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Description:: Copy of a clipping with a photo of Aimee Semple MCPherson seated at a radio microphone with technician Kenneth Ormiston behind her.
Date:: [1920-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Madge Morris sitting down with legs crossed and smiling. Possibly the sister of Bernice Morris, who was the secretary of attorney R.A. McKinley who defended Aimee Semple McPherson in her alleged kidnapping case.
Date:: [between 1920-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is similar to images appearing with the articles, "DETECTIVES INQUIRE INTO EVANGELIST'S DROWNING: Burns Operatives Enter Case While Searchers Vainly Seek Body of Aimee Semple McPherson," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 1, and “FAITHFUL CLING TO WANING HOPE: Men and Women Followers of Mrs. McPherson Grouped on Sands at Venice Pray That Leader Will Return to Them,” Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2
Date:: [circa May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Bernice Morris sits smiling holding Madge's hand with Madge sitting on the arm of her chair. They both are wearing hats.
Date:: [between 1920-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Howe, Frank B., 1897-1963
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: 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
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: At center, an unknown woman in an apron stands and looks to camera. To the left of her, she holds up 2 cloths, the smaller one in front of the larger one. The smaller one is square and white. The larger one appears to be rectangular and is printed.
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

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