The Manson Family
| Manson Family | |
|---|---|
| Quasi-commune | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Founded by | Charles Manson |
| Crowe shooting | |
|---|---|
| Date | July 1, 1969 |
| Hinman murder | |
|---|---|
| Date | July 25, 1969- July 27, 1969 |
| LaBianca murders | |
|---|---|
| Date | August 10, 1969 |
| Manson Family | |
|---|---|
| Decided | January 25, 1971 |
The Manson Family was a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s, led by Charles Manson. They gained national notoriety after the infamous murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others on August 9, 1969 by Tex Watson and three other members of the Family, acting under the instructions of Charles Manson. Group members were also responsible for a number of other murders and assaults, and the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
On his release from prison on March 21, 1967, Manson received permission to move to San Francisco, where, with the help of a prison acquaintance, he moved into an apartment in Berkeley. In prison, bank robber Alvin Karpis had taught him to play the steel guitar. Now, living mostly by panhandling, he soon got to know Mary Brunner, a 23-year-old graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brunner was working as a library assistant at University of California, Berkeley, and Manson moved in with her. According to a second-hand account, he overcame her resistance to his bringing other women in to live with them. Before long, they were sharing Brunner's residence with 18 other women.
Manson established himself as a guru in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, which during 1967's "Summer of Love" was emerging as the signature hippie locale. Vincent Bugliosi said in his book Helter Skelter that Manson appeared to have borrowed philosophically from the Process Church, whose members believed Satan would become reconciled to Christ, and they would come together at the end of the world to judge humanity. Expounding a philosophy that included some of the Scientology he had studied in prison, he soon had the first of his groups of followers, which have been called the Manson Family, most of them female. Upon a staff evaluation of Manson when he entered prison in July 1961 at the U.S. penitentiary in McNeil Island, Washington, Manson entered "Scientologist" as his religion.
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