The Manson's Helter Skelson By Charles Manson

When I hear the words “Helter Skelter,” sadly I don’t think of The Beatles, I think of the widely known serial killer and cult leader Charles Manson. Helter Skelter is a song by The Beatles, but became the motto for Manson’s future lifestyle of death, racism, and hysteria. Manson believed that Helter Skelter was a song telling all of an upcoming race war between the black and white people of the United States. The egregious Tate and LaBianca murders occurred in the late sixties and is one of the most horrendous murder cases in all of California’s history. Abigail Ann Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Earl Parent, Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca all died at the hands of Charles Manson, and the Manson Family. The Manson

As I stated earlier, Manson and his pseudo-family kick started their murderous behavior because of Manson’s deranged mine that the song Helter Skelter was telling him of the apocalyptic beginnings of a race war. Manson had stated plenty of times that the black man was going rise and begin killing the whites and turn cities into “an inferno of racial revenge.” I believe that Manson had discriminatory behavior towards African Americans because of the time period his murders had occurred. The sixties were times of drugs, love, peace, and anger, depending on who you were. It was the beginnings of a new era of rock n roll, with Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and more. New drugs were hitting the streets and the United States was at war with Vietnam. It also was a time of anguish for many African Americans, due to the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. It is well documented that at the time African Americans were protesting and fighting for equal and civil rights, and the Black Panther movement was kicking up steam, which scared and angered many white people of the time. It is possible that Manson felt the same way most of his fellow Caucasian community believed at the time. That blacks and whites should be separated and that there was no need for any civil rights for black people. It is possible that the civil rights movement was what he thought was the beginnings of a

At one point, he wrote a song that would later become stolen from him by Dennis Wilson and famous by the Beach Boys called, “Never Learned Not to Love.” This more likely than not, caused him great pain and incredible rage. He wanted to be famous for his music, and for it to be taken from him could have possibly began his prejudice attitude towards Hollywood and famous celebrities. Prejudice is the preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members. His prejudice only grew towards those like Sharon Tate, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and other incredibly famous people of that time. Manson and his family didn’t personally known Tate, but during the sixties she was the pinnacle of success for any young, and beautiful actress. She was also pregnant and married to, another famous celebrity, filmmaker Roman Polanski. I believe because of that, she also became a source of hate for Manson. Charles Manson probably believed that famous people were the cause of his lack of greatness, which ignited such hatred in him. It is very possible that he was an insecure man who felt that he needed constant recognition by many. It could be that he believed he was this higher power and everyone should love and worship him, and when that didn’t happen his immense animosity for those he admired only