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 girl. the mad men. maybe i should have killed four, 500 people, then i would ve 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 one-time amateur musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. after that green dream was crushed, it was replaced by a chilling fantasy. a ni
the interurban crime wave has touched off a new round of gun buying. step out, mr. bundy. i ll plead not guilty right now. there has been a disturbing growth in cult phenomenon in this country. i shall be god. and beside me there shall be no other. all the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in the glare of hollywood publicity. young girls supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali, who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. the 70s is a decade of just brutal violence on every front and anywhere that you look in america. at the time of a mass murder, there s a lot of media coverage. but usually after a brief period of time, the identity of the perpetrator tends to fade from the public s consciousness. but not so with the manson case. it was the biggest publicity case the d.a. s office had ever had. the manson trial begins the 1970s on such an evil, sadist
cult leader charles manson. he reports on how manson influenced and motivated the members of the consult he called the manson family to murder seven people in august 1969. this was recorded in california in 2013. [ applause ] thanks a lot. when i write nonfiction, i basically start with the single premise that events never happen in a vacuum. anything is the result of many past actions where different people grew up, what they thought, how they mixed together, who they met. there s no one simple answer to anything. so when i do write these books, i try to pick a year in american history. when i wrote about bonnie and clyde, i was really writing about the depression and growing up poor in the dust bowl. when i wrote about the gun fight at the o.k. corral, which was not actually a gun fight and wasn t at the o.k. corral, but the accidental shooting in an empty lot on fremont street didn t have the same sort of ring to it when the first people were going to write this history,
there s no one simple answer to anything. so when i do write these books, i try to pick a year in american history. when i wrote about bonnie and clyde, i was really writing about the depression and growing up poor in the dust bowl. when i wrote about the gun fight at the o.k. corral, which was not actually a gun fight and wasn t at the o.k. corral, but the accidental shooting in an empty lot on fremont street didn t have the same sort of ring to it when the first people were going to write this history, i wanted to write about the settling of the last part of the american frontier. and about three and a half years ago it occurred to me that a lot of that unique period 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, that was the hippies with a lot of sex, the drugs, wasn t that silly and cute. other people remember the passion over the war, the
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 one-time amateur musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. after that dream was crushed, it was replaced by a chilling fantasy, a nightmaris