Mother Ruth, widow of Krishna Venta, reunites with two of her daughters at Los Angeles International Airport, 1958.

Title: Mother Ruth, widow of Krishna Venta, reunites with two of her daughters at Los Angeles International Airport, 1958.
Date Created: December 12, 1958
Date: 1958-12-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Mother Ruth came from Alaska on the occasion of the bombing of Fountain of the World headquarters in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, where her husband, Krishna Venta, and others were killed.
Caption: Daily Mirror caption: WIDOW OF SLAIN LEADER OF RELIGIOUS CULT ARRIVES FROM ALASKA - Mother Ruth is greeted at airport by two of her daughters, Lael, 8, and Sharva, 11.
LA Times caption: VENTA'S WIDOW ARRIVES - Mother Ruth, widow of Cult Leader Krishna Venta, is greeted by two of her daughters, Lael, 8, and Sharva, 11, as she arrives at Los Angeles International Airport from group's colony in Alaska.

Genre: news photographs
Names: Los Angeles International Airport
Location: Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 33.9434916
Latitude: -118.4089705
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Disaster
Family--California, Southern
Bombings--California.
Cults--California--Ventura County
Mothers and daughters
Airports--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115r
ARK: ark:/21198/zz001409vn
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