From August 15 through September 8, 1963, the LA community and beyond came to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to listen to the religious teachings of Reverend Billy Graham. Nearly a million people (927,000) came to the Coliseum during these several weeks. On the final day of the crusades, 134,254 people filled the seats of the Coliseum and an additional 20,000 were estimated to have listened on loudspeakers in Exposition Park.
Billy Graham was one of the most influential Christian leaders, who became internationally recognized in the late 1940s. Reverend Graham hosted crusades across 185 countries over 58 years and his lifetime audience, including radio and broadcast, topped two billion.