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SHIFTHEADS - The Year That Started With the Moon and Ended With Manson
1969 history has two halves that barely belong in the same year. The first half gives you Apollo 11 and Woodstock. The second gives you the Manson murders and Altamont, where the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels as security and a man was stabbed to death in the crowd. Ed Conroy says you can feel the temperature of the whole year change between August and December.
What does it mean that people did not lock their doors before the Manson murders? That Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate had no private security, no reason to think they needed it? The murders happened a couple of weeks after…
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