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18 Feb 1922 - Harry Ross Hubbard visit to Helena recorded in local paper as USS Oklahoma undergoes repairs. [2] 12 Mar 1922 - Harry Ross Hubbard assigned "assistant to disbursing" aboard USS Oklahoma. [3] May 7 - Harry Ross Hubbard apparently loses $942.25, a loss which will later be excused by Act of Congress in 1926.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author and the founder of Scientology.A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques.
[2] [3] [4] The Hubbard family was Methodist, though L. Ron would later describe his grandfather as a "devout atheist". [5] When Ron was two, the family moved from Nebraska to Montana. [6] Hubbard's father worked as a manager and bookkeeper, first for a local theater [7] and later for a coal company owned by his father-in-law. [2]
August 1968 – Freedom Magazine Founded by Church of Scientology. [4]: XIII ... February: McPherson's family files a wrongful-death lawsuit against the church.
The Church of Scientology is hostile to the Free Zone, and refers to such independent Scientologists as "squirrels", In 1983, the Advanced Ability Center was founded by David Mayo in California, but was successfully shut down by the Church of Scientology. Conversely, still operating in 2023 is Ron's Org in Europe, founded in 1984 by Bill ...
In 1958, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service withdrew the Washington, D.C., Church of Scientology's tax exemption after it found that Hubbard and his family were profiting unreasonably from Scientology's ostensibly non-profit income. [1] Nibs Hubbard testified that in 1958, his father asked him to devise a plan for stealing an 'H-bomb'. [21]
The Church of Scientology prevented a woman from seeking mental health treatment before she took her own life, a lawsuit states.. The woman, Whitney Mills, 40, was a high-level Scientologist who ...
After being recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization in 1957, Scientology's tax-exempt status was lost in a 1967 IRS audit. [5] As part of the effort to regain tax exemption during the late 1970s, Scientologists repeatedly infiltrated the IRS, copying large numbers of documents and at one point placing an electronic bugging device in an IRS conference room. [5]