Marjoe Gortner, Evangelist Preacher Who Roused the Faithful and Then Exposed the Con, Dies at 82.
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An ordained minister at 4, Marjoe Gortner went on to star in a documentary that revealed the flimflammery of his former profession: “You go into it like a business.”
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