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  Speaker 1: On two hot August nights in nineteen sixty nine, a
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  Speaker 1: series of brutal murders in Los Angeles shocked the world
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  Speaker 1: and shattered in era's innocence. And at the center of
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  Speaker 1: it all was Charles Manson, an ex convict turned cult
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  Speaker 1: leader who had dispatched a group of devoted followers to
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  Speaker 1: do his dirty work. And by the time all the
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  Speaker 1: bloodshed was over, seven people were dead, and the savagery
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  Speaker 1: of the Manson family crimes, coupled with their eerie ritualistic elements,
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  Speaker 1: ensured the case would seer itself into the hearts and
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  Speaker 1: minds of those who heard it, and more than half
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  Speaker 1: a century later, the Manson family murders remain a cultural touchstone.
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  Speaker 1: They marked in many eyes, the moment the nineteen sixties died,
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  Speaker 1: bringing an abrupt end to the decades character of peace
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  Speaker 1: and love and the idea that a roving band of
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  Speaker 1: hippies could become an instrument in an apocalyptic type violence
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  Speaker 1: struck deep chords of fear, and even today, news of
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  Speaker 1: Manson or his followers, from parole hearings to rumors still
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  Speaker 1: command and attention. So this enduring cultural and psychological significance
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  Speaker 1: begs the question why are we still talking about Charles Manson? Crime? Conspiracy, cults,
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  Speaker 1: serial killers and murder, all things that I love to consume,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, intellectually,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful minded Fred. And today I have a little buddy,
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  Speaker 1: since we're talking about a little tiny man, a little
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  Speaker 1: evil tiny man I brought with me and another tiny man.
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  Speaker 1: But he's not evil. He is so sweet. Maybe he's
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  Speaker 1: a sweet maybe, and he's my true crime pal. And
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who are just listening, I'm holding Rupert,
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  Speaker 1: my little docs and up to the camera, so ready
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Charles Manson cult. So let's do it,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So, without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts,
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  Speaker 1: co Mack five down the highway, slam on the brakes,
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  Speaker 1: and muster this windshield into one of the most infamous
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  Speaker 1: cults together. So Charles Manson was not born to be
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  Speaker 1: a cult leader, believe it or not, but it was
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  Speaker 1: shaped into one by a life of chaos and rejection.
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  Speaker 1: Like most cult leaders, he was born on November twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, Scorpio to a sixteen year old mother
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Manson would enter the world unwanted
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  Speaker 1: and unnamed ouch, and his birth certificate would simply list
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  Speaker 1: him as Manson, and his mother, Kathleen Maddox, was a
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  Speaker 1: troubled teenager who drunk heavily and spent time in prison
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  Speaker 1: for robbery when Charles was just a small boy, so
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  Speaker 1: not a good start. Apple didn't fall far from the tree,
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  Speaker 1: so young Charles would be passed among relatives and guardians,
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  Speaker 1: and at one point in nineteen thirty nine, after his
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  Speaker 1: mother was incarcerated, he was sent to live with an
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  Speaker 1: aunt and uncle in rural West Virginia, although Kathleen was
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  Speaker 1: paroled briefly when he was seven years old and she
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  Speaker 1: was reunited with him, but that stability did not last,
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  Speaker 1: though Manson would later describe this period of his life
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  Speaker 1: the happiest he had ever been. But soon his mother
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  Speaker 1: would be back to her old ways of neglect and
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  Speaker 1: petty crime, and Charles would unfortunately be left feeling abandoned
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  Speaker 1: yet again. So by nine years old, Manson began exhibiting
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  Speaker 1: some disturbing behavior, and by disturbing, I mean that shit crazy,
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  Speaker 1: because at nine years old he would set his school
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  Speaker 1: on fire, just foreshadowing a pattern of crime. Yet to come,
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  Speaker 1: and with a childhood just tainted by neglect, transience, and abites,
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  Speaker 1: he became a part of the juvenile justice system pretty
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  Speaker 1: early on. So at thirteen years old, Manson would be
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  Speaker 1: sent to Gibolt School for Boys, a strict reform school
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  Speaker 1: where beatings and harsh punishments were routine, and as you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine, this didn't do much for rehabilitating him. If anything,
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  Speaker 1: it just hardened him even more different times, and a
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  Speaker 1: psychologist who actually evaluated a teenage Manson noted his quote unquote,
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  Speaker 1: he was aggressively anti social and he had a persecution complex,
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  Speaker 1: attributing these traits to an unfavorable family life, if it
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  Speaker 1: can be called family at all. In other words, Charles
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  Speaker 1: Manson basically just grew up feeling unwanted and unloved and
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  Speaker 1: learning early on that violence and deceit could serve as
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  Speaker 1: survival tools in a very hostile world. So Manson's childhood
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  Speaker 1: and early adult years were a revolving door of correctional institutions,
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  Speaker 1: because if he wasn't running away from a reform school,
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  Speaker 1: he was committing new offenses that landed him in juvenile
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  Speaker 1: halls and eventually federal prison, and at the age of seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: after escaping a minimum security facility, Manson would be caught
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  Speaker 1: driving a stolen car across state lines. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: much about law, but I think that's illegal, and it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a federal crime in fact, and this is
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  Speaker 1: when he would start his first prison stint, and over
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  Speaker 1: the next fifteen years he would be incarcerated for a
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  Speaker 1: number of offenses, including, but not limited to, car theft,
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  Speaker 1: armed robbery, pimping, check fraud, and others. So by the
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  Speaker 1: time he reached his early thirties, Manson had spent over
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  Speaker 1: half of his life behind bars. And for someone who
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  Speaker 1: was unwanted and unloved and really didn't have a place
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  Speaker 1: in the world, prison kind of became his home. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: when he was due to be released from Terminal Island
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  Speaker 1: Prison in March of nineteen sixty seven, Manson begged not
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  Speaker 1: to be let out. And we actually know that this
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  Speaker 1: is a thing that happens to prisoners. They spend so
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  Speaker 1: much of their time in jail. That's the only place
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  Speaker 1: they know, so it's the only place they're comfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: if they get out, they actually really struggle with real life,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes they even take their life but oftentimes they
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  Speaker 1: fall back into crime just to end up in the
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  Speaker 1: same place they already were. But there are some that
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  Speaker 1: are rehabilitated and can enter society, but it is not
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  Speaker 1: as common as you'd like to think. After requesting permission
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  Speaker 1: to stay incarcerated, but of course that request was denied,
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  Speaker 1: and at thirty two years old, Manson was thrust back
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  Speaker 1: into society during the Summer of Love, and this was
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  Speaker 1: a period during the late nineteen sixties, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a time of radical culture upheaval, especially in California. Yet
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  Speaker 1: for Manson, the world outside of prison was just overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: and confusing. So Manson would get out of prison and
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  Speaker 1: he would slowly drift over to San Francisco's hippy neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: of Hyatt Ashbury, and upon release, Manson initially actually reported
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  Speaker 1: to a transitional clinic in the Hyatt run by researchers
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  Speaker 1: studying the effects of LSD on youth culture. Sign me up,
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  Speaker 1: just kidding, I'm so I'm kidding, and I'm definitely kidding
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  Speaker 1: because it was covertly funded by agencies like the CIA.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know if you want me to deep dive
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  Speaker 1: into the CIA and mk Ultra and all that fun
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  Speaker 1: stuff because it's fucked up and I would love to
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  Speaker 1: cover it. So let me know, Deblo, if you want
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  Speaker 1: me to do that. If you want me to cover that,
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  Speaker 1: put the alien emoji down in the comments. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: in Hyatt, Manson found himself in the epicenter of free love,
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  Speaker 1: psychedelic drugs, and anti establishment politics, along with spiritual experimentation.
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  Speaker 1: So it was just a perfect debrading for someone with
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  Speaker 1: his particular skill set, and that skill set was manipulation.
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  Speaker 1: So Manson quickly learned how to take advantage of this
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  Speaker 1: hippie subculture by adopting its look and its lingo with
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  Speaker 1: his long hair, scraggly beard, and intense eyes. It skid
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  Speaker 1: sanely intense eye. It's he's like, it's terrifying. He's like
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  Speaker 1: little freaky freak. And some said he even resembled Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: which that's a bit blasphemous, but all right. And as
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  Speaker 1: Vincent Buliosi, the prosecutor who put Manson on trial, observed,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of con men and criminals had committed worse crimes
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote, so why are we still talking about Charles Manson?
