>> does it -- >> he adjusted incredibly well. we will have more of that. the full interview with hunter on monday. that does the for us. cnn original series "the seventies" starts now. >> tonight our topic will be murder. as a growth industry. murder has become an epidemic. >> in ten years the -- >> my god somebody fired a shot. >> these tragedies keep getting closer and closer to home. >> just ready to let my kids walk out the door. >> urban crime wave. >> step up mr. bundy. >> there has been a disturbing growth in cult phenomenon in this country. >> i shall be god. and there shall be no other. ♪ ♪

>> all the elements for one of the most sensational trials in history. young girls supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali, who allegedly masterminded the

murders. >> the '70s is a decade of brutal violence on any front and anywhere you look in america. >> at the time of a mass murder, there's a lot of media coverage. but usually after a brief period of time the identity of the perpetrator tends to fade from the public's consciousness, but not so with the manson case. >> it was the biggest publicity case the d.a.'s office ever had. >> the manson trial begins the 1970s on such an evil, sadistic note. seven innocent people died. steve parrot, a teenager, abigail folger, folger coffee. jay sebring, wojciech frykowski, jason sebring, gary hinman, leno

labianca, rosemary labianca and sharon tate. >> all of you know how beautiful she was. only a few of you know -- >> and you had charles manson himself. the charismatic leader with a family who didn't show any remorse or any respect for the system. >> are you all happy with the courts? >> good. >> am i happy. >> your court? i wouldn't accept it. >> the problem was he did not physically participate in the murders but only manson had a motive to commit these murders and that was helter skelter. >> he envisioned that white people would turn against the black man. they thought they committed the murder and there would be a civil war between blacks and whites. manson foresaw the black man would win this war but he said the black man because of xin pe inexperience would not be able to handle the reins of power. so you have to look at the white people who survived, who escaped from helter skelter and turn over the reins of power to charles manson and his family. when the word helter skepter

were found printed in blood, >> manson sat through this saying nothing but had an "x" scratched in his forehead. it's his way of saying he has xed himself out of society. ♪ susan atkins, patricia krenwinkel and leslie van houten sang as they went to and from court today as if to show they are with manson and he is with them. >> the three women were coached by charlie every morning. here's what i want you to do. they would do everything from singing mocking songs to the judge to when charlie is making one of his impassioned speeches mouthing the words along with him.

>> i don't have guilt. i know what i have done and no man can judge me. i judge me. >> are you bitter? >> bitter, no. >> price, you have eyes. open them. >> charlie manson is a great presenter, but vincent was better. when he put these two antagonists into a courtroom america thought, this is entertainment. >> people who are curious about the tate murders go to the los angeles hall of justice where they wait in long lines. some people are so interested they get to the courthouse at 4:00 a.m. something else this trial has done is gather together again those members of manson's family who are not in jail. >> the world is getting crazy. one read part of a letter that manson wrote the district attorney. >> i'm writing to you because i don't think i'm getting a fair trial. i'm an individual one man standing alone. defending myself. contrast this with the facilities you have available to you. >> i noted the coverage of the charles manson case. here's a man who was guilty, directly or indirectly of eight murders without reason. there's a man who as far as the

coverage was concerned appeared to be rather a glamorous figure. >> l.a. times, next morning manson guilty nixon declares. manson got ahold of the paper. stands up in front of the jury with a silly little smile on his face and he shows the jury the headline. >> a tight ring of security surrounds the hall of justice today as the manson jury deliberates. meanwhile, members of the manson clan continue their vigil outside of the hall of justice. they have been there since the start of the trial. >> if charlie were convicted of these charges, what happens to the rest of the members of the family? >> there's no if. charlie will get out. all of the people in jail will get out and we will all go to the desert together. >> the jury hearing the charges against charles manson and three girl members of his so-called family heard the verdict this afternoon. >> outside the court, manson's girl

followers got the news by radio. >> they have convicted these people and you are all next. all of you. there's a revolution coming very soon. >> today the judge formally passed sentence on charles manson and his girls. the death penalty he said for seven senseless murders. he said the sentence was appropriate and almost compelled in this case. so death in the gas chamber, he said. >> the very name manson has become a metaphor for evil, catapulting him to almost mythological proportions. and there's a side to human nature, for whatever reason, that is fascinated by pure evil. >> if the death penalty is to mean anything in the state of california other than two empty words this unquestionably was a proper case for the imposition of the death penalty. >> the california supreme court ruled today the death penalty is unconstitutional. that will save five women and

