Subject: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 / Names: Kennedy, Minnie, 1871-1947 / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - 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
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A similar photograph is titled, "When Strain Proved too Much for Mother of Evangelist," Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 1926: A1
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A similar photograph is titled, "Panorama of Opposing Forces in Battle Over Angelus Temple Leader," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 1926: A11
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Hand written note, headed "Aimee Semple McPherson / Mrs. Minnie Kennedy.
Date:: [1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to numerous stories reported by the Los Angeles Times on Aimee Semple McPherson's alleged kidnapping in 1926. McPherson, evangelist for the Angelus Temple, disappeared for some time, and when she reappeared, saying she was kidnapped, she and her mother, Mildred Kennedy, were charged with criminal conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The trial of Aimee Semple McPherson's conspiring to commit perjury has begun.
Date:: September 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aimee, Roberta, and Minnie stand together wearing white dresses amongst several other unidentified women wearing similar clothes. Aimee wears a dark cape and holds a book under one arm while her mother holds a bouquet of flowers in her arms.
Date:: May 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lorraine Wiseman, witness in the McPherson kidnapping trial, has her testimony questioned.
Date:: October 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Kharvina Burbeck seated on a wooden chair in front of a door. Kharvina was the secretary to Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, the mother of the founder of the Foursquare Church. Reported, with a different photograph taken on the same day, in "Cash Saves Her When Jail Looms: Woman on Auto Charge Has 'Narrow Squeak' from Hearing Cell Door Creak," Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1927: A8.
Date:: October 21, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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