Police investigate ruins of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Police investigate ruins of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.
Date Created: December 11, 1958
Date: 1958-12-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description: The sect's main building in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was bombed, by two former members.
Caption: 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.

Physical Description

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

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Ventura County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Disaster
Police--California--Ventura County
Bombings--California.
Cults--California--Ventura County
Ruins--California--1950-1960

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115m
ARK: ark:/21198/zz001409dx
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