Charles Manson Was Not a Product of the Counterculture

The New York Times ^ | NOV. 20, 2017 | BAYNARD WOODS

[detective]

The Manson murders — the seven killings committed by Charles Manson’s followers in two days in Los Angeles in August 1969 — are often thought to mark the end of the 1960s, as if those brutal slayings were the inevitable outgrowth of the counterculture, the dark consequence of long hair, free love, casual drug use and a general breakdown of authority and social norms.

This sentiment was most famously expressed by Joan Didion in her book “The White Album.” She wrote that “in a sense” it was true that “the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brush fire through the community.”

[daniel1212]

The NY Times is both a cause and product of the Counterculture, so what should be expect?

[eyeamok]

Charles Manson was a proud liberal progressive, All the hippies were and still are.

[jmacusa]

Actually Manson did his ‘’recruiting’’ in and around Los Angeles.

[Trumpet 1]

It could be said that the Manson murders showed American sheltered white kids that the Eloi were in danger of the predatory Morlocks and that it was not a good idea to just trust any guy just cause he had long hair and liked to party. End of the age of innocence.