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>> boy was shot right at the side of the car and the girl apparently tried to run. she was shot and found 28 feet further on. >> do you have any idea what the possible motive might be for this killing? >> we have no motive at this time. >> the zodiac killer committed dozens of murders in the '60s a '70s. we really don't know the full dimensions of case but know he is the zodiac because he started to write to the police claiming credit in great detail. articulating and explaining what he did to these victims. >> "the chronicle" received two letters. they notified us immediately. the criminologist was sent to

the newspaper, as were inspectors and the two letters were examined and opened. >> the zodiac's reaching out to the police repeatedly and in great length was something new. >> the psychotic killer has already murdered five. one at a lover's lane near a lake north of san francisco. three others in nearby a v.a. the latest taxi driver in san francisco. the zodiac killer seems to crave publicity. he sent letters and cryptograms to newspapers and police recounting his crimes, threatening more murders and making bay area residents very edgy. >> in the '70s there was a certain kind of killer who had the skill to get away with murder, long enough to assemble a body count where they would be classified as a serial killer. >> in los angeles, a killer the police are calling the hillside strangler has murdered ten young women and left their bodies on the hillsides along the highways. today, the police found another, number 11 they think. >> two young paper boys discovered what appear to be the latest victim.

the body had been dumped 15 feet down an embankment in a residential neighborhood. the victim was 20-year-old woman and the body was nude. >> the series of murders has had a chilling effect on the people in the city. >> in los angeles more women than ever before are learning to defend themselves. susan ball skipped night school for a week. she says she can't sleep because of the murders. >> i guess i just want to learn how to give myself a few seconds so i can live. >> there have been enough bodies found over a wide enough area to strongly suggest more than one killer. police say they really don't know. >> today the los angeles police say they have a suspect. a man in jail in another state. >> los angeles police say they have enough evidence to charge 27-year-old kenneth bianchi with ten of the hillside sprangles. police focused on bianci after he was arrested last january for the murder of two college students in washington state. >> what the police did not know is there is not one strangler but two. today in a bellingham, washington, courtroom, kenneth

bianchi in hopes of avoiding a death sentence confessed to participation in the los angeles hillside stranglings and accused his cousin angelo buono of being his accomplice. >> kenneth bianchi, he was motivated because he was trying to show his older cousin, who he revered that he was tough and for angelo, he enjoyed the fact he had his younger cousin listening to him and saw him as a mentee. and we saw this time and time again. pairs of killers who urge each other and together they are extremely vicious and violent. >> is there any doubt this is a body? >> no doubt. skull and everything. >> when did you first get word there might be some bodies buried here? >> this morning. >> had you had any indication before? >> the man behind the killings was dean corll, 33 years old. or was. he was shot and killed thursday -- wednesday evening by wayne

henley, 17 years old. he was one of two teenagers that lured young boys to corll's home. >> corll picked up kids, and once he had them in his house he would incapacitate them and put them on what he called his death board and rape and kill them. >> the texas killing have become the worst murders in american history. four bodies of boys were dug up today and that brings to 27 the number discovered so far. >> some people trying to make it appear the police department has not done all that it could or should have done in these cases. the police department feels these parents are not exactly discharging their own responsibility so as far as raising and disciplining their children. >> these shocking murders focus national attention on a major problem, that of runaway children and what can happen to them. >> the children have run away from home today are not the children we had running away in the '60s. in the '60s we had flower

children and they ran away for sociopolitical reasons. today children are running from a situation rather than to a situation. >> police would say they probably ran away. it was to the demise of many who in fact were picked up by sexual sadists like jon wayne casey. >> in illinois, near chicago, a man who served time in prison for sex crimes was let out. today they found the bodies of at least three young boys buried under his house. >> reporter: police today found six more bodies under the john gacy house. >> illinois authorities made their first positive identification of the 28 bodies unearthed so far. this grisly search ended tonight and will be resumed after christmas. >> prior to his arrest, gacy was well known in the community. he frequently dressed in a clown outfit for the benefit of youngsters. he was generally seen as a man young people liked. the coroner of the county has seen nothing like it.

