![]() ![]() Oral was the original pioneer of television ministry. ![]() John Hagee, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar-ORU’s board was a who’s who of televangelists. ORU’s Board of Regents agreed: Larry King was a terrible idea. and 3 a.m. on cell phones expensed to the university. What’s more, the suit claimed Lindsay sent hundreds of text messages to “underage males” between the hours of 1 a.m. The university’s finances were inadvertently cracked open by three professors who claimed they’d been fired for questioning Richard’s efforts to involve ORU in campaigning for Senator Jim Inhofe’s chosen candidate in Tulsa’s mayoral election. Oral thought Larry King would eat Richard alive.Ī week earlier, a lawsuit hit the front pages of the Tulsa World, alleging that Richard and Lindsay Roberts, ORU’s president and first lady since 1993, treated the university as a personal ATM. “I think I should,” they heard Richard tell his father. Patriarch Oral Roberts was urging Richard, his successor, not to go on Larry King Live that evening. The voices of the Oral Roberts University Board of Regents on the speakerphone conference call one floor below carried up through the thin ceiling panels. Two Oral Roberts Ministries employees crouched on a desk on their hands and knees, their heads sticking through a hole in the wall. The fall of the first family of televangelism came swiftly. ![]()
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