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Reference materials Hollywood Guaranty Building (HGB) @ 6331 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles CA United StatesChurch of Scientology Los AngelesChurch of Scientology Celebrity Centre International @ 5930 Franklin Avenue Los Angeles CA United StatesWikipedia: Celebrity Centre1332 L. Ron Hubbard Way Los Angeles CA United States1334 L. Ron Hubbard Way Los Angeles CA United States
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Jul 30, 1997
Letters to the Times // School use of Hubbard texts — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
* Robert A. Jones' column, "Saved by a Rumor" (July 27) was filled with generalities, slurs (including one that equates the religion of Scientology with colonics) and inferences that the Church of Scientology somehow attempted to sneakily get some "gambit" past the Board of Education in an attempt to "catechize its students." It was also inaccurate in the extreme. The fact of the matter is that L. Ron Hubbard wrote prodigiously in numerous fields. His books on the subject of ...
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 ...
Jul 29, 1997
Hubbard texts approved for school use // Education: A state panel has given a preliminary OK to five books based on the Scientology founder's teaching philosophy — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Duke Helfand
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The state education department has given preliminary approval to statewide use of school textbooks inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, which already are at the center of a controversy in Los Angeles schools. Five books based on Hubbard's education ideas are expected to be placed on a list of supplementary texts that schools across the state can purchase–possibly as soon as September, an education official said Monday. "There's no religion mentioned in those books," said Anna Emery of the state ...
Jul 29, 1997
L. Ron Elementary -- a parody with a point — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Scott Harris
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The following parody, based on news accounts of semi-secret Scientology teachings, is offered as a cautionary tale as the LAUSD board ponders a proposal to create a 100-student charter school with instruction based on L. Ron Hubbard's teaching methods in the Sunland-Tujunga area: * "Good morning, class!" "GOOD MORNING, MISS DIANETIC! WE'RE ALL IN OUR PLACES WITH BRIGHT SHINY FACES!" "You certainly are! Why, I don't even need Mr. E-Meter's help to measure your galvanic skin response! And you should be ...
Jul 27, 1997
Charter school fiasco may have been averted by a rumor — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: articles.latimes.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert A. Jones
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
This was the week, among other things, when Los Angeles dabbled with the notion of pouring tax dollars into a school that planned to catechize its students with Scientology-inspired texts. It was like watching a train wreck about to happen. At week's end, the debacle may have been avoided. The Board of Education caught on to the gambit and some of those involved now predict that the board's vote, expected sometime in the next 30 days, could be negative in the ...
Jul 27, 1997
Special Report: Hubbard Teachings in Public Classrooms — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: articles.latimes.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Duke Helfand
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
As the Los Angeles Board of Education grapples with whether to approve a new charter school that would feature the teaching methods of L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of the Church of Scientology, a handful of district teachers say they have been using those techniques for years and keep copies of Hubbard's works in their classrooms. The controversy over the use of Hubbard's methods–known as Applied Scholastics–has prompted district officials to undertake a review of policies on religion in public ...
Jul 25, 1997
A necessary separation // In proposed Valley charter school, church-state line isn't clear enough — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Los Angeles Board of Education should reject the controversial application for the proposed Northwest Charter School in the San Fernando Valley. Why? Because the public school system should not open its doors to potentially sectarian teaching. That is what private schools are for. The author of this charter school petition is a Scientologist, which is no more disqualifying for a public school educator than any other religion. However, Linda Smith, a veteran public school teacher, says she would use the ...
Jul 24, 1997
Bid for Valley charter school draws scrutiny — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Duke Helfand
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Education: L.A. district officials are concerned that organizer's ties to Scientology could raise 1st Amendment questions. A proposed charter school in the east San Fernando Valley is receiving close scrutiny from Los Angeles Unified School District officials who are concerned about the organizer's ties to the Church of Scientology and are questioning whether church teachings would appear in the new public school. Advocates of the Northwest Charter School acknowledge that they want to employ teaching methods developed by Scientology founder L. ...
