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Woman involved in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping trial, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Related to the articles, "LINK TRUNK TO FIND IN CARMEL: Crochet on Towel and Wash Rag Held Identical Officers Tracing Gowns as McPherson Clews More Strands of Red Hair Found in Ornaments," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1926: A1, and, "LIST GIVEN OF TRUNK'S CONTENTS Keyes Checks Garments in Container Thought to Belong to Ormiston," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1926: A2
Date:
[1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Woman involved in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping trial, Los Angeles, 1926

Transcript of an interview between Asa Keyes and Lorraine Wiseman, page 2, 1926

Description:
Some text from the letter: "Mrs. Wiseman further stated that she could and would bring three witnesses to prove that she was the person in the cottage. Mr. Keyes asked who they were, and she stated that she would bring them. Upon Mr. Keyes' later repeated inquiry as to who the witnesses were, Mrs. Wiseman informed him that one was her son in university, one was a dentist and another was the man who drove her to and fro."
Date:
August 21, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Transcript of an interview between Asa Keyes and Lorraine Wiseman, page 2, 1926

Throng of spectators stand on the beach from which Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
A crowd stands along the shore at Venice Beach the day after Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from the same beach. The crowd stands across the mid-ground at right and center; most face towards the left. Most spectators also wear jackets at the beach. Venice's shoreline stretches back at left. Buildings rise behind the throng of people in the distance at right. On one of the buildings it reads, "HOTEL CADILLAC." In the far distance at left, Lick Pier stretches into the water.
Date:
[May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Throng of spectators stand on the beach from which Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, Los Angeles, 1926

Parasol and pendant necklace recovered from a trunk of evidence allegedly belonging to Kenneth G. Ormiston, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
A parasol and pendant necklace, found in a trunk allegedly belonging to Kenneth G. Ormiston during proceedings against Aimee Semple McPherson and others, are viewed close-up. At center, the parasol stands upright on the seat of a chair. Behind it, a large, furled piece of paper rests between the parasol and the back of the chair as a makeshift backdrop. To the right of the parasol, a large pendant necklace hangs down against the backdrop.
Date:
[circa November, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Parasol and pendant necklace recovered from a trunk of evidence allegedly belonging to Kenneth G. Ormiston, Los Angeles, 1926

Page of a letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Page of a letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Minnie Kennedy (left) and Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Related to numerous stories reported by the Los Angeles Times on Aimee Semple McPherson's alleged kidnapping in 1926. McPherson, evangelist for the Angelus Temple, disappeared for some time, and when she reappeared, saying she was kidnapped, she and her mother, Mildred Kennedy, were charged with criminal conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Minnie Kennedy (left) and Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Louise Winters, Blanche Rice, Rev. D. V. Alderman at the grand jury investigation into the Aimee Semple McPherson case, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Three persons participating in the grand jury investigation into the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, L to R: Louise Winters, a friend of Aimee Semple McPherson; Blanche O. Rice, captain of the women orderlies and mail clerk at the Angelus Temple; Reverend D. V. Alderman, a minister of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Date:
1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Louise Winters, Blanche Rice, Rev. D. V. Alderman at the grand jury investigation into the Aimee Semple McPherson case, Los Angeles, 1926

Large crowd gathers on Venice Beach during a search for the missing Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Large crowd gathers on Venice Beach during a search for the missing Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Kharvina Burbeck, secretary to Minnie Kennedy, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Kharvina Burbeck seated on a wooden chair in front of a door. Kharvina was the secretary to Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, the mother of the founder of the Foursquare Church. Reported, with a different photograph taken on the same day, in "Cash Saves Her When Jail Looms: Woman on Auto Charge Has 'Narrow Squeak' from Hearing Cell Door Creak," Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1927: A8.
Date:
October 21, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Kharvina Burbeck, secretary to Minnie Kennedy, Los Angeles, 1927

John W. Wilson, manager of the Andrews Hotel, questioned during the McPherson trial, Los Angeles, 1926

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
John W. Wilson, manager of the Andrews Hotel, questioned during the McPherson trial, Los Angeles, 1926

Hand-drawn diagram of Aimee Semple McPherson's escape route in the Sonoran Desert, circa 1926

Description:
Photograph of a hand-drawn diagram that depicts Aimee Semple McPherson's account of her escape from her kidnappers in Sonora, Mexico. A dotted line, representing the U.S./Mexico border, extends across the upper third of the image. Below, the Sonoran town of Agua Prieta and its surroundings are depicted. Above the dotted line, Douglas, Arizona is represented. Notations and scale markers are also included in the diagram. A compass rose sits in the upper right corner. Signatures of witnesses Jackson Bergh and Mayor (of Agua Prieta) Ernesto Boubion are in the lower left corner.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Hand-drawn diagram of Aimee Semple McPherson's escape route in the Sonoran Desert, circa 1926

