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Krishna Venta (left) and Brother Paul of Fountain of the World Sect give aid in carrying one of the plane crash victims to ambulance, 1949

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Title: Krishna Venta (left) and Brother Paul of Fountain of the World Sect give aid in carrying one of the plane crash victims to ambulance, 1949
Date Created and/or Issued: July 13, 1949
1949-07-13
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 plane, a Standard Airlines C-46, crashed in the Santa Susana Mountains near Chatsworth and Simi Valley.
‘SAMARITANS’ – Krishna Venta, left, self-styled “Christ” who maintains a monastery in a stone house near crash scene, and Brother Paul, one of his disciples, give aid in carrying one of the victims to ambulance. They also helped search for dead.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b70_58744f
ark:/21198/zz00152s7d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles County
Disaster
Cults--California--Ventura County
People
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Pencovic, Francis H
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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