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Title: Charles Manson, leader of murderous '60s cult, dead at 83
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URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/charles-manson-dead/index.html
Published: Nov 20, 2017
Author: Steve Almasy and Brandon Griggs
Post Date: 2017-11-20 18:33:15 by BTP Holdings
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Charles Manson, leader of murderous '60s cult, dead at 83 By Steve Almasy and Brandon Griggs, CNN Updated 2:16 PM ET, Mon November 20, 2017 Story highlights Manson orchestrated a wave of violence in August 1969 that took the lives of seven people The murders and ensuing trials established him as a perverse cultural icon (CNN)Charles Manson, the wild-eyed 1960s cult leader whose followers committed heinous murders that terrorized Los Angeles and shocked the nation, died Sunday of natural causes, according to the California Department of Corrections. He was 83. The diminutive and charismatic Manson orchestrated a wave of violence in August 1969 that took the lives of seven people, spawned headlines worldwide and landed him and his "Manson Family" of followers in prison for most of the remainder of their lives. Photos: Charles Manson: The infamous inmate Manson served nine life terms in California prisons and was denied parole 12 times. His notoriety, boosted by popular books and films, made him a cult figure to those fascinated by his dark apocalyptic visions. "He was the dictatorial ruler of the (Manson) family, the king, the Maharaja. And the members of the family were slavishly obedient to him," former Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi told CNN in 2015. To the point they would kill for him. The brutal killings began on August 9, 1969, at the home of actress Sharon Tate and her husband, famed movie director Roman Polanski. He was out of the country at the time. The first set of victims were Tate, who was eight months' pregnant; a celebrity hairstylist named Jay Sebring; coffee fortune heiress Abigail Folger; writer Wojciech Frykowski; and Steven Parent, a friend of the family's caretaker. Manson Family Murders Fast Facts The next evening, another set of murders took place. Supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, were killed at their home. Although Manson ordered the killings, he didn't participate. Over the course of two nights, the killers inflicted 169 stab wounds and seven .22-caliber gunshot wounds. Both crime scenes revealed horrifying images. And a few details linked the two. The word "pig" was written in victims' blood on the walls of one home and the front door of another. There was also another phrase apparently scrawled in blood: Helter Skelter (it was misspelled Healter). The reason for the disturbing writings, a prosecutor argued, was because Manson wanted to start a race war and had hoped the Black Panthers would be blamed for the killings. Little-known facts about the Manson murders On June 16, 1970, Manson and three of his followers -- Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten -- went on trial in Los Angeles. All of those details came tumbling out in the trial that both mesmerized and horrified the nation. During the trial, Manson and his followers created a circus-like atmosphere in the court with singing, giggling, angry outbursts and even carving X's in their foreheads. The charges came after a major break in the case when Atkins, who was already in jail on another charge, bragged to a fellow inmate about the Tate murders. She said they did it "because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world. ..." Manson was originally sentenced to death but the death penalty was briefly abolished in the state and his concurrent sentences were commuted to life in prison. He also was convicted in the connection with the killings of Gary Hinman, a musician, and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea in 1969. Poster Comment: Video at source. I hope Manson is burning in hell right now with the flames on high.
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Manson was likely an MK-Ultra subject/participant doing drug related work for the C.I.A. Manson hung out with Jim Morrison and some of the Beach Boys in Laurel Canyon where almost all of the players were rock stars and movie stars using LSD supplied by Manson. Dave McGowan has written about the antics, and even murders that went on there in the late 60s and early 70s, and points out how many of these so-called "stars had connections to the CIA and military intelligence. His work is fascinating. Ephesians 5:11King James Version (KJV) 11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. "
When we were at Woodstock 94 working security, some guy made an announcement, "Don't eat the green dots." It was bad acid and people were freaking out. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
crimesofempire.com/2015/12/18/rip-dave-mcgowan/
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LSD
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