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anti-psychiatry • church of scientology flag service organization (csfso) • citizens commission on human rights (cchr) • death • denise miscavige gentile (formerly covington, licciardi) • extortion • gerald "jerry" gentile • jett travolta • john travolta • kelly preston • kennan g. "ken" dandar • kyle thomas brennan • lawsuit • lisa mcpherson • mental illness • michael "mike" ossi • michael mcdermott • narconon (aka scientology drug rehab) • obie wilchcombe • pleasant bridgewater • psychiatry: an industry of death • suicide • tarino lightbourne • thomas brennan • tommy davis
Reference materials L. Ron Hubbard's death
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Jun 22, 2009
Lisa McPherson case: events leading to the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
LISA MCPHERSON TIMELINE: This is part of a St. Petersburg Times special report on Scientology. For the full report, see tampabay.com/scientology. 1994: Lisa McPherson, a longtime Scientologist, moves from Dallas to Clearwater with her employer, AMC Publishing. The company is operated and staffed mostly by Scientologists who want to be close to the church's spiritual headquarters. September 1995: In a ceremony at the Fort Harrison Hotel, Lisa McPherson is publicly declared "clear," a state in which a Scientologist is said ...
Jun 22, 2009
Scientology (Part 2 of 3): Death in slow motion — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: Lisa McPherson case: events leading to the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin, Joe Childs
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The night after Lisa McPherson died, the leader of the Church of Scientology sent word for one of his top lieutenants to wait by a pay phone at the Holiday Inn Surfside on Clearwater Beach. When Marty Rathbun answered the ringing phone in the lobby, David Miscavige let him have it: Why aren’t you all over this mess? The police are poking around. Do something. "Yes sir," Rathbun said. McPherson, a 36-year-old parishioner in apparent good health, had spent 17 days ...
Jun 21, 2009
Scientology (Chapter 1 of 3): The Truth Rundown — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: A letter from David Miscavige, David Miscavige bio, and bios of Scientology officials who defected
Type: Press
Author(s): Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Part ONE of THREE The leader of the Church of Scientology strode into the room with a boom box and an announcement: Time for a game of musical chairs. David Miscavige had kept more than 30 members of his church's executive staff cooped up for weeks in a small office building outside Los Angeles, not letting them leave except to grab a shower. They slept on the floor, their food carted in. Their assignment was to develop strategic plans for the ...
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Jun 17, 2009
Millionaire’s death at 41 — Macclesfield Express (UK)
Type: Press
Source: Macclesfield Express (UK)
A MILLIONAIRE businessman who helped fund a controversial church has died suddenly aged 41. Piers Springthorpe, of Leek Road, Gawsworth, lost his battle for life after a 25-day fight at Wythenshawe Hospital. The businessman was a member of the Church of Scientology, whose members include Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Mr Springthorpe, who lived in a Macclesfield mansion with wife and fellow believer Yvonne, was a key member of the Manchester branch and was one of the major contributors ...
Jun 10, 2009
World exclusive bombshell: John Travolta police report — National Enquirer
Type: Press
Source: National Enquirer
ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: John reveals son's tragic final moments in an official police statement. The ENQUIRER has obtained John Travolta's statement to police, which reveals for the first time, in his own words, how he bravely battled to save his dying 16-year-old son, Jett. The document is a dramatic never-before-seen minute-by-minute account of the crisis, in which the star appears to have done everything he could to bring his son back to life. In the three-page document signed by Travolta, the ...
Jun 6, 2009
Scientologist and Nancy Cartwright ex, Steve Brackett jumps to his death — Cover up and conspiracy to follow — Glosslip
Jun 4, 2009
Rank and file Scientologists cover up suicide to protect church image
Type: Blog
Author(s): Dan Bluemel
On May 29th, Scientologist Stephen Brackett, 54, committed suicide by jumping off the Highway 1 Bixby Bridge on the Big Sur Coast of California at around 5:30 a.m. [1] He left behind a son and daughter. According to The Monterey County Herald, “there were no indications of foul play, and friends and relatives of Brackett said he was despondent because of financial troubles with his business.” I had worked for Brackett for two years starting in 2000. He was a Scientology ...
May 29, 2009
Los Angeles man dies after fall from bridge — The Monterey County Herald
More: montereyherald.com
Type: Press
Source: The Monterey County Herald
The body of a Los Angeles man, who apparently leaped to his death from the Highway 1 Bixby Bridge on the Big Sur Coast, was discovered Thursday. A hiker found Stephen Brackett, 54, about 5:30a.m., said Dan Robison, a detective with the Monterey County Sheriff's Coroner division. Brackett, who was supposed to be visiting friends, disappeared Sunday. Robison said Brackett died from injuries suffered after the nearly 200-foot fall from the bridge. There are no indications of foul play, and friends ...
