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Title: Family of cult leader Krishna Venta
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
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Lael Venta, 8, Mother Ruth Venta, and Sharva Venta, 11. Sons, who survived bombing which killed their father, cult leader, Krishna Venta, greet their mother as she arrives at Los Angeles International Airport. Krishna Venta founded the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi Valley, California in the late 1940s. Photo dated: Friday Dec. 12, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073508
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11762.
CARL0000076474
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27628
Subject: Venta, Ruth,--Mother
Venta, Lael
Venta, Sharva
WKFL Fountain of the World Cult (Simi Valley, Calif.)
Los Angeles International Airport
Suicide bombings--California--Los Angeles
Airports--California--Los Angeles
Cults--California--Los Angeles
Chatsworth (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Venta, Krishna

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