Evangelist Graham Improves at Hospital
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Religious crusader Billy Graham was in fair condition in a Jacksonville hospital, a day after flying to Florida from a Caribbean vacation for treatment of a lung inflammation. Graham, who has preached Christianity to millions of people the world over, was admitted to St. Luke’s Hospital. Doctors reported that the 79-year-old evangelist’s lung infection, or pneumonitis, was clearing; his fever was subsiding and his white blood count had returned to normal.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
