Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

control. He took the child from their home when she went out and took it to some nursery people.
He wouldn't tell her where the child was and he hired someone to take the child from there to
Elizabeth. Sara got the child back when she came to Wichita for the divorce. I think she got the child
back by agreeing to divorce and not saying anything bad about him. The divorce was quite bland, I
gave testimony, that the marriage was not going smoothly and the disturbance was impairing his
creative work, that's what I testified. Her testimony was not anything heavy and it was relatively
amicable.
In Wichita they had come to an agreement.
He told me in LA she had said he was a paranoid schizophrenic because a psychiatrist had told
her that.
I saw the people who took the baby. It was an attempt to keep Sara from doing anything too
damaging. When we took the baby he didn't do any of the work but expressed pride of parenthood,
he wanted her to be a clear.
He went to Chicago because that's where the plane went. He stopped there to try and find an
answer to the charge that Sara had made that he was nuts. This was before her charges had been
made public. He had heard her saying it, wanting testimony to prove he was not crazy. He was
deriding psychiatry but he was a practical person and used them when he needed to.
Elizabeth was a shabby sort of place, but was alive with activity. Because of the way it started, it
appealed to engineers in Astounding SF, very physical, very nuts and boltsy, not the slightest hint of
an thing spiritual, everything was mechanical and materialistic. Engrams are cellular recordings,
all that stuff. He knew where his audience was .
Many engineering types were attracted, like Evans Farber. There were also wierdos and occultists
because of the millenarianism of it, the ultimate answer to all man's problems. He had quite a split
between the engineer types who rallied around Van Vogt later on and the spiritual types who
followed LRH and they were nothing alike. In general all of them were people who were
dissatisfied with the world the way it was and wanted a quick fix.
A very early split was materialism versus spiritualism. Van Vogt is totally materialistic. Very
intelligent, very weird, has very strange ideas but he is very benign and sincere.
When I went to Elizabeth with him we stayed in a hotel. I think the baby was with us.
GUN. We sent the gun back to Jim in Elizabeth in the mail with the bullets in the chamber. We sent
it from Tampa because he didn't want to take it into Havana. Hubbard was street smart.
TAPE 2:
(Record called Road To Freedom by LRH.)
Hubbard has claimed several times that S & S ordered Campbell to publish everything he wrote. I
don't think anyone who knew John Campbell would believe it, but he said it three times and there is
no one left in the world to contradict it.
Picture in front writer shows an unhappy little boy determined to come out on top.