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>> the court says the death penalty is an expression of of society's moral outrage at particular crimes. >> in the 1970s, we had a four-year moratorium on the death penalty. the u.s. supreme court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. eventually, in 1976, with new statutes, the u.s. supreme court said it is constitutional. and then we started to see the death penalty back in place, death row is repopulated with new criminals like gary gilmore. >> it seems the people of utah want the death penalty but don't want executions. i took them literal and serious when they sentenced me to death. >> the crimes were not especially extreme. two robbery murders but when he was convicted he wanted to die. he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. two years later he was put to death by a firing squad and became the first person in america this new era to be executed and his words were "let's do it." >> the order of the fourth

judicial district court of the state uf utah has been carried out. gary mark gilmore is dead. >> tonight, our topic will be murder as a growth industry. these are the national homicide figures. for the past ten years, every year has set a new high for murder in america. >> the statistics were stupendous. violent crimes of all kinds were soaring. the spectacles that people were seeing on their tv screen were unlike anything they had seen before. >> a small grocery store has been robbed. the owner of the grocery store, nathan hurt has been shot and killed. it happened midday. >> as i understand a man came to the store and had a gun and asked for money and my grandfather reached for a gun he had and grabbed at the man's gun and it went off or he shot him twice and my grandfather fell to the floor. >> why did he feel he had to have a gun? >> because there are so many robberies in the area and

thought he needed it for protection. >> today ordinary citizens who would not otherwise dream of having a gun are buying one because they are scared out of their wits. >> william rubiak is a ukrainian immigrant who owns a store outside of washington, d.c. he's been robbed at gunpoint four times in the past two years. now william rubiak has bought a gun and said next time he will use it. >> i will shoot and i will shoot to kill. >> fear is the biggest seller of guns. studies have shown each urban crime wave has touched off a new round of gun buying. we have german rugers, small revolvers, magnums, some of these saturday night specials are small and can be palmed in your hand. >> it was shortly after 10:00 california time when the president left his hotel. not seen by the following cameras but spotted by secret

service agent larry buendorf was a hand with a gun in it comes through the crowd. the commotion erupted. secret service agents forced the assailant to the ground and then handcuffed her. she was identified as 27-year-old lynnette alice fromme one of the earliest followers of charles manson involved in the tate labianca murders of 1969. >> about the same time gerald ford becomes president, charlie in prison writes to squeaky he has new rules. they want to do one big thing that's going to get the nation's attention back on charlie. so squeaky, wearing a red robe comes up to the president of the united states with a big gun, points the gun in his face. the secret servicemen wrestle her to the ground and squeaky's first words were, can you believe the gun didn't go off? >> following your own close brush with death, i was wondering if this has convinced you at all that we need tough gun control legislation in this country? >> i prefer to go after the person who uses the gun for an

illegal or criminal purpose. that to me is a far better approach than the one where you require registration of the individual or the gun. >> just minutes after making those statements, gerald ford walked in to the street and heard the sound of gun fire. [ gun fire ] >> my god, there's been a shot! there's been a shot. we're being pushed back by the police. somebody has fired a shot here. we don't know if anybody has been hit. my god! somebody fired a shot. >> the president was not hit. witnesses heard the sound and saw a puff of smoke. the woman identified by police as sara jane moore was immediately seized. >> sara jane moore jumped out of the crowd, fired off a weapon and was tackled by another citizen.