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  Speaker 1: But BELOWSI would say that Manson quote unquote had an
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  Speaker 1: aura one thousandth of one percent of people have a
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  Speaker 1: near mystical charisma that drew people in. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what people are talking about because you hear him
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  Speaker 1: talk like in interviews and everything, and it's just whack nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But I guess most people were on drugs
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, so it might make sense, I guess. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: behind bars, Manson had been a student of human behavior
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  Speaker 1: and extreme ideas, and he would actually study Dale Carnegie's
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  Speaker 1: How to Win Friends and Influence People Learning tactics to
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  Speaker 1: charm and manipulate others, and prison records show that he
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  Speaker 1: actually explored scientology, and he would absorb concepts from occultish
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  Speaker 1: groups like Processed Church of Final Judgment, whose prophecy of
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  Speaker 1: reconciliation between Satan and Jesus Christ at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the world intrigued him a lot. And Manson was also
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  Speaker 1: deeply impressed by literature, notably Robert A. Heinley, and specifically
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  Speaker 1: a science fiction novel that was named Stranger in Strange Land,
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  Speaker 1: which features a charismatic figure who found a spiritual movement
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  Speaker 1: of shared women and communal living. So this combination of
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  Speaker 1: self help. Scientology, science fiction, and apocalyptic religion blended Manson's mind,
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  Speaker 1: and so he began crafting his own personal philosophies. And
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the most significant influence on Manson was music, and
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  Speaker 1: he actually fancied himself an aspiring singer songwriter, and music
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  Speaker 1: became both his passion and tool for evangelism because in
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  Speaker 1: prison he actually learned guitar from a seasoned bank robber,
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  Speaker 1: and he would just cultivate his dreams of pop stardom,
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  Speaker 1: and after release, he would constantly talk about the Beat Tools,
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  Speaker 1: whose nineteen sixty eight white album he believes contained hidden
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  Speaker 1: messages that were meant just for him. This is where
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  Speaker 1: the crazy is starting to brew. And the song Helter
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  Speaker 1: Skelter in particular took call a prophetic meaning in Manson's mind.
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  Speaker 1: And Manson's musical ambitions were not entirely delusional, because through
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  Speaker 1: a chance encounter, he befriended Dennis Wilson of The Beach
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  Speaker 1: Boys in nineteen sixty eight. You know, I'm picking up
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  Speaker 1: a good vibration. He's begging up a good vibration. I
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  Speaker 1: like the Beach Boys. Don't judge Bay, and Wilson was
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  Speaker 1: actually charmed enough by Manson and his entourage of free
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  Speaker 1: loving girls that he let them crash at his mansion
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  Speaker 1: for a time, like I just want to I know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he's say into these people, because it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And the Beach Boys even recorded one of Manson's songs
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  Speaker 1: and released it. Unfortunately for Manson, it was uncredited, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a B side to a single in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight, and it was called Cease to Exist and
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  Speaker 1: then retitled to Never Learned Not to Love. So Manson
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  Speaker 1: would see this as just the beginning, and through Jennis Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: he met a music producer, Terry Milcher, and he would
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  Speaker 1: harbor hopes of actually landing a record deal. But when
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  Speaker 1: those hopes fizzled, it was a crushing blow to Manson,
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  Speaker 1: and rejection by the music industry would soon fester into
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  Speaker 1: one of many resentments driving his dark fantasies. Guy holds
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  Speaker 1: a grudge. So to understand how Manson could attract followers
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  Speaker 1: and convince them of wild ideas, one must understand the
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  Speaker 1: climate of the nineteen sixties. The era was ripe with
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  Speaker 1: cult formation, as we know if you watch this channel,
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  Speaker 1: because the youth were rebelling against mainstream authority, spurning traditional
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  Speaker 1: religion and square society in fail of spiritual exploration, psychedelic
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  Speaker 1: drugs and communal living, free spirit hippie life you know
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco in nineteen sixty seven to nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight was the heart of this counterculture, and it was
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  Speaker 1: just a place where runaways, dropouts, and seekers converged, all
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  Speaker 1: just desiring connection in alternative families. And into the same
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  Speaker 1: stepped Charles Manson, a man with nowhere to go and
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  Speaker 1: nothing to lose, armed with a career criminal's cunning and
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  Speaker 1: an amateur guru's pattern, and he would just package himself
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  Speaker 1: as this guru prophet figure, just borrowing liberally from decades symbols,
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  Speaker 1: and as one cultural scholar observed, Manson quote unquote, took
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  Speaker 1: on all those signs, LSD, music, free love, communal lifestyles
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  Speaker 1: and reframe them as tools for apocalyptic mass murder. Totally bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: totally evil, and very very seductive. Oh and ironically, while
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  Speaker 1: Manson did appropriate the hippie inn image, he was never
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  Speaker 1: a true believer in peace and love, and he would
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  Speaker 1: just present himself as this kind of messiah, a messiah
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  Speaker 1: of love. But beneath that facade he nursed, hatred towards
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  Speaker 1: society and towards racial minorities and towards the establishment, like
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  Speaker 1: that one uncle at Thanksgiving that nobody likes. Still, at
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  Speaker 1: a time when so many people were desperate for meaning
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  Speaker 1: and belonging, Manson's mix of flower child outward vibes and
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  Speaker 1: doomsday intermessage struck a chord with people. And this was
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  Speaker 1: the era of Vietnam War protests, racial conflict, and political assassinations.
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  Speaker 1: So chaos and uncertainty were just filled in the air,
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  Speaker 1: and to souls drifting through the Hyato or Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: his certainty and charisma were just magnetic. So before long,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Manson had gathered around him a very devoted circle
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  Speaker 1: of followers who would come to be known as the
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  Speaker 1: Manson Family. So the Manson Family did not form overnight,
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  Speaker 1: and it grew gradually as he roamed California from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven to nineteen sixty eight, just picking up the
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  Speaker 1: young and seemingly voiceless along the way, and his earliest
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  Speaker 1: recruits would be vulnerable young women, classic classic cult leader stuff,
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  Speaker 1: who found in Manson the acceptance and attention that they
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  Speaker 1: so desperately craved. And as former family member, Diane Lake recalls,
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote, they all instantly loved bond me. It was
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  Speaker 1: so emotionally fulfilling to feel so loved and accepted. And
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  Speaker 1: Lake was only fourteen at the time she met Manson,
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  Speaker 1: she was a literal child, and like many others, she
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  Speaker 1: saw him as a caring father figure that she never had.
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  Speaker 1: I would have been. I would have been. I got
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  Speaker 1: way too many daddy issues. Man would be. I would
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  Speaker 1: have been in it. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, but like
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  Speaker 1: you know, also not, I'm just kidding that. So Manson
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  Speaker 1: deliberately targeted such people, so mostly women, often in their
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  Speaker 1: late teens or early twenties, and many from middle class backgrounds,
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  Speaker 1: but with very troubling pasts, either family issues, insecurities, or
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  Speaker 1: just a hunger for belonging. And with each new follower,
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  Speaker 1: man And employed the same tactics flattery, affection, and a
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  Speaker 1: sense of adventure, and he would often invite a girl
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  Speaker 1: to join the circle, sitting cross legged on the floor
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  Speaker 1: while singing her a song and telling her she's the
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful girl in the world. I would have been
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  Speaker 1: sucked right in. I would have been sucked right in.
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  Speaker 1: I was like play doo back then, my lord, I
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  Speaker 1: always think about, you know who, how could these people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how could these people be so so silly
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  Speaker 1: and so dumb and like be so this are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? You get me at like seventeen years old,
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  Speaker 1: just wanting to rebel from my family, let alone in
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  Speaker 1: the sixties. You don't have a phone, you don't know
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  Speaker 1: anything about the world. Dude. It's like eighty percent of
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  Speaker 1: us would have been in this guy's hand, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I know all at least me, at least me. Probably
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  Speaker 1: I would have said no, obviously the murder part, But
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  Speaker 1: I think I would have been strumming an acoustic guitar
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  Speaker 1: and doing doing some LSD back in the sixties, probably
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  Speaker 1: for sure. But anyway, he just had this uncanny ability
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  Speaker 1: to probe someone's insecurities and just manipulate their vulnerabilities. And
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  Speaker 1: in the euphoric Summer of love atmosphere, young runaways and
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  Speaker 1: hippies were just primed to embrace a man preaching free
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  Speaker 1: love and utopian ideals. So from the High Ashbury scene,
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  Speaker 1: Manson's entourage just swelled, and by nineteen sixty eight, Charles
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  Speaker 1: Manson had gathered a core group of two dozen or
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  Speaker 1: so followers who believed that he was no ordinary man.
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  Speaker 1: To them, Charlie was a guru, even Jesus or the
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  Speaker 1: devil incarnate depending on the day. And though Manson portrayed
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  Speaker 1: the family of a tribe of equals, in truth that
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  Speaker 1: operated just like a cult hierarchy with Manson at the apex,
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  Speaker 1: and we see the same thing over and over again
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  Speaker 1: with the Jim Jones and Heaven's Gate and all these
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  Speaker 1: the children of God. They all act like it's all
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  Speaker 1: super even this commune, but there's always a hierarchy, and
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  Speaker 1: that's always a douchebag with a weird stare. So. One
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  Speaker 1: of the first to join Manson Mary She was a
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  Speaker 1: twenty three year old librarian whom Manson charmed and convinced
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  Speaker 1: to let him move into her apartment in Berkeley, and
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  Speaker 1: Mary would soon quit her job and hit the road
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  Speaker 1: with Charlie, becoming a mother of sorts to the family. No,
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  Speaker 1: not RuPaul, although RuPaul is mother, and she would actually
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  Speaker 1: fall pregnant with Manson's child in the summer of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven. And Valentine Michael, nicknamed Pooh Bear, was born
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  Speaker 1: April fifteenth, nineteen sixty eight, not gonna lie kind of
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  Speaker 1: a cool name. And then there was Texts, and Texts
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  Speaker 1: was born in Athlete. He's six', three And texts Was
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  Speaker 1: manson's chief enforcer and ultimately the lead killer in the
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  Speaker 1: family's most heinous. Crimes And manson used to say that
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  Speaker 1: text was his right hand when it came to getting things.
