How to kill the American President

A critique by Andrew S. MacGregor.

Is this article written by the Jewish author, Joe Vialls a prelude to the assassination of the American President, George W Bush in 2005?

Danger: Mind Controllers At Work!

So you think you voted for George Bush or Tony Blair or John Howard

on their 'merits'? Think again. Media mind control techniques have

now reached a new standard of excellence in the west. Out go

old-fashioned baseball bats and heavy drugs, replaced by

'low light images', and a new 'color coded language'

fired straight down your unsuspecting optic nerve.

 

Part One - Copyright Joe Vialls, 15 May 2005

 

When government politicians and officials indulge in high crimes like treason, mass murder and pedophilia, an innocent "patsy" is always put in place to take the blame. As mentioned later in this report, these unfortunate patsies receive far harsher 'preparation and treatment' than the subliminal psychotronic brainwashing delivered to you via television screens and video stores.

            Just about everybody knows (1), or has heard of, a person who claims to have been 'mind controlled' at some point in the past or present.  Generally the alleged victim will claim that the CIA/FBI/BATF or other dastardly organization planted one or more radio receivers in his or her head, thereby allowing sadistic government agents to speak directly and always abusively to the trembling victim.(2) Apparently, no victim ever receives a helpful news or weather broadcast on this secure channel, with the 'implanted receiver(s)' reserved strictly for sniggering personal abuse, and detailed instructions on how to kill the American President, or perhaps on how to sabotage the whole of Russia and Central Asia with a single box of standard issue hand grenades.(3)

(1) This is a presumption and it is quite false. Very few people know of ‘mind control’ victims.

(2) In his article printed in the Australian ‘Nexus’ magazine in 1994 ‘The Terrorist Factory’ Joe Vialls blames the CIA for his mind control. This article can also be found on the Internet. http://www.geocities.com/mknemesis/mknemesis/3.html

  1. Or to murder PWC Fletcher, and thus the question must be posed; Is Joe Vialls speaking from personal experience?

However, if we consider the phrases, "detailed instructions on how to kill the American President" "sabotage the whole of Russia" "standard issue hand grenades" do we have here, a prelude to the attempted assassination of G W Bush at Tbilisi, Georgia on Tuesday the 10th May 2005 where a hand grenade was thrown at the President and landed within 30 metres of him.

So five days after a possible assassination attempt on G W Bush, Joe Vialls is putting out this article in relation to ‘mind control’, and the various patsies he has written about over the past decade, but without any inference in regard to mind control. If we consider Joe Vialls articles in regard the attack on the USS Cole, 911, the Bali Bombing and the Aceh tsunami with their ‘hot off the press’ timing, is it possible that Joe Vialls had information on the possible assassination attempt on G W Bush from his controllers?

If we consider the political ramifications of G W Bush being assassinated in Georgia both with Russia and with Israel, could this have been the modern equivalent of the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand which sparked off World War One? Again does this mean that there is likely to be more attempts on G W Bush’s life to bring around a ‘required’ war, and if so what part will Joe Vialls play in it? If this seems a bit far fetched, then ask yourself two questions;

  1. Just who is Joe Vialls
  2. Why did Joe Vialls put out this inept article with such indecent haste? To demonstrate my point, just continue to read and see how easily Joe Vialls’ article can be destroyed.

Joe Vialls’ article continues with:

            It is impossible to know whether these poor deluded folk really believe they can hear loud abusive voices in their heads, (4) or whether they and their delusions are deliberately and cynically used by government, to deflect away from very real illegal and immoral mind control techniques, which are currently fully operational, and used against approximately 65% of all English-speaking residents in the western world. (5)

(4) Will Joe Vialls include himself in this description of persons declaring themselves ‘mind controlled’? Please note Joe Vialls’ bigoted belittling of these people who Joe has attacked. What we can establish though is that people have ‘heard voices in their heads for over a millennium, and this is a completely different category to people who are supposedly ‘mind controlled’. (* at endnotes)

(5) What source does Joe Vialls use to justify this totally absurd figure? Why only those who speak English?

            This is supposed to be top secret of course, (6) so nowadays if you dare utter the words "mind control" in a public place, chances are you'll swiftly wind up incarcerated in a secure psychiatric institution, while an insane wide-eyed government shrink frantically pumps hypos full of thorazine into your veins. (7)

(6) If this is supposedly ‘top secret’, then how did Joe Vialls come to know about it?

