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Cult victim Delight Jewett in the office of U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer, Los Angeles, 1937

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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Delight JewettAccess to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.Text from original nitrate sleeve: Jewett, Delight; Jewett, Norman; Palmer, Fleet -- US Atty.Delight Jewett in U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer's office. The seventeen-year-old Delight Jewett, a follower of cult leader Father Divine, was to be a witness in the case against fellow Divine follower John Wuest Hunt, who had molested Jewett under the pretense of immaculate conception.
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Jewett, Delight, -- 1920 (subject)University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
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Keywords

  1. Abused Children
  2. California
  3. Los Angeles
  4. People
  5. Religion

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