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Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson descends the steps of a United Airlines airplane.
Date:: Juny 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of letter where Aimee McPherson talks about how much she enjoyed the Foursquare Gospel Lighthouse at Tahoe Cedars.
Date:: August 25, 1927
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:: Some text from the page: "Mrs. Wiseman and myself called at the office of the District Attorney, Asa Keyes, at about ten minutes after ten on the morning of August 21."
Date:: August 21, 1926
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:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Dr. Lewis is a man with white hair, round black glasses and a three-piece suit with a pocket watch tucked into his vest.
Date:: December 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Roberta Semple, standing before the door of a Greyhound bus, waves to those seeing her off. Two women, one with a guitar and another with a ukulele, stand beside her.
Date:: July 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lorraine Wiseman, witness in the McPherson kidnapping trial, has her testimony questioned.
Date:: October 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Text from note: Please quite directly, B.M.--"These are the pictures of the shacks given by Mrs. McPherson and Mrs. Kennedy, from which assortment the said said kidnappers were to designate one in which Mrs. McPherson was last held.-- Last Friday Mother Kennedy asked me to return these pictures to her."--Bernice Morris
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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