Survivor of Fountain of the World headquarters bombing Jesse Vezina sleeps with her cat in front of the fireplace, 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Survivor of Fountain of the World headquarters bombing Jesse Vezina sleeps with her cat in front of the fireplace, 1958.
Date Created: December 11, 1958
Date: 1958-12-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description: The building, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was bombed and destroyed by two excommunicated followers of the cult.
Caption: ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES - Jesse Vezina, 9, one of the children who escaped unhurt from bombing of the Fountain of the World sanctuary near Chatsworth, lies asleep before the fireplace with her cat Jacob.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12 cm
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Ventura County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Disaster
Bombings--California.
Cults--California--Ventura County
Cats
Children--California--Los Angeles

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115f
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00140739
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