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  Speaker 1: Done and it Was tex Whom manson would later task
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  Speaker 1: in initiating the murder. Spray an unquestioning and very, Efficient
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  Speaker 1: text became the family's instrument of death on those infamous.
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  Speaker 1: Nights and then there Was. Bobby Bobby, bouselet a former
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  Speaker 1: member of several rock. Bands his love for music was
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  Speaker 1: a deep connecting factor for him And, manson and he
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  Speaker 1: was a key member in The Gary hinman murder Who
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  Speaker 1: bobby was living with when he Met, manson and he
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  Speaker 1: was intensely loyal To. Manson he even stated at a
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  Speaker 1: sanity hearing along four Other manson, associates quote, UNQUOTE i
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  Speaker 1: met war with everyone in this. Courtroom it's nothing, personal
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  Speaker 1: but the world has been getting at my brothers and.
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  Speaker 1: Sisters as long as they are ripping off our, world our,
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  Speaker 1: friends and our. Children you better PRAY i never get out,
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  Speaker 1: Okay and then we Have Susan Sadie. Atkins sadie was
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  Speaker 1: known to be street smart and deeply devoted To, manson
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  Speaker 1: and she also had a, wild impulsive streak and desperately
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  Speaker 1: Sought manson's. Approval And atkins would take part in the
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  Speaker 1: first murder of the family, committed and she would later
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  Speaker 1: brag about her crimes while in. Jail next we Have
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  Speaker 1: Patricia Katie, crenwinkle and she was quiet and seemingly gentle
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  Speaker 1: in the early, days But katie underwent a very dark
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  Speaker 1: transformation Under manson's, influence as most of them, did but
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  Speaker 1: she had been a church going teenager before she Met
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  Speaker 1: charlie that afterwards she became one of the most obedient,
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  Speaker 1: disciples And katie would participate directly in the murders On
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  Speaker 1: manson's orders as. Well and then we Have Leslie lulu Van.
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  Speaker 1: Houton she would be the youngest Of manson's women at
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  Speaker 1: nineteen years, old And leslie was drawn in by the
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  Speaker 1: free love lifestyle AND lsd. Trips she was in for
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  Speaker 1: the drugs at least at, first and though not present
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: for the first night, killings she was one of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: killers on the second night and then there Was Lynette
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: squeaky From. And though not involved in the nineteen sixty nine,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Murders squeaky was one Of manson's most fanatically loyal, followers
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and in nineteen seventy, Five squeaky proved her radical devotion
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: by attempting to ASSASSINATE Us President Gerald. Ford, thankfully her
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: gun did not, fire but she did claim it was
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: in service of environmental. Causes And manson's teachings each played
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a part in the family's, functioning but all revolved around
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the singular figure Of. Charlie manson and his girls would
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: do anything for. Him they would, cook they would have
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so on, command and they would beg on the streets
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: for money for. Him and his male followers provided muscle
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and petty crime. Skills so it was a cult of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: personality in the truest, sense With manson's whims dictating the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: families every single. Move so how the fuck Did manson
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: transform these, young ordinary like people into blindly obedient extensions
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of Will i'll teach. You i'm just gonna teach. You
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: they're gonna teach. You i'm just gonna tell you what went,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: down all? Right but the answer lies in classic cult
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: brainwashing techniques That manson intuitively. Employed and you guys should
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: already know this if you watch my. Videos we cover
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of cults and we know how to make them.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Right you're in my. Cult did you know that we're
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a good? Cult though we don't do. Anything we just have,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: fun eat snacks and listen to true. Crime right fistbum me?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Awesome all? Right? Anyway so, First manson would break down their.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Identities his new members were typically high on, psychedelics often
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: supplied By, charlie and encouraged to abandon their egos and.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Inhibitions much easier to keep people in line when they're
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: literal drug zombies and in GROUP lsd, Sessions manson acted
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: like a high, priest administering acid like a, sacrament placing
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: tabs on each person's. Tongues if you've ever been To catholic,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: church you near the body Of, christ you get a little.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Cracker kind of the same, thing except you, know. Drugs
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and he would guide their trips with his own narration
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: of cosmic, visions And Diane lake would say an acid
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: trip in The manson family was more of a spiritual,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: awakening describing How charlie molded minds in these vulnerable, moments
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And manson also exploited an affection as weapons of control
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: because he would sleep with new female recruits almost, immediately even,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: miners which is so, disgusting and he would just frame
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it as liberating or a sacred, experience and one fourteen
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: year old member recalled That charlie made love to her
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in a way that made her feel quote unquote like
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: she was a, woman not just a little, child and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: she felt, wonderful only years later recognizing it as. Predatory,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: obviously by establishing this will dominance and fatherly, Intimacy manson
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: bound the women to him and they would compete for
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: his favor and saw him as a source of love
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: that they desperately. Wanted and he similarly flattered male followers
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: or bonded through music and philosophical talk to make them
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: feel included in this grand. Mission but, Crucially manson fostered
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: this us versus them, mentality and he would preach that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the outside world was corrupt and that parents in society
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: had failed his followers and Only charlie truly cared for,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: them and a group gatherings around the campfire or in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: their makeshift, homes he spun elaborate, sermons Mixing bible verses
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: With beatle, lyrics warn of a coming apocalypse and assure
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the family that they alone would survive. It does it sound, familiar?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Kids can you think of anyone else that said that?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Before exactly. So under his, guidance everyday life for the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: family became a process of continuous. Indoctrination so members would
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: renounce their, possessions And manson insisted they give up any
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: money that they had or belongings to the communal, pot
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: just increasing dependency on. Him they would also dress, similarly
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: often in dirty jeans or, buckskin Imitating, charlie and they
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: would even move or speak in unison at times really
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: creepy and. Weird they were just slowly all morphing Into.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Charlie they were losing themselves, completely and any sort of
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: original thought or questioning was just not tolerated By. Manson
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: if anyone Questioned, manson he would just belittle them or
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: make them feel like the butt of the group and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: ridicule them until they. Conformed and over, Time manson's tactic
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: would grow horsher and what started as love bombing and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: drugs later incorporated fear and violence And once the core
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: members were hooked on his, Approval manson would test their
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: loyalty by commanding evermore extreme, behavior and he would have
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the family perform at nighttime creepy, crawleys which is. Horrifying
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and these would be missions where they would break into
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: random houses while occupants. Slept and it wasn't to steal, anything, no, no,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: nane but simply to rearrange furniture and creep out. Unseen
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: basically just psychologically torturing people and just to see if
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: they were capable of doing. It you, know IF i
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: can imagine waking up in the morning and just seeing
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: your chase lounge in your, kitchen what do you do with?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: THAT i don't KNOW'S i don't. KNOW i THINK i
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: would go, mad WHICH i think is what was the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: point of. It but it was just this bizarre training
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: of law breaking and daring intended to numb the group
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to the fear of invading homes and it would just
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: be a rehearsal for the later. Murders so he began
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: enforcing discipline through physical as, well and several female, followers
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: including A Diane lake And Catherine, cher later recounted That
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: manson beat or gapped them to control, them And cher
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: described being beaten quote unquote within an inch of her
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: life over a trivial. Mistake So manson really understood the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: power of, terror And charlie himself boasted in a recorded,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: INTERVIEW i never lose. CONTROL i take, control just a
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: little little, man devil. Freak and by mid nineteen sixty
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: nine the family was effectively Under manson's total. Domination they lived,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: together they isolated from, outsiders reinforcing each other's beliefs In manson's.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Vision so the stage was set for these indoctrinated followers
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to Follow manson straight into the abyss when he decided
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the time for helter skelter had. Come so In july
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, eight after drifting up and down The california,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: coast The manson family found a semi permanent home At
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Spawn Movie. Ranch And Spawn ranch was a rundown five
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: hundred acre horse ranch and former western movie set in
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: The Rocky hills northwest of la and its, Owner George,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: spawn was an elderly blind man and Allowed manson and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: his motley crew to stay on the property in exchange
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: for odd jobs and she will favors and those favors
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: would come from The manson, girls and a, gross not
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: so fun fact is that Young Lynette squeaky from got
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: her nickname from the squeaking sounds she made to entertain
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: The George, spawn which is it's just so. Gross so
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the setting was rustic and removed from, civilization just How
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: manson liked, it because here he could play the role
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of frontier, patriarch ruling over his kingdom without much interference at,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: all and daily life At Spawn ranch outwardly resembled a hippie,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: commune and the family forged food from dumpsters or made
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: runs into the town to collect discarded. Produce and if
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you've ever Seen Once upon A time In hollywood By Quentin,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: tarantino a very good, MOVIE i suggest you go watch.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It it's a spin off from, this but he really
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: gets that cult. FEELING i feel really well BECAUSE i
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was so uncomfortable watching The manson family operate In Spawn.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Ranch it was so, weird BUT i think he got
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it pretty on. Point but, anyway they would hold campfire
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: song sing, alongs With manson strumming eggs the guitar and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: singing his original folk songs while everyone joined in the.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Chorus all, well dropping acid on a frequent, basis and
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: just practicing free. LOVE a new children were born into
