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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:: 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:: See also Item Arks 21198/zz002j7r73 and Ark 21198/zz002j7r94 for the other letters imaged in the same photo spread.
Date:: [circa April 25, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photocopy of a letter sent from Oscar S. Stauffer, Chairman, The Landon-For-President Committee to Mr. W. Bancroft Mellor, dated March 28, 1936. The letter states that Governor Alf M. Landon will not participate in any primaries.
Date:: [circa April 25, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A copy of this letter appears with the article, “Gov. Landon Not a Candidate in the California Republican Presidential Primary: GOVERNOR'S OWN LETTER EXPOSES HEARST TRICK Documented Record of Kansan's Repeated Refusals to Enter Contest in This State,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 1936: 10
Date:: [circa April 25, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From the envelope: "Capt. Herman Cline, Chief of Detectives, Los Angeles, California--Pls Forward..."
Date:: [circa 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:: Letter to Marty's sister. Marty Rosen was a shooting victim supposedly shot by a gangster. First few lines: "business again, I have a man with plenty of money and I think he's interested in putting me into business again with plenty of financial-backing, it may take a little time, but if I don't prosper shortly, you can expect me back in the city in the very near future..."
Date:: October 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to the article, "PRIDHAM GIVEN DEATH THREAT: Suspect Jailed by Police Extortion..." Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1926: A1.
Date:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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