good day. i don t have any guilt. i know what i ve done. it s all a play, isn t it? banter from a man on one of the most notorious killing sprees. i think mr. manson feels he is a product of our society. the case went to the late vincent bulosie. i used to have conversations with manson. charlie, i m going to convict you but after you get a fair trial. he tried to flip family members to testify against manson. most stayed ferociously loyal and some of those not charged staged demonstrations outside the courthouse. even shaved their heads in a show of solidarity. you know, we d die. we d do anything for our brother. chatty susan atkins was supposed to be a key witness. she had bragged about the
course. it is ridiculous. but combination of drugs, being isolated, he had them all convinced that this was real. he was serious about this? yeah. he believed it. or so he persuaded his followers. he told them he needed complete loyalty and complete control. every day, he would gather everyone together and dose them with lsd and he would talk for a while. that s when, for his bent but not broken flock, manson portrayed himself as the new jesus, but not a sweet and kindly version of jesus. charlie was acting meaner towards the girls. and if they failed no follow his directions. he d hit you in the head with a stick. he went from good charlie to bad charlie? yeah. he really got mean. desperate to find the money and cars to take his family to death valley. where he told them they d wait
charlie manson. charlie was really crushed. he would not be a rock n roll star. he would not be rich and famous. he was a failure, which to manson, said his parole officer. charlie was in serious danger of losing the family. he did something that politicians are masterful at. that is he creates this horrible thing out there. there s going to be a race war. it was a time of racial strife in america. especially in l.a. and manson blended that information somehow with the book of revelation. he called it helter skelter after one of the songs on the beatles white album. his followers believed it. but did he?
the one-time amateur musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. after that dream was crushed, he was replaced with a nightmarish prophecy that put him on the throne of a post-armageddon world. this is the story of how a career criminal calling himself jesus convinced his young followers to slaughter innocent victims, delivering charles manson the fame he craved. here s keith morrison with the as i remember of manson. all the remains are ruins. the ram shackled barker ranch is long gone. only the fitful baking death valley wind left now to stir the faded bits, the rusted junk. the artifacts from another time when this was ground zero for one of the most infamous crimes in history.
drugs. he would dose them with lsd. sex. he slept with all those girls. and rock n roll. they really did listen to the white album over and over. with new interviews. he says, gary, this is your last chance. and new details. he would always frame his statements. this is what i believe and the girls all believed it. the murders. these people were brutally butchered. the mayhem. charlie was acting meaner towards the girls. the madman. maybe i should have killed, four, 500 people, then i would have felt better. he symbolizes the horror that can be possible in this world. hello, welcome to dateline. charles manson was a man of small stature and monstrous delusions.