Monday, August 31, 2009
Larry King, Linda Kasabian & Vincent Bugliosi
Larry King talks to Manson family member Linda Kasabian and prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi on "Larry King Live" Friday night on CNN at 9pm ET
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Charles Manson could care less about Phil Spector
Prison officials probe Spector's safety concerns
Posted:
Aug 20, 2009 06:05 PM
Updated:
Aug 21, 2009 08:45 PM
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities said Thursday that Phil Spector does not fear for his safety in prison despite a letter that he recently wrote to a friend saying he felt in danger and wanted to be moved to a "better" facility.
"We interviewed Mr. Spector today," said Lt. Stephen Smith, spokesman for the Corcoran, Calif., prison where Spector is held. "Mr. Spector states he does not fear for his safety at our institution. He said he hopes he can stay here at our institution."
Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections said an Associated Press story about a letter Spector wrote fretting over his safety was brought to the attention of prison officials, who looked into it.
"We have a legal obligation to house all inmates safely," she said.
Spector, a legendary music producer, is serving 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was found shot through the mouth at Spector's Alhambra mansion in February 2003.
In an Aug. 10 letter to a friend, Spector complained about being in a prison that houses "gangsters and Manson types" and said he was eating in his cell to avoid exposure to dangerous inmates. He said he was trying to get to "a better prison."
As for Spector's complaints about being in the same prison with Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, Thornton said they are located a few miles apart in different facilities.
Spector, 69, is at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, where more than 6,900 other inmates are housed. He is in a "sensitive needs yard," an area that typically houses prisoners who have dropped out of gangs or are trying to avoid gangs. Spector was probably placed there because of his notoriety, Smith said.
Manson, Sirhan and a few other high profile prisoners are at Corcoran State Prison a few miles away. They are in the protective housing unit, Thornton said.
"It's the highest form of protection we have in the state," she said. Others housed there include mass murderer Juan Corona and Michael Markhasev, the killer of Bill Cosby's son.
"If Manson was housed in the general population yard, he'd probably get killed," Thornton said.
She said Manson is isolated from others in his unit by his own choice.
"He doesn't care about Spector. He doesn't care about anybody," she said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
Posted:
Aug 20, 2009 06:05 PM
Updated:
Aug 21, 2009 08:45 PM
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities said Thursday that Phil Spector does not fear for his safety in prison despite a letter that he recently wrote to a friend saying he felt in danger and wanted to be moved to a "better" facility.
"We interviewed Mr. Spector today," said Lt. Stephen Smith, spokesman for the Corcoran, Calif., prison where Spector is held. "Mr. Spector states he does not fear for his safety at our institution. He said he hopes he can stay here at our institution."
Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections said an Associated Press story about a letter Spector wrote fretting over his safety was brought to the attention of prison officials, who looked into it.
"We have a legal obligation to house all inmates safely," she said.
Spector, a legendary music producer, is serving 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was found shot through the mouth at Spector's Alhambra mansion in February 2003.
In an Aug. 10 letter to a friend, Spector complained about being in a prison that houses "gangsters and Manson types" and said he was eating in his cell to avoid exposure to dangerous inmates. He said he was trying to get to "a better prison."
As for Spector's complaints about being in the same prison with Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, Thornton said they are located a few miles apart in different facilities.
Spector, 69, is at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, where more than 6,900 other inmates are housed. He is in a "sensitive needs yard," an area that typically houses prisoners who have dropped out of gangs or are trying to avoid gangs. Spector was probably placed there because of his notoriety, Smith said.
Manson, Sirhan and a few other high profile prisoners are at Corcoran State Prison a few miles away. They are in the protective housing unit, Thornton said.
"It's the highest form of protection we have in the state," she said. Others housed there include mass murderer Juan Corona and Michael Markhasev, the killer of Bill Cosby's son.
"If Manson was housed in the general population yard, he'd probably get killed," Thornton said.
