Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson during a trial in which she testified against her daughter Roberta, who had taken a $150,000 slander action against Willedd Andrews. Standing is attorney Joe Fainer, counsel for Roberta.
Date:: [April 15, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson sits at a desk reading a book. McPherson was a noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: Thousands of people came to bid Aimee Semple McPherson farewell before the pastor's three month trip abroad, where she will visit the Holy Land.
Date:: January 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: 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:: The State brought out asserted evidence that Mrs. Wiseman, a key witness in the McPherson case, worked up the Miss X hoax with Aimee Semple McPherson and her mother Minnie Kennedy.
Date:: October 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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
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