Resurrection In L.A.
S1 : E1
TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Aimee Semple McPherson mixed show business and religion. She became the first populist evangelist to use the media to reach the masses. By 1925, she was filling stadiums with her followers and owned her own radio stations. Sister Aimee was Americas first home-grown media saint before she staged her own death. The nation went into mourning, followers panicked. When she surfaced in Mexico, the faithful were faced with the saint as scam artists. The marriage of media and religion continues to this day as tainted by Tammy Faye Bakker as it was by Aimee Semple Mcpherson.
