EVANGELIST ORAL ROBERTS DEAD AT AGE 91

Oral Roberts

Famed television evangelist Oral Roberts is dead at age 91. The preacher fell the other day at his California home and was hospitalized in Newport Beach for the injuries. Roberts founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963 and served as its President until 1993. "Oral Roberts was the greatest man of God I've ever known," said his son, Richard Roberts, according to Tulsa TV station KTUL. "A modern-day apostle of the healing ministry, an author, educator, evangelist, prophet, and innovator, he was the only man of his generation to build a worldwide ministry, an accredited university, and a medical school."The cause was complications of pneumonia, said Melany Ethridge, a spokeswoman for Mr. Roberts.