Word: ormiston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Kenneth G. Ormiston, 41, Los Angeles radio operator who figured in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's notorious 1926 "kidnapping"; after an appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...
Radio's Ormiston...
Referring to Kenneth G. Ormiston your writer says: "Ormiston has never reappeared in California." This is not true. Ormiston returned to California soon after the various investigations of Aimee's absence. He became technical editor of a weekly radio magazine called Radio Doings. He is still technical editor of this same magazine, which was recently much enlarged and improved...
Your writer also says: ". . . she (Aimee) was identified as the woman seen at Carmel during the interim with Kenneth G. Ormiston...
...There were numerous rumors, testimonies, statements and allegations, but there was no identification. Ormiston admitted being at Carmel at the time with a lady friend (not Aimee, he says), but declined to reveal the lady's name...