Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. 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. Text from negative sleeve: Wallace, Evelyn. McPherson case.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4443 ark:/21198/zz002cq7k7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials--California--Los Angeles McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 Wallace, Evelyn
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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