(7) Is Joe Vialls speaking from personal experience considering his previous dealings with ‘mind control’? However it is interesting to note that Joe Vialls’ wife Marilyn Ann Vialls is a psychiatrist, and that his daughter Hannah Alexandra Vialls was a student at the University of Western Australia, in the Department of Psychology (student Number 9604613)

Again it is interesting that Joe Vialls refers to Thorazine, a medicine used by persons suffering from Schizophrenia, which has been described widely as ‘a lobotomy in a pill’. What can be noted also is that most of Australia’s ‘lone nut gunmen’ and others used in ‘politically motivated violence’ (aka terrorism) have suffered from a schizophrenic illness.

            Yes, of course the deranged 'One World Government' controllers on Wall Street wish to manipulate your thoughts and reasoning, (8)  but are dead against you discovering that your thoughts and reasoning are not always your own. A major clue on this objective was provided by Zbigniew Brzezinski, then National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter:

(8) When did Joe Vialls move the CIA/FBI/BATF to the deranged OWG from Wall Street?

            "In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason."

            Brzezinski had no intention of 'implanting' radio receivers inside the heads of American citizens, because, thankfully, he knew there was absolutely no need to do so. Can you imagine anyone in America, Australia, or Britain meekly submitting to such a bizarre procedure?  "Oh sure, Doc, that sounds great! Can you fit them to my wife and kids as well?"

            The fledgling 'One World Government' already knew that most citizens were hooked on simple television, and simply instructed its propaganda arm called "Hollywood" to get on with the mind control side of things. In virtually no time at all, these doyens of thought reform were flashing subliminal messages at 1/25th second exposures in cinemas and on television. (9)

(9) The psychologists and educational specialists working on the visual acuity question devised what was later to become the icon of early Speed Reading courses, the tachistoscope. The tachistoscope is a machine designed to flash images at varying rates on a screen. The experiment started with large pictures of aircraft being displayed for participants. The images were gradually reduced in size and the flashing-rate was increased. They found people could identify minute images of different planes when flashed on the screen for only one-five-hundredth of a second. (**endnotes)

What evidence is there to prove that this type of ‘subliminal advertising was used in the television medium?

           Though 1/25th second is much too fast for your conscious brain to register, your subconscious sees it very well, meaning that the Hollywood thought reform message completely bypasses your normal conscious content filtering system. So, for example, your conscious perception tells you that George W. Bush is an incompetent idiot, but your subverted Hollywood subconscious undermines this harsh reality, (10) with a subliminally-induced fuzzy and lovable George that you feel 'compelled' to vote for.

(10) The question here is, is Joe Vialls telling us that Americans all feel that G W Bush is an incompetent idiot, but at the same time they have all been ‘mind controlled’ by ‘Hollywood’ to make G W Bush ‘lovable’? Perhaps this explains then how G W Bush won the presidency the second time with 100% of the vote and without the vote rigging that has been documented

            Initially this work was done with the assistance of a "tachistoscope", (9 & ** endnotes) a machine which times the insertion and duration of each subliminal frame, but the crude tachistoscope has one major drawback. Anyone able to gain access to the film or television tapes and play then back at slow speed, would immediately see the inserted subliminal frames as individual entities, and be able to study their subliminal content at leisure.

            This actually happened, and there was very nearly hell to pay, but in the end the matter was settled with hard cash and a handful of meaningless laws. For a large consideration and a new Mercedes convertible, the aggrieved scientist who discovered the technique by accident, agreed to a cover story that the tachistoscope was only used for one experimental film run, involving subliminal prompts to buy Coke and popcorn, but was not terrible successful. (11a) The Mercedes convertible was involved in a high speed accident and fireball just two months later. There were no survivors. (12)

(11) "This actually happened"? Does this mean that what has preceded this phrase was fictional? Now Joe Vialls is telling us that this particular story that has been about for 20 years is not factual, but cannot reveal the true story nor his source that debunks this story. This is a classic Joe Vialls ploy. Joe Vialls is now also ignoring his previous claim in regard to Wall Street, as Coca Cola is one of the biggest names on Wall Street. How does Joe Vialls substantiate his claim that this experimental film run was ‘not terrible successful’? If it was not terribly successful, then how does this support Joe Vialls’ previous statements of this form of communication being used in both films and television mediums? Is Joe aware of the effects of this type of light exposure to epileptics?