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: The manson, family Including manson's own son With Mary, brunner
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and they were raised in the. Commune yet there was
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: an undeniable dark side to Spawn, ranch and family members
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: carried knives and even, guns considering themselves a self defense
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: tribe preparing for end. Times And manson and the men
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: just stockpiled stolen cars and converted them into dune, buggies
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: just ready for desert warfare or. Escape and target practice
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: became a form of, recreation and they would stage bizarre
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: military style drills At manson's whim and all of it
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: was just training for What manson warmed was, imminent and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that was The Great Race war Of Helter skelter and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Spawn ranch also became the backdrop for the family's earlier,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: crimes because in nineteen sixty, Nine manson became increasingly more
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: erratic and, paranoid And techs had been doing some small
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: time drug dealing and he was hanging around rock, circles
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and In july nineteen sixty, nine a botched drug transaction
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Between texts and a dealer Named Bernard lots Of Popa
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: crow Led manson to Shoot crow to protect, texts And
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: manson believed that he had actually killed a black, panther
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: just heightening his paranoia that the black panthers were now
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: after the. Family but little Did manson know That crow
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was not actually a black, panther And crow survived the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: attempt of his. Life but this incident just Fed manson's
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: race war delusions and added a sense of urgency to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: his Helter skelter. Timeline and one family, acquaintance a musician
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Named Gary, henman was brutally murdered in his home in
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Late july of nineteen sixty nine After manson Sent, Bobby
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: susan And mary to rough him up over a. Dispute
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And hinman had allegedly received an inheritance of around twenty
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars And manson instructed his family to go and get.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It And manson himself had actually Sliced hinman's face with
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a sword during the, incident And bobby later Sent hinman
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to death while the terrified man begged for his, life
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and at the crime, scene one of the family members
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: wrote Political piggy In hinman's blood on the, wall and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: they also drew A panther, paw attempting to pin the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: blame on the Militant Black panthers because it was one
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of their. Symbols and for those of you who don't,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: know The Black Panther party was founded in nineteen sixty
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: six By HUEY. P newton And Bobby seal In, Oakland,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: california and it was as a response to police brutality
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and the failures of non violent, tactics and the party
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: advocated for a black, nationalism armed self, defense and socialist,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: ideals positioning itself as a revolutionary force within The black power.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Movement so after they Killed hinman that they would head
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: back To Spawn, ranch and shortly After bobby would actually
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: be arrested For hinman's murder On august, sixth nineteen sixty,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: nine And manson became furious and. Desperate so this was
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the turning, point and he told his family that they
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: now might need to stage copycat murders to make it
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: look like real killers were still at large and thus
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Get bobby out of. Jail and this plan just joined
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: With manson's helter skelter prophecy which he had been preaching
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: as we know four months at this, point so the,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: lazy laid back summer days At Spawn ranch were about
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to erupt in a storm of. Violence so throughout the family's,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Formation manson never relinquished his dreams of musical. Success guy was.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Determined guys was determined to be The, beatles but the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: stream had major. Consequences his connection to THE la music
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: scene was weak but, tantilizing and Through Dennis wilson and other,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Contacts manson occasionally mingled on societies fringes with entertainers and,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: producers and as briefly mentioned, Earlier wilson Introduced manson To Terry,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: melcher who was an influential producer for acts like The.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Birds but despite hints of, Interests melcher ultimately decided not
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to Sign manson to any record, deal And manson would
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: be devastated by this, rejection and it would bruise that
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: little man's ego deeply and making matters worse In manson's.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Mind at, Least melcher had been renting at a house
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: at one hundred and Fifty Colo drive In Benedict, canyon
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: which was a very secluded luxury, home but by mid
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty Nine melter had moved out And the house
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: was then leased To Roman polanski and his Wife Sharon,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: tate So manson was very aware of the house and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: had actually been there before when it Was melcher's. Residence
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but this address would soon become the site of unspeakable,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: violence and it was a choice of location that was
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: not at all. Coincidental but, then of course there was The,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: beatles And manson just saw them as angelic harborers of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the coming up apocalyptic, war and he would just dissect
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: their songs for secret messages all the, time one of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: them Being Helter, skelter and this was the obvious one
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: because he took the title for his overall. Prophecy and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: then there Was, piggies which spoke of the downfalls of the,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: establishment inspiring the family to later scrawl death to pigs
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: in blood on the. Wall and then there Was revolution,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: nine Which manson interpreted as coding to start the race
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: war and reference to chapter nine of The book Of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: revelation and to call for black people to rise. Up
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and then there Was, blackbird which he thought was also
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a call for black people to take. Power so in,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Essence manson twisted the music industry's output into a soundtrack
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: for his, madness and when his direct bid for stardom,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: failed he redirected his energies into Making Helter skelter a,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: reality and tragically it, worked And manson would achieve a dark,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: immortality but at the cost of innocent lives and his own.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Soul So, skelter two seemingly harmless words That Charlie manson
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: fused with terrifying, significance referred to a spiral slide at
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a playground or, fair And paul McCartney's lyrics allegedly used
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: it as a metaphor for the rise and fall of
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The Roman. Empire but De Manson Helter skelter meant something completely.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Different it was the impending apocalyptic race war that he
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: believed would Destroy american, society And manson claimed Helter skelter
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was a message about chaos and, revolution But manson himself
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: did not come up with this concept in a. Vacuum
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: because the late nineteen sixties were marked by civil, unrest
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: including riots in cities and militant groups like The Black
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: panthers advocating armed self defense against racial. INJUSTICE a newscast
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: about these events would filter into Spawn ranch And, manson
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: a lifelong white supremacist at, heart seized on the racial
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: tensions of the time and spun them into a grandiose.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Prophecy and it was a, ludicrous self serving, fantasy but
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the family accepted, it and ultimately a full on conflict
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: between black and white people would. Erupt and this was
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: The Helter. Skelter and as bizarre as it, sounds this
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: was the ideology That manson drilled into his followers day
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: after day in nineteen sixty eight to nineteen sixty. Nine
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: he so frequently spoke of Helter skelter as a coming
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: reality that it became sort of a cult, mantra and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: family members would scrawl the Words Helter skelter or the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: walls Of Spawn ranch because it was their great commission
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and it was the violent purpose that justified their entire.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Existence so In manson's apocalyptic, vision the family itself had
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a very special. Role they wouldn't actively participate in the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: race war at. First, rather they would go into hiding
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: in the underground. Paradise Because manson told his followers somewhere
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: out in the, desert specifically Beneath California's Death, valley you,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: know the hottest place in the world was a hidden
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: city Like, atlantis and it was a bottomless pit described
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in The book Of revelation where the family could wade
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: out to the coming conflict in. Safety and the family
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: actually spent time searching for this entrance to the pit
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: In Death, valley guided By manson's hunches of biblical, references
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: with Some beatles' references thrown in there, too but alas
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: they never found such a. Place who could have, Fucked
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: but that did not dampen their belief and while, Hiding
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: manson said the family would multiply and be ready to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: emerge When Helter skelter had run its, course and once
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the dust settled top side where most white people would
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: just be exterminated by black, people the victors would just
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: be unable to govern as they had been subject to
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: control for too long and wouldn't know. How so the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: family would come back to the, surface and at this
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Point manson prophesied black people would turn over the power
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: To Charles, manson recognizing him as the rightful ruler of the.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: World guy was, nuts, Dude so in, Essence Helter skelter
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: was just a convoluted route For manson to become king
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of the, world and it's important to stress how incredibly
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: grandiose and racially warped this vision was because it Combined
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: manson's personal, megalomania because he genuinely saw himself as destined
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: For messielite greatness with severe, racism with the idea that
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: black people could win this war but would still be
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: inferior and need him to rule over, them which is
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: just ficked up beyond so many. Levels but the family
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: would accept this, gospel whether out of sincere belief or
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: simply Because manson would allow no. Disagreement so to the outside,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Observer Manson's Helter skelter doctrine was pure, insanity but inside
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the cult it was sincerely held, faith reinforced by what
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: they saw in the. World throughout nineteen sixty eight nineteen sixty,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: nine current events seem to Validate manson's, predictions including the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: assassination of Doctor Martin Luther King junior In april of
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, eight which had ignited a lot of, riots
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and news of The Black panther's arming themselves and clashes
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: with police were very, common And manson would just point
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to these headlines as sign That Helter skelter was, brewing
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and he deliberately excited the family's fears by claiming that
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: The Black panthers were on their way To Spawn ranch
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to get revenge for the black Man manson believed he'd,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: killed which Was Bernard. Crow so the family would do
