Hal Lindsey, a former New Orleans tugboat captain who embraced end-of-days Christian prophecies and helped sharpen evangelical focus on the Middle East with a book that predicted apocalyptic warfare ...

In the 1970s, a preacher named Hal Lindsey became famous for predicting the end of the world. He wrote a best-selling book about it titled "The Late Great Planet Earth." Hal Lindsey died November 25 ...