#URIGeller

People (4)

• Andrija Puharich Physician and parapsychologist who lectured the Pentagon on ESP in psychological warfare in 1952, founded the Round Table Foundation, and brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute in 1972.
• Eldon Byrd Eldon Byrd was a Navy physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center who conducted parapsychology experiments with Uri Geller in 1973-1974 including the nitinol memory-metal bending test, and worked on research into electromagnetic effects on biological systems.
• Ruth Hefer Ruth Hefer was an Israeli journalist who witnessed Uri Geller's apparent prediction of Egyptian President Nasser's death in fall 1970 at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, an incident that significantly boosted Geller's Israeli reputation.
• Shimshon Shtrang Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is Uri Geller's long-time friend, assistant, and brother-in-law who accompanied Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in the early 1970s, where the CIA excluded him from experiments after magician James Randi raised questions about potential collusion.