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Charles Manson

Rosemary's Baby Revisited

Cathy Whitlock | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Vidal Sassoon, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Richard Sylbert, William Castle, Horror Films, John Cassavettes, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Rosemary's Baby Curse, Halloween Movies, Mia Farrow Haircut, Mia Farrow, Entertainment News
Cathy Whitlock

As with most films, often the backstory and subsequent events surrounding the filming of Rosemary's Baby were equally as interesting as the script itself.

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The Deaths of "Lucy in the Sky" and "Sexy Sadie": A Tale of Two Women

Darin Murphy | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, The Beatles, Manson Family, Susan Atkins, John Lennon, White Album, Lucy O'Donnell Vodden, Sexy Sadie, Sharon Tate, Beatles, Charles Manson, Entertainment News
Darin Murphy

One would remain an enigma whose legend mystified millions, while the other became a high profile murderer who horrified millions more.

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Roman Polanski Must Finally Be Brought to Justice

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charles Manson, Chinatown, Samantha Geimer, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Entertainment News
Andy Ostroy

Is there really any debate here? Are there really two sides to this story? He raped a child, for Pete's sake.

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Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Mlk, Rfk, Fergie, Uzi, Kent State, Sarai Givati, Khloe Kardashian, Gun Violence, Gang Warfare, Hayden Panettiere, Future Heretics, Columbine, Gerald Ford, Vietnam War, Gun Control, Walter Cronkite, Charles Manson, Jfk, Bullets, Guns, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

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How Would You Decide? -- Part II

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Living News, What Do You Stand For?, The Golden Rule, Peter Westbrook, Sharon Tate, Ethics, Charles Manson, Immanuel Kant, Justice, Compassion, Michael Josephson, Living News
Jim Lichtman

I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.

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How Would You Decide?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Ethics, Charles Manson, Forgiveness, Justice, Compassion, California, Manson Family, Sharon Tate, Parole Board, Living News
Jim Lichtman

Isn't it up to God to forgive the truly horrible, like members of the Manson Family? Should we forgive all mass-murderers? Must we go that far?

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All Hail the Felonious Ex-Con -- Michael Vick

Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Killing, Michael Vick Jail, Animal Cruelty, Peta, The Eagles, Football, Quarterback, Michael Vick Animal Cruelty, Michael Vick Prison, Philadelphia Eagles, Paws, Dick Cheney, Murder, Sports, Nfl, Philly, Charles Manson, Entertainment News, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick, Nfl Draft, Comedy, Torture, Bengals, Comedy News
Paul Mecurio

Vick has paid his debt to society. Yes, he practiced killing and torture and violated the code of conduct he was sworn to uphold. That doesn't make him a monster. That makes him Dick Cheney.

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40 Years After Woodstock: An Extraordinarily Different America

Brent Green | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Vietnam War Protests, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Woodstock 40th Anniversary, Woodstock, Lyndon Johnson, Harvard, Lsd, Entertainment News
Brent Green

Woodstock means little until you place it in larger context of a society unraveling around the newest generation of young adults, a dominant and dominating cohort of malcontents.

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Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Manson Family Member Who Tried To Kill President Ford, Released From Prison

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme Released From Prison, Criminals, Lynette Fromme, Crime, Charles Manson, Charles Manson Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Squeaky Fromme, Home News

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison...

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Squeaky Fromme, Would-Be Ford Assassin, Released From Prison

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Squeaky Fromme, Lynette Fromme, Lynette Squeaky Fromme, Ford Assassin, Ford Assassination Attempt, Manson Follower, Manson Follower Fromme, Charles Manson, Squeaky Fromme Out of Jail, Fromme Released From Jail, Politics News

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison...

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Women Criminals I have Known

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Parole, Randolph Hearst, Court, Secret Service, Fbi, Sharon Tate, Leno Labianca, Murder, Gerald Ford, Rosemary laBianca, Los Feliz, Leslie Van Houten, Sara Jane Moore, Waverly Drive, 1969, Stabbing, Patricia Krenwinkle, Charles Manson, Van Houten, San Francisco, Women's Rights, Living News
Geri Spieler

It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.

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Charles Manson Interview With Geraldo Rivera in 1988: 'I'll Be The Devil' (VIDEO)

Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Crime, Geraldo Rivera Charles Manson Interivew, Criminals, Charles Manson Video, Charles Manson, Geraldo Rivera, Media News

To mark the 40th anniversary of Charles Manson's capture and year of terror, Geraldo Rivera re-broadcast a rare 1988 interview with Manson during whic...

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The Mystery Behind the Manson Murders

Paul Krassner | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Manson, Murder, Racism, Politics News
Paul Krassner

Charles Manson was never a hippie. His real family included con artists, pimps, drug dealers, thieves, muggers, rapists and murderers.

