[onyx]

I remember the Manson murders like they happened yesterday. If you want to read about them and the subsequent capture and trial, buy the late Vincent Bugliosi's excellent book Helter Skelter . Vincent Bugliosi was LA County's prosecutor at that time and along with securing First degree murder convictions for Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie Van Houten, he also made certain they all received the Death Penalty.

[proud American in Canada]

Yes. My Dad, a lawyer, had that book, and I read parts of it when I was young.

Thank you for the reminder, FRiend. Every American should read that book. It’s an important part of history.

[Yaelle]

When I was quite young I read that book. It was my first true crime book. I was scared to DEATH reading it, seeing as how it all happened all around where I lived.

And we used to drive by the house on Cielo Drive late at night and get the shivers as it looked then the same way it had the night of the murders, and was desolate and empty. Now the street, house, everything up there has been changed.

[Dawgreg]

I still have that book. Those murders haunt me to this day. I think the hippie movement was the beginning of the end of America as we used to know it.