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Title: Police investigate ruins of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 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 sect's main building in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was bombed, by two former members.
BLAST SITE - Officers probe the shattered main building after a death-dealing explosion rocked religious colony in Ventura County. Blast also set fire to adjoining dormitory for boys.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b367_114115m
ark:/21198/zz001409dx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster
Police--California--Ventura County
Bombings--California
Cults--California--Ventura County
Ruins--California--1950-1960
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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