Big New Orleans Crowd Greets Evangelist Graham

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- In his first public sermon in nine months, evangelist Billy Graham delivered his message of repentance and salvation to an overflow arena crowd in this city slowly recovering from devastation.

The 87-year-old required a walker to get to the podium but was greeted with a standing ovation and screams from the capacity crowd of 16,500 inside New Orleans Arena. Another 1,500 people watched on a large screen on a concourse at the neighboring Superdome -- an evacuation center where flooding and rancid conditions reigned the week after Hurricane Katrina hit Aug. 29.

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Big New Orleans Crowd Greets Evangelist Graham

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