Mugshot of Ralph Muller and portrait of Peter Kamenoff, the two men suspected of bombing the Fountain of the World headquarters. B. 1958.

Item Overview
- Title
- Mugshot of Ralph Muller and portrait of Peter Kamenoff, the two men suspected of bombing the Fountain of the World headquarters. B. 1958.
- Date Created
- December 12, 1958
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- The bombing of the building, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, killed the group's leader, Krishna Venta, and nine other followers, including children. Kamenoff and Muller were former members of the sect and also killed in the blast.
- Caption
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RIVAL LEADER - Ralph Muller (Jeroham) tried to form his own group.
OUSTED - Peter Kamenoff (Elzibah) was banned from colony by leader.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12 cm
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Subjects
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Crime
Cults--California--Ventura County
Bombings--California.
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
People - Location
- Ventura County (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- b367_114115u-2
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00140c9b
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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) 825-2986
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .