The Buffalo News has two other stories that ran in their Nation/World section on Jan 30 and 31.
The 30th's was a headline and the 31st's was a story in this section.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050130/1056545.asp
National/World
Front Page > National/World > National
Subject: The man behind the church: How Scientology began
L. Ron Hubbard: Through the years
1/30/2005
Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News
Inside the church's renovated quarters on Main Street north of the Theater District, kiosks and other displays explain Scientology to members and visitors.
Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News
Scientologist Kathy Dunford of Lancaster reads a book by L. Ron Hubbard under a portrait of the church founder.
o) Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born in Tilden, Neb., March 13, 1911.
o) From 1931 to 1932, he attended George Washington University. He took three engineering classes, records show, and flunked a course in molecular and atomic physics, but would later claim he was trained as a nuclear physicist.
o) During World War II, Hubbard served in the Navy. Hubbard later claimed he had won medals he hadn't and alleged a combat wound that records show he never suffered.
o) In his early career, Hubbard worked as a successful pulp writer of science-fiction stories, romances and Westerns.
o) In 1950, Hubbard first wrote about Dianetics, the foundation of Scientology. The best selling book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" followed.
o) In 1954, Hubbard established the first Church of Scientology in Los Angeles.
o) In 1977, Hubbard was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal crime that resulted in 11 Scientology officials being given five-year prison sentences for infiltrating, burglarizing and wiretapping the IRS, FBI and other government agencies.
o) In 1986, Hubbard died, after living his last years as a recluse.
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