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60 minutes (cbs) • anti-psychiatry • bruce hines • cbs news • church of scientology international (csi) • dead agenting (black pr, smear campaign) • death • detox • elli perkins • fair game • false imprisonment • fort harrison hotel (also, flag land base) @ 210 south fort harrison avenue clearwater fl united states • heber c. jentzsch • jett travolta • john travolta • lawsuit • lisa mcpherson • mental illness • mike wallace • new york rescue workers detoxification program • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • private investigator(s) • sea organization (sea org, so) • stephen a. kent • tom cruise
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Sep 24, 2009
Travolta admits late son had autism — CBS News
Type: Press
Source: CBS News
(CBS/ AP) John Travolta has admitted for the first time his son Jett had autism. Travolta made the admission about his son in the Bahamas as he testified against two men accused of trying to blackmail him with private information about his son's rescue effort. Jett died in January from a seizure. CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella said Travolta testified in a Nassau courtroom that Jett suffered a seizure every five to ten days – each lasting from 45 seconds to ...
Jan 8, 2009
Scientologist: We do, too treat illnesses — CBS News
Jan 7, 2009
Scientologist views on medicine questioned / In aftermath of death of Jett Travolta, 16, critics say church holds profession in negative light — CBS News
Sep 15, 2008
Church of Scientology eyes Bucks Co. property — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s): Lesley Van Arsdall
Source: CBS News
PLUMSTEAD, Pa. (CBS 3) — A religion with several famous members is hoping to turn a Bucks County building into its new home, but some people living nearby are becoming a little weary of their new neighbor. When Plumstead resident Kim Coffman heard her new neighbors might be the church of Scientology, she was not happy. "We were hoping a family would move in and my children would have some friends right out back would be the ideal situation," Coffman said. ...
Sep 7, 2007
Scientology's Fair Tax plot — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce Bartlett
Source: CBS News
The basic theological tenets of the Church of Scientology are well known: a fanatical hatred for psychiatry coupled with a creation myth that involves an evil alien ruler named Xenu and his sundry galactic allies. The basic tenets of its tax policy are somewhat less familiar. But Scientologists promulgated and, at one point, heavily promoted a proposal that would replace all federal income taxes with a national retail sales tax (NRST). And the theology and tax policy aren't entirely unrelated: Xenu ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 20, 2007
Cruise thinks Scientology can save 9/11 responders — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s): Hazel Sanchez
Source: CBS News
NEW YORK (CBS) — Some call it a cult concoction while silver screen celebrity Tom Cruise swears by it – a Scientology program called the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project. City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said the program worked for him. "The fact is that this is a program that has helped over 700 rescue workers," Monserrate said. "A program that I have personally visited, participated in and spoken to dozens of rescue workers that today feel better. "Shame on anyone ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 2, 2006
'48 Hours' questions role of Scientology in murder, Scientologists question CBS ethics — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian Montopoli
Source: CBS News
On Saturday, "48 Hours" ran a story about the 2003 murder of Elli Perkins, a murder that her 28-year-old son Jeremy confessed to committing. Jeremy had been hallucinating and behaving erratically before his mother's death, but his parents, devout Scientologists, resisted giving him psychiatric treatment. As "48 Hours" notes, "[s]ome pro-Scientology materials declare that psychiatrists are not only useless, but evil – their medications nothing but poisons." The Perkins' opted to medicate their son primarily with vitamins. The Scientology community was ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 28, 2006
Scientology - A question of faith // Did a mother's faith contribute to her murder? — CBS News
More: video.google.com
Type: Press
Source: CBS News
(CBS) There was never a question who committed the murder of Elli Perkins on March 13, 2003. As correspondent Peter Van Sant reports, within hours, police had a confession. His jeans drenched in blood, 28-year-old Jeremy Perkins had just stabbed his mother 77 times. Weeks later, in a recorded interview, Jeremy told a psychiatrist what was going through his mind. "My mom, I thought she was out to get me," he said. "Like sometimes she’d be totally normal and then she’d ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 13, 2006
Tom & Katie's Planned 'Silent Birth' — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s): Vanessa Mizell
Source: CBS News
(AP) Tom Cruise has been practically shouting from the rooftops about his love for his pregnant fiancée, Katie Holmes. But when their much-anticipated baby is born, the superstar dad probably won't say a word. Cruise, a longtime Scientologist who introduced Holmes to the faith, is likely to follow Scientology's practice of quiet birth. Followers believe the absence of talk and other noise in the delivery room is more healthful for mother and baby. No one's saying publicly where baby Cruise will ...
Jun 23, 2004
U.S. Lawmakers Fete Rev. Moon, Church Leader Gets Crown At Congressional Reception — CBS News
Type: Press
Source: CBS News
(CBS/AP) More than a dozen U.S. lawmakers turned out for a Capitol Hill reception honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial leader of the Unification Church. Some of the lawmakers later said they were duped when questioned about their presence at the event held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 23. The Washington Post reported that Moon received a crown that was placed on his head. The crown was carried on a pillow by Rep. Danny K. Davis, ...
Tag(s): CBS NewsMoonies
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 15, 2004
Cruise charity aids WTC workers — CBS News
Type: Press
Source: CBS News
(CBS/AP) An organization co-founded by actor Tom Cruise has raised $1.2 million to expand a treatment program for rescue workers exposed to potentially hazardous materials after the collapse of the World Trade Center. The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project said it has treated more than 200 workers who say they were suffering effects from breathing the air filled with smoke, dust and debris after the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the trade center. The money raised by Cruise and others ...
Jan 7, 1998
Public Eye: 17 days (transcript) — CBS News
More: Google video
Dec 28, 1997
60 Minutes: The Cult Awareness Network — CBS News
Type: TV
Source: CBS News
Transcript: Descriptions of video in italics. VO=Voiceover of Lesley Stahl. LESLEY STAHL (in studio): There was a time if you were worried about your son or daughter being in a cult, you could get help from a small, non-profit organization called the Cult Awareness Network, or CAN, for 20 years the nation’s best-known resource for information and advice about groups it considered dangerous. Among them was Scientology, a church not known for turning the other cheek. But church officials say Scientology ...
Dec 29, 1991
Scientologists ran campaign to discredit Erhard, detective says — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
In October of 1989, a private detective was called into the Church of Scientology's offices in Los Angeles and asked to conduct an investigation in Northern California. Ted Heisig, a non-Scientologist based in Orange County, said he was led into a room and shown five file cabinets filled with documents Scientology had been collecting for years. The subject: Werner Erhard, founder of the worldwide self-awareness movement known as est. "They had contacts (in the file cabinets) dating back to his childhood ...
Nov 10, 1991
Scientology's children: What are church's beliefs? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: link, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Curtis Krueger
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
L. Ron Hubbard was a writer who conjured up tales of time travel and rocket ships to Mars. But science fiction was not all that sprang from Hubbard's pen. He also wrote the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. In it, Hubbard described a new kind of counseling, which he said could help people increase their IQs, cure themselves of arthritis, allergies, asthma and migraine headaches, and reduce their chances of having a car wreck. The book was published ...
Dec 22, 1985
60 Minutes: Scientology / Update [16m 51s] — CBS News
Jun 1, 1980
60 Minutes: The Clearwater conspiracy — CBS News
Jan 10, 1980
'60 Minutes' films Scientology segment — Clearwater Times (Florida)
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