The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has not collaborated with nor does it endorse the movie, Billy: The Early Years.

A response from Franklin Graham

The content lacks my father’s greatest passion: to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world and point men, women, and children to His saving power.

While the movie covers many aspects of my father’s early years, it depicts events that never happened or are greatly embellished.

My father’s life has been documented in many ways and I have always appreciated those who painstakingly sought to tell his story accurately.

Franklin Graham
President
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

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Graham movie catches flak from Franklin
Son isn’t encouraging or discouraging people from seeing ‘Early Years’ – he just wants it clear some of it is fiction, and not backed by the organization.

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7 Foot 12-Year-Old

Ellensburg, Wash., is home to a truly unique young man: 12-year-old Brenden Adams, who is more than seven feet tall and, incredibly, still growing.

He towers over his classmates and even his teacher, Gretchen Holmstrom, who jokingly quipped, “I’m 5’9,” so I never look up to sixth graders — until this year…never say never!”

And though friends say Brenden is just a regular kid, he’s obviously not like anybody else. He has to duck through most doorways and sit sideways at his school desk because his knees don’t fit under it.

In his mom’s sport utility vehicle, he has to fold down the second row of seats, sit in the third row and stretch his legs out over the middle row in order to sit comfortably. His shoe size? 18 and still growing.

Brenden is one-of-a-kind, and it’s not just his height. Everything about him is different. His mom, Debbie Ezell, said he requires a team of doctors and multiple medical visits simply to stay on top of his ever-changing and expanding frame. He has enormous joints, fatty tumors, even extra teeth, 12 of which were recently removed.

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Obama, McCain to Pull Attack Ads on Sept. 11th Anniversary

ABC News’ Jennifer Parker reports: A 9/11 victims’ advocacy group is urging 2008 presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to observe a “campaign moratorium” on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

MyGoodDeed.org, a nonprofit group trying to establish Sept. 11 as a national day of voluntary service, wrote to both campaigns Tuesday asking them to halt partisan campaign activities, including negative ads.

The Obama campaign told ABCNews.com they will not be running any negative ads attacking McCain on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign said they will pull all of their campaign ads altogether.

“We won’t be running ads on 9/11,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told ABCNews.com. “It’s a day for remembrance and unity, not political campaigning.”

Both candidates have been invited to speak at Service Nation Summit in New York on Sept. 11, where political and business leaders will meet to discuss how to boost volunteerism in the US.

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