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in the '70s, new york was really in danger. the whole social fabric had been torn in half and crime was just one of the many indications that we were lost. >> i would say the last ten years, the homicide rate has increased by leaps and bounds. we hit our peak probably in 1972, when the bronx had 430 homicides.

in the '70s the bronx looked like berlin after world war ii. literally looked like berlin. >> 1.5 million people live in the borough. once that smoke on the horizon signified industry, progress, jobs. now it means someone is burning down a building. it has become the harsh capital of the world. it happens 30 times a day and the flames are the signal of a national disaster. >> is there anything that can change the situation. the bronx in my own estimation is doomed with a capital "d." >> a lot of gritty stuff went down in new york and when you think of new york in the '70s you think of the son of sam murders. >> christine freund, 26 years old, soon to be married, is dead today. dead in a shooting that has no apparent motive. >> the end of 1976, they transferred me to queens homicide. the first woman i came across was a woman named christine freund, who was

sitting there with her boyfriend coming from a movie and got her head blown off. >> the comparison determined it was indeed the same killer using the same gun a .44 caliber weapon on these homicides. therefore the police nicknamed it the .44 caliber killer. >> he struck again on april 17th at 3:00 in the morning, killing 18-year-old valentina suriani, and her fiance, 20-year-old alexander esau as they sat in a parked car in the baychester section of the bronx. >> we got the shooting back in the bronx. a girl named valentina suriani but at the scene where that shooting occurred left a note addressed to my supervisor and called himself the son of sam. >> he talks about being possessed by a man he refers to as sam and the man he refers to to as his father, and he says, his father requires blood. >> this got people's attention. i think it was the sheer randomness to it. the fact you could be doing

something as simple as sitting in a car talking to a friend, and someone could come behind you and open fire. it was pretty terrifying. it was frightening. >> i was in charge of the night time operation. task force that wanted to shoot him on site. that was our job, take him out on the street. we flood the streets of new york. >> people died and we're trying to stop it. okay, my man. it's everybody. it is not you. it's everybody. that's all we are trying to do. >> okay. ♪ >> in terms of the victim count, that doesn't place him at the top of the list in terms of the most deadly serial killers but it was new york city. what happens in new york city, well, that's international news. >> good evening. harry is on vacation. here are our top stories. 100 more police join the hunt for the son of sam killer in new york. >> the search continues for the .44 caliber killer come to be known as the son of sam. >> he warned in one of his sick and threatening letters to the

press and to the police that sam is a thirsty lad and he won't let me stop killing until he has had his full of blood. >> it was really miserably hot summer in new york. everything went dark. i heard someone on the street go "oh, it's a blackout." >> the looters were out almost instantly. and it felt apocalyptic. i remember going to bed that night thinking it was the end of the world. >> new york city in the early morning after a night of no electric power. what it did have in the dark streets was a wild outburst of crime. >> when the greatest city in the world goes black, it showed a crumbling america. then you have the son of sam on the loose. we always look for patterns in victims. there was this belief he was only killing women with long dark hair. >> i know the .44 killer is

after girls with long brown hair. so when me and my friends go out at night we put our hair up. >> my hair is down to my shoulder. >> i cut it short because of the .44 caliber killer. >> his last victim was actually blond. >> a 20-year-old new york city girl died this evening a day and a half after she and her companion were shot by the son of sam. he is the night time killer that stalked new york residential boroughs for a year. >> easy. easy. >> a postal worker walked out uf his yonkers apartment last night. turned the ignition key in his car and found himself surrounded by police. well, he said, you got me. police say those words ended the biggest manhunt in new york city history with the capture of son of sam. and this is what they say tripped up the .44 caliber killer, a parking ticket. david berkowitz drove this ford

galaxy from his home inn yonker to bensonhurst, brooklyn. police say he went to stalk his 12th and 13th victims. but in the place he parked was a fire hydrant and police had the lead they needed. >> when we get him and i interrogate him. my attitude at this time, i want to take him and throw him out the window. this guy was so pathetic. like talking to a zucchini, never blinked. constant smile on his face. after a while it is hard to feel sorry for the guy. he is gone. right? >> i feel great. i think the people of our city will feel great relief. >> praise the lord. it's over. we're very, very happy. >> that was the first thing we heard this morning. it was fantastic. it was great. >> serial killers tend to be cunning. that allows them to stay at large. when they get caught it is usually because of luck. good luck for us. bad luck for them. >> when we caught him.

