Charles Manson, whose cult slayings horrified world, dies

Space_Time · Nov 20, 2017

How will he be remembered? Is this a type of closure for the 1960's? Didn't the Weather Underground defend him?

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Charles Manson, whose cult slayings horrified world, dies
Associated Press JOHN ROGERS,Associated Press 7 minutes ago
FILE - In this 1969 file photo, Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case. Authorities say Manson, cult leader and mastermind behind 1969 deaths of actress Sharon Tate and several others, died on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. He was 83. (AP Photo, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly a half-century in prison. He was 83.

Manson, whose name to this day is synonymous with unspeakable violence and madness, died of natural causes at Kern County hospital, according to a California Department of Corrections statement.

A petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood, the charismatic, guru-like Manson surrounded himself in the 1960s with runaways and other lost souls and then sent his disciples to butcher some of L.A.'s rich and famous in what prosecutors said was a bid to trigger a race war — an idea he got from a twisted reading of the Beatles song "Helter Skelter."

The slayings horrified the world and, together with the deadly violence that erupted later in 1969 during a Rolling Stones concert at California's Altamont Speedway, exposed the dangerous, drugged-out underside of the counterculture movement and seemed to mark the death of the era of peace and love.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Manson maintained during his tumultuous trial in 1970 that he was innocent and that society itself was guilty.

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them; I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up," he said in a courtroom soliloquy.

The Manson Family, as his followers were called, slaughtered five of its victims on Aug. 9, 1969, at Tate's home: the actress, who was 8½ months pregnant, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish movie director Voityck Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of the estate's caretaker. Tate's husband, "Rosemary's Baby" director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time.

The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town.

The killers scrawled such phrases as "Pigs" and "Healter Skelter" (sic) in blood at the crime scenes.

Three months later, a Manson follower was jailed on an unrelated charge and told a cellmate about the bloodbath, leading to the cult leader's arrest.

In the annals of American crime, Manson became the embodiment of evil, a short, shaggy-haired, bearded figure with a demonic stare and an "X'' — later turned into a swastika — carved into his forehead.

"Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969," author Joan Didion wrote in her 1979 book "The White Album."
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kazenatsu · Nov 20, 2017

Although he didn't actually kill anyone himself, Manson was a monster who manipulated vulnerable young women into doing his bidding through drugs, sex, and extreme cult indoctrination. These women would have never killed or hurt anyone under ordinary circumstances.

C-D-P · Nov 20, 2017

From what I'm seeing online it's a death hoax.

kazenatsu · Nov 20, 2017

C-D-P said: ↑

From what I'm seeing online it's a death hoax.
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The New York Times reported it: Charles Manson Dies at 83

kazenatsu · Nov 20, 2017

By the way, I don't agree with these conspiracy murder laws, they are very broadly defined and leave a slippery slope, but in this case it was totally justified.

kazenatsu · Nov 20, 2017

Most of the public at the time viewed these gruesome murders as the logical extension of drug use, free sex, Satanism, and the culture that surrounded rock n roll that was so prevalent in the 60s

C-D-P · Nov 20, 2017

kazenatsu said: ↑

The New York Times reported it: Charles Manson Dies at 83
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Yeah I see that now. Earlier in the evening the story popped up and when I looked into it Google said it was a death hoax. Apparently they were wrong.

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