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6 matching items found between Jul 1997 and Dec 1997. Furthermore, there are 190 matching items for all time not shown.
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Dec 7, 1997
Church says "nothing mysterious" about deaths — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com, link
Dec 7, 1997
For some Scientologists, pilgrimage has been fatal — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com, link
Nov 19, 1997
Secret lives: Lafayette Ron Hubbard [video] — Channel 4 (UK)
More: transcript, local copy of transcript
Type: TV
Source: Channel 4 (UK)
VOICES: "We were saving the world, we were convinced that Hubbard was the returned saviour and that his techniques and his knowledge and his majesty would eventually bring all mankind to an enlightened state and that was what we were doing..." "There were some things about him that I do feel were rather dangerous. I felt so much under his spell that I told my room-mate that if ever I told her that I was going to marry this man, she ...
Oct 31, 1997
In her final years, Scientologist spent $175,000 — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: lisamcpherson.org, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Lisa McPherson turned to the Church of Scientology in her 20s as she tried to shed the emotional baggage of a rocky youth. By age 36, with a high school education, she was earning a handsome salary as a sales representative in Clearwater. Today, as the church tries to rebut assertions that it caused her sudden death, it also credits Scientology for her successes in life. But McPherson's turnaround came at a financial price. From 1991 until she died in December ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 10, 1997
Scientologists win partial court victory — The Guardian (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Guardian (UK)
ON JULY 28, an appeal court in Lyon reduced the sentences of six members of the Scientology movement charged with responsibility for the suicide of one of their followers. The court also ruled that the "Church of Scientology" was entitled to call itself a religion. In so doing, the appeal court gave the movement created by the science-fiction writer Lafayette Ron Hubbard in 1954 a seal of approval it probably did not expect. The court justified its decision by invoking an ...
Jul 29, 1997
French court cuts sentence of a Scientology church leader — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
LYONS, France — A French appeals court reduced the sentence Monday for a Church of Scientology leader convicted of involuntary homicide in the suicide of a member. The case centered on the March 1988 suicide of Patrice Vic, 31, who jumped out a window. Prosecutors said Vic was under pressure from the church to take a $5,000 "purification treatment," including daily saunas and a diet low in sugar and high in vitamins. The lower court said in November that Jean-Jacques Mazier ...
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