR. 403
On August 7, 1918 Baruch said:
"Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state." 404
Baruch was involved with the Rothschild bankers and in 1913 e along with others, "brought in Lev Trotzky to New York and paid for the recruiting and training of 300 Russian Jews, who became the leadership in the Communist revolution of Russia in 1917."4°5
John Foster Dulles tells us that "Mr. Bernard M. Baruch had, at times, cordial social relations with Mr. Gromyko when they were working together on the Atomic Commission!'" Gromyko was the Soviet foreign minister and a Communist who bragged: `Believe me, I sit here as one who helped to draft the U. N. Charter, and I had a distinct part in drafting this part of the charter with my own hands." 407
When Gromyko visited the United States, the first man he met with was none other than David Rockefeler. 408
Now, isn't it amazing that Baruch, a man who helped communism to Russia and who was involved in bringing in a one world government, would be interested in Billy Graham and thought that Graham's message was needed by America? Of course., Baruch's friend, Gromyko, also met with Billy Graham tells us in his autobiography: "In recognition of our presence, the Kremlin arranged for us to be received by the longtime foreign minister, Andrey Gromyko." 409
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
Another man that needs to be looked at is William Randolph Hearst. He was a publisher who had the San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Examiner, Boston Sunday Advertiser, New York Morning Journal, New York Evening Journal, Chicago Herald American, Boston American, Chicago Examiner, New York Daily Mirror, New York Journal-American, Cosmopolitan, Town and Country, Harpers Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, plus about a dozen or so other magazines. 410 Hearst was the first one who put Billy Graham in the limelight. 411 Graham writes in his autobiography about that event in 1949. He states:
"When I arrived at the tent for the next meeting, the scene startled me. For the first time, the place was crawling with reporters and photo hers. They had taken almost no notice of the meetings up until now, and very little had appeared in the papers. I asked one of the journalists what was happening.
"`You've just been kissed by William Randolph Hearst,' he responded.
"I had no idea what the reporter was talking about, although I knew the name. Hearst, of course, was the great newspaper owner. I had never met the man, but like most Americans I had read his papers. The next morning's headline story about the Campaign in the Los Angeles Examiner,, followed by an evening story in the Los Angeles Herald Express—both owned by Hearst stunned me. The story was picked up by the Hearst papers in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco, and then by all their competitors. Until then, I doubt if any newspaper editor outside the area had heard of our Los Angeles Campaign....
"Supposedly, he had sent a message to his editors, `Puff Graham.'... "4' 2
In fact, the night BEFORE the rally an editorial written by Hearst said: "Of all great assemblies to take place in the Los Angeles area this year, none, perhaps, will be more significant and with more far-reaching effects than the Billy Graham rally in the Pasadena Rose Bowl tomorrow evening." 413 How did Hearst know? Was there an orchestrated plan to promote Graham?
Not only did Hearst "puff Graham" in his newspapers, he also financed the first three years of Graham's crusades ! 414
When Bookstore Journal asked Graham in 1991: "What has been the highlight of your ministry so far?," he responded:
"I always think my most recent crusade is the highlight, but there have certainly been high points. One was our meetings in Los Angeles in 1949. We were supposed to be there three weeks, but we stayed for eight or 10. Mr. Hearst, the publisher, became interested in the meetings how, I don't know. Before his involvement, we didn't get any coverage at all in any paper, except for maybe a little note on a Saturday-edition page saying that the meetings were continuing.
"Then, all of a sudden, we were on the front pages of both of Hearst's local papers every day and we were in all of his papers across the country. Of course, the other papers have to pay attention then. Time magazine did an article, and I think that was before it had a religion section. That was a turning point." 415.
CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE Graham continue :
"Another significant thing happened in the early '50s in Boston. The Pilot which is the diocesan paper put `Bravo Billy' on the front cover. That made news all over the country. He and I became close, wonderful friends. That was my first real coming to grips with the whole Protestant/Catholic situation.
"I began to realize that there were Christians everywhere. They might be called modernists, Catholics, or whatever, but they were Christians. Jesus taught, `By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.' And that love is more important than anything else. I don't think I've ever departed from that [realization—Ed.]." 416
Who was Hearst and why would he promote Graham? One researcher says this:
"Hearst had built a newspaper empire, which he used to influence political events in the United States. He used his papers to demand war with Spain, which broke out in 1897. Five months prior to the assassination of president William McKinley on September 6, 1901, Randolph Hearst printed an editorial in his newspaper, which approved political assassination under extreme circumstances." 417
"In an editorial dated August 28,1933, William Randolph Hearst wrote, in part: `A politician will do anything to keep his job—even became a patriot.' " 418
"Hearst was not only deeply involved in dirty politics and dirty tricks, but in his private life he lived in adultery for some 30 years by having movie actress Marion Davies as his mistress. He built a fabulous castle on the California coast at San Simeon, where he entertained the rich and the famous people, particularly inviting decadent actors and actresses from Hollywood to come and stay as guests and flaunt their sinful way of living.