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: things like guards Spawn ranch at, night convinced that they
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: might be attacked at any given. Moment And manson also
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: role played biblical scenarios to cement his, status and sometimes
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: he would speak As jesus preaching love and, salvation and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: other times he ranted As, satan promising chaos and demanding.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Obedience and he'd say that in him opposite Meant christ
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and The devil were one, being and it just gave
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a semi spiritual weight to all of his, commands because
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: if the family feared what they were about to, Do
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: manson assured them it was. Predestined and on occasion he
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: cited The book Of revelations, imagery saying that they were
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: living in the end. Times and, Additionally manson drew on
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: a cult and fringe beliefs to justify. Brutality and then
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: by mid nineteen sixty, Nine manson's preaching had reached a
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: fever pitch and the group was on edge believing any
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: day now the race war would, erupt and if it
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: didn't start on their, own they may have to teach
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: black people how to do. It and this was the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: final logical, leap the idea that The manson family could
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: ignite helter skelter themselves by committing murders so shocking they
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: would be blamed on black, revolutionaries thus accelerating the. Chaos
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: just a horrific racially motivated racist. Crime and, unfortunately By
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: july nineteen sixty, nine all of the pieces were in
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: place For manson to test his, theory and his followers
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: were prepared to kill at his. Command so the lead
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: up to the murders involved deliberate rehearsals and a selection of,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: targets all Under manson's. Direction as, mentioned the family's creepy
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: crawley exercises were essentially practice runs for home, invasions but
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: these strange night drills served a dual purpose because they
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: bonded as a group through secret shared, crimes and it
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: desensitized them to violating the sanctity of strader's. Homes so
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: by the Time manson ordered actual, killings waltzing into occupied
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: homes at, night already felt eerily familiar to his, minions
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: And manson's control over the family was near. Absolute so
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: this cult of one for all and all for one
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: meant that If charlie decreed someone must die for the,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: cause the family members felt it was their duty to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: make it happen as agents Of Helter, skelter and the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: family members were so steeped In manson's beliefs at this
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: point that they didn't even question how insanely crazy the plan,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: was because in their acid fueled, worldview it made sense
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: that butchering innocent people could be a revolutionary act to
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: save the world and fulfill. Prophecy and soon one of
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century would, occur
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: a crime that the family believed would be the opening
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: shots Of Helter, skelter but which in reality would mark
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the beginning of their own. End so late On august,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: eighth nineteen sixty, Nine Charles manson gathered a group of
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: his most trusted followers and sent them on a mission of,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: death and their destination was one zero zero five Zero Colo.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Drive But manson himself did not go nay. Nay, instead
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: he Ordered Tex watson to quote unquote totally destroy everyone
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: in the house as gruesome as you, can and he
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: would be joined By Susan, Atkins, patricia And, linda And
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: manson would instruct the women to Obey texas orders as
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: if they were his. Own and shortly past midnight in
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the early minutes Of august, ninth a vehicle driven By
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: linda quietly approached the secluded. Property and the occupants had
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: no personal connection to these, intruders but they were about
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to become victims of horrifying scene meant to jumpstart helter,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Skelter and when they reached the gate of one zero
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: zero five Zero Clo, drive tex climbed a telephone pole
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and cut the phone line to prevent any calls for.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Help so they would park down the hill and snuck
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: back up on foot And texts would carry a twenty
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: two caliber revolver and a, knife and the women brought
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: knives and a length of. Rope and as they went
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: across the darkened property toward the main, house headlights suddenly
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: swept across them because a car was coming down the
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: driveway from the. House and this was an unexpected, twist
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and it would be eighteen year Old Stephen parent who
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: was actually a visitor that had just said goodbye to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the estates caretaker in a, guesthouse And text would immediately
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: spring into action and leap in front of parents car
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: with a gun, drawn and parent would plead for them
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: not to hurt, them But texts coldly shot him four
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: times at point blank, range and he would kill the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: team before he could even exit the. Car so the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: first victim had now, fallen and those in the main
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: house remained completely unaware of the horror creeping toward, them
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: So text would Order atkins And patricia to push the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: car further up the driveway out of. Sight, Meanwhile linda
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: was assigned as a lookout by the. Gate, Next text
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: would cut open a window screen and slip into the,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: house then Let atkins And patricia in through the front,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: door and inside the house would be five unsuspecting, people
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and the first would Be Sharon tate and she would
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: be a twenty six year Old hollywood actress who was
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: also eight and a half months. Pregnant and then there
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Was Jay, sebring a thirty five year old celebrity hairdresser
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and friend Of Sharon. Tate and then there Was Abigail,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: folger a twenty five year old coffee, heiress and then
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: there Was Voichek, frigovski who was a thirty two year
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: old man and was Also folger's. Boyfriend and outside in
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the guesthouse was the, Caretaker William, garretson whom parent the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: teen had just, visited And Roman, Polanski tate's husband was
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: away In europe filming a. Movie so that night the
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: friends had spent a casual evening at the, house and
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: as midnight, passed some were starting to doze, off but
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the killers struck. Quickly tex Encountered friofski sleeping on the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: living room couch and kicked him in the, head and
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: this would Startle froyofski asking who he was and what
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: he was doing in the, house and in words that
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: could have been scripted from a horror, movie tex, replied quote,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Unquote i'm the, devil And i'm here to do the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: devil's bit business business. Business what the oh, god it's so,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Unnerving and in an instant any illusion that this was
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a simple robbery or prank evaporated because these intruders were
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: here to, kill so Under texas, Direction Susan atkins found
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the other occupants and rounded them up into the living,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: room and that's when text would pull out a rope
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: that he'd brought and loop it around To tate And
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: seabrings next and slung it over the ceiling, beam effectively
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: tethering the two together by their. Throats And. Sabrings seeing
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: the rough treatment of the heavily Pregnant tate started to,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: protest begging them to ease up on, her but without,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Hesitation texts shot J seabring in the, chest silencing him,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: completely and he also stabbed them seven times as if
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: he hadn't already done, enough and chaos erupted as the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: intruders began to take control of the. House Susan atkins
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: briefly Escorted Abigail folder back to her bedroom to retrieve her,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: purse from Which folders would give her seventy, dollars and
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: this was an attempt to the. Invaders In freikovski's hands
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: were tied with a, towel but in the, confusion he
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: managed to work them, free and that's when he would
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: lunge At Susan, atkins grappling her neck and receiving several
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: step wounds to his legs As atkins tried to fend him,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: off so now injured and, Bleeding he stumbled out the front,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: door desperately yelling for anyone to, help but text would
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: chase him onto the front porch and pistol whip him
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: with a, revolver Cracking raikovski's skull so violently that the
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: gun grip. Broke texts would then Shoot fraikovski twice and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: continue stacking him, repeatedly and it only ended When fraikovski
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: finally fell dead on the lawn with fifty one step
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: wounds and blunt force. Injuries and during this, Mayhem, linda
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: standing guard by the, cars heard the horrifying sounds of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: screams coming from the, house and terrified and, regretful she
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: actually ran toward the house and lied To Susan atkins
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: that someone was, coming hoping to halt the, murders but
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: at this point it was too late and the violence
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: had its own. Momentum now back in the, House Abbigail
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: fulder actually left momentarily unattended after fetching the purse because
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: she saw her chance and bolted out of the bedroom
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: door to the pool. Area but that's When patricia would
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: pursue her across the lawn and, fulger dressed in a
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: white nightgown and now splattered with, blood ran But patricia
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: would catch up to her and she would tackle her her,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: ferociously And tex would soon join and together they would
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Stab abigail twenty eight, times leaving her lifeless in the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: grass and back. Inside Sharon, tate now the sole, survivor
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: was begging for her and her unborn baby's, life and
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: she pleaded With Susan atkins And Tex watson to spare,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: her sobbing that she wanted to live long enough to
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: have her child and even offering herself as a. Hostage
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: but there would be no, mercy And tex And atkins
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Stab Sharon tate sixteen, times killed both her and her unborn.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Baby the brutality was, unspeakable even the coroner later noted
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: That tate may have died after being hanged by the
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: rope text had, tied though the cause was massive hemorrhage
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: from the. Stabbing so in the span of roughly half an,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: hour The manson family killers had exterminated five innocent human.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Beings but their dark work was not even, finished And Susan,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: atkins Remembering manson's instructions to leave a sign specifically something.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Witchy dipped a towel In Sharon tate's blood and used
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: it to scrawl a single word on the front door
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of the, house which was a, pig And atkins would
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: later admit that they wrote pig to make it look
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: like The hindman murder and Get bobby out of, jail
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: shifting the. Blame and as news Of tate's murder, Spread
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Los angeles was plunged into panic because five people were
