Subject: Evangelists--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Roberta Semple, daughter of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, and attorney Jacob Moidel walk along a commercial street.
Date:: April 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lorraine Wiseman was a key witness in the alleged kidnapping case of Aimee McPherson.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Aimee wears a long white dress with a black cape and rests one hand on her chest. David wears a dark suit and looks off into the distance
Date:: [between 1931-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From the note: "San Francisco, May 18th, Temple Angelus, Los Angeles--We have with us your beloved Aimee McPherson and will free her on payment of 500,000.00 in currency to be paid, at once in this manner. She has injured us and must pay in money or blood,--Select your man and have him take a seat in the Palace Hotel Lobby..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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Description:: Adobe hut in the Sonora desert. In 1926 the Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Ocean Park Beach. A search ensued. When she finally re-appeared in Arizona, weeks later, she claimed that she had been abducted and taken to a a hut in Mexico, from which she eventually escaped.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From invoice: "Total paid to F. F. Mason $50.00 on lot 6 Blk. 22 Tahoe Cedars Tract..."
Date:: April 30, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Aimee McPherson was widely known for being an alleged kidnapping victim in 1926.
Date:: September 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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