She said Manson is isolated from others in his unit by his own choice.
"He doesn't care about Spector. He doesn't care about anybody," she said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Guns, Fromme & Obama
"When Does Carrying a Loaded Weapon to a Presidential Rally Become a Threat?":
http://washingtonindependent.com/55361/when-does-carrying-a-loaded-weapon-to-a-presidential-rally-become-a-threat
"Where Are the Limits?":
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/where_are_the_limits.php
http://washingtonindependent.com/55361/when-does-carrying-a-loaded-weapon-to-a-presidential-rally-become-a-threat
"Where Are the Limits?":
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/where_are_the_limits.php
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Hippies, Manson, & El Coyote
"1969- a mess of music, mud, murder":
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13049396
"Mansonites Converge at El Coyote":
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-08-13/columns/the-last-supper/
"Manson murders stun those in '60s movement":
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/aug/13/manson-murders-stun-those-in-60s-movement/
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13049396
"Mansonites Converge at El Coyote":
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-08-13/columns/the-last-supper/
"Manson murders stun those in '60s movement":
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/aug/13/manson-murders-stun-those-in-60s-movement/
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Barbara Hoyt & Gypsy Share
Free Manson 'family' members haunted by horror
By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent
Published: Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009
Those who are free are still trying to sort out how they fell under his spell and how they came so close to one of the worst crimes of the 20th century. This is the anniversary of their nightmare.
They were very young when they found Manson - or he found them. Some were just 14. Others were in their late teens and early 20s.
Share muses how she might have been a lawyer or journalist had she never met Manson.
"We were just a bunch of kids looking for love and attention and a different way to live," recalls Share, 66. "He was everything to us. He was a con, a manipulator of the worst kind."
Hoyt was a 17-year-old who had left home after an argument with her father. She was sitting under a tree eating her lunch when a group of Manson followers came along in a van and asked her to go with them. They went to a house in the San Fernando Valley.
"I met Charlie the next morning," she said. "He took me for a motorcycle ride and we went for doughnuts. He was very nice. I thought he was pretty neat."
She said she was told by others of Manson's prediction of a race war that would destroy all but his followers who would go to the desert to live in a bottomless pit until it was safe for them to emerge and take over the world. She said she didn't believe much of it, but they were fixing up dune buggies for their escape and it was fun.
Hoyt and Share eluded being tapped for the Tate-LaBianca murders for different reasons.
"I was very young and I hadn't been there very long," said Hoyt. Others had joined the family long before she had and had been subject to Manson's "deprogramming," which included group sex and LSD trips.
"I wasn't as dead in the head as others. He asked me one time if I could kill and I said if someone asked me I would talk my way out of it. There were other people willing to do it."
Share said she was never asked, partly because she was older. But there was another reason: an extra 20 pounds that would have made it difficult for her to climb through windows.
"Let me tell you," she said, "I was just short of murdering for him. If he had told me to get some black clothes and get in a car, I would have."
The two women, who are not in touch with each other, have struggled back to normalcy. Share became pregnant while living at Spahn Ranch and has a grown son who served in the Marines. She declines to identify the father but said it was not Manson or any other notorious cult figure.
She went to prison for five years for involvement in a Manson Family robbery and later did more time for credit card fraud. She said the time in prison helped her recover and she became a Christian. Some of those in prison also have embraced Christianity.
Share went into retail sales and has just finished a book on her experiences with the Manson Family.
Hoyt went to college and became a nurse and is proud of her accomplishments.
"I raised my daughter; I have my own home and I've had some vacations," she said. But memories haunt her and she doesn't reveal where she's living.
"People freak out when they find out about my past," she said.
She keeps track of the Manson Family members in prison and writes letters urging that they never be released.
