Children who survived the bombing of the headquarters of the Fountain of the World sect pose with an adult member in the ruins of the building. C. 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Children who survived the bombing of the headquarters of the Fountain of the World sect pose with an adult member in the ruins of the building. C. 1958.
Date Created: December 12, 1958
Date: 1958-12-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description: Image that accompanies caption in print is 114115t-4.
The building, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was bomber by two former sect members.
Caption: MEMORY FADING - Children of sect play happily only short distance from ruins of bombed Fountain of the World monastery. Lael Venta, 11, son of the sect's slain leader, looks through hole at the right.

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: Youth
Disaster
Bombings--California.
Cults--California--Ventura County
Ruins--California--1950-1960
Children--California--Los Angeles

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115t-3
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00140c58
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