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

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Delight Jewett and U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer in his 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.Text from original nitrate sleeve: Jewett, Delight; Jewett, Norman; Palmer, Fleet -- US Atty.Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Delight Jewett and Fleet PalmerAccess to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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Jewett, Delight, -- 1920 (subject)University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections (repository)Palmer, William Fleet, -- 1862-1942 (subject)
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Keywords

  1. Abused Children
  2. California
  3. Lawyers
  4. Legal
  5. Los Angeles
  6. People
  7. Religion

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