#CHARLES MANSON JR SERIES#

He shook Hollywood into a decade of anxiety, and effectively rang the death knell of вЂ™60s counterculture - all without directly carrying out any of the brutal murders committed in his name.ДЎ969 Police mug shot of American cult leader and murderer Charles Manson.

Manson became one of the most infamous figures in US history. MansonвЂ™s cultural impact was immediate and hard to overstate The murders, and Manson, upended ideas of safety, security, and innocence. Manson had managed to infiltrate both the heart of Hollywood and the heart of middle-class America. MansonвЂ™s followers were largely middle-class white women whoвЂ™d been all but stripped of their original identities, while their victims were ostensibly untouchable members of HollywoodвЂ™s elite upper class. The Manson Family murders helped plunge the cultural ethos of the following decade into sustained psychosexual anxiety. вЂњThe name Manson has become a metaphor for evil, and there's a side of human nature that's fascinated by pure unalloyed evil.вЂќ Just three years ago, Los Angeles attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted the Manson Family murders and co-wrote a celebrated book about them, 1974вЂ™s Helter Skelter, spoke of Manson in mythic terms: Manson, in particular, has remained emblazoned in the public image as an erratic figure with a swastika in the middle of his forehead, a fringe prophet spouting apocalyptic racism who is nonetheless still somehow able to exert a fascinating hold over his followers old and new. Manson and the members of the Manson Family have been the subject of ongoing cultural fascination in the nearly five decades since the murders.

#CHARLES MANSON JR SERIES#

The murders were a gleeful and bloody series of carnage whose level of violence (which involved knives, guns, beatings, and bayonets), apparent lack of motive, and signaling of hippie culture gone off the rails stunned the world and left seven people dead, including actress Sharon Tate and her unborn child. The killing spree, organized by Manson and carried out by his followers - members of a cult known as the Manson Family - remains one of the most shocking acts of violence in Hollywood history.

Manson was 83, and had been imprisoned since April 22, 1971, on a commuted death sentence for the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969. Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader whose instigation of the brutal Manson Family murders in the late 1960s profoundly bruised American culture, died on Sunday night of natural causes after a brief period of hospitalization in Kern County, California, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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