"Hearst never repented of his sins to become a Christian, but he became intensely interested in the Youth for Christ movement, and began to promote it through his papers. The official reason for this strange behavior of a rich sinful man, is given by the Billy Graham Association in the authorized biography of Billy Graham by John Pollock, page 35:
" `Hearst had become interested in Youth for Christ, which flourished exceedingly in his home city of Los Angeles, and promoted it by several editorials in his national chain of newspapers, not for religious reasons but because it provided moral standards for youth and was an answer to the growing problem of juvenile delinquency. '
"In retrospect, it becomes clear that Hearst was not interested in Youth for Christ as an organization, but his focus was on Billy Graham, who was the shining star of this move of God....
"On March 18, 1946 Torrey Johnson organized a tour to launch Youth for Christ to a war devastated Europe. Among the people who went on this trip was Billy Graham. But there were two other men on this trip who would greatly influence Graham. One was the Toronto Youth for Christ director, Charles Templeton, a former newspaper cartoonist. Templeton was an intellectual and had great difficulty in believing that the Bible was the Word of God. A few years later, he made an official decision of rejecting the Bible as the infallible Word of God.
"Here is what Billy Graham said of Templeton: `He helped me tremendously to broaden my whole vision. '
"The second man was Wesley Hartzell, a journalist on Hearst's Chicago American. He had been assigned by Hearst to travel with the Gospel team and write articles dealing with the success of the meetings, which were to be featured by the International News Service, reaching into nearly all American cities and large towns. At that time no one in the Christian community knew that the World Government had begun to build `AN ICON,' that later would be accepted by large masses of people as `A HOLYMAN' speaking for God. The team stayed in Great Britain for three weeks." 419 [Emphasis in the original.]
TUFF YFC'
Billy Graham asserts that he doesn't know why Hearst gave him publicity since he claims that he and Hearst never met, but earlier. in his autobiography he admitted that Wesley Hartzell, a Hearst:; newspaperman, traveled with Youth for Christ and Graham to Great Britain. 420 A Prophet with Honor, which Graham asked William Martin to write, says basically the same thing. 421 Listen to his story. He said that Torrey Johnson, Graham, and a few others were
"accompanied by Wesley Hartzell, a reporter for William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Herald-American. Hartzell...was assigned to this trip on an editor's inspired hunch that 'Graham might turn out to be a top newsmaker.' Hearst had already shown considerable interest in YFC [Youth for Christ], apparently because he liked its patriotic emphasis and felt its high moral standards might help combat juvenile delinquency. Not incidentally, he also figured that any movement attracting nearly a million people to rallies every Saturday night might help him sell some newspapers. According to Johnson, who never had any direct contact with Hearst, the reclusive publisher sent his Chicago editor a telegram shortly after the Soldier Field rally. It contained only two words: 'PUFF YFC:' A short time later, all twenty-two Hearst papers carried a full-page story on the YFC movement. Further coverage followed, and other papers picked up the story....As the old titan [Hearst] watched the organization grow, he apparently realized that Graham and Templeton were its two brightest stars and decided to assign someone to chronicle their ascent. Hartzell's reports of the British trip appeared not only in the Hearst papers but on the International News Service wire as well, providing potential exposure to virtually every significant newspaper in America." 422
William Martin continues:
"Accounts of Graham's career have typically portrayed the Hearst endorsement as a complete surprise, unsought and unexpected. The reality was less dramatic. All the Hearst papers had boosted YFC Hearst had sent his `Puff YFC' telegram in 1946 but none had done more for the organization than the Los Angeles Examiner, the largest West Coast newspaper at the time. Its publisher, R. A. Carrington, though not particularly religious himself, . admired the organization, gave its activities good coverage in the newspaper, did much of its printing free of charge, and arranged for the paper to sponsor various YFC projects. Most notably, Carrington had given YFC leader Roy McKeown a weekly column in the Sunday Examiner to report on YFC activities for a five-state region. A committee member for the revival, McKeown contacted Carrington to ask if the paper might give Graham and the meetings special attention. Carrington met with Graham then telephoned `the chief' (Hearst), and the rest was publicity....The next morning, the Examiner and the city's other Hearst paper, the Herald, gave him banner headlines, and twelve other papers in the Hearst chain also gave the campaign extensive coverage. Within days the Associated Press, the United Press, and the International News Service picked up the story, and Time, Newsweek, and Life followed soon afterward with major feature stories." 423
Several of those in leadership at Hearst's publications were Masons such as Frank F. Barham, Vice President and Director of Hearst Publishing Company; 424 Harry O. Davis; 425 William DeBeck; 426 William Franklin Knox, General Manager; 427 Merrill C. Meigs, Vice President and later President of Hearst Corporation in Chicago; 428 Frank J. Nicht, Director; 429 and Fred A. Walker. 430
AIDS PRAYER
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation (in 1984) gave $10,000 to Planned Parenthood (which encourages abortions). 431 Also funded (in part) by the Hearst Corporation was a Pulitzer Prize-winning play called "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" which was held at St. John the Divine Cathedral about 1994. This play contained an "AIDS prayer" which says in part:
