This photograph, by the way, is from a Fountain of the World brochure published and distributed in the 1950s.
Who was Krishna Venta, the California cult leader who said he was The Christ? Did he really say he came to Earth in a rocket ship? Why, in the 1940s, did this ex-convict wear long hair? Why did his followers wear robes but no shoes? Had he truly been in an insane asylum? Was he, as some allege, a "precursor" to Charles Manson? Why did he & nine others die in 1958 in what proved to be a suicide bombing? These were but a few of my questions when I began my search for Krishna Venta...