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. In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. Thought to have drowned, 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. From note: "Light & Darkness...The Radiant Light...Never Bright-No Shade... Light Eternal--The Lamb is the..." Newspaper clipping with a photo of notes scribbled by Aimee Semple McPherson. The newspaper report starts "Scribbling as she read from the well-worn Bible given her by graduates of her first Bible class, Aimee Semple McPherson, noted evangelist, believed victim of the sea, left these notes as a last message to her flock before death claimed her." Text from negative sleeve: Mc Pherson, Aimee Semple Telegrams Notes
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6347 ark:/21198/zz002cwjg8
Language
English
Subject
Evangelists--California--Los Angeles McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 Trials, litigation, etc
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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