Evangelist Billy Graham's Crusade for Christ

This plaque commemorates the 1963 Crusade for Christ with a total attendance of 920,927 highlighted by the concluding session on Sunday, September 8th. Citizens from every walk of life occupied every seat and spilled onto the playing field grass to establish a record turnstile attendance for a single event in the Coliseum of 134,254. An additional 20,000 people were estimated to have listened on loudspeakers in Exposition Park.

“My sermons are simple, but so was Christ.”
-Rev. Billy Graham

Photographed by Craig Baker, HMDB.org