Manson and his band of murderers operated in lawful times when culture was much more intact than the shit we’ve inherited since
Within 30-40 days that summer of 1969 ...
Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones drowns or is murdered by his handyman roughy
First Vietnam US troop withdrawals
Chappaquidik
First moon landing....the biggie
Woodstock
Tate and LaBianca atrocity ...Manson as yet virtually unknown ensconced at the Barker Ranch in Death Valley
Hurricane Camille gives new meaning to “Hurricane parties” wth 250 miles per hour winds measured at offshore drill rigs before the anemometer blew away.
Uncle Ho dies...well bye Ho
Lt Calley formally charged...rightfully so
That is one heady six weeks to envision no?
What struck me about Manson was how so many teenaged and early 20s girls some from upper middle class were willing to be gangbanged and passed around like low rank court trollops and just sexually wrought out by Manson and his ringmaster indulgences of his girls to the men he chose so he could watch or needed favors from
All that in squalid conditions under the thumb of that elfin deranged troubadour who’d watched his mom screw for cash right next to him in the bed...and allowed him to be molested
All that depravity and when sold on this freak Beatles soundtrack race war fantasy of his which was bullshit really made up to justify trying to kill for being spurned Terry Melcher and Candace Bergen he got these same chicks led by their psycho efff buddies to instead hand butcher innocent folks including poor Sharon and her baby
It was Satans hand...regardless...I knew it the second it hit the news and I was only 12
Front gates in the nicer neighborhoods of L.A. became very popular after the summer of ‘69.