Karen#1
Well-known member
TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
[David Miscavige, master of ceremonies]
Forty years ago today, Scientologists in the Los Angeles area were instructed to come to the Hollywood Palladium for a special briefing.
For some of the people who were there that evening and that we’ve talked to, they didn’t recognize the rather diminutive man who came out on stage after several minutes of strange music had played.
It was David Miscavige in his naval Sea Org uniform, there to deliver the shocking news that L. Ron Hubbard, at 74, had decided to leave his body and pursue further “researches” elsewhere.
Hubbard had, in fact, died of a stroke three days earlier, on January 24, 1986. He had been in total seclusion since 1980, and most Scientologists had not seen him for even longer.
We know you’ve probably seen parts or all of the hourlong program that night at the Palladium, when Miscavige, church attorney Earle Cooley, and several other Sea Org figures spoke about Ron.
Three years ago, for the first time we put together a transcript of the entire program, and we thought we’d post it again to mark another anniversary of this remarkable event.
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tonyortega.substack.com
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Forty years ago today, Scientologists in the Los Angeles area were instructed to come to the Hollywood Palladium for a special briefing.
For some of the people who were there that evening and that we’ve talked to, they didn’t recognize the rather diminutive man who came out on stage after several minutes of strange music had played.
It was David Miscavige in his naval Sea Org uniform, there to deliver the shocking news that L. Ron Hubbard, at 74, had decided to leave his body and pursue further “researches” elsewhere.
Hubbard had, in fact, died of a stroke three days earlier, on January 24, 1986. He had been in total seclusion since 1980, and most Scientologists had not seen him for even longer.
We know you’ve probably seen parts or all of the hourlong program that night at the Palladium, when Miscavige, church attorney Earle Cooley, and several other Sea Org figures spoke about Ron.
Three years ago, for the first time we put together a transcript of the entire program, and we thought we’d post it again to mark another anniversary of this remarkable event.
READ MORE
40 years ago: The eerie Hollywood sendoff for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
Forty years ago today, Scientologists in the Los Angeles area were instructed to come to the Hollywood Palladium for a special briefing.
tonyortega.substack.com