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: slaughtered in an upscale neighborhood with no clear motive or any.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Suspects but little did anyone Suspect the nightmare was not
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: over and The manson family was just getting. Started so
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: after the savagery of The tate, murders one might think
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: that the killers would now lay, low, which, shockingly the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: very next, Night august, Ninth in the early hours Of august,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: tenth nineteen sixty, nine they struck again Because, manson allegedly
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: unhappy with The tate, murders decided to personally supervise the second,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: mission so in the evening Of august, ninth he piled
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: into a car With Tex watson And patricia And, Leslie
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Linda susan And Steve Clem grogan And manson Told linda
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: to drive to three three oh One Waverley drive in
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: The Los filas, district and this was the home Of
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: leno And Rosemary La, bianca a couple in their, forties
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: and the choice was semi. Random The lebyanca house was
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: next door to a home Where manson and some family
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: members had once attended a party the year, before And
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: manson remembered the street and decided it would do. So
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: manson And tex would quietly approach the house while the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: others waited back in the, car And manson would enter
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the home, first Waking, leno who was dozing on the,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: couch and that's When tex would tie his hands And
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: manson would hold him at, gunpoint And manson would then
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Escort rosemary from the bedroom into the living, room also at,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: gunpoint and that's when techs would then use a pillowcase
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: and lamp cords to cover and bind the victim's, heads
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and once The labiancas were effectively blindfolded and, Restrained manson
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: left the house And Van houton And krenwinkle would. Enter
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Because manson he never got his hands, dirty he never
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: got blood on his hands And manson would Take, Susan
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: linda And clem with him to find another target the same,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: night which was A lebanese actor Named Saladin, nader And
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: manson would leave them there at the apartment complex and
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: return to the, branch and this meant that he dropped
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: his followers off at two locations to commit murders and
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: then left them to hitchhike home on their. Own, Allegedly
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: linda initially knocked on the wrong apartment, door waking a
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: neighbor and preventing the murder from occurring at. All back
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: At Waverley, Drive tex was again in charge inside the
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: house With krenwinkle And Van hooton as his, accomplices And
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: tex would send the women back to the, bedroom and
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: without much, Dialogue tex began to Step lenok the bayonet
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: he brought into his threatnd, repeatedly and in the, Bedroom
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: rosemary sprang up from the bed and started wildly swinging
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the lamp that was still attached to the cord around
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: her at the, intruders and a chaotic struggle began to
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: ensue in the, bedroom And Van houton And krenwinkle tried
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to Subdue rosemary as this terrified woman fought like an
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: animal for her, life and hearing the, Commotion, text now
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: done With leno And leno at this point was still
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: alive but gravely, wounded ran over to the bedroom And
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: text would see That rosemary had managed to keep the
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: woman at bay for a, moment flailing the lamp around
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: as a, weapon But texts would launch himself At rosemary
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: her several times with the same bayonet he used to
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: kill her, husband and that's When rosemary would, collapse And
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: text would then return back To leno and resume his,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: assault seeing that he was not yet, dead and at
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: the end he Stepped leno twelve times with a, bayonet
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: and he would car the word war Into leno's admin
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: And patricia would grab a kitchen and begin Stepping rosemary
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: as she lay on the, floor and Between kreenwinkle and
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Van Houton Rosemary lebianca was approximately forty one, times so
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: with both The lebianca's, dead the killers now took time
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to perform the witchy ritual That manson so. Desired Using
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: leno's That patricia dipped an old carving fork and worked
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: a message on the walls of the living room saying
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: rise and death to, pigs and on the refrigerator she
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: scrawled the misspelled words helter skelter in blood and not
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: content with writing, Alone krenwinkle physically Mutilated leno's body to
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: just drive the point, home and she would take a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: two pronged carving fork and snip it Into leno's, stomach
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: leaving it jumping out of the, corpse and also planted
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a steak knife in his. Throat oh my, god just fucking.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Horrifying and after cleaning up a, Bit tex even took
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: a shower in The lebianca bathroom to rinse off the. Blood,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: krenwinkle Vent, hooton And watson then headed out and they
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: would meet up as the others as, planned hitchhiking and
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: driving back To Spawn ranch under the cover of, darkness
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: and The LaBianca bodies would later be discovered on the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: evening of the tenth by their. Children so in the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: immediate aftermath of these horrifically brutal, murders law enforcement was
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: scrambling because The tate murders were national, news and initially
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: The tate And La bianca cases were investigated separately By
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police department or THE, lapd and The Los
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Angeles County Sheriff's, department, respectively but there was, confusion false,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: leads and growing public clamor for, answers and for a
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: time the words pig and helter skelter on the walls
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: meant nothing to police beyond bizarre, graffiti and The manson
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: family at first wasn't even on the radar because in
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: those early weeks the killers returned to semi normal life
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: At Spawn. Ranch but a breakthrough would come in a
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: completely unrelated, arrest because On august, sixteenth nineteen sixty, nine
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: just one week after the, murders police Raided Spawn ranch
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: and Arrested Charles manson and about two dozen family members
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: on suspicion of auto theft because the group had been
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: stockpiling Stolen volkswagen beetles converted into don buggies on their
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: preparation for a desert, escape which attracted law enforcement. Attention,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: however these charges were mishandled as a warrant was, misdated
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: and within a few days the entire group was released
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: without anyone connecting them to the high profile murders In
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: La so the family would promptly regroup and actually move
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: out to that Death valley area At Barker, ranch thinking
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the heat was completely off them. Now but unfortunately For,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: manson yet another raid was conducted regarding the suspected stolen,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: vehicles and he would be found hiding under a sink
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: and arrested like the fucking, little, tiny measly piece of
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: shit he, Is and this, time, thankfully the arrest would
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: stick and he would be placed in. Jail and for
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: a while it looked like The tait And La bianca
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: murders might Become california's great unsolved. Mystery but then the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: dam broke from the. Inside In october of nineteen sixty,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: nine a captured family member started Talking Susan, atkins who
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: had been implicated By bobby and arrested in Early october
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: for her role in the Game Mary hinman. Murder ended
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: up in, jail sharing a cell with two other, women
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: and feeling boastful or perhaps, Burdened atkins confessed in graphic
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: detail to her cellmates about killing people For. Charlie and
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: she told them about Stabbing Sharon, tate tasting her blood
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: and writing those words on the walls like a fucking.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Idiot But i'm glad she, did and the cellmates Reported
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: atkins's story to the authorities In november of nineteen sixty,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: nine and at nearly the same, time AN lapd investigation
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: finally put together one of the puzzle, pieces and that
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: was a gang of local bikers told detectives That manson
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: had been talking about crazy killings and black panthers around
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the time of the, murders and by Early december of
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, nine the case cracked wide, open because On december,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: FIRST lapd announced warrants for the arrest Of Tex, Watson Patricia,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: kanrinkle And Linda kasabian in The tait, case And Charles
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: manson And Susan atkins were already in, custody picked up
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: from the prior raids and thus not named in the
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: initial warrant press. Release Unless Van hooton's involvement in The
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: La bianca wasn't immediately known at this, point but she
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: too had been arrested In October Barker ranch raid of
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the theft, charges and soon enough detectives Connected Van houton
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: to The La bianca murders via evidence and she was also,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: charged And Tex watson had fled back to his home
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: state Of. Texas, Yes texas From, texas not very not fairy,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: original but he would be arrested on a never thirtieth
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty nine after his fingerprints was matched to
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: one found in The tate, house And krenwinkle had run
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: off To, alabama where she was likewise, arrested And, linda
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: who had left the family and had gone To New,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: hampshire learned of one of the warrants and voluntarily surrendered,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: herself eager to tell her side of the. Story so
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: with the key players in, custody by early nineteen, seventy
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: the full story of the Family manson's crime spree began to,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: emerge And Susan atkins initially cooperated and gave a statement
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: to a grand jury recounting the details of The tate,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: murders but she later recanted and refused to testify a.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Trial fortunately for the, Prosecution linda stepped up as a star,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: witness And, linda who had not killed anyone, technically was
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: deeply remorseful and was offered immunity in exchange for, testimony
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: and she provided a distressing first hand narrative of Both knights,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: murders corroborating physical evidence and Confirming manson's role as the.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Mastermind and thus within a few months of the, crimes
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: police and prosecutors had pieced together what had happened, exactly
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: and the links Between manson and the, victims the Helter
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: skelter motive as told By atkins And, linda and the
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: identity of all. Participants but the challenge ahead would be
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Proving Charles manson's, guilt since he had not personally stabbed
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: or shot. Anyone, nonetheless the stage was set for what
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: many call the trial of The, century a spectacle that
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: would play out In Los angeles courtroom over many months
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: during nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy. One so the trial
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Of Charles manson and the co defendants began On june
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy and quickly became a media circus of unprecedented,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: scale and the proceedings were held in The hall Of
