Charles Manson Research Paper Outline

The Killer Who Never Killed

Charles Manson was an American cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the late 1960s (“Charles Manson”). Nobody would have known he was the leader of a cult which killed many. Manson's early life was a little harder than the average person. His mother left him at an early, age which made caused himself to be independent (“Interview :Mansion on Religion”). Manson’s twisted philosophies became someone's worst nightmare. A crazy, bizarre character was the reason all of these people were murdered.

Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934. His mother was just sixteen when she had Charles (movie). Manson received his name when his mother married William Manson. His life couldn't have

started off any worse. Manson’s birth certificate read “no name maddox” because he had no name (movie). From the start, Manson's life was unstable. His mother divorced his father and moved around numerous times with or without Charles (movie). Charles was passionate about singing and that's the only reason he went to church. When he was nine years, old he set his school on fire (movie). His mother was imprisoned for burglary, and he was left with his family (movie).Manson was on the cover of a newspaper for going to boys town. In his teenage years, he and another boy stole a car and lived on the road for awhile. Charles’ life was on the path to someone you would call “a monument to parental neglect and the failure of the public correctional systems” (movie). He soon had a list of criminal convictions he was carrying on his back. Charles Manson soon married Leona Stevens but continued his bad acts and went to jail (movie). Manson was sentenced to prison for ten years but got out in Seven (movie). He was released from prison in 1967 but asked not to be released (movie). When he got out of jail it was drastically different then when he went in (movie).
Manson believed the tensions between blacks and whites in the countercultural boiling pot of the 1960s would erupt into a race war that would end in the slaughter of nearly all white people. He called this doomsday scenario “Helter Skelter” (Berson). In the scenario, the tensions between the races would lead to violent murders of whites by blacks, which would be met in return with the murders of blacks by whites, and so on, until a full scale war erupted. At the same time, in Manson’s theory, white people would turn against their neighbors, leading the white race to fight both itself and the blacks at the same time (Berson). Manson and his followers would crawl down a secret hole in Death Valley and wait out the bloody war in a secret underground city. Upon the war’s end, the group would rise from the desert and rule the victorious blacks, whom Manson thought would be incapable of governing themselves (Berson). In a way, people could say manson was racist because he would try to control the vulnerable blacks who just got done with war. The Beatles had a song called “ helter Skelter” which he would find the lyrics of the song and compare them to the bible. The song influenced him to think that it was God telling him these ideas. Manson’s idea of a race war soon came to a hold. He had another idea in his twisted mind, and quoted “do what blackie didn't have the energy or the smarts to do”. Manson told his “family” members to kill everyone at the home of Sharon Tate (Berson).
Manson had his followers go on a killing spree.

Gary Hinman, 34, was the first victim in a series of killings by the Manson “family” in July 1969. Hinman was a musician and had apparently sold “some bad mescaline” to one of Manson’s followers, Bobby Beausoleil. Over the course of three days, Manson followers tortured him and then stabbed him to death. The Texas-born Hollywood actress was known for her role in the film “Valley of the Dolls.” She was 26 and was 8 1/2 months pregnant the night Manson’s followers entered the home where she and Polanski lived in Los Angeles (Gomez). There, Tate was stabbed sixteen times as she pleaded for her life and that of her unborn child. Her body as well as that of four other victims were found the following morning.

Steven Parent was the first and the youngest victim of the group killed that night, he was only eighteen. He was a recent graduate from Arroyo High School and worked two jobs, one as a delivery boy for a plumbing company and the other as a salesman for a stereo company. Parent had an interest in electronics and, on the night he was killed, he was on the Cielo Drive property trying to sell a clock radio to another young man, William Garretson. As Parent left that night, he was confronted by Watson, who slashed his hand with a knife and then shot him multiple times

(Gomez).

Charles manson's cult was notorious for doing the killings for him. Manson's cult consisted of his family members. Van Houten is one of several Manson followers who are still alive and in prison. They periodically come up for parole review, though none has been released. Van Houten, who was convicted along with other members of Manson's cult in the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, was granted parole in September by a panel of state commissioners in Chino. It was the 21st time that Van Houten, sixty-eight , had appeared before a parole board, and the second time that commissioners found her suitable for release (Hamilton). Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten walk to court in August, 1970 to appear for their roles in the 1969 cult killings ordered by Charles Manson. All were convicted for their crimes.
The key to Manson’s control, as with all cult leaders, was to ensure that followers not only saw him as an all-powerful, messiah-like figure, but that followers see themselves as members of a superior elite that has the answer to the world’s problems – even if that means killing the rest of the world along the way. Manson persuaded his followers to commit murders to trigger where there would be a “race war” which would elevate him to world leadership (Dubrow-Marshall).
Patricia Krenwinkel is one Mansons members.

On the first day of the killing spree, she stabbed Abigail Folger twenty-eight times, she said in court testimony. During the second night, Krenwinkel testified that she stabbed Rosemary LaBianca while the victim pleaded for the life of her husband, Leno LaBianca. Krenwinkel said she later scrawled "Death to Pigs" on the wall with the blood of Leno LaBianca. She was denied parole for the 14th time in June. She'll be eligible for consideration again in five years (“Where Are 'Manson Family' Members Now?”). One of the chief participants in the Manson family murders, Watson was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder. He was involved in both killings at Tate's and the LaBianca's residences. At age seventy-one, Watson remains in prison and has been denied parole seventeen times (CNN). Van Houten is one of several Manson followers who are still alive and in prison. They periodically come up for parole review, though none has been released(CNN). Van Houten, who was convicted along with other members of Manson's cult in the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, was granted parole in September by a panel of state commissioners in Chino. It was the 21st time that Van Houten, sixty-eight, had appeared before a parole board, and the second time that commissioners found her suitable for lease (“What Fate Awaits Manson's Imprisoned Followers?”). Debra Tate, the sister of Manson cult victim Sharon Tate, expressed concern about

Van Houten being released. Her attorneys have long argued that she was only nineteen when she took part in the crimes and that she has been a model prisoner. But release has been strongly opposed by the families of the victims as well as prosecutors and many others (“What Fate Awaits Manson's Imprisoned Followers?”).
Most of his influences were ideas that he manipulated into what he wanted. Charles Manson was a smart individual who had the abilities to brainwash people to think that what he believed in was acceptable. Manson and others were sentenced to death until it got changed to life in prison. He served nine life terms in California prisons and was denied parole twelve times. Manson died of natural causes at the age of 83. He is the cause of many deaths, even if he didn't kill them himself. None of the victims deserved what Charles Manson's followers did to them. He took loved ones from their families and took individuals whose life was too short. His name will never be forgotten.

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