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>> there are too many miracles in this church that it is hard to -- without telling two or three. because they blend together. and they make a beautiful flow of miracles. for 30 years i prayed to a sky god and got nothing but disappointment and heart ache. now we have a father who loves each one of us so much. how thankful we are. thank you. [ applause ] ♪ >> the '70s were very fertile period for these new religious movements. what was so interesting about the rise of cults in our country is how many people wanted to ally themselves with these stigmatized and fanatical organizations.

>> i must say it is a great effort to be god. i lean upon another but no one else has the faculty that i do. in the meantime i shall be god and beside me there shall be no other. >> yeah! yeah! >> jim jones was an extraordinary figure. he was community leader, social worker. and now a minister. and he carried his ministry to california. ♪ walk with me ♪ walk with me >> what was particularly distinctive about him at that time is he created a community that was united between whites and blacks. and this came at a time when the country was still very racially divided and churches were not integrated. >> some leading scientists say we have to have euthanasia. oh, no. oh, no. who's going to decide who and when a person is going to die? we must never allow that.

this kind of thing ushers in the terror of a hitler's germany. we must not allow these kind of things to enter our consciousness. >> i wanted to write a story about this guy and his power an the reach he had. so i began to contact ex members and they said all is not so good inside. there were beatings if you got out of line, a lot of sex abuse and the story took on a new life at that point. very soon afterwards, the church members began leaving san francisco for guyana. he figures if i'm in guyana, it really doesn't matter what is said or written. nobody's going to get me here. ♪ we are a happy family we are a happy family yes we are ♪ >> it was an escapade almost unparalleled in the history of religious movements. they had very little communication with their loved

ones at home. and naturally there was concern with where they had gone and what was happening out there in the jungle. >> i think jim jones took his group down there because he was afraid to face publicity and answer questions here in this country. >> he was talking immigration, he was talking helping people. he was talking better this and better that. >> what about now, what's your impression now? >> my impression now those are fronts for him. i think he's gone crazy. congressman leo ryan start ed hearing the name jim jones more regularly. he wanted to expose what he believed was going on down there that was wrong. he thought it was certainly worth inviting members of the press to join him. >> very glad to be here. this is a congressional inquiry. i can tell you right now whatever the comments are, there are some people here that believe this is the best thing that happened to them in their whole life.

[ applause ] >> so it is towards the end of the evening. don harris, who was the nbc reporter had been walking around the pavilion and two people slipped him notes and he hands the notes over to congressman ryan who opens them and says, "oh, my god. it is true. everything we have been told is true." >> always a place. >> then word spread and more and more people wanted to leave. >> do i both understand you to say that you both want to leave jonestown on this date? november 118, 1978? >> then i remember seeing this couple with a child between them.

>> get back here! bring them back! don't you take my kids! >> you could feel the tension. >> last night, someone came and passed me this note. >> people play games, friend. they lie. they lie. what can i do about liars? are you people going to leave us -- i just beg you -- please leave us. >> instead of just letting that plane take off with minimal damage to his movement, jones snapped. >> good evening. for about the last 30 hours we here at nbc news have been trying to establish what happened last night at the airstrip at a place called port kaituma. we do have a particular interest in it. two nbc news men were shot to death there. >> don harris was killed. bob brown was killed. congressman ryan was shot 45 times. >> every time somebody would fall down wounded they would walk over and shoot them in the head with a shotgun. >> i was shot five times.

i was lying on my side with my head down, pretending i was dead. and then all of a sudden they just came and -- um -- shot me at point-blank range. >> they are shooting. people die including leo ryan and back in jonestown, jim jones is calling for a revolutionary suicide, where we are all going to kill ourselves make a statement to the world. >> i first flew into jonestown last evening around sunset. there was absolute silence. nothing living was around. jonestown last evening was a city of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide poison. it had been mixed with kool-aid. it killed quickly, within five minutes.