May 9, 1997
When did she die? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Was it an honest mistake, a slip of the tongue? Or was it the naked truth, carelessly uttered on camera A top official for the Church of Scientology told a German television crew recently that church member Lisa McPherson died in a room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater. On its face, the statement marks a major change in Scientology's version of events surrounding McPherson's unexplained death at age 36. It came in the presence of one of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 1, 1997
Scientologist Lisa McPherson's tragic death — Watchman Expositor
Type: Press
Author(s): Craig Branch
Source: Watchman Expositor
The death of 36 year old Lisa McPherson while in the "care" of fellow Scientologists at the Clearwater headquarters has led to an ongoing investigation by Clearwater police and has been the focus of numerous stories in the Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, New York Times, local media, NBC Nightly News, and episodes on Inside Edition. Lisa's tragic story began when she joined Scientology upon high school graduation. But two weeks before Thanksgiving, 1995, Lisa "told friends that she was ready ...
Apr 14, 1997
Internet firm Luckman surfs rough waters — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Karen Kaplan
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A visitor to the Internet World trade show in Los Angeles last month would have come away with the impression that Luckman Interactive was an industry powerhouse. The 3-year-old firm, which makes software and Internet directories, hung a giant banner on the side of the Los Angeles Convention Center—the only company to spring for the expense. Its booth was among the biggest at the show, rivaling those of Netscape, Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems. The company has raised more than $20 ...
Feb 18, 1997
Albright plays down dispute over Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Feb 6, 1997
Germany versus Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Jan 27, 1997
U.S. challenges German stand on Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas W. Lippman
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
WASHINGTON — The State Department's annual survey of human rights conditions around the world will contain expanded, toughened language criticizing Germany for restrictions on the Church of Scientology and its members, administration officials say. The report, to be issued Wednesday, will chastise Germany for what a senior administration official called "a campaign of harassment and intimidation" against the controversial church. He said the United States, seeking to protect religious freedom, has urged Germany through diplomatic channels "not to prosecute people for ...
Jan 17, 1997
'Mission' a German hit despite boycott — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Judy Brennan, Mary Williams Walsh
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Movies: The success of the film, targeted by conservatives because it stars Scientologist Tom Cruise, eases studio fears about releasing other films featuring members of the movement. Despite the much-publicized boycott in Germany of "Mission: Impossible" because its star, Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist, the film grossed about $24 million, considered a huge success for the important German market by Hollywood studios, and ranked eighth in Germany for 1996. The results could help assuage the Hollywood studios that are preparing for ...
Jan 11, 1997
German policy on Scientology attacked — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Mary Williams Walsh
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Europe: Open letter to Kohl draws analogy to treatment of Jews before World War II. Politicians respond angrily. BERLIN — A running battle between German government officials and the Church of Scientology escalated this week, with 34 prominent Americans from the entertainment industry denouncing Germany for allegedly treating Scientologists as it treated the Jews in 1936, and the German foreign minister accusing the celebrities of "falsifying history." "It's out of the question that there's persecution of Scientology in Germany," Foreign Minister ...
Jan 1, 1997
Is Scientology keeping Hollywood straight? Celebrities are dropping off the fay rumor mill by joining the religion of the stars — Girlfriends
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Type: Press
Author(s): Stephanie Tarnoff
Source: Girlfriends
When L. Ron Hubbard penned his ground-breaking book, Dianetics, a shot rang out in Hollywood. The book, now available in more than 32 languages, has sold over 16 million copies since 1950. It has also attracted legions of famous followers to its Church of Scientology in Hollywood and its castle-like Celebrity Centre located in the heart of Tinseltown. During John Travolta's Golden Globe acceptance speech, for example, the church member — long rumored to be gay — thanked L. Ron Hubbard ...
