Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From the letter"... there's nothing more I could say - except perhaps gain your confidence more than is possible on paper.--Believe me - If I had youre preacher lady I'd collect that $25,000...Kennedy has offered - Poor Mrs. Kennedy- my heart sure bleeds for her..."
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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Description:: At center, an unknown woman in an apron stands and looks to camera. To the left of her, she holds up 2 cloths, the smaller one in front of the larger one. The smaller one is square and white. The larger one appears to be rectangular and is printed.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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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:: Five register pages from the Hotel Clark, 4th and So. Hill Sts., Los Angeles, stamped for May 15, 1926 and May 17, 1926.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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

Description:: A similar photograph is titled, "When Strain Proved too Much for Mother of Evangelist," Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 1926: A1
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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