He died in a California prison on 19 November.
In a Californian prison, 19 November at 20:13 local time died Charles Manson, who is known as one of the most notorious criminals of the 20th century.
Manson grew up without a father and mother practically lived with five years, because she herself was convicted of robbery. Son gave relatives and then in foster care. For the first time Manson has appeared in a correctional facility in 12 years for armed robbery. For 18 years, it is already considered “dangerous”: one of corrective schools Manson raped another prisoner, threatening him with a razor.
“I was raised by cops, I was raised by convicts, brought me to the [prison] administration. I used to live locked up. It’s like a parallel universe because I have no place among you,” he said in the interview that he gave while serving a life sentence. When, in 1967, came to an end his second “adult” period (check kiting), Manson asked not to release it, calling jail his “only home”. By the time he was 32 years, 17 of them he spent behind bars.
Despite the request, Manson was released in 1967 and organized a “Family” — a cult in which he surrounded himself with young girls, telling them about the impending Apocalypse called Helter Skelter (the phrase translates as “a mess”; the so-called song of The Beatles). In the interpretation of Manson’s Helter Skelter — is a race war in which black will win white, and then turn to “Family” for guidance. Own family Manson was not even in the breaks between landings he had married twice, each marriage he had son.
Trying to bring the end of the world “Family” in August 1969, two days killed nine people, including actress Sharon Tate, wife of Director Roman Polanski, pregnant with his child. Manson admitted the organizer of the murders, although he did not participate in them. He and four members of the “Family” were sentenced to death, then replacing it with life imprisonment.
During the process, Manson became a star. The courthouse was besieged by the followers, and went on sale in the first album of his songs “Lie”; action “Family” glorified leftist Weathermen samizdat; Rolling Stone magazine has called Manson “the most dangerous of living people”. “He has become an icon, because it marked the end of the swinging sixties. “Flower power” came to an end. Youth culture has become much more dark and dangerous than previously thought”, — says Professor of criminology David Wilson about the phenomenon of Manson.
Attention to Manson only intensified when after the verdict, in 1975, member of the “Family” squeaky Fromme tried to shoot U.S. President Gerald Ford (the gun didn’t work, she was sentenced to life imprisonment; was released in 2009). The popularity of Manson is not extinguished in the 1990s: his song got on the album Guns N’ Roses (the Axl rose had to justify himself), and Marilyn Manson took the last name of the killer for the alias to create “a balance of good and evil.”
At the trial, and in prison, Manson is willing to give an interview, telling about his views and “Family”. Conversation with Manson in 1986, the CBS journalist Charlie rose has received an Emmy award. While convicted every time denied any involvement in the killings. The question rose about that, does it bother him that Tate, when she was killed, was pregnant, Manson replied, “And what does it actually mean “worry”?”
In 2012, Manson again denied parole. He himself at the hearing, failed to appear, but they read out excerpts from his conversation with the prison psychologist. “I’ve spent my entire life in prison. I buried five — I’m a very dangerous man,” said Manson. A former employee at the ranch “Family” Juan Flynn believes that the freedom he sought: “Charles Manson all tricked. They say: “He’s in jail.” But Charlie was exactly where he wanted.”
Authorities in California have to decide whether Manson is buried or cremated.
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