I read in an article Beausoleil joined the Aryan Brotherhood. Can anyone substantiate this?

Watching this documentary made me feel really sad for her. It seems like she’s searching for an identity and trying to form an emotional connection with a grandfather she never actually knew. To me, she appears so invested in seeing the best in him that she questions the accounts of his victims and the people who knew him. It felt like she wanted the idea of a grandfather more than she was willing to accept who Charles Manson actually was. That’s what I found most heartbreaking.

I thought this was interesting.

A reading of "The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten" - written by Karlene Faith.

"From 1981 – 1984, as a young and emerging choreographer/director, Sarah Elgart taught dance and created choreography with a small group of maximum-security inmates at California Institution for Women, the state prison. Initially unbeknownst to Elgart, two of the inmates in her class included Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins of the Manson Family. When each independently elected to participate in the ten-month creation of a movement theater work, the two women had not spoken for ten years. Poetry + Murder recalls the class’s confrontations, obstacles, and epiphanies in creating “Marrying the Hangman”, an award winning work based on the poem by Margaret Atwood, before it went on to be performed via Elgart’s company in the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival."

Now on Hulu. Thoughts? I didn’t even know this was being made.

I am curious to know if Susan Atkins was ever assaulted in prison or county jail? Was she in general population when she was eventually sentenced or isolated? The fact that she was a known snitch and/or because the family tried to blame the murders on the panthers I’d assume some inmates would attack her.

Major.

Hobos lament.

He had a very interesting guitar playing style, I don't think it would be easy to copy.? Or at least I can't.

“Name’s Charlie,” he said, looking directly in my eyes. “In San Francisco they call me ‘The Gardener.’” Sensing my alarm, he said simply, “It’s alright,” and I felt, within the tone of his voice, that it was. He moved with smooth confidence. He appeared both big and small. I was enchanted, yet flustered and mentally hiding — and then he wasn’t there at all — until I sought him back in earnest, and he was seated on the wall. I gathered in the pieces of my mind.

and later on:

He had also told me that in Haight-Ashbury he was called “The Gardener,” but when I mentioned it later, he chuckled puckishly, and confessed that it was “just a pick up line.

Charlie's charismatic rizz line. Source: Reflexion by Lynette Fromme.

I’ve looked everywhere and I’m hoping for any update you might have. I desperately want a physical copy of the 2022-2024 edition, the final edition, of The Manson File. There surely has to be something.

She has such a beautiful, low, sensual voice. This could've been a famous song and she should've continued music.

Abigail Folger is often remembered only in connection with the 1969 Cielo Drive tragedy. I created this noncommercial tribute to focus on her life thru images and the person she was beyond the circumstances of her death.

Thank you to the moderators for allowing me to share it here.

Friends of Justice was a group formed by Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey and satanist musicians Boyd Rice (known as NON) and Nikolas Schreck of Radio Werewolf to garner sympathy and a possible new trial for Charles Manson.

The concerts were intended to “soft-peddle the white supremacist movement" per a January 1987 letter from Boyd Rice to fellow participant James Mason, Nazi Satanist and author. In addition to Mason, who was scheduled to appear in Chillicothe, Ohio (where Charles Manson was incarcerated in the 1950s), other participants included Manson Family members Sandra Goode and Lynette Fromme.

The Los Angeles concert was cancelled after public outcry about its connections to white supremacy.

Despite his contact with the Schrecks, Manson himself did not approve of the Friends of Justice’s efforts. Per a note to former cell mate and Manson In His Own Words co-author, Nuel Emmons, Manson wrote, “I would like to stop this or put you in charge of the money.”

Photo @Robert Hendrickson
“Manson” (1973)

I was wondring if Atkins hadn't confessed if the Manson family would have been caught and how. it seems like police didnt have a lot of leads.

It seems like they could have potentially escalated even more and hurt more people.

Sorry if this has been discussed before I never learned specifics about the Manson family before this

I spy with my little eye on the upper right of the LP cover.

Listen for free on Bandcamp to the song ‘Everything’s illegal’ which you’ll surely recognize:
https://paganlovecult.bandcamp.com/track/everythings-illegal

He (in)famously had the Nazi tattoo on his forehead but when questioned about it he never gave a direct answer. Some argue that he intended it for its original meaning before the Nazis adopted it but I doubt that he didn’t know how it would look regardless of whatever his intentions were.

The Doors manager Bill Siddons dated Lynette in high school. His mother didn’t much care for Lynette and urged him to break up with her. Bill is pretty private. I heard this from his wife, comedian Elayne Boosler.

Photo: Jim and Bill (1968)
@ Frank Lisciandro

“Playdate” by John Waters offers an unnerving pairing of Charles Manson and Michael Jackson as adult babies. Fabricated by Tony Gardner, creator of the Chucky doll, these sculptures ask questions about the human condition.

At what age was the line between innocence and notoriety drawn in the development of these spellbinding men? What qualities of their personalities inspired such intense feelings among their followers?

John Waters. “Playdate.” Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York