Billy Graham | 1918 - 2018

Evangelist Billy Graham holds a Bible aloft in the mid-1950s.

The Rev. Billy Graham preaches during a tent crusade in 1955.

Graham preaches at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 20, 1957.

In western Nigeria in 1960. According to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn., Graham preached to more than 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories.

The Grahams prepare to depart for London aboard the Queen Mary in May 1966.

President Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon with daughter Tricia and the Grahams after a White House church service in 1969.

On July 4, 1970, Graham took his message to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson chats with the Rev. Billy Graham shortly before the evangelist spoke at Texas Stadium in Irving on Sept. 18, 1971.

The Rev. Billy Graham meets with Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush on Nov. 5, 2000, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Former President Clinton spoke during Billy Graham’s final crusade in 2005 at Flushing Meadows in New York.

In 2005, Billy Graham conducted his last crusade, drawing 90,000 people in New York.

Graham pauses during a sermon at the Metro Maryland Festival in Baltimore in July 2006.

Graham speaks during a memorial service for his wife in Montreat, N.C., on June 16, 2007.

The evangelist at the dedication of the Billy Graham Library in May 2007. Writer-critic Elaine Kendall called Graham “the preeminent prophet of this time, the generic clergyman. To millions of Americans, he was religion, the way Kleenex are tissue or Life Savers are mints.”