![]() Shaving their heads to show solidarity with their leader? Done. The ferocity of the murders the seeming randomness of the violence and the chilling, bottomless weirdness of the Manson cult itself incised a terrible, indelible black mark on the late 1960s.īut it was during grand jury testimony and at the trial of Manson and his followers with the trial itself serving as a kind of bleak circus that lasted nine months, from the summer of 1970 to the spring of 1971 that the nation was able to gauge just how deeply unhinged “the Family” truly was.Ĭarving x’s in their foreheads? No problem. (Manson was convicted, in essence, as a “conspirator,” as he was not present at the killings, but ordered them to be carried out.) In 1971, Charles Manson and several of his followers-Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Louise Van Houten-were convicted in the era-defining Tate-LaBianca murders that horrified not only Los Angeles, where the murders took place in the summer of 1969, but the entire nation. ![]()
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