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Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 5 of 5

John Waters | Posted 09.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charles Manson, Stephen Kay, Charles Manson Murders, Leslie Van Houten, Manson Family, Rudolph Hess, Albert Speer, Entertainment News
John Waters

"I ask that I be shown the mercy I didn't give... and that is not easy in this parole board room but I am going to ask for it. I am who I say I am."

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My Acid Trip with Squeaky Fromme

Paul Krassner | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Manson, Sandra Good, Brend McCann, Mel Lyman, Squeaky Fromme, Vincent Bugliosi, Gerald Ford, Politics News
Paul Krassner

This month, Fromme is scheduled to be released from prison after serving 34 years for the attempted assassination of President Ford in 1975. We took LSD together four years earlier.

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Charles Manson's Ranches (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post via LIFE.com | Posted 09.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Barker Ranch, Charles Manson, Charles Manson Murders, Spahn Ranch, Home News

Following the news that Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Ford in 1975, will be relea...

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Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 4 of 5

John Waters | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Waters, La Bianca, Helter Skelter, Leslie Van Houten, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Stephen Kay, Charles Manson Murders, Manson Women, Entertainment News
John Waters

"Each act we did in that house, I take responsibility for," she testified in 2004, adding "I can't... place the blame on someone else. It was me."

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Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 3 of 5

John Waters | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Waters, Charles Manson, Cry-Baby, Charles Manson Murders, Leslie Van Houten, Helter Skelter, Johnny Depp, Entertainment News
John Waters

I've always secretly wondered if Leslie ever felt "cool" when she was with the Manson gang and I finally got up the nerve to ask. "Cool? We had no concept by then of any such possible word!"

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Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 2 of 5

John Waters | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Waters, Pink Flamingos, Charles Manson, Cry-Baby, Charles Manson Murders, Leslie Van Houten, Lsd, Serial Mom, Entertainment News
John Waters

By now I certainly knew that what Leslie had done was anything but "art." Her participation in the La Bianca murders was a very real atrocity.

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Charles Manson's Race War: The Beatles and Helter Skelter

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Manson, Charles Manson Murders, The Beatles, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer responsible for the seven murders at this Hollywood Hills home, blamed the Beatles' White Album for the series of killings his "Family" committed.

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Fathers Matter "Now" More Than Ever

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Poverty, Rape, Jerry Lewis, Crime, Single Mothers, Gloria Steinem, Politically Correct, Thomas Jefferson, Sigmund Freud, Male Influence, Gen Robert E Lee, Bill Cosby, Father's Day, Barack Obama, Fatherless Boys, Pragmatic, Mental Illness, Charles Manson, Clinton, Child Abuse, George Washington, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pop-Psyche Culture, Fatherless Children, Billy the Kid, Jack the Ripper, Nario Cuomo, Mark Twain, Happy Father's Day, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

Male influence in a child's life is invaluable, irreplaceable and necessary for most of us. There, I said it.

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Sara Jane Moore's Interview Fallout

Geri Spieler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Revolver, Matt Lauer, Presidential Assassination, Gun, Police, West Virginia, Secret Service, Today Show, Fbi, Sara Jane Moore Today Show, Charles Manson, Virginia, Gerald Ford, Squeaky-Fromme-Gun, Sara Jane Moore, Taking Aim at the President, Prison Release, Charleston Gazette, West, Geri Spieler, Charleston, Assassination, Huffington Post, San Francisco, Charleston Daily Mail, Media News
Geri Spieler

If you were standing on that sidewalk next to Moore when she was 45 years old, would you have expected her to pull a gun from her purse, aim and pull the trigger at the head of the U.S. President?

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Dick Cheney Is America's #1 Terrorist

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Zacarias Moussaoui, Ramzi Yousef, Guantanamo Bay, Timothy McVeigh, Gitmo, Charles Manson, Ted Kaczynski, Richard Reid, Dick Cheney, President Obama, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Cheney is setting the stage so that if a terrorist attack does occur again, he can place the entire blame on Obama's reversal of several "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding.

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If Torture is Not Punished, Charles Manson Should be Freed

Doon Baqi | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Manson, Bush Administration Torture, Nazis, Barack Obama, Salem, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News
Doon Baqi

I don't know if the term "witch hunt" can be applied to the torturers of today. Unlike the women of Salem, these guys actually are the "witches", they did do what they are accused of.

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Charles Manson Jail Photo Released (SLIDESHOW, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Charles Manson in Jail, Slideshow, Charles Manson Prison Photo, Charles Manson Photo, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson Jail Sentence, Charles Manson, Charles Manson Murders, Roman Polanski, Media News

California corrections officials have released a new photo showing a 74-year old Charles Manson. The infamous murderer's photo was taken for routine ...

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