CELEBRITY VIDEO The Rev Jerry Falwell has died at Liberty University
Evangelist Jerry Falwell died Tuesday after he was found unresponsive in his office an official at Liberty University.
Falwell 73 was rushed to a Lynchburg Virginia hospital where he was given CPR.
Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979 and is a nationally known voice for conservative Christian views. Watch Jerry Falwells rise to fame
In 1956 the 22-year-old minister started Thomas Road Baptist Church with just 35 members according to his Web site. The church now has more than 24 000 members.
Shortly after starting the Lynchburg church Falwell began broadcasting the Old Time Gospel Hour radio and television ministries.
He founded Liberty University in 1971.
Falwell has found himself at the center of several controversies such as the one sparked by his comments two days after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in which he seemed to blame abortionists gays lesbians the ACLU and People for American Way for causing the attacks saying they helped this happen.