He looks beautiful, he looks happy and this draws a lot of people. And left a city living in fear. Guns store sell out. Guard dogs are now selling for 5,000. Good. You may think you know the manson story but not like this. Hes a very evil sophisticated con man that knows exactly what hes doing. Its all play, isnt it . Hello and welcome to dateline. He was a charismatic excon who dreamed of becoming a rock star. Then he found a rag tag group of hippies in search of direction and purpose to follow him. In the end, their toxic union would result in a frenzy of unfathomable brutality. How was Charles Manson able to exert his influence to engineer a murderous rampage that would make him one of the most notorious figures in criminal history . Heres Keith Morrison with manson. April 14th, 2016. A clear, blustery day in the high desert outside los angeles. Inside the walls of the California Institution for women, a grayhaired 66yearold inmate appears before the parole board, as she has done ma
Poor in the dust bowl. When i wrote about the gunfight at the o. K. Corral which was not actually a gunfight and wasnt at the o. K. Corral, but the accidental shooting in an empty lot on fremont street just did not have the same sort of ring to would. The first people were going to write this history. Wanted to write about the settling of the last part of the american frontier. And about three and half years ago it occurred to me that a lot of that unique time in American History that we know as the late 60s is either getting completely forgotten or else people are sort of putting their own little twist on it. Oh, yeah. Some people say, a lot of sex and drugs. Wasnt that silly and cute. Other people remember the passion over the war, the students marching in the street. Other people remember the space age with the cold war still going on. Tom hayden said when i interviewed him for this book that he does not think there has ever been a couple of years of American History where we were b
And depression and growing up for in the dust bowl. Win i wrote about the gun fight at the o. K. Corral that was not really a gunfight and not really at the o. K. Corral. [laughter] but the accident accidental shooting on fremont street did not have the same ring when people would write the history. Talking about the last part of the american frontier it occurred to me a lot of that unique period known as the late 60s is the there completely forgotten or else people put their own little twist this some people say it was the hit me with a lot of sex and drugs but other people remember the passion the students marching in the street other people remember the spaceage with the cold war still going on. When they interviewed tom up for the bookies said he doesnt take there has never been a couple of years that we were bombarded every day it is seems impossible to comprehend. We had called beloved leaders or controversial leaders in history. A war dividing the country. More racial violence i
Even now, decades later, the world is still fascinated by Charles Manson and his crimes. We take you inside his world of 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 400, 500 people, then i would have felt better. He symbolizes the horror that can be possible in this world. Hello and welcome to dateline. Charles manson was a man of small stature and monstrous delusions. The onetime amateur musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. After that dream was crushed, it was replaced by a chilling fantasy, a nightmarish prophecy placing manson atop the throne as ruler o
Carrying ropes and guns on the order of Charles Manson there to unleash what they called helter skelter, slaughtering five people they didnt even know, shocking the world two. More brutal murders would take place the following night n less than 48 hours, los angeles is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This is the chilling story of what happened to a beautiful young actress named sharon tate and six others at the hands of a twisted family of drugcrazed hippies. Its a story that has it all. Sex, drugs rock and roll, movie stars and murder. We have a weird homicide. In a scene described as a weird religious reicht. Police admit they had have no suspects in the bel air massacre there were two more victims in silver lake. Found by their children, stabbed and mutilated. Sometimes, you can measure here overnight dramatically the sale of guns, guard dogs and ropes. It was a story uncaged around the country. It was shocking if youre not save in the home where are you safe . When the tatelab