Charismatic televangelist Oral Roberts dies at 91
Photo credit: Dallas Morning News File / April 22, 1997 | Oral Roberts speaks in Arlington, Texas. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia, on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, his ministry said.
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PHOTOS: Oral RobertsOral Roberts, a dirt-poor, Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most recognizable televangelists, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Roberts, founder of the 5,400-student university in Tulsa, Okla., that is named after him, died of complications of pneumonia at a Newport Beach, Calif., hospital, family spokeswoman Melany Ethridge said.
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