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America's greatest televangelist Billy Graham buried in a simple Sh20,000 coffin

Trump at Graham's funeral [Photo: Courtesy]

Billy Graham, America’s greatest televangelist, was buried in a simple wooden casket made by prison inmates in Louisiana worth a paltry Sh20, 262.

According to his son Franklin Graham, the casket was “handmade by a convicted murderer named “Grasshopper” at Angola Prison in Louisiana.”

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