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Commentary: Billy Graham: Made in L.A.

Los Angeles saved Billy Graham.

The famed evangelist died at his home in North Carolina on Wednesday morning at the age of 99. In his career spanning nearly 70 years, he spoke to more than 215 million people in 185 countries and territories around the world, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn., converting millions of them to evangelical Christianity.

But when he came to Los Angeles in September 1949, it was hard to imagine he would ever have

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