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Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple Smythe, and Rheba Crawford celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Roberta Smythe, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rheba Crawford Splivalo celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry. The celebration included a parade that ended at the City Hall steps where McPherson greeted approximately 5000 people and the Mayor. Aimee Semple McPherson was a Los Angeles evangelist in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church and Angelus Temple. Rheba Crawford Splivalo was associate pastor at Angelus Temple. Roberta Semple Smythe was the daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson.
Date:
January 7, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple Smythe, and Rheba Crawford celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry, Los Angeles, 1935

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with her nurse Ella Nordin and her business manager Giles Knight in her attorney's office, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with her former nurse Ella Nordin and her business manager Giles Knight in the office of attorney Arndt. McPherson's former attorney Jacob Moidel had pressed a suit against her accusing her of illegally discharging him, which she contended with accusations that Moidel had attempted to force her to resign from her position at her church. Nordin and Knight were to give testimony about threatening messages received from Moidel.
Date:
[circa October 30, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with her nurse Ella Nordin and her business manager Giles Knight in her attorney's office, Los Angeles, 1937

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conferring with her attorneys over paperwork, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conferring with her attorneys over paperwork. McPherson's former attorney Jacob Moidel had pressed a suit against her accusing her of illegally discharging him, which she contended with accusations that Moidel had attempted to force her to resign from her position at her church.
Date:
[circa October 30, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conferring with her attorneys over paperwork, Los Angeles, 1937

Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple Smythe, and Rheba Crawford celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Roberta Smythe, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rheba Crawford Splivalo celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry. The celebration included a parade that ended at the City Hall steps where McPherson greeted approximately 5000 people and the Mayor. Aimee Semple McPherson was a Los Angeles evangelist in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church and Angelus Temple. Rheba Crawford Splivalo was associate pastor at Angelus Temple. Roberta Semple Smythe was the daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson.
Date:
January 7, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple Smythe, and Rheba Crawford celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry, Los Angeles, 1935

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conferring with her attorneys over paperwork, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conferring with her attorneys over paperwork. McPherson's former attorney Jacob Moidel had pressed a suit against her accusing her of illegally discharging him, which she contended with accusations that Moidel had attempted to force her to resign from her position at her church.
Date:
[circa October 30, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conferring with her attorneys over paperwork, Los Angeles, 1937

Evangelists Aimee Crawford and Rheba Crawford link arms in front of a crowd, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Famed evangelist Aimee McPherson (left) and former head of the State Department of Social Welfare Rheba Crawford (right) link arms in front of a crowd. A train is visible in the background. Crawford had recently given up her post at the State Department to become an associate pastor with McPherson at Angelus Temple.
Date:
[circa June 27, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Evangelists Aimee Crawford and Rheba Crawford link arms in front of a crowd, Los Angeles, 1934

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, photographed at the witness stand.

Description:
Noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church, Aimee Semple McPherson, appears in court. This appearance is possibly related to her testifying in her own defense in a breach of contract suit regarding a film, "Clay in the Potter's Hands", in which she was to appear. The film's producer, J. Roy Stewart, died before the trial was completed, but the suit was found in his favor and McPherson ordered to pay $5900 to assignees of his interest in the contract. The trial took place in January of 1934.
Date:
January, 1934?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, photographed at the witness stand.

Aimee Semple McPherson, photographed at the witness stand.

Description:
Noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church, Aimee Semple McPherson, appears in court. This appearance is possibly related to her testifying in her own defense in a breach of contract suit regarding a film, "Clay in the Potter's Hands", in which she was to appear. The film's producer, J. Roy Stewart, died before the trial was completed, but the suit was found in his favor and McPherson ordered to pay $5900 to assignees of his interest in the contract. The trial took place in January of 1934.
Date:
January, 1934?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Aimee Semple McPherson, photographed at the witness stand.

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, at the witness stand.

Description:
Noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church, Aimee Semple McPherson, appears in court. This appearance is possibly related to her testifying in her own defense in a breach of contract suit regarding a film, "Clay in the Potter's Hands", in which she was to appear. The film's producer, J. Roy Stewart, died before the trial was completed, but the suit was found in his favor and McPherson ordered to pay $5900 to assignees of his interest in the contract. The trial took place in January of 1934.
Date:
January, 1934?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, at the witness stand.

Joseph Scott, Giles Knight, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rolf Kennedy McPherson at a slander trial, Los Angeles, April 1937

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
Joseph Scott, Giles Knight, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rolf Kennedy McPherson at a slander trial, Los Angeles, April 1937

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

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

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

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

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

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