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Title: Mother Ruth and Priest Samuel
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Mother Ruth Venta and Priest Samuel Clausen arrive at Los Angeles International Airport on December 11, 1958. Mother Ruth was the widow of cult leader, Krishna Venta who founded the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi Valley, California in the late 1940s and had been killed in a suicide bombing the day before this photo was taken. Photo dated: Friday Dec. 12, 1958.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073506
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11762.
CARL0000076473
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27627
Subject: Clausen, Samuel
Venta, Ruth,--Mother
WKFL Fountain of the World Cult (Simi Valley, Calif.)
Los Angeles International Airport
Western Airlines
Airports--California--Los Angeles
Suicide bombings--California--Los Angeles
Cults--California--Los Angeles
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Venta, Krishna

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