The Rev. Billy Graham Laid To Rest Friday In Simple Casket
His son, Franklin, said at the Charlotte, N.C. funeral that the man the world saw at stadiums and on television was the same man he knew at home. "There weren't two Billy Grahams," he said.
Some 2,300 guests sat under a symbolic large white canvas tent in Charlotte, N.C., for the Rev. Billy Graham's funeral service on Friday.
The setting evoked the "canvas cathedral" — two circus tents pitched together in Los Angeles in 1949 — to shelter the thousands of people who came to watch Graham preach, . "The Los Angeles Crusade," eight weeks of services, would help raise Graham to national prominence.
