Subject: Evangelists--California--Los Angeles / Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Language: English - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From the note: "Mrs. Minnie Kennedy or Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson--IMPORTANT"
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of telegram received from Mrs. E. Drame? [illegible] for "fifty dollars to be paid to John Anderson at Continental Hotel San Francisco..."
Date:: September 1, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From the letter: "My Dear Katherine Joe Harry & Dad, May god bless you all I got your letter and was so blue... I love you all & trying to make some money. I will send you soon as quick as I can..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lorraine r. Wiseman was a witness that provided false testimony in the kidnapping case of Aimee McPherson.
Date:: August 30, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Some text from first telegram: "Am calling your house by phone at nine-thirty..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. Thought to have drowned, she emerged in Mexico, claiming to have been kidnapped. A grand jury investigation indicated that she had actually been staying with a former employee, Kenneth Ormiston. The case against McPherson was finally dismissed.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson was under investigation for faking her own kidnapping.
Date:: June 18, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to article, "New Storm Hits Temple: Suits Filed Against Mrs. McPherson in Realty Promotion and Reprisal Actions Promised," Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 1928: A1.
Date:: August 31, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From the letter"... there's nothing more I could say - except perhaps gain your confidence more than is possible on paper.--Believe me - If I had youre preacher lady I'd collect that $25,000...Kennedy has offered - Poor Mrs. Kennedy- my heart sure bleeds for her..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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