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Robert M. Bowman (September 19, 1934〔http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/760964/Bowman-Robert.php〕 - August 22, 2013〔http://www.beachfuneralhome.com/book-of-memories/1658777/Bowman-Robert/service-details.php〕) was a former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He received a Ph.D. in aeronautics and nuclear engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Bowman, the father of Robert M. Bowman, Jr., was the founding archbishop of the United Catholic Church, an "independent Catholic fellowship" created in 1996 and held to be connected through apostolic succession to the Old Catholic Churches.〔("The Bowman Lineage", ''Terrence J. Boyle's Outline of Episcopi Vagantes'' )〕 Bowman retired as archbishop in June 2006. He was consecrated as bishop on 18 April 1996 by Bishop William Dennis Donovan (1943-1997), assisted by Bishops Orlando Hyppolitus Lima y Aguirre (1934-2009) and Grant W. Cover (born 1965). Additionally, he was executive director of Christian Support Ministries.〔(World Interfaith Congress )〕 Bowman was a prominent figure in the 9/11 Truth Movement.〔http://www.thepatriots.us/index.html〕 ==Activism== Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, Bowman emerged as an early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also aka "Star Wars") during the Ronald Reagan administration. On ''The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour'', he called it "the ultimate military lunacy, easily overwhelmed and vulnerable".〔''Reagan's America'' by Lloyd deMause (1984) ISBN 0-940508-02-8 (citing 'The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour,' WNET-TV, November 10, 1983, with further reference to "Star Wars-Pie in the Sky", ''New York Times'', December 14, 1983, p. A35.)"〕 Bowman founded the Institute for Space and Security Studies and its publication ''Space & Security News'' (1983) (ISSN 1071-2569). He also authored two books on the subject of SDI and was a critic of an outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National Missile Defense.〔(Star Wars II, George II reinvents National Missile Defense )〕 For several years Bowman was active with Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War as a speaker.〔(Central Florida Veterans For Peace - (update) January 14, Town Hall Meeting )〕〔(Vietnam Veterans Against the War: The Veteran: Quit Making More Combat Veterans )〕〔http://www.veteransforpeace.org/2002conv.htm〕 He had also been a member of the Peace Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.〔(''Friends of Peace Pilgrim newsletter'' 7 summertime 1989. )〕 In 1998, Project Censored cited Bowman's article "Our Continuing War Against Iraq" in the May 1998 issue of ''Space and Security News'' as one of the few (along with Bill Blum of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Dennis Bernstein) covering what they deemed the fifth most censored story, "U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Linked to the Deaths of Half a Million Children".〔(Gabriel Roth, "Not fit to print? Project Censored uncovers the stories that didn't make the news in 1998" ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'' March 24, 1999 )〕 The WMDs referred to are the biological samples sent to Iraq from the United States up to 1989, and use of depleted uranium during the Gulf War. In a radio interview on April 12, 2007, Bowman said: "Technological feasibility of a defensive shield is entirely irrelevant, because Star Wars has nothing to do with defense. It is an attempt to deploy offensive weapons disguised as defense. Bob Bowman was very vocal about 9/11 and disputed the official version of events. He said ''"The truth about 9/11 is that we don’t KNOW the truth about 9/11"'', and ''"if they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding everything?"'' The latter was referring to what he believed to be the hiding of videotapes of whatever had hit the pentagon and the black boxes from the planes.〔Take a Stand for 911 Truth (Dr. Bob Bowman )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert M. Bowman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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