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Police and FBI officers search the ruins of Fountain of the World headquarters for bodies and evidence, 1958

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Title: Police and FBI officers search the ruins of Fountain of the World headquarters for bodies and evidence, 1958
Date Created and/or Issued: December 11, 1958
1958-12-11
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: The house in Box Canyon, near Simi Valley and Chatsworth, was destroyed when two excommunicated members bombed and destroyed it, killing 11.
SEARCH FOR VICTIMS - Officers, including FBI agents, search for bodies and clues in wreckage of monastery after a bomb rocked the headquarters of the Fountain of the World religious sect near Chatsworth.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b367_114115g
ark:/21198/zz0014074t
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster
Ruins--California--1950-1960
Police--California--Ventura County
Bombings--California
Government investigators--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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