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Have You Heard the Good News: Aimee Semple McPherson

Ridiculous Crime

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The Story of the Kidnapping

Amy and her mom were charged with three counts of criminal conspiracy to commit acts injurious to public morals. Wiseman and Kenneth, they're also charged. The trial was scheduled for early 1927. Kai's asked the court to disness all the charges against everyone on January 10th, 1927. Amy left LA for her US quote unquote vindication tour. She appeared in newsreels with Mary Pickford, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Her efforts to integrate worship ramped up through the gears. In 1943 she publicly converted the black former heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson,. And that was a huge deal.

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