Biography of Charles Manson

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Charles Manson was the leader and founder of the cult the Manson Family or The Family, a group of people well known for being serial killers in the late 1960’s. It was believed that they were associated with cult-quasi-religious groups, that came about in the 1960’s and they are still here today. They believe they know what the future of the planet is, when it will end, and how. In a biography of Charles Manson and the Manson Family it said this, “In August 1969 a series of Hollywood murders were to shock the world and tarnish the 60’s free love and peace legacy.”(Biography Channel 2013.) Charles Manson himself never committed any murders with his own hands, but the murders were committed under his order by several of his most obedient comrades. Sometime after 1967 Charles Manson gathered a group of followers, and they all moved to San Francisco, and later to a ranch that had been deserted in the San Fernando Valley. Manson’s followers all shared a love for hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and mushrooms. He had them convicted that he was Jesus and a prophecy of a race war. Most of Manson’s followers were younger girls, which were very gullible and easy to manipulate. The group consisted of about 100 people, once everybody was moved in to the ranch it became known as the cult’s compound. “Manson believed that he was the new messiah and that after a “nuclear attack” he and his followers would be saved by hiding in a secret world under the desert. His prophetic visions included a belief that the race war “blacks” would triumph. Manson along with his “Family” members would have to mentor the black community as they would “lack experience” to run the planet.” (Biography channel 2013.) He convinced all of his followers of his beliefs, and...

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...e things that were wrote about him in his probation reports they still let him out into society. I stated early in this paper, one report said that he wasn’t safe without supervision, and then they let him out. I didn’t really like anything about this cult; they didn’t do anything good for anyone. All I knew about Charles Manson before I wrote this was he had committed murders. I didn’t know he was a cult and had followers, and everything else.

Works Cited

Charles Manson. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 10:54, Nov 03, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/charles-manson-9397912.

Charles Manson. (1996-2011). Helter Skelter. Retrieved Nov 01, 2013 from http://www.charliemanson.com/helter-skelter.htm

Rosenberg, Jennifer. (2013). Charles Manson. Retrieved from http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/charlesmanson.htm

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