Share is more sympathetic to those who were convicted. Susan Atkins, 61, who is dying of brain cancer and had a leg amputated, has been turned down for compassionate release and has a parole hearing coming up in September. Leslie Van Houten, 59, and Patricia Krenwinkel, 61, convicted with her, remain in prison for life as does Charles "Tex" Watson, 63, another of the killers.
"Everyone wants to make them monsters," said Share. "They weren't monsters. They did a monstrous thing and now they're older people and they're not monsters anymore. None of those people ever would have been violent if it weren't for Manson."
http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/2095195.html
By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent
Published: Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009
Those who are free are still trying to sort out how they fell under his spell and how they came so close to one of the worst crimes of the 20th century. This is the anniversary of their nightmare.
They were very young when they found Manson - or he found them. Some were just 14. Others were in their late teens and early 20s.
Share muses how she might have been a lawyer or journalist had she never met Manson.
"We were just a bunch of kids looking for love and attention and a different way to live," recalls Share, 66. "He was everything to us. He was a con, a manipulator of the worst kind."
Hoyt was a 17-year-old who had left home after an argument with her father. She was sitting under a tree eating her lunch when a group of Manson followers came along in a van and asked her to go with them. They went to a house in the San Fernando Valley.
"I met Charlie the next morning," she said. "He took me for a motorcycle ride and we went for doughnuts. He was very nice. I thought he was pretty neat."
She said she was told by others of Manson's prediction of a race war that would destroy all but his followers who would go to the desert to live in a bottomless pit until it was safe for them to emerge and take over the world. She said she didn't believe much of it, but they were fixing up dune buggies for their escape and it was fun.
Hoyt and Share eluded being tapped for the Tate-LaBianca murders for different reasons.
"I was very young and I hadn't been there very long," said Hoyt. Others had joined the family long before she had and had been subject to Manson's "deprogramming," which included group sex and LSD trips.
"I wasn't as dead in the head as others. He asked me one time if I could kill and I said if someone asked me I would talk my way out of it. There were other people willing to do it."
Share said she was never asked, partly because she was older. But there was another reason: an extra 20 pounds that would have made it difficult for her to climb through windows.
"Let me tell you," she said, "I was just short of murdering for him. If he had told me to get some black clothes and get in a car, I would have."
The two women, who are not in touch with each other, have struggled back to normalcy. Share became pregnant while living at Spahn Ranch and has a grown son who served in the Marines. She declines to identify the father but said it was not Manson or any other notorious cult figure.
She went to prison for five years for involvement in a Manson Family robbery and later did more time for credit card fraud. She said the time in prison helped her recover and she became a Christian. Some of those in prison also have embraced Christianity.
Share went into retail sales and has just finished a book on her experiences with the Manson Family.
Hoyt went to college and became a nurse and is proud of her accomplishments.
"I raised my daughter; I have my own home and I've had some vacations," she said. But memories haunt her and she doesn't reveal where she's living.
"People freak out when they find out about my past," she said.
She keeps track of the Manson Family members in prison and writes letters urging that they never be released.
Share is more sympathetic to those who were convicted. Susan Atkins, 61, who is dying of brain cancer and had a leg amputated, has been turned down for compassionate release and has a parole hearing coming up in September. Leslie Van Houten, 59, and Patricia Krenwinkel, 61, convicted with her, remain in prison for life as does Charles "Tex" Watson, 63, another of the killers.
"Everyone wants to make them monsters," said Share. "They weren't monsters. They did a monstrous thing and now they're older people and they're not monsters anymore. None of those people ever would have been violent if it weren't for Manson."
