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Barrow 1976 WLIB-WBLS BBC May 30, Televisier (Holland) Clint Clemoir John Humphreys The Aglow New York Times Magazine Bob WKB Radio Canadian Moon" Toronto Star Broadcasting "Getting High on Sun David Miller John Darroch Hakala by Berkely Rice Aimie WNBC Network CFTO-TV World News (Canada) May 30, 1976 Daily Barbara Hoctor Wally Macht Michael Trulson, WNEW Radio French System, International Newsweek Masahisa Kobayashi, Uzo Kudo Broadcasting Moon" Michael Lissa "Life with Father Linder, Glassberg Channel 2 WNYC Jean Lefevre by Andrew Nagorski, Richard M. Jan Martini Sino Smith, Shim Jae Hoon, Broadcasting Co. Henry WHN-AM McGee, Timothy Nater, Jane Sy Chang David MBC-Korea Friedman, Lisa Whitman and Flinberg Paul WWRL WICB-TV Keating Matthew Bengelest P. June 14, 1976 Lee Miller 751 Pre-Rally Coverage The TV news media showed a lot of mixed feelings toward the Bicentennial God Bless America Festival held by Rev. Moon. Reports prior to the rally reflect total optimism as well as pessimism, complete support of Rev. Moon as well as ridicule. Today was the day for the scheduled Bicentennial God Bless America Rally, as well as the day in which parents held an anti-Moon rally. Without exception, every station included reports from anti-Moon parents, adversaries of the movement and ex- members. Following are some of their comments: It turned out to be a very heavy thing and it wasn't until the end of the first week that I found out that it had anything to do with Moon, and I had never heard about Moon before.... I think he's up to something very, very terrible. And he has tremendous power, and he must be a brilliant manipulator. They get people who are in a vulnerable state of mind and depressed or blue about something or not feeling well and they suck them into their two or three day seminar and then it's a one week seminar and then it's a twenty-one day seminar and before you know it they don't have minds of their own to think with. They told these kids to go and ask for money. If there's a sign that says beware of the dog, wild dog, go in. You're doing it for .. you're doing it for God . ask them for money. Don't tell them it's the Unification Church. Use any pretense. Use education. Use, that it's for dope. Do anything. Just get money. Some of them collected from $500 to $1000 a day on this candy. Some of them would go to supermarkets and get the left-over food for nothing. But all these kids will do anything, like cleaning the streets. It's nothing to them. They do what they're told to do. Moon feels that his mission is to mobilize an ideologi cal army of young people to unite the world and open a new age of faith. Sounds harmless and even idealis " tic enough, but then Moon goes on to add, . what I wish must be your wish He comes to this country under the guise of this historical religious campaign but his main message is simply a political one, anti-communism and keep work ing people in their place. It was obvious that the parents found some sympathy from the media. One reporter's commentary was: Sun Myung Moon, the profit-making prophet came under attack today as a tyrant, a slavemaster, even a manu- Hitler. The Korean cult leader and wealthy gun 752 753 facturer was blasted by a group of parents from all over the country who came here because they say their sons and daughters were or still are held in the gravitational pull of Moon's teachings .... The parents admit that they are relatively helpless against Moon's overwhelming methods of mind-bending and money. But they say they are determined to move heaven and earth if they have to, to see to it that Moon and his millions are investigated from top to bottom. But although the coverage was clearly sympathetic with the church's critics, a number of pro-Moon parents, offered words of support. One parent, who investigated the charges of the critics by making unannounced visits, said: I have never found any kind of evidence of brainwash ing, no powder sprinkled in the food, no sleep depriva tion, nothing but a very stimulating and high quality life. And some parents at the rally: It was wonderful. It's a growing organization in this country and it's really very, very nice .... I'm very, very proud of my son here. He has two degrees from college and I'm very proud of him. My children were running around rather aimlessly and could not become motivated. So that eventually one day they went off with their packs on their backs and said that they were going to New York to join this organization and after that they got their hair cut and they've gone to school and they know how to express themselves.
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