"Let us pray. God: A cure would be nice....Enlighten the unenlightened: The Pope, the cardinals, archbishops and priests, even John [Cardinal Ed.] O'Connor, teach him how Christ's kindness worked: remind him, he's forgotten, make them all remember, replace the ice water in their veins with the blood of Christ, let it pound in their temples....Your silence, I must tell you, so steadfastly maintained, even in the face of our appalling need is outrageous.... So many have died this year alone: In case you were absent, God, or absent-minded....Where, God, are you?... So a cure for AIDS. For racism too. For homophobia and sexism, and an end to war, to nationalism and capitalism, to work as such and to hatred of the flesh....Don't expect that we will forgive you if you allow us to be endangered....Be thou more sheltering, God. Pay more attention." 432
A few other sponsors of this blasphemous play were Chase Manhattan Bank (controlled by the Rockefellers 433), Donald Trump, Prudential Insurance Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Philip Morris Companies, Robert de Rothschild, David Rockefeller, Mary C. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller, Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc., the Rockefeller Group, Inc., and Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Rockefeller. 434 Steven Rockefeller just presented the Earth Charter for approval at the Millennium World Peace Summit in late August 2000. He said that "the biosphere is in us, and we are in the biosphere." 435
Hearst is also into book publishing now and has published socalled Christian, pro-gay, occultic, and Satanic books. 436 One of these books was The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson which promoted the occultic technique of yoga (although under a different
e). 437 The publisher, William Morrow, was purchased by the Hearst Corporation a number of years ago. 438 About five years ago, William Morrow published a book by Peter Gomes who is a homosexual. 439 Prior to this, they printed Ruth Montgomery's book n Jeane Dixon (an astrologer 440) as well as The Book of Predic‑
ions 441 and The Eye of Shiva. 442 Oh, another book published by William Morrow was A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story (a book which is very favorable to Graham and which he asked to be written).
What is amazing is that Hearst would take an interest in someone like Billy Graham in the first place. As was already mentioned, Hest was not a Christian and was living in adultery, yet he was drawn to Graham.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. was even instrumental in helping out with Graham's 1957 Crusade in Madison Square Garden. A Prophet with Honor states:
"Seldom, if ever, has a crusade been able to boast of more competent and influential leadership. The crusade committee, chaired by Roger Hull, vice-president of Mutual of New York, included in its number Chase Manhattan's George Champion, Norman Vincent Peale, longtime Graham backers Russell Maguire and J. Howard Pew, corporate executives Walter Hoving, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jeremiah Milbank, Readers Digest senior editor Stanley High, and media moguls Henry Luce, William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Herald Tribune editor Ogden Reid, and ABC president Robert Kintner. With this kind of clout at the top, and with solid encouragement from members of the Dodge, Phelps, Vanderbilt, Gould, and Whitney families,...finance chairman Howard Isham, vice-president and treasurer of U. S. Steel, found it relatively easy to raise a large portion of the projected $600,000 budget." 443
The liberal press has helped Graham in more ways than one. One author reveals:
"Apparently, Billy Graham has a special tie-in with the liberal media as well since they covered up a report that himself to two teenaged girls. There was also a- story about a $23 million slush fund scandal [see Chapter 7 for more about this] which briefly threatened the Graham empire, but that also suddenly disappeared from mention in the national media." 444
The World Book Year Book mentioned that "Graham drew criticism from some of his supporters for having concealed the existence of a $23-million educational fund." 445 This book adds: "There were also charges in the publishing world that Graham's best-selling How to Be Born Again reproduced, without acknowledging it, a great portion of one of his earlier books, issued by a different publisher. " 446
It sure has paid Graham to have friends in "high places." BROOKS HAYS
Another individual in "high places" was Brooks Hays. Hays was a Congressman from Arkansas, a Mason, 447 and an assistant to the late President Kennedy.`" He was also a Council on Foreign Relations member. 449 Additionally, he was one of the people who sponsored the ungodly Temple of Understanding (which will be covered later). 450 Hays states: "I must say at the outset that I do not accept all of the Bible as literally true.... [the literal inerrancy position of inspiration is D.W.C.] anti-biblical—for it tends to make an idol of printed pages... [it is D.W.C.] Bibliolatry...as dangerous as any other form of idolatry. "45
What does Graham think of Hays? He writes in his autobiography: "I called my old Christian friend Congressman Brooks Hays from Arkansas and asked his advice. '452 Sadly, Hays' statement about the Bible sounds a little bit like what Billy Graham told the Saturday Evening Post in April 1963: "I am not a literalist....If you try to accept the literal meaning of every word in the Bible, you get into all sorts of trouble." 453 Unfortunately, Graham will get into far more trouble on judgment day by not believing the Bible!
PRESIDENTS AND ROYALTY
Just briefly, let's look at some of Graham's friendships with leaders around the world. The following quotations are taken from Graham's autobiography Just As I Am.
"During the eight years of Reagan's administration, we saw each other a number of times. I especially appreciated his kindness in inviting Ruth and me to several state dinners for visiting foreign leaders....
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Graham receiving honorary degree from Catholic Belmont Abbey
