Who Was Sister Aimee? The Incredible Story of L.A.'s Famous Evangelical Priest, a Lost LA feature published by PBS SoCal in 2016, is public media journalism recounting the life of Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. As public broadcast journalism rather than scholarly biography, it is a reasonable, well-produced popular account of McPherson's widely documented public career. A claim needing precise dating, doctrinal detail, or resolution of the contested 1926 disappearance episode is better supported by a dedicated academic biography of McPherson.
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Who Was Sister Aimee? The Incredible Story of L.A.'s Famous Evangelical Priest, a Lost LA feature published by PBS SoCal in 2016, the middle tier reflecting public broadcast journalism rather than scholarly biography, a reasonable, well-produced popular account of Aimee Semple McPherson's widely documented public career. A claim needing precise dating, doctrinal detail, or resolution of the contested 1926 disappearance episode is better supported by a dedicated academic biography of McPherson. NotesA PBS SoCal Lost LA feature on Aimee Semple McPherson; public media journalism, not scholarly biography.
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AuthorPBS SoCal
PublisherPBS SoCal, Lost LA
Publication Year2016
PBS SoCal, Lost LA, 24 June 2016, by Zelda Roland. URLhttps://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/who-was-sister-aimee-the-incredible-story-of-l-a-s-famous-evangelical-priest
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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