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: justice in downtown All lay and from day one it
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: was clear this was no ordinary. Trial so on the
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: prosecution side it Was Vincent, buliosi a, sharp unflappable Deputy district,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: attorney determined to Hold manson accountable not only for, murder
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: but for commanding others to murder via an elaborate, conspiracy
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: and the Defendants Charles, Manson Susan, Atkins Patricia creenwinkle And
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: lezie Van houten presented a unified front and Tex watson's
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: trial was separated as he delayed extradition From texas And, manson,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: ever theatrical initially insisted on acting as his own Attorney
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Ted bundy, style although this was Before Ted bundy and
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: the Judge William keene allowed this, briefly But manson's, antics
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: such as submitting nonsensical motions and attempting to make bizarre opening,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: statements led to that privilege being revoked And keen was
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: replaced By Judge Charles older After manson filed An Affi
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: david of prejudice against. Him and security at these trials
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: was extremely, tight and the family members who were not on,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: trial such As Squeaky sandy and, others gathered daily outside
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the courthouse and they would just support from the sidewalk
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: and they would have their heads shaves and exes carved
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: into their foreheads to match the Mark manson had made
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: on himself and often chanted in saying in the, street you,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: know like a. Cult in prosecution worried that these devoted
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: family members might try to influence her harm witnesses took
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: an unusual step and they subpoened many of them as prospective,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: witnesses just so they could be legally barred from the,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: courtroom as witnesses are excluded until. Testimony but despite these,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: efforts the family found ways to make their presence, felt
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and at one, point family members attempted to intimidate a key,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Witness Paul, watkins a former member who had, defected and
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Another Huan, flynn by threatening, them And watkins even suffered
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: a suspicious fire in a van that burned, him which
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: he believed was a relation to the. Family and another,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Member Barbara, hoyt who knew incriminating, details was lured To
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: hawaii by family Member ruth And, morehouse and she was
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: nearly killed When morehouse slipped her AN lsd Laced, hamburger
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: But hoyt survived and the attempt only made her to
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to testify even more and inside the, courtroom the defendants
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: engaged in continuous, disruptions and one bizarre episode occurred When
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: manson dramatically held up A Los Angeles times front page
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: with the Headline manson. Guilty nixon declares in front of the,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: jury And Judge older had to individually ask jurors if
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: they could be, impartial and they all said, yes averting
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: as a, mistrial and the female defendants tried to Exploit
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: nixon's comments by standing, on saying, essentially see The president
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: says we're, guilty so why go, on but the stunt also.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Failed yet one of the most dramatic moments came On october,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: fifth nineteen. Seventy frustrated that he couldn't directly cross examine a,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Witness manson suddenly leaped over the defense table and lunged
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: At Judge, older and chaos ensued as bailiffs Tackled manson
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: to the, ground which didn't take much because he's really fucking,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: short and the female defendants stood up and began chanting
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: some kind of gibberish which was Possibly, latin further freaking
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: out the. Courtroom and after this, Incident Judge older started
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: carrying a thirty eight revolver on nder his robes for,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: protection which, like, yeah rightfully. So so it was that
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: kind of, trial a chaotic shit show of a, trial
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: and the defense, attorneys for their, part were in a
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: bind because each woman had her own, lawyer And manson
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: had won after his self representation, ended but the defendants
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: often seemed to be sabotaging their own case On manson's,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: behest so the defense team was just, LIKE i can't
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: and wrangle these. Psychos so the women's lawyers revealed to
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the judge in a private conference that their clients wanted
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: to testify That manson had nothing to do with the
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: murders and that they did it all on their own,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: brainwashed essentially martyring themselves to Save. Manson and one, Attorney Ronald,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: hughes who Was leslie's, cancel refused to go along with
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: the perjury, plan saying that he would not push a
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: client out of the window by allowing her to take the,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: blame and this would just create conflict Between manson and the.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Lawyers and On november, sixteenth nineteen, seventy the prosecution rested
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: after presenting months of, evidence and, shockingly On november, nineteenth
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: the defense ents rested without calling a single, witness and
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: the defendants shouted in protest at their own, lawyers demanding
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: the right to, testify and the tensions would just run
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: high as a trial edge toward, conclusion but the courtroom
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: atmosphere was so volatile that one of the defense, Lawyers Ronald,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: hughes disappeared toward the ends of the, trial and he
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: would actually go missing during a short recess and was
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: later found dead in early nineteen seventy one under suspicious,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: circumstances possibly a victim of retaliation by remaining family members
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: because he Defied manson's. Wishes, nevertheless the trial pressed on
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: to the verdict. Phase in Our january twenty, fifth nineteen seventy,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: one after a trial that lasted about nine, months the
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: jury returned its verdict guilty on all counts For Charles,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Manson Susan, Adkins Patricia, crenwinkle And Leslie Van, houton and,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Specifically manson was convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: of the killings of seven, people The tate victims and
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: The labiancas and the three women were convicted of murder
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: in those cases as, well and it was one of
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the most headlined grab convictions IN us. History yet there
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: remained a penalty phase to determine their, sentences and here
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: more drama folded because during the penalty phase the defense
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: actually unleashed a copycat motive story in a last ditch
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: effort to Save manson from the death, penalty and Atkins
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: creenwinkle And Van houton took the stand against their lawyer's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: advice and testified that the murders were solely an idea
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: to copy The hinman killing and Free, bobby and the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: plan was supposedly made by the love Struck, linda the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: one who came forward, eventually and they claimed That manson
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with ordering, it but no one
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: really believed, this, thankfully and the prosecutor easily highlighted the.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Obscurities for, Instance Susan adkins couldn't explain why she had
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: written Political piggy In blood at The Hinman house to begin,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: with if these were all separate copycat, actions and the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: woman effectively fell on the swords For, manson but it
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: was too late and not believable at, all and the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: jury did see it as for what it, was which
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: was a last ditch effort by three of his brainwashed
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: followers and the final act OF. Theata Charles manson dramatically
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: altered his appearance mid, trial and he shaved his head
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: completely and trimmed his beard into forked devilish, style saying to,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: REPORTERS i am the, devil and the devil always has
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: a bald. Head, okay, buddy lock him. Up but it
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: was one of the many surreal visuals of the, trial
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: So manson glowering with a shaved skull and carved, forehead
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: staring down a jury as if daring them to condemn.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Him and On march twenty, ninth nineteen seventy, one that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: jury did just, that and they returned with a verdict
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: of death for all four, defendants And Judge older formally
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Sentenced Charles, Manson Susan, Atkins Patricia, creenwinkle And Leslie Van
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: hooton to death On april, nineteenth nineteen seventy. One, however
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: none of, them as it turns, out would be, executed
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: because in nineteen seventy, two The California Supreme court abolished
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: temporarily the death, penalty commuting all existing death sentences to life.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Imprisonments Thus manson and the three women escaped execution and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: instead faced the prospect of decades behind the. Bars And Tex,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: watson who was tried separately in nineteen seventy one after being,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: extradited was also convicted and sentenced to, death but his
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: sentence also became life in prison after nineteen seventy, two
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: but the trials legacy was. Enormous it was one of
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the longest and most expensive trials In american history at that,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: time and it fundamentally shifted how the public viewed the
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: late sixties because no longer was at an age of,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: innocence but one that bred. Monsters and it also set
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: legal precedents affirming that a person could be found guilty
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: of murder for directing others to, kill even if they
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: hadn't personally wielded the, knife and The manson conspiracy conviction
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: was a key in that, regard And Vincent biliosi emerged
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: a bit of a celebrity, prosecutor later writing a best selling,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Book Helter, skelter which further cemented The Helter skelter motive
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: in popular. Lore and as the convicts were shipped off to,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: prison one might think that that was the end of
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: The manson family Saga nay, nay because in many ways
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: it was just the beginning of this family's strange afterlife
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: in prison sales in crime. History so in the wake the,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: convictions The manson family's reign of terror officially, ended but
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the fates of its members would continue to unfold over,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: decades often making, headlines And Charles manson once again became an.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Inmate initially sent To San Quentin's Death, row he was
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: moved into GEN, pop which is general prison, population after
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: a sentence was commuted to, life and he would spend
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the next forty six years behind, bars bouncing between facilities
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: and periodically emerging into public view through interviews or parole,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: hearings And manson proved to be a troublesome little prisoner at.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Times in nineteen eighty, four our fellow inmates Set manson
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: on fire for allegedly spouting racist, remarks causing burns to
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: a significant portion of his. Body, bullhope but, Still manson
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: survived and continued to spread his wild ideas from, prison
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: and he would be denied parole at every single hearing
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: a total of twelve, times and, famously in the twenty,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: tens he had a swastika tattooed on his. Forehead how,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: charming But Charles manson would fortunately die On november, nineteenth
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: the twenty, seventeen at the age of eighty, three and
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: it would be of natural causes in A california. Hospital