(11a) Following the tachistoscope discoveries, Harvard University Business School produced the first film-aided course, designed to widen the reader’s field of focus in order to increase reading speed

(12) Joe also has a tendency to write off witnesses to his stories with a ‘high speed accident and fireball’, as this is about the third time I’ve noticed Joe Vialls use this method.

 

            At the public level, this was the official end of the story, with Congress banning 'subliminal advertising' for good measure. You the public were protected from these horrors, or so you thought, while Hollywood frantically worked on improvements and alternate methods  of controlling your thoughts and reasoning through the essentially benign television box. It was by now the early nineteen seventies, and the 'One World Government' fully intended to have you firmly under subliminal television control in less than a decade. (13)

(13) And all the time I was thinking that Eric Blair’s 1984 (George Orwell) had some authenticity. Of course the drivel that is broadcast via the television has nothing to do with mindset these days without any need for subliminal reinforcement.

            Covert development proceeded along two parallel but independent tracks, with the first focusing on blending 'low light images' into an existing film or commercial. This was fast, and it was also a master stroke in its own right. The 'low light' system was ready for trials in less than six months, and the effects were startling. (14)

(14) What substantiation is there for this claim? Since all this work was covert and hasn’t been open for discussion, can I ask Joe Vialls just where this information came from?

            Essentially, while the conscious mind was viewing and inwardly digesting the main film or commercial content, the subconscious mind was picking up the low light subliminal messages, which fell just below the threshold of normal vision. Where the older tachistoscope was jerky and only partly efficient, the new 'low light' system proved to be a control revolution.  The low light images were a complete 'film within a film' running at normal speed, and thus able to "properly educate" those citizens not entirely in accord with One World Government views. (15)

(15) Think about this for a moment. A low light communication system, operating below the threshold of normal vision within another communication system, i.e. the television set. However to be able to communicate, this system has to be visible, either consciously or sub-consciously, to the viewer, so how can this be achieved if it is under the threshold of ‘normal’ vision? It cannot. As an example, we cannot see infra red light beams even at night unless we use special equipment. We are also aware that bright lights will always drown out low light making the low lights invisible and totally inadequate as a means of communication to the general public.

            The critical test was whether or not the 'low light' technique could be uncovered if a copy of the film (16) fell into the wrong hands. Exhaustive trials proved that it could not. Despite the most sophisticated ultraviolet analysis known to man, the embedded low light images could not be detected at all, because they were comprised of exactly the same color spectrum as the film itself. So, low light was dramatically effective, relatively cheap to engineer, and easy to transport and use without fear of security breaches.

(16) So here, Joe Vialls is telling us that this technique is placed permanently on a film, where it cannot be detected. If it cannot be detected then there is no value in it as the victim couldn’t detect it and thus couldn’t react to it. By the way Joe, a colour spectrum is the total range of colours.

            This low light system is still in use today, and is still dramatically effective, though you need a very highly placed friend in Hollywood if you want the system to benefit your personal political aspirations. One recent applicant was Australian Prime Minister John Howard ("President Winston" to his friends), who felt that his slavish obedience in sending Australian troops to die for America in Afghanistan and Iraq, had earned him the absolute right to be re-elected to office unopposed. (17)

(17) And now Joe is telling us that he must be very pally with the Australian Prime Minister because he knows the PM’s nickname. By the way Joe, Howard is a Monarchist, and the title ‘President’ is Republican, so a much better nickname would have been ‘King John’ but perhaps that would bring in thoughts about the Magna Carta.

           Hollywood and Wall Street agreed, and Australian citizens were then bombarded with thousands of custom low light subliminals of "President Winston" the "Great Leader", when most Australians knew very well at the conscious level that the man is an an arrogant pompous fool, (18) and a traitor under Australian Federal Law.

