Posted on 06/26/2025 1:21:31 PM PDT by Borges
Bill Moyers, who served as chief spokesman for President Lyndon B. Johnson during the American military buildup in Vietnam and then went on to a long and celebrated career as a broadcast journalist, returning repeatedly to the subject of the corruption of American democracy by money and power, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 91.
His son William Cope Moyers confirmed the death, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He lived in Manhattan.
To Americans who grew up after the 1960s, Mr. Moyers was known above all as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator. He was once described by Peter J. Boyer, the journalist and author, as “a rare and powerful voice, a kind of secular evangelist.”
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A “secular evangelist”. That’s perfect.
Moyers was ordained in 1954. During the academic year 1956–1957, he studied “issues of church and state” at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow. In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Full disclosure: He went to my family’s church. The church that gave me my first Bible. The church that buried my grandparents and my parents. I’ve heard him speak.
But there are no secular evangelists because there is no secular evangelion, no secular gospel.
And my family’s church like so many other “mainline” churches, is vanishing because secularism and the gospel of our Lord are opposed to each other, are in fact in a life or death struggle.
RIP Billy Don Moyers.
Soon, I hope.
They say you shouldn’t speak I’ll of the dead… so I won’t.
Wasn’t he behind the daisy ad against Goldwater?
Rot in hell Bill! Why give an RIP to a despicable person.
Great news, made my day.
There is evidence that Bill Moyers, when he worked for LBJ in 1963, argued with the Secret Service that the protective bullet top for the JFK limo had to be removed before the Dallas motorcade.
Only the good die young, 91
People like Moyers, who had a calm, folksy manner and delivery were not any less manipulative, but probably moreso, and more effective.
I don’t want to sound mean, but I thought he was dead already.
I don’t think so.
He was Johnson’s press secretary when the ad ran.
He spent his adult life purveying leftist propaganda.
POS. Good riddance.
Correction the documentary was in 1986.
That's absurd.
Is it “absurd” that Moyers testified under oath that he gave the order to the Secret Service at Love Field to remove the protective plastic bubble from the JFK limousine?
What? You have a link?
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