US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Lorraine Wiseman, witness in the McPherson kidnapping trial, has her testimony questioned. Minnie sits beside her daughter Aimee, who smiles into the camera while writing on a small notepad in her lap. Other men and women can be seen sitting or standing in the courtroom behind them. Photograph appears with the article, "Coaching Charge Hurled By M'Pherson Defense," Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct 1926: A1. Handwritten on negative: #2 Aimee & Mel Text from newspaper caption: Listening to Accusations of "Hoax Woman" Above - A close-up of Mrs. McPherson in the courtroom, apparently not bowed down with grief despite the charges of evidence "framing" hurled at her from the witness stand by Mrs. Seilaff. Below - A character study on the defense side of the table during Mrs. Seilaff's testimony. Left to right-Attorney Roland Rich Woolley, Attorney W. I. Gilbert, Attorney Leonard Hammer (just behind Gilbert.) Mrs. McPherson and Mrs. Kennedy with their ever-present notebooks.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6294 ark:/21198/zz002cwgnw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Mothers--California--Los Angeles Evangelists--California--Los Angeles Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 Kennedy, Minnie, 1871-1947
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