At 1900 hours on Monday, January 27, 1986, the international management of Scientology assembled Sea Org and public members of the Church at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, to announces the death of their founder L Ron Hubbard three days earlier.
Skip to 5:59 for the moment David Miscavige announces Hubbard has "discarded his body".
0:00 Event Intro
3:10 David Miscavige
14:45 Earle Cooley
21:10 David Miscavige
21:47 Pat Broeker
44:53 David Miscavige
45:35 Norman Starkey
57:05 David Miscavige
58:22 Marc Yager
1:03:07 Heber Jentzsch
1:07:59 Marc Yager
1:09:13 David Miscavige
1:09:49 L. Ron Hubbard
1:10:10 Event Outro
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