Lane Adams |
Associate evangelist with a special ministry to entertainers; helped to start the New York Christian Arts Fellowship |
Tom Allan |
Minister who spoke at workshops on evangelism for ministers, also spoke at auxiliary meetings |
Jesse Bader |
Chairman, Visitation Evangelism committee |
Donald G. Barnhouse Jr. |
Editor of the nightly edition of the Crusade News |
Cliff Barrows |
Music director, master of ceremonies at crusade services, key leader within the BGEA |
Ethel Barrett |
Spoke at some auxiliary meetings |
Jerry Beavan |
Executive secretary to Billy Graham evangelistic team, editor of the Crusade News until Donald Barnhouse took over. Was crusade director for the first months of 1956 and continued to be actively involved as a press liaison, planner, organizer and troubleshooter |
Clayton Bell |
Seminary student who assisted in the department of ministerial relations and spoke at auxiliary meetings |
Joseph Blinco |
Associate evangelist, also usually spoke to the inquirers in the counseling room after each service |
John S. Bonnell |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Bill Brown |
Head of the film department, which arranged for the loan of BGEA films to area churches before the beginning of the crusade; assistant director of prayer program |
Howard Butt |
Lay evangelist who spoke at auxiliary meetings |
Ruth Campbell |
Director of office services |
Patricia Campion |
Navigator staff person helping with counseling and follow-up |
Michael Cassidy |
Worked as a volunteer with the inquirers after the crusade service |
George Champion |
Director of Evangelism for the Protestant Council of the City of New York, chairman of the Crusade Committee, member of executive committee of crusade |
Edwin F. Chinlund |
Treasurer of executive committee of crusade |
Lyman Coleman |
Assisted with counseling and follow-up |
David Cowie |
Minister who spoke at workshops on evangelism for ministers |
Mel Dibble |
Host of the Impact nightly television program about the crusade on at 11:30 pm on WPIX, Channel 11; also spoke at auxiliary meetings |
Fred Dienert |
Director of advertising |
Cleveland E. Dodge |
Vice-chairman of the crusade committee, Member of executive committee of crusade |
Ralph C. Drisko |
Member of executive committee of crusade, member of the committee for visitation evangelism |
Phillips P. Elliott |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Gordon K. Evans |
Chairman, men’s division of prayer program |
Robert Ferm |
Reseach assistant for Graham, after the crusade did a study of the follow-up system |
Myrtle Flood |
Navigator staff person who assisted with counseling and follow-up |
Leighton Ford |
Associate evangelist, director of ministerial relations |
Richard L. Francis |
Member of the executive committee |
Frank Gaebelein |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Floyd E. George |
General prayer chairman |
Armin Gesswein |
Assisted with the organization of world wide prayer groups for crusade, also spoke at some auxiliary meetings |
Billy Graham |
Evangelist |
Laverne Gustafson |
Graham’s secretary |
Abdul Akbar Haqq |
Associate evangelist |
Martha Haymaker |
Appointment secretary for speakers; chairman of the hospitality committee |
W. G. Haymaker |
Director of prayer program, very involved in early planning of campaign |
Richard A. Hildebrand |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Jerome Hines |
Chairman of the music committee |
Frederick G. Hubach |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Roger Hull |
Chairman of the executive committee of crusade |
Howard E. Isham |
Chairman of the finance committee, member of executive committee of crusade |
John G. Jetty |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Howard Jones |
Associate evangelist, handled arrangements for the Harlem rally |
J. Turner Jones |
Vice-Chairman of finance committee |
Orin G. Judd |
Legal counsel |
Lindsey F. Kimball |
Co-chairman of the finance committee, member of executive committee of crusade |
C. Lloyd Lee |
Member of the executive committee |
Paul Little |
College and University Committee, also spoke at some auxiliary meetings |
Betty Lowry |
Director of Public Relations |
Paul Maddox |
Administrative assistant to Graham |
H. H. McConnell |
Associate director of the Evangelism department of the National Council of Churches, executive director of the visitation evangelism committee |
Paul Mickelson |
Organist |
Ralph Mitchell |
Bible teacher and counselor, spoke at some auxiliary meetings |
James Moore |
Personal assistant to Graham |
Robert B. Munger |
Led workshops in evangelism for ministers |
Alexander C. Nagle |
Vice-chairman of finance committee |
Stephen Olford |
Minister who spoke at auxiliary meetings |
Erling C. Olsen |
Secretary of executive committee of crusade |
Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale |
Co-chairman of the women’s division of prayer program |
Daniel Piatt |
Associate director of counseling and follow-up |
Louis W. Pitt |
Chairman of the counseling and follow-up committee, member of executive committee of crusade |
Daniel M. Potter |
Executive director of the Protestant Council of the City of new York, member of the executive committee of crusade |
Paul Rees |
Minister who spoke at some auxiliary meetings, led the daily Morning Bible Hour |
Charlie Riggs |
Administrative director of the crusade from the summer of 1956 on, with a special involvement in counseling and follow-up after Lorne Sanny left |
Donald Riley |
Volunteer professional photograph who shot some of the photos of the crusade
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Robert C. Root |
Developed the chart for handling all counseling and follow-up requests |
Don Rosenberger |
Taught counselor classes |
Lorne Sanny |
Director of counseling training and follow-up, until he had to take up the presidency of the Navigators following the death of Dawson Troutman in the summer of 1956; continued to teach counseling classes before the crusade |
George Beverly Shea |
Soloist |
Samuel Shoemaker |
Minister who spoke at some auxiliary meetings |
Tedd Smith |
Pianist |
Walter M. Smyth |
In charge of delegations and reservations - responsible for handling group church and organizational delegations from the New York City area and out-of-town |
John R. W. Stott |
Minister who spoke at workshops on evangelism for ministers |
Gardner C. Taylor |
Member of executive committee of crusade |
Lila Trotman |
Counselor, also spoke at some auxiliary meetings |
Charles H. Tuttle |
Member of executive committee of crusade, legal counsel for the crusade |
Ethel Waters |
Soloist |
Pat Wiedenmann |
Secretary to Leighton Ford |
Grady Wilson |
Associate evangelist |
T.W. Wilson |
Assistant to Graham, also worked with NYC minsters |
John S. Wimbish |
Member of executive committee of crusade |