Charles Manson was not a child of the Sixties. He was born to a 15-year-old girl in Kentucky in 1934, and raised by various relatives until the penal system became his new home. By his own admission he spent most of his life in a prison of one form or other, educating himself from the psychology and religious /theology texts in their Libraries. Yes he had long hair, yes he took psychedelic substances, but that alone does not make a hippie. He didn't believe in peace. He believed in a 'new world order', empathising with Hitler and his second in command Rudolf Hess.