(18) This is of course ignoring the visit that Howard received from Heinz Kissinger in January, 2004, just prior to Howard sending our troops off to the Iraqi war and the new deal the Australian Government received in regard to government loans from the New York Bankers. In regard to Australians believing that Howard is an arrogant pompous fool, they didn’t vote for him, they voted for another party, the Family First Party. There is no substance to support the notion that Howard’s victory was won by ‘low light subliminals’.

           The price for electronically fixing the election was high, (19) but a price that President Winston was quite prepared to pay in order to retain his 'fame' and 'popularity' induced by the covert Hollywood low light images. Precisely when ordered to do so, Prime Minister John Winston Howard paid Hollywood for his false subliminal election victory, by sending more troops into Iraq to face a vastly superior Republican Guard.

(19) Now which of Joe Vialls lies do I attack first? Howard agreed with Heinz Kissinger in January 2004, and ordered our troops really for Iraq. The elections were held on the 9th October 2004. And the Republican Guard after surviving 12 years of UN sanctions were superior to Australian troops? Oh, by the way, do you remember that the American Government billed the Australian Government for the missiles our aircraft fired during the Iraqi invasion?

            Before radio telephony was invented, electronic communication was restricted to Morse Code, where a unique set of dots and dashes represented each letter in the alphabet. Though to an outsider Morse Code seemed and still seems clumsy, it is really very easy when you get used to it. Like any language, practice makes perfect, and expert signallers read morse so fast that they are able to simultaneously write down the English translation. So, while you as a layman will only hear disjointed dots and dashes, the signaller is hearing "Hi Fred, have you got those new coordinates for me?" in real time. (20) Filler, has nothing to do with mind control

            The equivalent at sea (especially when radio silence had to be maintained) is visual morse code, normally transmitted ship-to-ship with a signal lamp, or exceptionally with flags, where each flag represents a different letter. Alternatively in 'semaphore', the position of the flags represents a different letter. However, the Morse signal lamp is the norm, meaning that in the military we have thousands of highly trained men and women who use their audio and visual skills for real time meaningful communication, but without actually using words as the term 'word' is understood by the general public.  (20) More filler

              

            The critical point to remember about Morse Code and the signallers who use it, is that after a period of learning and conditioning, a string of verbal words and complete concepts are manufactured purely by pulsed electrical input, be that input audio or visual. Nor should we forget the morse signal flags used less frequently by the navy and scouts in the field.   In this case, the human brain is simultaneously decoding signals sent in a series of perplexing mixed colors, which are apparently meaningless until you are trained to understand them. (21)

(21) Now Joe is telling us that, ‘the human brain is simultaneously decoding signals sent in a series of perplexing mixed colours, which are apparently meaningless until you are trained to understand them’, and since none of the general public are trained to understand them, then they remain meaningless. Semaphore does not rely upon "perplexing mixed colours"; the colours are in very distinct shapes, patterns and groups of patterned flags.

 

            Hollywood was enchanted by the myriad possibilities for controlling public thought and reasoning, and set about devising a top secret program designed to link specific colors to specific tones or words or concepts. For example, in the rather cynical 1977 Spielberg film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", a simple earthling with a synthesizer, sets about teaching an alien spaceship how to communicate with him, by matching synthesizer tones to the flashing colors on the spaceship itself.

            By the time Spielberg made this film in 1977, Hollywood had already been practicing on real live human audiences for four years. Hence my use of the word 'cynical', because Spielberg was a significant mover and shaker behind the covert Hollywood control program.

            As the years rolled by, an entire new visual language was built up, made even more powerful nowadays by precise digital television transmissions, which provide a wider range of hexidecimal colors for coded use. The problem, of course, is that like the old Enigma Code of WWII vintage, only those with the key know what they are sending, and only they know what impact the specific message will have on the viewing public. (22)

(22) Oh by the way Joe, the word is 'hexadecimal', meaning a numeral system having a radix (Latin for root), also called base of 16, and was first introduced to the computing world in 1963 by IBM. During WW2, every British soldier knew exactly how to decipher the German Enigma Code, didn’t they? Of course not. But if the masses are to be ‘mind controlled’ then they must be able to recognise, either consciously or subconsciously the signals being sent to them.


           If you want a strong clue to the content, consider the words of insider Zbigniew Brzezinski once again: "In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason."