Dec 23, 1996
Bankrupt anti-cult group gets reprieve — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Oct 2, 1996
Council agrees to rename street after Hubbard — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Oct 2, 1996
L. Ron Hubbard Way endorsed / Council backs request to rename street in front of church — Daily News (Los Angeles, California)
Sep 8, 1996
Letters to the Times // Renaming Berendo to Hubbard Way — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The article regarding the renaming of Berendo Street to L. Ron Hubbard Way (Aug. 23) omits the reason that Hubbard should be honored and the reason the church initiated the petition over a year ago. The man is being honored for the work that he did as an educator, his breakthroughs in the field of drug rehabilitation and his other contributions to mankind. The Los Angeles Church of Scientology is making this request after celebrating our 40th anniversary and completing ...
Aug 23, 1996
Church seeks to rename street after Hubbard — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Duke Helfand, Jodi Wilgoren
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
What's in a name, anyway? To some neighbors, Berendo Street in Hollywood is about as good an address as any. But to leaders of the Church of Scientology that is located there, "L. Ron Hubbard Way" is much better. In honor of their charismatic founder–a man adherents call "one of the greatest visionaries of the 20th century" and critics call a fraud–the church has quietly sought a name change from the city of Los Angeles. Just this week the church won ...
Aug 9, 1996
Movies // Mission: Stop Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
[...] Mission: Stop Scientology: Germans youths picketed cinemas throughout their country on Thursday to protest Tom Cruise's movie "Mission: Impossible" because the American actor is a member of the Scientology religion. The protests–organized by the normally placid youth wing of Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union–are a token of the growing political pressure against Scientology in Germany, where recruiting has been active. The pickets came after Paul Stefan Mauz, a Christian Democrat member of parliament, claimed that Cruise was a "high-ranking" Scientologist ...
Aug 6, 1996
Netcom, Scientologists settle suit over Internet postings — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Courts: Online firm agrees to set up protocol for handling copyright disagreements. SAN JOSE — Netcom On-Line Communications Services Inc. has settled a copyright lawsuit by the Church of Scientology that threatened to set new boundaries for speech on the free-wheeling Internet. The Scientologists sued Netcom after the Internet access provider refused to remove church writings posted to its computer network by a former Scientologist minister. In a closely watched decision six months ago, a federal judge in California ruled that ...
Jun 29, 1996
Cult fighters' future in doubt — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: scientology-lies.com, link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Lawsuits: Group with controversial ties to deprogrammers files for bankruptcy and may be forced to shut down in wake of $1-million judgment. Plagued by numerous lawsuits from religious groups and fighting a $1.1-million judgment against it, the Cult Awareness Network has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. "How we will operate or if we will continue to operate in the short term, I don't know," said Cynthia Kisser, executive director of the 12-year-old organization, known for ...
Apr 18, 1996
Scientology told to pay fees in copyright suit — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
More: scientology-lies.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Rex Bossert
Source: Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that the Church of Scientology has been playing "fast and loose with the judicial system," a federal appeals court has ordered the religious organization to pay nearly $3 million in attorneys fees to a former member it sued after he formed his own splinter group. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the unusual sanction against the church for years of litigation spawned by two 1985 suits it filed against David Mayo and others involved with ...
Feb 10, 1996
Survey shows Christians held in high esteem, atheists low — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Feb 5, 1996
Anti-SLAPP provision applies to any cause of action arising from petition activity, not only tort actions — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Feb 1, 1996
The cult of personalities — Details (magazine)
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Type: Press
Author(s): William Shaw
Source: Details (magazine)
Scientology is the religion everyone loves to hate. So how come so many movie stars are devout followers? Moves into the church's Celebrity Centre for an exclusive look at the starway to heaven. AT FRANKLIN AND BRONSON A LOGJAM OF LIMousines crawls toward the mock-French Normandy Chateau. At the grand doorway, celebrities, lawyers, producers, and the children of the well-heeled of the entertainment industry step onto the crimson-carpeted tarmac, chattering through the pink-and-gold lounge to the lawns and fairy-lit trees beyond, ...
Jan 20, 1996
Briefly / Technology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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