Genre: correspondence / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 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. 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:: 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:: From the postcard: Mr. Geroge McIntire, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City... NOT AT HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA [stamped:]
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: George E. McIntyre was the name Kenneth Ormiston used while staying in a cottage with a mysterious woman who many believed to be Aimee Semple McPherson during her alleged kidnapping.
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:: Photograph of letter where Aimee McPherson talks about how much she enjoyed the Foursquare Gospel Lighthouse at Tahoe Cedars.
Date:: August 25, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Some text from the letterhead: "Ralph H. Cameron, Arizone Securities & Investment Co. (Incorporated)--Subdividers and Home Makers, Farm Lands, City Property Loans..."
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The letter is dated Aug. 14. Judge Hardy tells Mr. McKinley that he is leaving for a vacation in Canada and advised Mr. McKinley about how to reach him.
Date:: August 14, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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