(23) Brzezinski was quite correct, and this individual support of the masses is induced by the various talking heads on the television and radio, and to a lesser degree the newspaper media, because with newspapers a reader has time to read, analyse and decipher what he is reading, and can also return at a later date to verify that information. This analysis work is impossible with television and radio because it is only heard once. A slogan once used by Melbourne’s Channel 9 was; "I know everything I need to know ‘cause Brian (Naylor - a newsreader) tells me so." Perhaps this should be changed to; "I know everything I need to know ‘cause Joe Vialls tells me so."

            Now then, ladies and gentlemen, would you say that George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard (Australia) are naturally endowed with "magnetic and attractive personalities", to  the point where they can easily exploit the, "latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason"? Of course not, for all three men are repulsive and unattractive, and about as close as it is possible to get to borderline mental retardation. (24)

  1. This paragraph is balderdash. It is difficult to get over the inflammatory adjectives, but once they are ignored then what is left is an argument that runs counter to some of Joe Vialls’ previous statements that ‘mind control has induced the belief that G W Bush is a warm fuzzy guy (10) and that one recent applicant was the Australian Prime Minister John Howard (17). What Joe Vialls is actually telling us here is that his so-called ‘mind control’ techniques had no effect whatsoever.

            Where Brzezinski and Spielberg have won, and you have lost, lies in their ability to control your thoughts and reasoning with color coded language, to the point where you believe that grey-haired political weaklings are "magnetic and attractive personalities". Nowadays if Hollywood tells you that black is white, you'd better believe it, or else. For as long as you watch Hollywood's films and television, their power over you will be continually reinforced, and you will dutifully send son after son and daughter after daughter to die in far off lands on behalf of Wall Street. (25)

(25) And now Joe Vialls tells us we have lost. Again counter to his previous statement of "Of course not, for all three men are repulsive and unattractive and about as close as it is possible to get to borderline mental retardation". We are now told that we believe these same men are "magnetic and attractive personalities", and "you’d better believe it or else"! Is this the same con that featured in the Abbot and Costello films that Joe would have watched as a lad?

            You can actually break the cycle and return to your own thoughs and reason, by the simple expedient of destroying your television set, VCR and DVD, but I'm betting you won't be prepared to make that sacrifice in order to save your children. Unsurprisingly perhaps, Hollywood is betting you won't do so either. (26)

(26) Could this be today’s equivalent of the burning of the books in Berlin? Much rather than use your own discretion, Joe is now compelling you to act out his demands. Is this a similar form of ‘mind control’ to that as displayed by Homer Simpson whenever he sees a ‘Dem-tel’ advertisement on the television?

            As stated earlier, government-selected 'patsies' have rather more than subliminal color coding thrown at them from a television screen. For these men and women (at least those who survive), have to stand up in a court of law and, eventually, make a full confession about a crime they did not commit, or simply mumble "guilty" a few times. Just how this is managed will be explained in part two of this series, probably ready about one month from now. (27)

(27) Joe Vialls has been writing about ‘patsies’ in Australia since 1997. Joe has also been writing about ‘mind control’ since 1990 in his unpublished book ‘Mike Alpha Delta 3’. It is amazing that after eight years of writing about Martin Bryant that Joe Vialls is now connecting these acts of Politically Motivated Violence with ‘Mind Control’.

             

General Public References

 

Body Language                             Julius Fast

 

Journey into Madness                  Gordon Thomas

 

None Dare Call it Conspiracy         Gary Allen

 

Operation Mind Control                Walter Bowart

 

Subliminal Seduction                     Wilson Bryan Key   

 

Techniques of Persuasion             J.A.C. Brown

 

War Crimes                                   Ramsey Clark & Others

 

War on The Mind                           Peter Watson

 

Low Light LTVR                             Classified  

 

Project Spectrux                          Classified    

This list of ‘General Public References is totally irrelevant. There are no specific references to any of the arguments or points given by Joe Vialls to any of these listed works. Is there any of Joe Vialls article that even touches on Gary Allen’s book, "None dare call it Conspiracy"? I cannot find any! Furthermore, how can the last two entries be "classified" and thus without any authenticity whatsoever?

