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1962 REV. BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE - CHICAGO CRUSADE / Brochure & Mail-In Card For Sale
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1962 REV. BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE - CHICAGO CRUSADE / Brochure & Mail-In Card:
$9.95
This listing is for a nice THE BILLY GRAHAM GREATER...CHICAGO CRUSADE Brochure
This item is from Reverend Graham\'s 1962 Crusade.
It measures approximately 3 1/2\" x 5 1/2\" and opens to 3 pages, including the MAIL- IN CARD Portion.
The condition is great / unused.
June 17, 1962 – Billy Graham ends a 19-day Crusade in Chicago at Soldier Field before an audience of 116,000. During his time in Chicago Graham has attracted a total of 703,000 with most events held in McCormick Place. Prior to the Soldier Field event the largest crowd the evangelist had attracted was slightly more than 100,000 in Yankee Stadium in 1957. Graham concludes his crusade with these words, “Today should not be thought of as the end of the Crusade, but only the beginning. You have witnessed only a sample of what could happen to a city. What we have seen in Chicago should be an example to other cities throughout the nation.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, June 18, 1962]. Graham’s roots are planted in the Chicago area, where he attended Wheaton College, met his wife, and began his career as a pastor of Western Springs Baptist Church. “It is here that I got my education, it is here I found my wife, and it is here that I had my first church,” he says. Therefore, my heart belongs to Chicago in a very peculiar and unique way.” The Soldier Field event takes place on a day when the temperature climbs to 100 degrees. More than 400 people are prostrated by the heat, many of them before Graham even comes to the speaker’s platform. Thousands of people arrive more than three hours before the scheduled 3:00 p.m. starting time in order to find a prime seat. They sit, sweltering in the hot sun, as the event is delayed for 45 minutes to accommodate all the people who could not find parking places in the area. The first call for doctors and nurses comes at 2:25 p.m. The two first aid rooms in the stadium are filled to capacity, and over 50 people are stretched out beneath trees outside the venue. One registered nurse estimates that she treated more than 200 people. The above photo shows Reverend Graham early in the Chicago Crusade, speaking to prisoners at the Cook County Jail on May 29, 1962.
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