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Cult victim Delight Jewett with her father Norman Jewett and U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer, Los Angeles, 1937

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Title: Cult victim Delight Jewett with her father Norman Jewett and U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa April 19, 1937]
1937-04-19
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Delight Jewett, her father Norman Jewett, and U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer. The seventeen-year-old Delight Jewett, a follower of cult leader Father Divine, was to be a witness in the case against fellow Divine follower John Wuest Hunt, who had molested Jewett under the pretense of immaculate conception. From left to right, Delight Jewett, Fleet Palmer, and Norman Jewett.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Jewett, Delight; Jewett, Norman; Palmer, Fleet -- US Atty.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Delight Jewett, Norman Jewett
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00288mqj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Government
Crime
Abused children--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Jewett, Delight, 1920
Palmer, William Fleet, 1862-1942
Jewett, Norman
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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