| − | '''Lafayette Ronald Hubbard''' (1911 -1986) was the founder of the [[Scientology|Church of Scientology]] and a fiction and non-fiction author. Born on 13 March 1911 in [[Tilden]], [[Nebraska]] to Ledora May Waterbury and Harry Ross Hubbard (born Henry August Wilson), he would spend his early childhood in [[Kalispell]], [[Montana]].<ref>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/la90/la90-0.html</ref> | + | '''Lafayette Ronald Hubbard''' (1911 -1986) was the founder of the [[Scientology|Church of Scientology]] and a fiction and non-fiction author. Born on 13 March 1911 in [[Tilden]], [[Nebraska]] to Ledora May Waterbury and Harry Ross Hubbard (born Henry August Wilson), he would spend his early childhood in [[Kalispell]], [[Montana]]. <ref> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/la90/la90-0.html </ref> |
| | + | How L. Ron Hubbard came to found these subjects is an immense story that effectively began in the first decades of the 20th century with his befriending of indigenous Blackfeet Indians in and around his Helena, Montana home. From here, the story unfolds with his study of Freudian theory with a Commander Joseph C. Thompson — the first United States naval officer to actually work with Freud in Vienna — and through journeys in Asia where Mr. Hubbard spent the better part of two years in travel and study. <ref> [http://www.scientology.org/l-ron-hubbard/meet/index.html MEET L. RON HUBBARD] </ref> |