Sharva Venta sits outdoors after having survived the bombing of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Sharva Venta sits outdoors after having survived the bombing of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.
Date Created: December 11, 1958
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description: Krishna Venta was killed when two excommunicated group members bombed the house in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley.
Caption: ESCAPED BLAST - Sharva Venta, 11-year-old son of Krishna Venta, was one of 10 boys who miraculously escaped death and injury when dormitory in which they were sleeping was rocked by explosion.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12 cm
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Subjects: Victims of Crimes--California--Ventura County
People
Disaster
Bombings--California.
Family--California, Southern
Cults--California--Ventura County
Children--California--Los Angeles
Location: Ventura County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: b367_114115i
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00140828
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