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February 6, 1952 L. Ron Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard presents a speech "Dianetics: The Modern Miracle". Event, L. Ron Hubbard
October 24, 1951 J. Edgar Hoover, FBI, day; A citizen writes to J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI concerning a hunchback who stays in his room and writes all day; the material seems likely to be related to "the underworld." The connection to Scientology isn't evident, but it was released pursuant to a Freedom of Information request relating to Scientology. Event
June 12, 1951 Sara Hubbard, Ron, her, reputation In return for custody of her daughter Sara Hubbard allows Ron to divorce her, anattempt by him to save what was left of his reputation. Event
June 1, 1951 Hubbard Hubbard writes "Science of Survival" and introduces the tone scale. [June 1951; exact date unknown] Event
February 25, 1951 L. Ron Hubbard, Yuma airport. A, newsman's mill. Hubbard, doing, back. At, Polly, support. Dianetics, NJ, creditors L. Ron Hubbard forces his wife to accompany him the Yuma airport. A juicy farce ensues that will later provide grist for many a newsman's mill. Hubbard gets his wife to sign a paper absolving him of any wrong doing, she in turn expects to get the baby back. At this time his first wife Polly initiates legal proceeding against him to collect owed child support. The Dianetics foundation of NJ is besieged by creditors. Event, L. Ron Hubbard
February 25, 1951 LRH, Sara. According, suit LRH kidnaps his estranged wife Sara. According to her divorce suit, "Hubbard, Dessler and defendant Richard B. De Mille, having [hidden their daughter Alexis], feloniously dragged plaintiff out of her bed attired only in her night gown, it then being 1:00 o'clock A.M., of the morning of the 24th day of February, 1951, and by the use of threats, strangulation, torture, and false promises to return her child to her, carried and kidnapped plaintiff to Yuma, Arizona." According to an LA newspaper, she had asked a private detective and Miles Hollister, a former Dianetics executive, to stay in the neighborhood. When LRH's car drives off, along with a second car, Hollister and the detective follow. They lose the Hubbards, but trace the other car to Frank Dessler, a Dianetics official who accompanied LRH the previous day when he placed Ron and Sara's infant daughter, Alexis, at a nurses registry agency. LRH and Sara end up in Yuma, Arizona. Later in the day, after Sara's disappearance has been reported to police, Sara speaks to the police by telephone from Yuma, telling them she left LA of her own accord, but complaining that LRH won't tell her where their daughter is. [Editor: Sounds coercived to me.] At some point in Feb. 1951, LRH gives Dessler a written document indemnifying him of any wrongdoing, since Dessler was concerned about being charged with kidnapping. Event
February 24, 1951 L. Ron Hubbard, 9-month-old daughter, Alexis, crib, Frank Dessler (a Dianetics official), Alexis, Westwood Nurses Registry Agenc L. Ron Hubbard kidnaps his 9-month-old daughter, Alexis, from her crib. He and Frank Dessler (a Dianetics official) leave Alexis at the Westwood Nurses Registry Agency, paying for a week's care in advance. The owner of the agency reports the matter to the police when Hubbard and Dessler around his suspicions by identifying themselves to him only as "Mr. Olson" and "Mr. Rank." (Actually, LRH identifies himself as "James Olson" - Superman's sidekick? - and signs a false statement under that name, saying his wife was seriously ill.) At some point in Feb. 1951, LRH gives Dessler a written document indemnifying him of any wrongdoing, since Dessler was concerned about being charged with kidnapping. The LA Examiner (newspaper) reports the story a little differently, saying that Sara left Alexis at the Dianetics Foundation in LA, then decided to spend the night in LRH's apartment after finding it unoccupied. She asks a private detective and Miles Hollister, a former Dianetics executive, to stay in the neighborhood. (According to her divorce suit, she had been kidnapped as well and was with LRH at the time the story was printed.) Event, L. Ron Hubbard
February 23, 1951 Sara Hubbard, Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, L. Ron Hubbard, schizophrenia. LRH Sara Hubbard informs the national executive officer of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation that competent medical advisors recommended that L. Ron Hubbard be committed to a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of paranoid schizophrenia. The executive officer immediately reported this to LRH. Event, L. Ron Hubbard, psychiatry
November 3, 1950 Art Ceppos, Hermitage House, Dianetics foundation. Hubbard, FBI, communist Art Ceppos, president of Hermitage House quits the Dianetics foundation. Hubbard reports him to the FBI as a communist. Event
August 10, 1950 Introducing Dianetics - Shrine Auditorium Before a large crowd at the Shrine Auditorium Hubbard gives a lecture entitled "Introducing Dianetics" and shows off the world's first "Clear." The event proves to be a humiliating fiasco as Sonya Bianca can perform none of the wonders that a clear is supposed to possess. She is unable to remember basic physics formulas (she was a physics student) or even name the color of Hubbard's tie when his back is turned. Event