1922-1923: L. Ron Hubbard moves north to Puget Sound in Washington State. He joins the Boy Scouts of America in April 1923. As a member of Tacoma Troop 31, he becomes a Second Class Scout on 8 May and two months later, on 5 July, advances to First Class Scout. In October, Harry Ross Hubbard receives orders to report to the nation’s capital. Ron and his parents board the USS Ulysses S. Grant on 1 November 1923 and sail to New York from San Francisco through the recently opened Panama Canal. … [Read more...] about Article: 1922-1923 (n.d.)
Harry Ross Hubbard
Article: Claims re Hubbard’s background (n.d.)
Son of naval commander Harry Ross Hubbard and Ledora May Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard was born on March 13, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska. At the age of two, he and his family took up residence on a ranch outside Kalispell, Montana, and from there moved to the state’s capital, Helena. As a young boy he learned much about survival in the rugged Far West – with what he called "its do-and-dare attitudes, its wry humor, cowboy pranks, and make-nothing of the worst and most dangerous." Not only could he ride … [Read more...] about Article: Claims re Hubbard’s background (n.d.)
Lecture: FNing Staff Members (1972)
I by the way had a, let me tell you a little anecdote. I had a bad experience with this one time. I told the wrong man, I told my father this one time, I got tired of all of his talking about me and money and so forth, he knew nothing about money and he knew nothing about me, been a naval officer all of his life. I was often making a month what he made in a year. I don’t know, the unreality of people is gorgeous. And he told me that once too often and I was just out of hospital, it was at the … [Read more...] about Lecture: FNing Staff Members (1972)
Lecture: Universe: Basic Definitions (1954)
My father was a naval officer, shipped around various places. Well thought of. It was a calm world. I didn't have any business worrying about this sort of a problem, because it wasn't a personal problem. Whether people went mad or stayed sane was very, very little to me. It meant really nothing. And I figured everything in the world's all nailed down. Well, here's the very problem of thinkingness itself with which we are dealing continually in the field of science, not nailed down—not even … [Read more...] about Lecture: Universe: Basic Definitions (1954)
Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (3) (1951)
In 1930 I knew a fellow by the name of Commander Thompson. I had known him before, actually; he was a friend of the family. He had studied under Freud in Vienna. Old Commander Thompson trained cats. He had a cat named Psycho, a black cat with a crooked tail, and he had Psycho trained to sit up and do other things. He taught me how to train cats—I have never had any luck with it, but he taught me how. He got me very interested in the subject of the human mind. He taught me why it is that … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (3) (1951)
Beneficiary Slip (June 24, 1942)
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