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Title: WKFL Fountain of the World Cult women
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
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Description: Bishop Nekona (left front), Elesha (right front), and two others. Bishop Nekona, who heard an argument before the blast, was one of the few to survive a suicide bombing. She was asleep in the main bombed building of the cult headquarters in Chatsworth, California. Cult leader, Krishna Venta died in the suicide bombing. The bombing was instigated by two disgruntled former followers and took place on December 10, 1958.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073504
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11762.
CARL0000076471
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27626
Subject: Nekona,--Bishop
WKFL Fountain of the World Cult (Simi Valley, Calif.)
Suicide bombings--California--Los Angeles
Cults--California--Los Angeles
Chatsworth (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Venta, Krishna

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