Charles Manson
The Tate–LaBianca murders of 1969, a series of killings carried out around Los Angeles by followers of Charles Manson, resulted in the deaths of nine people. Manson ordered those attacks, and he was the founder of the group responsible for carrying them out, known as the Manson Family.
Manson was born on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, a citizen of the United States. His education took him through a range of institutions: he attended the Gibault School for Boys and the National Training School for Boys, and he later passed through Arroyo High School and Pasadena City College. Alongside his criminal activities, he worked as a musician.
As a cult leader, Manson built around himself the devoted group of followers who constituted the Manson Family. It was through this organization that his followers carried out the murders around Los Angeles in the summer of 1969. His roles as a musician, a cult leader, a criminal, and a serial killer defined the public record of his life.
Manson died on November 19, 2017, in Bakersfield, at the age of eighty-three. His name is formally catalogued in the Library of Congress Name Authority File under the authorized label "Manson, Charles, 1934–2017," a reference that fixes the dates of a life marked by the founding of the Manson Family and the killings its members carried out in 1969.
Quotes by Charles Manson
Why couldn’t we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went on to the penalty phase. Like everything was cut and dry before it went off to martini land.
You see, you can send me to the penitentiary, it’s not a big thing. I’ve been there all my life anyway. What about your children? These are just a few, there is many, many more coming right at you.
You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, ‘These are what the words mean.’ Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary.
To get yourself together you need not to even think there is anyone else in this world. I don’t need to look down on, or get off on, or get over on. The hardest thing to overcome is our own lies, confusion and our jealousy.
I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought...
You know who your enemy is? You’re the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you.
I know what I would say now and I don’t lie, so I know I what I would say then. And I certainly wouldn’t tell nobody to go in and do nothing to anybody that I wouldn’t want done to me.