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TONY ORTEGA
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We just heard the news this afternoon that on Monday, one year to the day that we lost Mike Rinder, Jefferson Hawkins suffered a series of strokes while visiting family and died later at a hospital. He was 79 years old.
The thing he will most be remembered for, of course, was dreaming up Scientology’s most genius marketing plan of all time, the famous “erupting volcano” TV ads that sold so many copies of Dianetics in the 1980s.
But we will remember Jefferson for so many other things besides. We highlighted his books early on here at the Underground Bunker, and found him to be the easiest of the former top Scientology executives to get along with. A truly humble and caring man who wanted to steer other people away from Scientology, and to help those leaving it to find their footing.
He wrote an entire series of articles for the Bunker in 2013 and 2014 about Scientology’s “ethics,” which helped many of us understand this organization’s bizarre ideas about justice.
And we are so fortunate that we got to go on a wonderful adventure with Jefferson in 2017, when he joined us on a trip to Oregon’s backcountry to witness a total solar eclipse.
We’ve put this notice together very quickly, and we will be asking other people for their thoughts about Jefferson as we did with Mike a year ago.
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tonyortega.substack.com
Excerpt:
We just heard the news this afternoon that on Monday, one year to the day that we lost Mike Rinder, Jefferson Hawkins suffered a series of strokes while visiting family and died later at a hospital. He was 79 years old.
The thing he will most be remembered for, of course, was dreaming up Scientology’s most genius marketing plan of all time, the famous “erupting volcano” TV ads that sold so many copies of Dianetics in the 1980s.
But we will remember Jefferson for so many other things besides. We highlighted his books early on here at the Underground Bunker, and found him to be the easiest of the former top Scientology executives to get along with. A truly humble and caring man who wanted to steer other people away from Scientology, and to help those leaving it to find their footing.
He wrote an entire series of articles for the Bunker in 2013 and 2014 about Scientology’s “ethics,” which helped many of us understand this organization’s bizarre ideas about justice.
And we are so fortunate that we got to go on a wonderful adventure with Jefferson in 2017, when he joined us on a trip to Oregon’s backcountry to witness a total solar eclipse.
We’ve put this notice together very quickly, and we will be asking other people for their thoughts about Jefferson as we did with Mike a year ago.
READ MORE
Remembering Jefferson Hawkins, 1946-2026
We just heard the news this afternoon that on Monday, one year to the day that we lost Mike Rinder, Jefferson Hawkins suffered a series of strokes while visiting family and died later at a hospital.
tonyortega.substack.com
