The Nation - News from Sept. 4, 1989

Psychiatrists are giving defrocked evangelist Jim Bakker examinations such as ink-blot and personality tests, and he will be examined by the same psychiatrist who evaluated John W. Hinckley Jr., an official at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner, N.C., said. Dr. Sally Johnson, Butner’s chief of psychiatric services, who also evaluated presidential assailant Hinckley, will lead the team making the evaluation, said Bryan Bledsoe, executive assistant to the warden. Bakker, 49, is charged with 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy and faces 120 years in prison and more than $5 million in fines. He was committed to Butner after psychiatrist Dr. Basil Jackson testified Bakker was hallucinating and hiding his head under a couch in his attorney’s office during his trial in Charlotte.