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Fountain of the World leader's surviving son stands in the ruins of the sect's headquarters with another child. A. 1958

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Title: Fountain of the World leader's surviving son stands in the ruins of the sect's headquarters with another child. A. 1958
Date Created and/or Issued: December 12, 1958
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) 825-2995
Description: The building in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was destroyed in a bombing that killed Lael Venta's father, Krishna Venta, along with many others.
BLAST SITE - Buddy Consol, 10, standing beside Krishna Venta's son, Lael, points to wreckage of dormitory where both were asleep when explosion came.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b367_114115q-1
ark:/21198/zz001409qk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Youth
Ruins--California--1950-1960
Bombings--California
Disaster
Cults--California--Ventura County
Family--California, Southern
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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