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Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker

Behind the Bastards

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Jim Baker's Defiant Response

bill Perkins an administrator for p t l resigned his position in 1978 after he grew disturbed by the fact that money seemed to be growing increasingly central to the decisions that Jim Baker made so a lot of the people who like sign up with him early on will say that this was a legitimate religious enterprise at first and Baker really believed hard and it turned into a grift.

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