Resource Type: still image / Names: Ormiston, Kenneth G., 1896-1937 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: Kenneth G. Ormiston, former engineer at the Christian radio station KFSG, possibly in a courtroom. Ormiston is wearing a hat, glasses, and a coat. This photograph was possibly taken when Ormiston when Ormiston was accused of conspiracy to obstruct and pervert justice in relation to the Aimee Semple McPherson case or when Ormiston testified at the impeachment investigation of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carlos S. Hardy.
Date:: [1927-1929?]
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:: 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
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Description:: Ormiston was the man that was suspected of having a romantic getaway with Aimee McPherson during her alleged kidnapping. In this document, he alleges that it was a different woman he refers to as "Miss X".
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Handwritten draft 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.
Date:: [circa August 15, 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:: Kenneth Ormiston, engineer at the Christian radio station KFSG. The station was owned by the Foursquare Church. It was suspected that when Aimee Semple McPherson, pastor of the church, disappeared in 1926, she had run off with Ormiston. She claimed to have been kidnapped and held in Mexico.
Date:: [1920-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Ormiston was the man that was suspected of having a romantic getaway with Aimee McPherson during her alleged kidnapping.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: This photograph is very similar to another one that appears with the article, "Evangelist's Kidnaping Case History Replete with Sensations: CITY SHOCKED BY "DROWNING" Veil of Mystery Shrouded Disappearance Mexico Reappearance Set World Agog Court," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 1927: A2.
Date:: January 10, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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