http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/2095195.html
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Angela Smaldino & Manson's legacy
"N. Texas relative of Manson victims speaks out":
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090809_mo_relative.c51ff461.html
"Manson's lasting legacy: 'Live freaky, die freaky'":
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/10/california.manson.murders
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090809_mo_relative.c51ff461.html
"Manson's lasting legacy: 'Live freaky, die freaky'":
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/10/california.manson.murders
Monday, August 10, 2009
Sandra Good, Dennis Rice, Ed Sanders & Charles Manson
"40 years later, Charles Manson shows no regret":
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090809/charles_manson_090809/20090809?hub=TopStories
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090809/charles_manson_090809/20090809?hub=TopStories
"Vermont had odd ties to a Manson devotee":
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090808/NEWS01/908080329/0/DATACENTER
"A 40TH MANSON FAMILY REUNION, HOW THE PSYCHOPATH CHANGED AMERICA":
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Helter Skelter & the Manson Girls
"Charles Manson: 40 years later, the movie about him you have to see":
http://movie-critics.ew.com/2009/08/09/charles-manson-40-years-later-the-movie-about-him-you-have-to-see/
"40th Anniversary of the Charles Manson Murders":
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20296856,00.html
"Convicted Killers Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten Plea for Parole":
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=8289456&page=1
"Local resident adds 'strange' details about gory Manson killing spree":
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20090809/NEWS01/908090305/1002/Local-resident-adds--strange--details-about-gory-Manson-killing-spree
http://movie-critics.ew.com/2009/08/09/charles-manson-40-years-later-the-movie-about-him-you-have-to-see/
"40th Anniversary of the Charles Manson Murders":
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20296856,00.html
"Convicted Killers Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten Plea for Parole":
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=8289456&page=1
"Local resident adds 'strange' details about gory Manson killing spree":
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20090809/NEWS01/908090305/1002/Local-resident-adds--strange--details-about-gory-Manson-killing-spree
Charles Manson Family docudrama
Sunday
MSNBC will rebroadcast "The Mind of Manson" at 7pm &
"Will You Kill for Me? at 8-10pm ET
MSNBC will rebroadcast "The Mind of Manson" at 7pm &
"Will You Kill for Me? at 8-10pm ET
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Bugliosi, Deutsch & Davis
"Free Manson 'family' members haunted by horror" by LINDA DEUTSCH:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/08/09/ex_manson_family_members_haunted_by_horror_years_later
PATT MORRISON ASKS / VINCENT BUGLIOSI, "Taking on Charles Manson: No matter what else he does, the lawyer and author will always be known for prosecuting the infamous murder case":
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-morrisonbugliosi8-2009aug08,0,1546651.story
"The Devil's disciples: 40 years after his killing sprees, Charles Manson is now a grotesque celebrity with a Twitter page" by Ivor Davis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1205141/The-Devils-disciples-40-years-killing-sprees-Charles-Manson-grotesque-celebrity-Twitter-page.html
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/08/09/ex_manson_family_members_haunted_by_horror_years_later
PATT MORRISON ASKS / VINCENT BUGLIOSI, "Taking on Charles Manson: No matter what else he does, the lawyer and author will always be known for prosecuting the infamous murder case":
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-morrisonbugliosi8-2009aug08,0,1546651.story
"The Devil's disciples: 40 years after his killing sprees, Charles Manson is now a grotesque celebrity with a Twitter page" by Ivor Davis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1205141/The-Devils-disciples-40-years-killing-sprees-Charles-Manson-grotesque-celebrity-Twitter-page.html
Friday, August 7, 2009
The Manson Family Murderers: almost 40 years later
"Susan Atkins On Quest For Parole, Forty Years After Charles Manson Murders":
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8240770&page=1
"TERROR: The brutality of the killings destroyed a period of innocence and changed the city forever": http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_13019902
"Manson Family grows old in prison":
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-qPaLdNgbVQdsk8PIsCu51jDYOwD99U76R00
"Manson Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi":
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1915134,00.html
"Murder Won Out Over Manson's Music Aspirations":
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537723,00.html??test=faces
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8240770&page=1
"TERROR: The brutality of the killings destroyed a period of innocence and changed the city forever": http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_13019902
"Manson Family grows old in prison":
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-qPaLdNgbVQdsk8PIsCu51jDYOwD99U76R00
"Manson Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi":
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1915134,00.html
"Murder Won Out Over Manson's Music Aspirations":
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537723,00.html??test=faces
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme to be released
One of Charles Manson's girls is scheduled to be paroled on August 16,2009:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=8262139&page=1
"TV News: Wrong Again"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geri-spieler/tv-news--wrong-again--sti_b_252397.html
"Still a threat":
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8268072&page=1
The Manson deaths: Report from Dec. 2, 1969David Brinkley reports on the suspects in the Tate-LaBianca murders. Don Oliver reports on The Family's headquarters on the Spahn Movie Ranch, and interviews Lynne "Squeaky" Fromme, who calls Charles Manson "a good person."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=8262139&page=1
"TV News: Wrong Again"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geri-spieler/tv-news--wrong-again--sti_b_252397.html
"Still a threat":
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8268072&page=1
The Manson deaths: Report from Dec. 2, 1969David Brinkley reports on the suspects in the Tate-LaBianca murders. Don Oliver reports on The Family's headquarters on the Spahn Movie Ranch, and interviews Lynne "Squeaky" Fromme, who calls Charles Manson "a good person."
