Forgiven

Charles E. Shepard''s investigative reporting of television evangelist Jim Bakker and his Praise The Lord/People That Love ministry won for The Charlotte Observer the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. Unprecedented in its scope, Shepard''s reporting forced Bakker''s resignation in 1987 by exposing PTL''s scandalous payoff of Jessica Hahn—and then helped thwart Bakker''s secret pl...