>> we will never know how many people voluntarily drank the poison. but other people were either coerced, brainwashed or took it against their will. they were murdered. >> i was lifted into this medevac plane and i was so grateful. >> good evening. the searching american soldiers have finished counting the bodies in jonestown, guyana. 910 died in the poison ritual of the people's temple last week. >> this was americans killing other americans and themselves. in its own interest for its own well-being, this nation will have to find out why. ♪ how's it progressing with the prisoner? he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. as you were...

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there were a lot of strange people who committed a lot of strange crimes in the 1970s. but none of them was as med mediagenic as ted bun day. >> bundy was a prolific serial killer. we don't know how many he killed. we know it's dozens. he was handsome. very involved. he didn't seem like the glassy

eyed lunatic that many americans believed serial killers to be. >> we still don't believe it. it just can't be. i keep shaking my head day after day saying how can this be? our son is the best son in the world. >> what the prez wrote about bundy and his crimes wasn't the full details. the full extent of their barbarism. it didn't quite fit with the image of this boy next door. >> you feel that everything will turn out all right. that you are innocent. >> yeah, more than ever. >> bundy was to stand trial on the murdering of a woman. he bailed out of a second floor window and escaped. >> he high tailed it up into the

hills where they chased him around for nearly a week. he got lost up there. they caught him and he was put back in jail. and, at christmas time, 1977, he escaped again. >> bundy starved down to less than 140 pounds, slipped through the hole in the ceiling of his cell and was free again. >> ted did not have a plan when he escaped. he swrus wanted to get as far away as he could. so he stole a car and went to florida. >> his new quarters are cramped. he faces intense questioning. >> bundy was living in tallahassee at the time when five state university coeds were attacked. two of the young women died.

>> the police in pensacola florida stopped a man driving a stolen car and found to their surprise and maybe their pleasure, ted bundy. >> step out. an indictment. why don't you read it to me. >> bundy, having had some law training, and a great deal of arrogance, decided to represent himself. for him, it was the star in the courtroom. >> don't shake your finger at me, young man. >> inside the court room, the trial will be covered by a still photographer and one television camera. upstairs, there are some 250 reporters and television technicians from around the country.

>> he doesn't fit the usual profile of a criminal. when he defends himself in court, it's fascinating for people to watch. >> each day, the courtroom is filled with people drawn by fascination by the gruesome details of the crimes. what is unusual to see is that many of the onlookers are women, young women. >> you're falscinated by him? >> try to imagine yourself in his place and see how he's feeling. >> the bizarre spectacle of ted bundy as a sex symbol really bummed out feminists, as you can imagine. he became a folk hero. there were t shirts. on the other hand, his violence was so incredibly woman-hating and his enthuse yichl about that, we wound up being pretty depressed. >> i had five skull fractures

and multiple contusions in my head. >> are you prepared for a guilty verdict? >> i think so, but you never know. >> after 6 1/2 hours of deliberation, the jury had a verdict. guilty of first-degree murder in the strangling date of two florida state sorority sisters 9 months ago. >> it is therefore the sentence of this court that you be sentenced of death by a current of he electricity. >> in some ways, ted bundy is an icon of the '70s. he mixed a kind of showbiz and violence in a way that had never been done before.

>> in the end of the '70s, we had a destruction of our innocence that we had at the beginning of the '720s. >> it became an era when americans began to expect the worst. >> it was the news media that helped carry this message that america was a dangerous place. actually, it was much more like a marriage. and that marriage, for some people, was until death do them part. >> for a time, social violence described the waive of violence as an epidemic. poverty, broken homes. sociologists call it a subculture. the current wave is bell into its second decade.

perhaps this is because confronting the problem of violence forces us to face the most serious defects of our society. >> this is the way jonestoub looked the way it died, november 18th, 1978. >> die with a degree of dignity. a self proclaimed religious paradise.