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Description:: (left to right) Attorney Joseph Scott, Angelus Temple business manager Giles Knight, Angelus Temple founder and pastor Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rolf Kennedy McPherson, son of Aimee. All are at a trial in which Aimee's daughter Roberta Semple has brought a $150,000 slander suit against Willedd Andrews, attorney for Aimmee McPherson and Angelus Temple. Miss Semple claims that Andrews had made untrue statements about her, including that Semple and her husband Jacob Moidel (former Temple attorney) had kidnapped Aimee and forced her to sign several documents. Joseph Scott acted as attorney for Andrews while Rolf and Aimee McPherson stood as witnesses. Roberta Semple was ultimately offered $2000 in damages. This trial was the latest in a series of tumultuous family relations which began with Aimee's decision to retain Giles Knight as business manager against Roberta's wishes
Date:: between April 12 and April 23, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Another photograph of Roberta Semple and Rolf McPherson taken on the same occasion appears with the headline, "Evangelist's Son, in Los Angeles, Believes His Mother is Dead," 3 June 1926: A12.
Date:: June 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in: "Great Crowds Greet Aimee at First Sunday Services Since Return," Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1926: 2.
Date:: [June 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Minnie Kennedy (middle) with her grandshildren Roberta Semple and Rolf McPherson. They stand in front of the entrance to a building, each holding luggage and wearing formal attire. The photograph was taken at the time that Kennedy's daughter, and the children's mother, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, disappeared from Ocean Park Beach. Possibly related to the article, "HAPPINESS TAKEN CALMLY: Mother Kennedy Curbs Over Enthusiasm Pending Sight of Mrs. McPherson at Douglas," Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1926: 1.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Roberta and Rolf stand on either side of an unsmiling Ms. Schaffer.
Date:: June 2, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Minnie leans down from the train to kiss an unidentified well-wisher seeing the family off on their journey.
Date:: June 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: After spending six months practicing missionary work in Europe, Africa, the Orient, the Philippines, Greece, India, and other places, Aimee has returned to Los Angeles.
Date:: June 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph of Rolf McPherson in the same attire is appears in the photo spread titled, "Evangelist's Son, in Los Angeles, Believes His Mother is Dead," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jun. 1926: A12
Date:: [circa June, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another photograph of Roberta Semple and Rolf McPherson taken on the same occasion appears with the headline, "Evangelist's Son, in Los Angeles, Believes His Mother is Dead," 3 June 1926: A12.
Date:: June 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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