Lorraine Wiseman at the McPherson trial, Los Angeles, 1926

Description: The State brought out asserted evidence that Mrs. Wiseman, a key witness in the McPherson case, worked up the Miss X hoax with Aimee Semple McPherson and her mother Minnie Kennedy.
Lorraine sits on the witness stand looking off to her right. There are several other men in the courtroom with her, their faces and or bodies blurred from overexposure. The judge's face is also blurred; the American flag is positioned behind him.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Plot Charge Hurled in Court by Mrs. Wiseman," Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct 1926: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: MCPHERSON, AIMEE SEMPLE PRELIMINARY HEARING
Handwritten on negative: #7

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Wiseman, Lorraine, b. 1889 or 90
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6302
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwgx1
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