 

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*) Auditory "hallucinations" don't necessarily mean "mental illness"

Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:07:51 -0500 From: "Gary Kohls" <gkohls@cpinternet.com>

Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter # 195

Book Review: Hearing Voices: Contesting the Voice of Reason

by Lisa Blackman

Book Description

The hearing of voices is generally regarded as a pathological phenomenon, a form
of mental illness. This belief in the pathology of hearing voices underpins the
diagnostic systems of psychology and psychiatry and most forms of treatment.
Hearing voices, however, would appear to be far more common than often believed.
Drawing on her research with the Hearing Voices Network the author reveals how
many voice hearers are not suffering from mental illness, and that voice hearers
who develop non-psychiatric explanations of their voices may live with them
quite well. The pathological consequences of voice hearing are, to a large
extent it seems, linked up with the social and psychiatric reaction to the
experience. Lisa Blackman has written an important book that bears directly on
some of the central assumptions of psychology and psychiatry and questions our
understanding of ourselves as rational autonomous human beings

From the Publisher

Lisa Blackman is Lecturer in the Psychology of Communications, Goldsmiths
College, University of London. __

Dr. Marius Romme, a psychiatrist from Maastricht, the Netherlands, is highly
respected by European consumers for his research regarding persons who hear
voices and for his support of a specialized self-help group network. Romme's
research began after one of his patients who heard voices informed him that she
was dissatisfied with what psychiatry offered her; psychiatry, she explained,
could only provide her with a diagnosis and with behavior modification
techniques - none of which helped to resolve her problems.

**) Introduction, or What on Earth is a Tachistoscope?

Recently I came across references on the web to a machine called a tachistoscope, a device for flashing up a series of images at great speed. Although originally designed by the US Air Force to help train pilots to recognise enemy aircraft, tachistoscopes were used in early attempts to train people to speed read. Because the images (or text) always appear in the same place, the viewer's eyes do not have to move to read the next word, thus greatly reducing the amount of time wasted while the eyes refocus.

By flashing a single word at a time quickly on your computer screen, it can display a whole document which you can read without moving you eyes.

Unfortunately, the cold light of implementation reveals a sad fact – its sort of a stupid idea. It may be a useful aid for identifying enemy aeroplanes, but seeing only one word at a time really destroys any flow that the text processes. It is interesting to see how your views of a passage differer as you read at different speeds. I find that if I crank the speed up to the point where each word only just barely registers in my brain (about 1000 words per minute), then all I get are weird impressions of the story as it rushes by. Its quite trippy.

_______________________________________

The psychologists and educational specialists working on the visual acuity question devised what was later to become the icon of early Speed Reading courses, the tachistoscope. The tachistoscope is a machine designed to flash images at varying rates on a screen. The experiment started with large pictures of aircraft being displayed for participants. The images were gradually reduced in size and the flashing-rate was increased. They found people could identify minute images of different planes when flashed on the screen for only one-five-hundredth of a second.

The results had obvious implications for reading, and thus began the research into the area of reading improvement, using the tachistoscope. Using the same methodology as in the aircraft example, the Air Force soon discovered that they could flash four words simultaneously on the screen at rates of one five-hundredth of a second, with full recognition by the reader.

This training demonstrated clearly that, with some work, reading speeds could be increased. Not only could they be increased but the improvements were made by improving visual processing. Therefore, the next step was to train eye-movements by means of a variety of pacing techniques in an attempt to improve reading.

The reading courses that followed used the tachistoscope to increase reading speeds, and discovered that readers were able to increase their speeds from 200 to 400 words per minute using the machine. The drawback to the tachistoscope was that post-course timings showed that, without the machine, speed increases rapidly diminished.

Following the tachistoscope discoveries, Harvard University Business School produced the first film-aided course, designed to widen the reader’s field of focus in order to increase reading speed. Again, the focus was on visual processing as a means of improvement. Using machines to increase people's reading speeds was the trend of the 1940s. While it had been clearly established that reading speed increases of 100% were possible and had been attained, lasting results had yet to be demonstrated.

It was not until the late 1950s that a portable, reliable and 'handy' device would be discovered as a tool to promote reading speed increases. The researcher this time was a mild-mannered school-teacher with a passion for underachievers and reading, named Evelyn Wood. Not only did she revolutionize the area of Speed Reading, but she committed her life to the advancement of reading and learning development.