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Title
Ernest A. Renkert, witness in the Aimee Semple McPherson investigation, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued
September 1926
1926-09
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related article "Identifies Evangelist as Companion of Ormiston: Delivery Man Declares She Was at Secluded Bungalow in Carmel; fingerprints Form Clews." Los Angeles Times, 27 Jul. 1926: 1. In this article the Renkert's last name is misspelled as Reinert.
Ernest A. Renkert was a delivery driver who testified that he had seen Aimee Semple at a seaside cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea, contradicting Semple's story that she had been kidnapped and taken to Mexico.
Text from negative sleeve: Reukert [sic], Ernest A. McPherson, Case.
Text from newspaper caption: Ernest A. Renkert. Carmel coal man [photo standalone page "Interest Runs High as Aimee Semple McPherson Goes Into Court." Los Angeles Times, 28 Sept. 1926:A12].
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11327
ark:/21198/zz002h9bq1
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Renkert, Ernest, A., 1885-1949
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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