This was just sent to me by a journalist in Minnesota. Enjoy. -Rik
CHARLES JOHNSON, LEADER OF FLAT EARTH SOCIETY, DIES AT 76
(Lancaster, California-AP) -- The president of the nonconformist
International Flat Earth Society has died in Lancaster, California.
Charles Johnson -- who headed the organization for nearly 30
years -- was 76.
The Flat Earth Society believes the Earth is actually shaped
like a platter with a magnetic North Pole in the middle. Believers
reject science, and satellite photos, as part of an elaborate hoax.
Johnson also believed the nation's space program was an
elaborate fraud perpetrated by the government.
The Flat Earth Society -- which claims a membership of about
35-hundred -- was as founded in Illinois at the turn of the last
century.
Its headquarters was relocated to Johnson's Hi Vista home when
he became the organization's president in 1972.
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