In one of the most remarkable exchanges in the trial, Manson’s attorney, Irving Kanarek, asked Dr. Fort if “a school for crime” could exist, peopled with social rejects and fueled by LSD: “Let us say with your knowledge of LSD, you have a school for crime, and then you take them here and you program them to go out and commit a murder here, there, everywhere… Are you telling us that this can be done, that you can capture the human mind by such a school for crime?” “I am indeed telling you that,” Fort said. And he’d never seen anything like it. He compared it to a government’s ability, through
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