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
John Waters on Leslie Van Houton
"John Waters: Manson Family Member Should Be Free":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111585116
(includes a podcast)
On the Huffpost:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_246953.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111585116
(includes a podcast)
On the Huffpost:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_246953.html
Vincent Bugliosi interview on the Charles Manson Family Murders
This Tuesday, August 11th at 1pm est, 10am pst on In Your Face Radio.
E-mail questions or comments to Grobeck - grobeck@inyourfaceradio.net
http://inyourfaceradio.net/2009/08/03/exclusive-charles-manson-prosecutor-vincent-bugliosi-discusses-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-manson-trails-on-iyfr/
E-mail questions or comments to Grobeck - grobeck@inyourfaceradio.net
http://inyourfaceradio.net/2009/08/03/exclusive-charles-manson-prosecutor-vincent-bugliosi-discusses-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-manson-trails-on-iyfr/
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Charles Manson's Secret Autograph Operation
Ivor Davis claims that Charles Manson has an elaborate money making scheme in place to sell his autographed photos complete with a full staff of fellow inmates to produce forgeries.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08022009/gossip/pagesix/charles_mansons_secret_prison_business_182618.htm
Mr. Davis co-wrote 5 to Die with Jerry LeBlanc.
He will be releasing a revised 40th anniversary edition this month:
http://www.mansonfivetodie.com/
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08022009/gossip/pagesix/charles_mansons_secret_prison_business_182618.htm
Mr. Davis co-wrote 5 to Die with Jerry LeBlanc.
He will be releasing a revised 40th anniversary edition this month:
http://www.mansonfivetodie.com/
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Greta Van Susteren's Charles Manson Special
From Greta:
"In my spare time, I have been working on a CHARLES MANSON special for you. (Let me add one thing...the "heavy lifting" on this special was done by others....I was just lucky enough that they let me work on it with them.) It has been 40 years since Manson and his so called family terrorized Los Angeles. Our SPECIAL airs this week and I hope you watch. We have new information, new video..."
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/02/charles-manson-special/
"In my spare time, I have been working on a CHARLES MANSON special for you. (Let me add one thing...the "heavy lifting" on this special was done by others....I was just lucky enough that they let me work on it with them.) It has been 40 years since Manson and his so called family terrorized Los Angeles. Our SPECIAL airs this week and I hope you watch. We have new information, new video..."
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/02/charles-manson-special/
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Linda Kasabian from the new documentary
A couple clips of the upcoming Manson special featuring Linda Kasabian:
http://www.cineflixproductions.com/show_reel
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=71506&bcpid=27727641001&bctid=27951917001
http://www.cineflixproductions.com/show_reel
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=71506&bcpid=27727641001&bctid=27951917001
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