Minnie Kennedy (left) and Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

Minnie Kennedy (left) and Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Date Created

[circa 1926]

Date

1926

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Aimee Semple McPherson was an evangelist with the Angelus Temple. In 1926 she disappeared and was allegedly kidnapped; however upon her return, she was charged, along with her mother, Mildred Kennedy, with conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice.
Minnie Kennedy (left) and her daughter, Aimee Semple McPherson, seated behind a table in a courtroom. Both women wear hats and fur trimmed satin jackets. Aimee McPherson holds a notepad in her left hand and a pencil in her right hand.
Related to numerous stories of the trial of Aimee Semple McPherson that the Los Angeles Times reported on in 1926.

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: Mc Pherson, Aimee Semple X 3

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Kennedy, Minnie, 1871-1947
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Trials (Conspiracy)--California--Los Angeles
Evangelists--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles