Fountain of the World leader's surviving son stands in the ruins of the sect's headquarters with another child. A. 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Fountain of the World leader's surviving son stands in the ruins of the sect's headquarters with another child. A. 1958.
Date Created: December 12, 1958
Date: 1958-12-12
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 destroyed in a bombing that killed Lael Venta's father, Krishna Venta, along with many others.
Caption: BLAST SITE - Buddy Consol, 10, standing beside Krishna Venta's son, Lael, points to wreckage of dormitory where both were asleep when explosion came.

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: Youth
Disaster
Family--California, Southern
Bombings--California.
Cults--California--Ventura County
Ruins--California--1950-1960

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115q-1
ARK: ark:/21198/zz001409qk
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