The Lives of L. Ron Hubbard Whether seen as brilliant innovator or manipulative charlatan, Hubbard undoubtedly achieved extraordinary things. Science-fiction writer, experimental scientist, inventor of the psychotherapy Dianetics, and author of the best-seller based on it, and founder of a worldwide business empire based on his Church of Scientology, he was successively celebrity, fugitive and eventually a recluse. Was he a true believer in his own ideas, or did he invent worlds from his imagination to make his followers pay for new revelations?
Margaret Percy investigates.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR (R) revised