Forrest Murray questions Alonzo B. Murchison during Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping case, Los Angeles, circa 1926

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
Forrest Murray questions Alonzo B. Murchison during Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping case, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Evelyn Wallace, related to the McPherson trial, Los Angeles, 1926

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
Evelyn Wallace, related to the McPherson trial, Los Angeles, 1926

Daniel Beecher, chief trial deputy, and Reverend John Goben review documents, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:
Reverend John Goben and Aimee Semple McPherson had a legal conflict over the financial affairs of the Angelus Temple church that went to a grand jury. Reported in "M'PHERSON QUIZ ADVANCED: Prosecutor Admits Probability of Finance Row Being Referred to Grand Jury," Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1929:A8.
Date:
October 21, 1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Daniel Beecher, chief trial deputy, and Reverend John Goben review documents, Los Angeles, 1929

Crowd gathering on the beach from which Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
A crowd gathers on the sand at Venice Beach the day after Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from the same beach. The crowd stands across the mid-ground, and most face towards the left. All wear jackets at the beach. A woman in the foreground at right sits on the beach next to a pile of sand. At left, a man in a suit walks towards camera. Behind and to the right of him, a few kids play in the sand. Buildings rise behind the throng of people in the distance at center. On one of the buildings it reads, "HOTEL CADILLAC."
Date:
[May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crowd gathering on the beach from which Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, Los Angeles, 1926

Copy of affidavits from Lorraine Wiseman and Miss "X", 1926

Description:
Photocopy of the affidavits of Lorraine Wiseman and Miss "X" in regards to Kenneth G. Ormiston's stay in Carmel in the latter part of May, 1926 and in concurrence with Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping/disappearance. Both affidavits were sworn to the Notary Public in and for the county of Monterey on August 15, 1926.
Date:
[circa August 15, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Copy of affidavits from Lorraine Wiseman and Miss "X", 1926

Congregation members who split from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:
A group of men, women, and children stand, sit, or kneel in a darkened church. Two factions of the Angelus Temple defected from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple in 1925. These groups were located in Burbank and in Santa Ana. Their respective dissent was reported on in "Leave Mother Church: Burbank Congregation Severs Ties with Angelus Temple," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 1925: 10 and "Prayer Downs Church Parley: Four Square Love Feast Proves Unfruitful, Discussion of Lawsuit is Hindered by Praise, Santa Ana Dissenters Give Version of Trouble," Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 1925: 12.
Date:
[between September-October 1925]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Congregation members who split from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 1925

Beachside cottage where Aimee Semple McPherson stayed while recuperating, Malibu, 1930

Description:
Viewed from a slightly elevated perspective, a beach house sits in the near distance at center and faces towards camera. Between the camera and house, a road stretches along the bottom edge. The beach house appears to be of a split-level design. A car is parked in front of the left third of the dwelling. A brick chimney rises against the facade of the central third of the house; it is flanked by 4, narrow and tiered windows. An addition stands along the right third of the structure. Some of the beach is visible behind and to the sides of the cabin. The Pacific Ocean stretches across the background.
Date:
[circa August, 1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Beachside cottage where Aimee Semple McPherson stayed while recuperating, Malibu, 1930

Beach house where Aimee Semple McPherson stayed while recuperating, Malibu, 1930

Description:
A similar photograph of the same cottage appears with the articles, "MOTHER DENIES BLINDNESS OF 'SISTER' M'PHERSON: Broken-Nosed Parent Requests Her Daughter to Appear at Temple; Facial Liftings in Spotlight," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1930: A1, and "'MA' KENNEDY TELLS OF BLOW: Nose Broken by Daughter in Fight, Says Mother History of Angelus Temple Conflict Exposed Row Over Woman Declared to Have Been Climax," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1930: A1
Date:
[circa August, 1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Beach house where Aimee Semple McPherson stayed while recuperating, Malibu, 1930

Beach cottage where Aimee Semple McPherson stayed while recuperating, Malibu, 1930

Description:
A very similar photograph of the same cottage appears with the articles, "MOTHER DENIES BLINDNESS OF 'SISTER' M'PHERSON: Broken-Nosed Parent Requests Her Daughter to Appear at Temple; Facial Liftings in Spotlight," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1930: A1, and "'MA' KENNEDY TELLS OF BLOW: Nose Broken by Daughter in Fight, Says Mother History of Angelus Temple Conflict Exposed Row Over Woman Declared to Have Been Climax," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1930: A1
Date:
[circa August, 1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Beach cottage where Aimee Semple McPherson stayed while recuperating, Malibu, 1930

Back of a telegram related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Back of a telegram related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926