Bakker's son, Jay, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign to the parole board on his father's behalf, urging leniency.

Some scientists, such as paleontologist David B. Norman, took issue with the scientific theories portrayed in the novel, fearing that the public would accept them as fact, while Discovery Channel host Jay Ingram defended Bakker's creative decisions in an editorial.

" Jay Ingram, from the Discovery Channel, published a rebuttal, saying, " The most important point is that Bakker's portrayal of the dinosaurs in Raptor Red is vivid — vivid in a way few museum displays or factual accounts can be.

Teaming with their former youth pastors Paul and Jan Crouch, the Bakkers created the " Praise the Lord " show for the Crouches ' and Bakker's new Trinity Broadcasting Network in California.

Later that summer, as donations sharply declined in the wake of Bakker's resignation and the end of the Bakkers ' popular PTL Club TV show, Falwell raised $ 20 million to help keep the Heritage USA Theme Park solvent, including a well-publicized waterslide plunge there.

In the Bakkers ' fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakker's defense saying that Falwell had sent Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, California, to make an offer to " keep quiet.

In the Bakkers ' fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakker's defense, saying that Jerry Falwell had attempted to take over PTL and its associated cable television network by dispatching Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, California, to make an offer to " keep quiet ".

Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.

Bakker's audiobook royalties — at least $ 34, 000 by November 1995 — were donated to the Tate Museum in Casper, Wyoming, where he was curator.

It also led Paul to include segnosaurs within paleontologist Robert T. Bakker's Phytodinosauria in 1986, a superorder which was to include ornithischians, prosauropods, and sauropods, typified by their " blunt, spoon-crowned teeth suitable for cropping plants.

Bakker's utterly foreign world, Eärwa, is as complex as that of Tolkien, to whom he is, arguably, a worthier successor than such established names as David Eddings and Stephen Donaldson .”

Raptor Red features many of Bakker's theories regarding dinosaurs ' social habits, intelligence, and the world in which they lived.

According to the prosecution at Bakker's later fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships had been sold, but only one 500-room hotel was ever completed.

Soon after Bakker's federal indictment and public condemnation over his sexual affair, attendance dropped at Heritage.

Michael Taylor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the National Museums of Scotland, panned the book, saying that " Raptor Red is an accurate portrayal only within the context of uncertainties over the reconstruction of fossil animals as living forms ... Bakker's postscript never really admits these uncertainties.

In recent years, MUI relocated Laura Ashley's United States corporate headquarters to a building at the former Heritage USA site that once served as Jim Bakker's PTL ministry headquarters.

The first restoration of a feathered dinosaur was Sarah Landry's depiction of a feathered " Syntarsus " ( now renamed Megapnosaurus or considered a synonym of Coelophysis ), in Robert T. Bakker's 1975 publication Dinosaur Renaissance.

Hahn first came to public attention following Bakker's announcement on March 19, 1987 that he was stepping down as head of PTL and Heritage USA, pending the imminent disclosure of the sexual encounter.

The corporate offices of Laura Ashley are located in the former PTL World Outreach Center, the pyramid-shaped building which formerly housed Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker's offices as well as those of the leaders of PTL.

In 1990, Cerullo purchased, from the United States Federal Bankruptcy Court in Columbia, South Carolina, the assets of Jim Bakker's bankrupt ministry, PTL.

In January 2008, Bakker's ministry moved into a new television studio near Branson, in Blue Eye, Missouri The studio is housed in a development that resembles Bakker's former location, Heritage USA.

It was also the original home of Jim Bakker's television ministry after he broke off from Pat Robertson and CBN.

In February 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, but voided Bakker's 45-year sentence, as well as the $ 500, 000 fine, and ordered that a new sentencing hearing be held.

On November 16, 1992, a sentence reduction hearing was held and Bakker's sentence was reduced to eight years.

On July 23, 1996, a North Carolina jury threw out a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 160, 000 onetime supporters who contributed as much as $ 7, 000 each to Bakker's coffers in the 1980s.

Several of Seton's works are written from the perspective of a predator and were an influence upon Robert T. Bakker's Raptor Red.

* Chorae, instruments which repudiate sorcery in R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse series

Revelations of the payoff invited scrutiny of Bakker's finances, prompting him to be charged with fraud.

The 165, 000 people who gave $ 1, 000 to Jim Bakker's planned Heritage USA hotel tower in return for promised four-day vacation stays received $ 6. 54 each.

Starting in 1987, however, Jim Bakker's legal and personal troubles made headlines, and in September 1989 Hurricane Hugo caused severe damage to many of the buildings.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Some observers speculate that Alan Jay Lerner's pride was so badly bruised by Muselli's much-publicized rejection of him ( due to his drug addiction and neglect of their son ) that in revenge he portrayed her as a gold-digging spendthrift.

His son, Jay, who is now a minister at Revolution Church in New York City, wrote of the PTL years in his book, Son of a Preacher Man: " The world at large has focused on my parents ' preaching of prosperity, but ...

Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish parents Ruth Minnie ( née Simon ), a nurse and health care administrator, and Alexander B. Greenspan, an accounting manager.

* September 12 – Jay McGraw, American author, son of TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw

The buildings on this historic site, including the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House built by Jay's eldest son, are being restored for educational programs in American History, Architecture and Environmental Stewardship.

Spielberg selected island natives Christopher Rebello as Chief Brody's oldest son, Michael Brody ; Jay Mello as the younger son, Sean Brody ; and Lee Fierro as Mrs. Kintner.

Married to Morton Phillips, the couple have two children, a son, Edward Jay Phillips, and a daughter, Jeanne Phillips.

Georgian Court University in Lakewood is a private Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy college, which opened in 1908 on the former winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

When the officers later have the trio cornered inside a diner and threaten to open fire, Jay and Silent Bob dress the orangutan as a child and walk out, claiming that they want to get their " son " out of the danger zone.

His son, Jay Perry Richardson, was born two months later in April 1959.

Smothers was born at the Fort Jay army post hospital on Governors Island in New York City, the son of Ruth ( née Remick ), a homemaker ; and Major Thomas B. Smothers, an army officer.

In 1883 the son of an Irish immigrant, Patrick Jay Hurley, grew up struggling as a miner in the nearby town of Lehigh, Ok. Hurley befriended an Indian boy who later became principal chief of the Choctaws and was allowed to use the family library for his studies.

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

* Jay Randolph: sportscaster, son of senator Jennings Randolf

She is married to talk show host Maury Povich and they have one adopted son, Matthew Jay Povich.

Together, they have one son whom they adopted on June 20, 1995, Matthew Jay Povich.

Hormel joined the World War I effort, George's son Jay C. went into military service and by the end of the war, exports accounted for 33 % of the company's yearly volume.

* In an episode of Gargoyles called " Grief ", the Emir of Egypt summoned Anubis ( Tony Jay ) to resurrect his dead son.

D. Barney & Co. Cooke's son and Barney's brother-in-law, Jay Cooke, Jr., joined the new firm as a minority partner.

In a 1998 movie Playing by Heart, Ellen Burstyn is reciting it to her son dying of AIDS, played by Jay Mohr.