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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.
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Charles Manson was a would-be musician and charismatic petty criminal who found his way to San Francisco when the 1960s drug culture was at its height. By the end of the decade, he and several members of his "family" settled on borrowed land outside of Los Angeles. Believing he was a modern incarnation of Jesus Christ, and figuring he could benefit from a race war in America, Manson convinced followers to go on a murderous spree in 1969, during which they killed seven people. The most prominent victim was actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski. The subsequent murder trial lasted seven months (at the time the longest and most expensive in U.S. history), and resulted in guilty verdicts and death sentences for Manson and his followers. In 1972 California outlawed the death penalty, and Manson was sentenced instead to life in prison.
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Charles Manson had dreams of achieving fame through his music. He ... had dreams of sparking off a revolution that would bring America crashing down in flames and sweep him into power. Not your typical pop star behaviour. He was famously imprisoned for the Tate/LaBianca murders as a response to The Beatles' song 'Helter Skelter' - music and murder have gone hand in hand throughout Manson's life. Mother a prostitute and father unknown, he was raised in reform schools and prisons, interspersing his life as a pimp with spells in custody and hanging out with the likes of The Beach Boys, Neil Young and Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son and The Byrds' producer), who all respected him as a singer/songwriter. Proclaiming himself as both Satan and Jesus, his evangelical pursuit of the Californian hippie dream masked a bizarre and dangerous network of evil.
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In the late 1960's Charles Manson convinced a group of followers to move in to the California desert to train for the apocalypse. They eventually committed on of the most horrific string of serial murders in modern times. Since his conviction, Manson has been in a series of jails, where he has continued to build on his twisted philosophies. Considered to be the definitive documentary Manson and his infamous family, CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR tells the killer's story with archival news footage, police photos, an uncensored interview with Manson himself. DVD Features Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame Audio Dolby Digital 5.1 English Additional Release Material Featurette 1.
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Charles Manson, before he committed mass murder, was himself an NIMH [National Institute of Mental Health] “research subject.'’ Manson was released from a California prison in March 1967. He was required by law to report regularly to a parole officer named Roger Smith, who was based at the Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic in San Francisco. This was an NIMH project designed to observe and in effect supervise the first large-scale drug addiction of white teenagers, thousands of whom were the clinic’s clients. Clinic director David E. Smith was ... the publisher of the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, and a leading national advocate for the legalized use of narcotics. Within the clinic arrangement, Charles Manson’s parole officer was officially commissioned to scientifically investigate the effects that various kinds drugs had on addicts served by the NIMH clinic. David Smith also collaborated with another NIMH project: a behavioral study of children in communes.
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Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His 16-year-old mother, Kathleen Maddox was promiscuous, a criminal, drank too much and failed to take care of her illegitimate child. Soon after his birth, Kathleen was briefly married to William Manson, and Charlie's last name changed from Maddox to Manson. Kathleen grew up in a strict religious home and seemed to rebel against all she was taught. In 1940, she was found guilty of Strong Armed Robbery and sent to prison.
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