May 28, 2009
L. Ron Hubbard's last refuge — New Times SLO (San Luis Obispo, California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Colin Rigley
Source: New Times SLO (San Luis Obispo, California)
In Santa Barbara’s Church of Scientology, as in each such outpost worldwide, an innocuous office sits equipped but vacant. This office is located beyond shelves of shrink-wrapped books, beyond training rooms, the “comm” rooms, and a room occupied by enigmatic bowls of stones and other obscure objects. The office, with white walls and plush blue-and-gray carpeting, waits, should he somehow return, for the man once known as L. Ron Hubbard. His full name was Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. His followers—in keeping with ...
May 21, 2009
Kirstie Alley and Scientology vs the MOTHERS Act — Daily Kos
Type: Blog
Author(s): Barbara Graham
Source: Daily Kos
The MOTHERS Act is under attack by Scientology and its front group, 'Citizens Commission on Human Rights.' Kirstie Alley, the star of Fat Actress, Cheers, and Jenny Craig commercials, is using Twitter to spread lies about this bill, which has the potential to help thousands of new mothers understand and deal with Post Partum Depression. I just got back from San Francisco Monday. I went up to join in a protest of the Scientology rally against the American Psychiatric Association convention ...
Apr 29, 2009
Shrinks vilified an ConU / Exhibit "despicable," says psych student — The Suburban (Montreal)
More: transcript
Type: Press
Author(s): Dan Delmar
Source: The Suburban (Montreal)
A display on the mezzanine of one of Concordia University’s downtown buildings turned heads last week for proclaiming that the profession of psychiatry is an “industry of death.” Students who walked into the Library building on de Maisonneuve Blvd. two weeks ago were faced with a large exhibit, decorated to resemble a filthy asylum, with various displays on the historical evils of psychiatry and the quackery practiced by its disciples. What is not immediately apparent is that the display was organized ...
Apr 27, 2009
Anonymous plans counter-protest of Scientology's protest of psychiatry convention in San Francisco — SF Weekly
Type: Blog
Author(s): Lauren Smiley
Source: SF Weekly
It looks like the Church of Scientology will be out in force to protest the upcoming American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco next month. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Scientology's anti-psychiatry activist arm, will apparently be setting up their "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" exhibit next to the Moscone Center for the duration of the convention. How do we know? The flier above was discovered by Anonymous, the masked shock troops who sprang from the Internet over a ...
Apr 23, 2009
Dødsfallet [Norwegian] [Translation: "Death"] — Dagbladet (Norway)
Apr 23, 2009
Obituary or Memoriam // Michael J. MacDonald — Denver Post
Type: Press
Source: Denver Post
DONALD, MICHAEL J. Michael Joseph Macdonald, of Englewood, passed on from this life on April 21, 2009. Mike dedicated his life to helping others as a Minister and Executive of the Church of Scientology of Colorado. He was born on June 29, 1953 in Saint Louis, Missouri to Alexander Joseph Macdonald and Susanne Elizabeth Macdonald. He attended Saint Louis Priory School before heading out to Colorado to attend college and play in a rock and roll band. Mike became a Scientologist ...
Apr 23, 2009
Scientology on display — Montreal Mirror
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Jones
Source: Montreal Mirror
What do declining educational standards, Nazism, the Columbine shootings, 9/11 and the death of Kurt Cobain have in common? If you passed through the hall of Concordia’s McConnell library building last week, you might think they’re all caused by the pernicious influence of psychiatry. Organized by the innocuous-sounding Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), “Psychology: Industry of Death” is a travelling exhibit that spent four days in the open hall of the university library, arousing curiosity, controversy and at least one ...
Apr 9, 2009
Seizure killed Travolta's son — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Zosia Bielski
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Intense scrutiny has focused on John Travolta's family after the death of the actor's chronically ill 16-year-old son Jett, who died at the family's vacation home at a Grand Bahama resort on Friday. Yesterday, an undertaker said the death certificate concluded that the cause of death was a seizure, and that the teen's body showed no sign of head trauma despite earlier police reports that he hit his head on a bathtub. Mr. Travolta, 54, and wife Kelly Preston, 46, were ...
