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 Jewett, Access 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.