* An interesting documentary film was made a few years ago entitled ‘Manson the Man Who Killed the ’60s’.
Excellent title for a film, it just about says it all, in that Charles Manson more or less singlehandedly ‘killed’ the whole concept of the late 60s at least, the Height Astbury delusion of gentle bearded long hairedness, love and peace, ‘raised consciousness’ and all the rest of it.
Saying all that, Manson, the evil little fraudster himself, is still very much a ‘cultural hero’, in the sense that he somehow embodies the general craziness, and eventual dissolution of that whole era. Strangely enough, the Apollo moon landings happened at around the same time.
* I don’t know why Manson has such a bad reputation, he has a pretty mainstream, PC world view:
Helter Skelter
“… Black men … would lash out in violent crimes against whites. A resultant murderous rampage against blacks by frightened whites would … provoke an internecine war of near-extermination between racist and non-racist whites over blacks’ treatment. Then the militant blacks would arise to … finish off the few whites … to have survived;
In this holocaust, the members of the enlarged Family would have little to fear; they would wait out the war in a secret city …”
What college-educated liberal would disagree with that? Manson would be on the right side of the Ferguson issue.
* Clark and Darden may not have been the best prosecutors to ever enter a courtroom, but they did more than well enough to prove Simpson’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The person who botched the case was Garcetti for stupidly filing the case in downtown LA (instead of Santa Monica where it belonged) thereby allowing the seating of a jury composed mainly of angry and stupid black women.
* I believe at the time Rolling Stone magazine was all set to come out with an issue glamorizing the Manson Family as anti-establishment rebels when at the last minute they decided to have a visit with Bugliosi’s LA prosectutor’s office leading to them to significately moderate the tone of their cover story.
You think they could have learned a thing or two.
* That was part of what freaked out the entertainment industry so much about the Manson murders: there were always lots of fringe folks hanging around, and at the end of the 1960s with the youth revolution in taste making everything uncertain, they’d been letting them get a little closer.