Mar 11, 2009
Prominent East Grinstead figure mourned — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Prominent East Grinstead figure mourned Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 13:00 A WELL-known East Grinstead businessman and supporter of the local arts scene has died. David Bernard Gaiman passed away after he suffered a heart attack on Saturday. He was best known as the owner of G&G, the vitamin and health food producing company, which he started with his wife, Sheila, in a room of their house in 1965. As the business grew it moved first to larger premises in Railway Approach ...
Feb 21, 2009
Lawyer again takes on Church of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mike Brassfield
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Taking on the Church of Scientology in court is like picking a fight with the Russian army. When attacked, the church defends itself aggressively, wearing down opponents with a barrage of litigation while peering into their personal lives. Ken Dandar knows this better than anyone. In the 7-year-long Lisa McPherson case, the Tampa lawyer and the church waged one of the most grueling, fiercely contested legal battles in Tampa Bay history. The wrongful death lawsuit became intensely acrimonious, with ...
Feb 18, 2009
Police report found no Scientology role in suicide — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jonathan Abel
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Police investigated the role Scientology played in the suicide of a troubled young man two years ago, but did not conclude church members forced him off his antidepressant medication or contributed to his death. Last week, the mother of Kyle Brennan filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Scientology's Clearwater-based Flag Service Organization and three Scientologists, claiming they took away Brennan's medication. The suit names the boy's father, Thomas Brennan, as a defendant; along with Denise Gentile, who is the ...
Feb 17, 2009
Mom sues Church of Scientology in son's death — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jonathan Abel
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — A mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, its Flag Service Organization and three parishioners, claiming they brought about her son's death by denying him access to his antidepression medication. Among the three parishioners named as defendants: Denise Gentile, the twin sister of the church's current worldwide leader, David Miscavige, as well as her husband, Gerald Gentile. The lawsuit stems from the death of Kyle T. Brennan, 20, who shot himself in the head ...
Feb 17, 2009
Mother sues Scientologists over son's 2007 death — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Elaine Silvestrini
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
TAMPA - A mother is blaming Scientologists for her disabled son's death, which police ruled a suicide. Victoria L. Britton has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Scientologists, including her son's father, of taking his antidepressant prescription from him and giving him access to a loaded gun. A police investigation, however, concluded that Kyle Brennan, exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, willingly stopped taking medication before he visited his father and that there was "no evidence they were purposely kept from" him. Brennan, 20, ...
Feb 16, 2009
Wrongful death suit filed against Scientology by the Estate of Kyle Brennan — realitybasedcommunity.net
Feb 13, 2009
Estate of Kyle Thomas Brennan v. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc., Denise Miscavige Gentile, Gerald Gentile, and Thomas Brennan: Complaint for wrongful death
Jan 28, 2009
Extortion plot revealed — Bahama Journal
Jan 28, 2009
Scientology: Death by Devotion — Breitbart.com
Jan 27, 2009
Extortion plot unveiled — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s): Brent Dean
Source: Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
By BRENT DEAN,Guardian Staff Reporter Police have confirmed the alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston included a request for $25 million so that a supposedly 'damaging' document would not be made public. "All I can say here is that, you know, there was a complaint made by Mr. Travolta – and those acting on his behalf – that there was an attempt on behalf of a number of individuals to extort initially some ...
Jan 27, 2009
Maynard-Gibson, a witness in extortion case — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s): Artesia Davis
Source: Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
By ARTESIA DAVIS,Guardian Senior Reporter,artesia@nasguard.com Former attorney general and PLP Senator Allyson Maynard-Gibson is listed as a witness against the ambulance driver who is accused of trying to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta whose son died of a seizure in Grand Bahama earlier this month, The Guardian has confirmed. Maynard-Gibson, who is Travolta's Bahamian lawyer, is one of the 14 witnesses listed on the court docket against Tarino Lightbourne. Lightbourne, 47, of Freeport, Grand Bahama, entered not guilty pleas ...
Jan 26, 2009
FBI Joins in "Sensitive" Travolta Extortion Case — E! Online
Jan 26, 2009
On second thought, Hoskins backs out of Scientologist exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jake Wagman
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
State Rep. Ted Hoskins backed out of an appearance this weekend at an anti-psychiatry exhibit linked to the Church of Scientology. Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, was scheduled to speak at “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon. The exhibit was organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group founded by Scientologists that shares the same fervent opposition to psychiatry. Hoskins agreed to speak at the exhibit last week, when he saw ...
Jan 25, 2009
Plot thickens in Travolta extortion case — The Independent (UK)
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