Subject: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 / Language: English / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. 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:: Some text from the letter: "Mrs. Wiseman further stated that she could and would bring three witnesses to prove that she was the person in the cottage. Mr. Keyes asked who they were, and she stated that she would bring them. Upon Mr. Keyes' later repeated inquiry as to who the witnesses were, Mrs. Wiseman informed him that one was her son in university, one was a dentist and another was the man who drove her to and fro."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Ormiston was the man that was suspected of having a romantic getaway with Aimee McPherson during her alleged kidnapping.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lorraine Wiseman was a key witness in the alleged kidnapping case of Aimee McPherson.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Hotel register page from Hotel Andrews in San Luis Obispo, dated May 29th 1936.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From the note: "San Francisco, May 18th, Temple Angelus, Los Angeles--We have with us your beloved Aimee McPherson and will free her on payment of 500,000.00 in currency to be paid, at once in this manner. She has injured us and must pay in money or blood,--Select your man and have him take a seat in the Palace Hotel Lobby..."
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. 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:: Related to the article, "KEEP UP M'PHERSON QUIZ, GRAND JURY TELLS KEYES: Continued Secret Inquiry Ordered; District Attorney in Session With Lawyers of Pastor," Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1926: A6
Date:: [circa August 3, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to the article, "KEEP UP M'PHERSON QUIZ, GRAND JURY TELLS KEYES: Continued Secret Inquiry Ordered; District Attorney in Session With Lawyers of Pastor," Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1926: A6
Date:: [circa August 3, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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