Leo Hardy - Manson Family : Charles Mansons Cult of Personality

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Copyright 2017 by Leo Hardy

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ISBN: 9781508070283

• CHAPTER ONE A FAMILY THAT MURDERS TOGETHER
• CHAPTER TWO THE CULT AND ITS PERSONALITIES
• CHAPTER THREE TEX WATSON
• CHAPTER FOUR LESLIE VAN HOUTEN
• CHAPTER FIVE Patricia Krenwinkel
• CHAPTER SIX CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR
• CHAPTER SEVEN CHARLES MANSON

THE MANSON FAMILY

CHARLES MANSONS CULT OF PERSONALITY

By.

Leo Hardy

-IM SUPPOSED TO BE RESPONSIBLE for making all these people do all these things. Im supposed to have this awesome power to move people to destruction and have the power of the presidency, that I can put troops in the field and have them go out and fight and die and take other peoples lives, for me. Im a whole government by myself. Convicted to be that. Thats not me.- Charles Manson

The infamous Charles Manson and the Manson Family collectively have a tremendous body count behind them. Gary Hinman was the first victim of the Manson Family in the July of 1969. Its somewhat debatable as to how many members of the Manson Family were responsible for his death. Bobby Beausoleil was the Manson Family member who ultimately killed him. However, Bobby Beausoleil was with his fellow Manson Family members Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner at the time, so some people would say that they were just as responsible. Of course, since this entire murder was orchestrated by Charles Manson himself, people would say they were collectively responsible. Given the cultist nature of the Manson Family, some people would say that Charles Manson was more responsible for the murder than Bobby Beausoleil himself, and they might say that about all of the other murders as well.

The most infamous of the Manson Family murders occurred between August 8 and 9 in 1969. The now-infamous director Roman Polanskis Benedict Canyon home was the site of a total of five murders. The victims were all famous in their own time and within their own circles even before they became famous as victims of such an infamous serial killer. The people killed included celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring,writer Wojciech Frykowski, coffee heiress and socialite Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent, who was connected with the family through their gardener. Of course, the most famous of the five victims was Roman Polanskis wife Sharon Tate, who was actually pregnant at the time.

The notion of a serial killer going after someone who was already famous was doubly shocking at the time. Murder victims often become famous as a result of being connected with famous serial killers. Serial killers typically do not target people who are already well-known because they are trying to avoid getting caught. Some of them wont experience as much of a power trip if they kill people who are already powerful. The Manson Family and Charles Manson himself both managed to set themselves apart from many other historical killers in a lot of ways. They were deliberately doing this as a stunt in the hope that it would get the worlds attention, particularly in the case of killing a famous and beautiful pregnant woman like Sharon Tate.

The Benedict Canyon murders were committed by Patricia Krenwinkel,Tex Watson, and Susan Atkins. Since Linda Kasabian kept watch and allowed them to do it, she should be regarded as one of the murderers as well, or at least an accessory. Incidentally, she was actually later given immunity because she was willing to testify against everyone else in the August of 1970.

The Manson Family struck again between August 9 and 10 in 1969. Charles Manson believed that the killings in Benedict Canyon were painfully amateurish. However, rather than keeping a low profile in the wake of such killings, he and his followers went to locate more victims. The Manson Family followers who completed these killings included Leslie van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Tex Watson. They killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, a wealthy couple who had succeeded in the grocery industry. However,Steve Clem Grogan and Linda Kasabian were in the car with them at the time, and they should be regarded as responsible as well.

The last of the Manson Family murders occurred on August 26, 1969. They murdered Donald Jerome Shea because the Manson Family was under the impression that he had reported them to the police. They were essentially disposing of a witness. Donald Jerome Shea was a Hollywood stuntman and actor. Like most of the victims of the Manson Family, he was young, famous, and successful. Even when they were disposing of a witness, it seemed as if he managed to fit their type.

The people who were convicted of murdering Donald Jerome Shea included Bruce Davis and Steve Clem Grogan, as well as Charles Manson himself. Larry Bailey, Tex Watson, and Bill Vance may have helped with the murder or they may have just acted as accessories. They were never charged with it, however, and their guilt is clear based on the other murders that they committed or condoned one way or another. The Manson Family was one of the most destructive cults in history.

- REMORSE FOR WHAT? YOU people have done everything in the world to me. Doesnt that give me equal right?- Charles Manson

Charles Manson was a man who knew how to persuade people to do his bidding for him, and get what he wanted.

Charles Manson became a guru after getting out of jail in the latter part of the 1960s, and would tell his followers that they were the reincarnation of the original Christians and that the establishment was playing the part of the Romans. While he did not outright say so, he told these people that he was Christ and had visions of being crucified. The female followers were all impressionable young women who came from middle class families whose parents had divorced. They did whatever he asked them, without question; it helped that they were taking hallucinogenic drugs at the time he was saying all of this. At first he would tell these followers that they should be peaceful and love each other, but his message changed to that of an impending race war that would be brought about by the group.

He took his followers to an old broken down isolated ranch in California where he set up his base of operations to brainwash his quite large group. He also told the women to sleep with the nearly blind owner of the ranch, George Spahn, which they did; they also served as his sight guides for him and helped on out on the property.

It helped that the only things that these followers heard was his word and The Beatles White Album. An album that he believed said all the things that he believed would happen as well as the social turmoil of the time, but all in code. Manson believed, essentially, that the album was made for them so that they would take action and make sure that everyone be protected from what was to happen. It pushed him and his followers to make an album of their own that would be chock full of the same subtle references that The Beatles were making. A producer, Terry Melcher (the man that Charles would come looking for at the house that the Tate murders happened at), was said to have agreed to hear them perform the songs for him, but he never showed.