Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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.
Date:: October 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On May 18, 1926, Christian evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, California after going for a swim. She reappeared in Mexico five weeks later, stating she had escaped from kidnappers holding her for ransom there. Her disappearance, reappearance and subsequent court inquiries regarding the allegation that the kidnapping story was a hoax carried out to conceal a tryst with a lover precipitated a media frenzy that changed the course of McPherson's career.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: 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
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Description:: At left, attorney Forrest Murray stands beside the witness box during the kidnapping case of Aimee Semple McPherson. He stands facing slightly right and holds up the dress worn by McPherson when found in the desert. To the right of him, Alonzo B. Murchison, a native of Douglas, Arizona, sits on the witness stand.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A smiling Aimee sits at a table writing on a piece of paper, her hat sitting on the table beside her. Attorneys and other people can be seen in the background.
Date:: October 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Asa Keyes (standing) and Forrest Murray (right), district attorneys, in court during the inquiry into the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson. S. S. Hahn, who sued McPherson for slander for his client Virla Kimball, is seated just to the left of Keyes.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related article "Identifies Evangelist as Companion of Ormiston: Delivery Man Declares She Was at Secluded Bungalow in Carmel; fingerprints Form Clews." Los Angeles Times, 27 Jul. 1926: 1. In this article the Renkert's last name is misspelled as Reinert.
Date:: September 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "WITNESS SAYS HE SAW M'PHERSON KIDNAPING: Corroborative Story Related After Evangelist Undergoes Severe Grilling Before Grand Jury," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jul. 1926: 1
Date:: [circa July 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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