He managed to get one song on the Beach Boys' album "20/20" in 1968. He attempted to ingratiate himself with the Hollywood glitterati, using his guitar and songwriting as a wedge, and was briefly befriended by Beach Boys member Dennis Wilson, record producer Terry Melcher, son of actress Doris Day, and others. He began gathering a loose following of devotees, many of them disillusioned and confused youngsters from across the socioeconomic spectrum.
Manson drifted to California in the mid-1960s, was drawn to the beads-and-hippie scene in San Francisco and later Los Angeles. He had a son from his second marriage, Charles Luther Manson. A son from his first marriage, Charles Manson Jr., who renamed himself Jay White, committed suicide in 1993. Then in 1959 he married a woman with a prostitution record named Leona "Candy" Stevens, according to prison records. He married twice, first to a teenage waitress, Rosalie Willis, in 1955, divorcing in 1958. While only sketchily literate, he scored a high-normal IQ of 121 while in prison. His education stopped at the seventh grade.
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He began engaging in petty theft himself and ended up in a series of foster homes and reformatories. He never knew his father, and with his mother periodically jailed, he was shunted among various relatives in small-town West Virginia and Kentucky. 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, the son of an unmarried 16-year-old girl who supported herself on petty crime. "He was the kind of guy who had other people do his bidding, and I think he really enjoyed taking advantage of people who were gullible."Ĭharles Milles Manson was born on Nov. "Basically, Manson was a coward," Eric Hickey, dean of the California School of Forensic Studies at Alliant International University, told Maclean's magazine in 2012. He was not crazy, but he could fake it and had an insatiable need to control others, prompting him to recruit naive and malleable acolytes to his family, according to behavioralists who studied his life. Investigators, academic researchers and journalists found him alternately erratic and focused, a proficient guitarist, a lover of animals, a racist and anti-Semite with a left-leaning hatred of the "establishment" and corporate America and bitterness over his rejection by the music celebrity world of Hollywood. Small and scrawny, he was also charismatic and held an almost hypnotic power over his followers, especially women. Vincent Bugliosi, the hard-charging deputy district attorney who prosecuted Manson, described the Manson name as "a metaphor for evil." The scheme bore surface plausibility with the rash of urban explosions throughout the 1960s, culminating in the assassination of the Rev. That in turn, he told his followers, would stir white sentiment against blacks, triggering widespread violence by blacks. Orchestrated by Manson on two successive nights in August 1969, the seemingly random killings were calculated to hasten the race war by making them appear committed by black militants. There, Manson and his so-called "family" members wandered the countryside, scavenging, stealing and preparing for an apocalyptic race war prophesied by their leader and dubbed "Helter Skelter" after the Beatles song.Ī prelude to the conflagration was the slaughter of the seven victims in two affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods.
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The sheer incomprehensibility of the acts - mutilation and ritual stabbings of seven victims, among them rising Hollywood starlet Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant by her movie director husband, Roman Polanski - left the public aghast and police investigators stumped for months.įor many, Manson and his ragtag entourage of runaways, two-bit criminals and blindly loyal worshipers also symbolized the dark, even contradictory, excesses of the drug-driven, free-love '60s, especially in California.
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