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: and he was still an inmate and still extremely, notorious
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: and with him passed one of the most infamous figures
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: of the twentieth, century a criminal who quote unquote occupied
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: a unique position in The american cultural, imagination AS npr,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: observed and in the early years of, Incarceration atkins remained
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: devotely loyal To, manson even carving AN x into her
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: forehead in prison to match. Him but by the late
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies she had an apparent change of. Heart how,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: wonderful becoming a born Again christian and Renouncing, manson which you,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: know that's good at. Least and she would actually marry
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: twice in, prison once to a self proclaimed minister and
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: later to an, Attorney James, whitehouse And atkins Became california's
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: longest serving female, inmate and she would be repeatedly denied,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: parole and she would be turned down over a dozen.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Times in two thousand and, nine terminally ill with brain
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: cancer and partially, Paralyzed atkins made a compassionate release play
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: it would be. Denied, ooh that's, karma and then she
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: would die in prison In september of two thousand and,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: nine at the age of sixty, one And crenwinkle also
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: eventually distanced herself From manson and had been described as
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: a model, prisoner and she earned a degree behind bars
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: and expressed, remorse saying in one parole, hearing quote, UNQUOTE
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: i wake up every day Knowing i'm a destroyer of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: the most precious thing. Life but still the heinous of
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: her crimes had made the parole board unwilling to free,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: her and for decades any mention of parole For creenwinkle
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: was met with public outrage and lobbying by victim's, families
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: especially By Sharon tate's family and. Purchusier crenwinkle remains incarcerated In.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: California she's also the state's longest surviving female prisoner After atkins's.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Death but find who the story is somewhat different because
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: many of view her as the most redeemable of the
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: trio because she was the youngest nineteen at the time
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: of the, crimes and she did not participate in The tate,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: murders and by all, accounts reformed herself in, prison And
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: leslie became a model inmate and earned a bachelor's degree
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: and a master's degree and worked in rehabilitative, programs and
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: starting in the nineteen, nineties some parole boards actually recommended
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: her for, release citing her exemplary behavior and apparent genuine. Remorse,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: However california governors repeatedly vetoed those, recommendations partly due to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: the gravity of her crimes and public. Sentiment but, finally
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: after over twenty, denials In july of twenty twenty, Three
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Leslie Van houton was released on parole at the age
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: of seventy, three after she had served fifty three years in,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: prison and her release stirred some, controversy to say the.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Least some felt it was justice long overdue from a reformed,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: woman and others were dismayed that A manson follower walked.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Free But Van hooton has since been living under a parole.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Supervision and she's just a, frail elderly woman whose youth
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: was spent Under manson's stark. Shadow and then There's, texts
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: and after being extradited and convicted, Separately texts initially faced
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: a death sentence like the, others as we, know but
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: when that became life in, prison he underwent a jailhouse
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: conversion to born Again, christianity and even became an ordained
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: minister or behind, bars And watson actually fathered four children
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: via conjugal visits in the nineteen. Eighties how is this
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: guy allowed to? Procreate what the? Fuck and these types
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: of visits were later barred for. Lifers but despite religious,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Demeanors tex has never been granted parole and he's been
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: denied roughly eighteen, times and he remains In california prison
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: now in his. Seventies and as mentioned, earlier in nineteen seventy,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Five Squeaky from attempted to Assassinate President Gerald ford In,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: sacramento pointing A colt forty five at him at close.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Range but the gun did not, fire but it had
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: a loaded, magazine it just didn't have a round of the, chamber.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Thankfully so she was tackled and arrested and she smiled in,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: custody And from would be convicted of attempted assassination and
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: sentenced to life in federal, prison and she would serve
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: thirty four years before being paroled in two thousand and.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Nine and now in her, Seventies from moved to Upstate
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: New york and lives. Quietly but she never Renounced. Manson in,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: fact she repeatedly said after his death in twenty seventeen
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: that she still loved. Him perhaps the single family member
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: who achieved in an unexpected mercy Was, clem Because clem
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: was convicted Alongside manson for the murder Of Spawn ranch
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Stuntman Donald Shorty. Shay he was killed in Late august
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty. Nine But clem was often described as
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: slow witted and completely Under manson's, sway and, remarkably in,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: prison he cooperated and revealed the location Of shay's buried
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: body to authorities in nineteen seventy, seven and partly due
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: to that cooperation and reportedly showing genuine, Remorse clem became
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: the only prisoner convicted Of manson era murders to be,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: paroled and he would actually be released in nineteen eighty,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: five and he has kept allow profile ever since and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: believed to be currently working as a. Musician and then There's,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: bobby convicted of The hindman. Murder bobby has spent over
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: fifty years in. Prison he's a talented musician and, artist
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: and he has composed music and created visual art behind,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: barks and he has been denied parole multiple, times though
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: in recent years some parole boards recommended, him only to
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: be voted out by, governors and as of twenty twenty,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Five bobby remains incarcerated In, california and he's now in
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: his mid. Seventies and then There's Mary manson's first follower
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: and mother of his. Child berner was involved in The hindman,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: robbery holding him at one, point but made a deal
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: for immunity to testify in the Early hindman. Proceedings, however
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: she did later participate in the nineteen seventy one plot
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: to hijack a plane to Demand manson's, release but the
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: plan was, foiled and also of an armed robbery in
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: a surplus, store so she would serve several years in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: prison for those but be released in the late nineteen.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Seventies and since, Then Mary brunner has completely withdrawn from public,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: life and she reportedly lives under a new name in The.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Midwest and then There's Diane. Lake she was the youngest
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: family member at age fourteen when she. Joined lake was
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: not involved in the murders and eventually testified at the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: prosecution as, witness and she just went on to lead
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: a normal, life marrying and raising her children and later
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: authored a memoir in twenty seventeen Called member of The,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: family And lake just became a symbol of how someone
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: could recover From culton, doctrination and she eventually became a
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: schoolteacher and openly Denounced manson's man, snipulations which has been.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Metal So Charles manson's family effectively died as a group
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: when he was, arrested but its individual members carried pieces
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: of that dark legacy with them through the. Decades so
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: The manson murders didn't quietly enter the bowels of true.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Crime they exploded into the public consciousness and. Stayed and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: media coverage was immediate and, overwhelming And manson became a cultural,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: symbol referenced in, HEADLINES tv, specials and documentaries for, decades
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: And Vincent Buliosi's Helter skelter remains one of the best
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: seller true crime books still with adaptations and renewed, interest
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: servicing during anniversaries and cultural milestones Like Tarantinos once upon
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: A time In. Hollywood but the case really marked a
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: symbolic end of the nineteen sixties. IDEALISM a killer cult
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: rising from the hippie movement triggered public fear And manson
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: dubbed the Most dangerous Man, alive became a boogeyman of
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: peace and love generation and pop culture just leaned into
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  Speaker 1: it with songs and shows and Even merrily And manson's
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  Speaker 1: stage name echoed, this and The beatles distanced themselves From
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  Speaker 1: Hilter skelters at the, least While bono famously, Declared we're
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  Speaker 1: stealing it. Back but this attention just provoked ethical concerns
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  Speaker 1: because victims', families Especially doris And, deborate pushed back Against manson's,
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  Speaker 1: infamy advocating for victims' rights and parole, reform And manson
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  Speaker 1: also sparked debates on brainwashing and cult, influence and in the,
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  Speaker 1: seventies fears of mind control and dangerous gurus spurred the
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  Speaker 1: rise of deep programmers and changed how cults reviewed legally and.
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  Speaker 1: Psychologically And manson's, interviews bizarre rhetoric and wild eyed persona
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  Speaker 1: fascinated the public and some subcultures mythologized, him sparking, backlash
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  Speaker 1: and parole hearings just became media, events with society often
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  Speaker 1: viewing at any potential release as. Unacceptable but pop culture
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  Speaker 1: in and of itself at that time just became. Darker
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  Speaker 1: music films and public attitudes all reflected just a loss of.
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  Speaker 1: Trust and as one writer put, it he was the
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  Speaker 1: man who killed the. Sixties The manson murders weren't just a,
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  Speaker 1: crime they were a. Rupture manson's power came not from physical, dominance,
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  Speaker 1: obviously because he was really small and weak and, stupid but.
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  Speaker 1: Belief his followers weren't. Monsters they were transformed by. Manipulation
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  Speaker 1: and the case still resonates because its lessons remain. Urgent
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  Speaker 1: evil can be, seductive and utopias can mass, control and
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  Speaker 1: ideology can be, weaponized but so can. Memory And Sharon
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  Speaker 1: tate's family turned pain into, advocacy and some family members
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  Speaker 1: actually found. Remorse And manson tried to tear society, apart
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  Speaker 1: but by studying him we fortify. It the danger isn't,
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  Speaker 1: gone it's just, evolved but so has our, understanding and
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  Speaker 1: in remembering the, victims we reject myth in favor of.
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  Speaker 1: Truth And manson's story just warns us that belief without
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  Speaker 1: question is, perilous and that the line between peace and
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  Speaker 1: chaos is far thinner than it. Seems and with, that
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  Speaker 1: that is the end of the. Video this was a big.
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  Speaker 1: One this was a big. ONE a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: ask for. IT i hope this. WAS i don't want
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