Officers believed Mr Rodney, Wesley Lovell and Frank Graham had machine guns and were on their way to commit a drugs-related armed robbery, the inquiry heard.

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Much later the Graham family remembered that another preacher had prayed that out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up somebody to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, and that is exactly what Billy Frank Graham has been doing for the past 63 years.

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He would call media executives Kay Graham, Frank Stanton, Robert Kintner, and the heads of every network.

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Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith, who was Graham's coach at Miami, said that aside from his size, there were two tells that Graham could be good at football: He led Miami in charges drawn, which showed he had foot speed, and also in blocks, which showed he could jump.

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In theory, things should have worked out better, as he had a clan of fellow Scots, George Graham, Bob Wilson and Frank McLintock, for company.

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