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Charles Manson

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November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States

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American criminal who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that arose in the U.S. state of California in the later 1960s.

He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, which members of the group carried out at his instruction. Through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy, he was convicted of the murders themselves.

Manson is forever associated with "Helter Skelter", the term he took from the Beatles song of that name and construed as an apocalyptic race war that the murders were intended to precipitate. This connection with rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with pop culture, in which he became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre. Ultimately, the term was used as the t...more

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Books by Charles Manson

Average rating: 3.82 · 534 ratings · 47 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Manson in His Own Words by Charles Manson, Nuel Emmons (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Manson File: Writings by Charles Manson and His Family by Charles Manson (Editor), Boyd Rice (Editor), Jack Stevenson (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	ATWA 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	I vostri bambini. Your children. Testo inglese a fronte 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Rapid Eye 1 by Simon Dwyer (Editor), Hubert Selby Jr. (Contributor), William S. Burroughs (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
― Charles Manson

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“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
― Charles Manson

tags: true

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“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
― Charles Manson

tags: government , inspirational , politics

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