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. Aimee Semple McPherson was under investigation for faking her own kidnapping. Letter form Kenneth Ormiston under his cover name of George McIntire talking about why he has to leave the Carmel property. Ormiston was suspected of taking a romantic getaway with Aimee Semple McPherson who was under suspicion of denying it and faking her own kidnapping. The letterhead is from New York but it remains clear if he was ever at the hotel. From the letter: "Gentlemen:- I regret that we were obliged to leave for the east so early on receipt of the news concerning illness of my wife's mother, without having seen you or Mr. Benedict to explain the circumstances.--The Condition of Mrs. McIntire's mother is such that it will be impossible for us to return this summer..." Handwritten on negative sleeve: McPherson, A.S., telegrams, notes
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6372 ark:/21198/zz002cwkbp
Language
English
Subject
Evangelists--California--Los Angeles Ormiston, Kenneth G., 1896-1937 McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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