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prison. throughout his long life he never admitted regret or remorse. >> remorse for what? you people and everything in the world to me. does that not give me equal right? i can do anything i want to, anytime i want to. because that is what you've done to me. >> charles manson will remain forever seared into the public conscious. evil personified. the man some say helped bring down the curtain on the 60s as an age of innocence. who ultimately, in his own twisted way, achieved the fame that he had been seeking all along. >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline". >> it's all a plea, isn't it? >> are you ashamed?
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>> shame,? it's relevant. >> empty. >> i would do to wouldn't do anything i'd feel guilty a bout. >> you may think you know the charles manson story, but not like this. >> things that police had never seen before. >> sharon tate begged her, please don't kill me. >> he was prime to take advantage of peace and love, flower power. >> even now, decades later, the world is still fascinated by charles manson and his crimes. we take you inside his world of drugs -- >> he would dose them with lsd -- >> sex. >> he slept with all those girls. >> and rock'n'roll -- >> they really did listen to the "white" album over and over. >> with new interviews -- >> he says, gary, this is your last chance. >> and new details. >> he would always frame his statements, this is what i believe and the girls all
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believed it. >> the murders. >> these people were brutally butchered. >> the mayhem. >> charlie was acting meaner towards the girl. >> the mad men. >> maybe i should have killed four, 500 people, then i would've felt better. >> he symbolizes the horror that can be possible in this world. >> hello and welcome to "dateline". charles manson was a man of small stature and monstrous delusions. the one-time amateur musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. after that green dream was crushed, it was replaced by a chilling fantasy. a nightmarish prophesy placing manson atop the throne as ruler of a post armageddon world. this is the story of how a career criminal, calling himself jesus, convinced his
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young followers to slaughter innocent victims. delivering charles manson the fame he craved. here is keith morrison with "the summer of manson". >> all that remains are ruins. the ramshackle barker ranch is long gone. only the fitful baking death valley left out. tooth are story the fated bits, the rusted junk. the artifacts from another time, when this was ground zero for one of the most infamous crimes in history. the hideout of a living personification of evil. >> you've got it stuck in your brain that i. >> charles manson. >> one hot, dry weekend in los angeles. august, 1969. a pregnant movie star, slaughtered. along with four others in her home. across town, a couple, butchered in there's.
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>> these were brutal crime scenes. things that the police had never seen before. >> murders so bloody, so ugly, they rewrote history. became a kind of bookmark as an era of optimism ended. and a darker time began. >> the sixties came to a close, 1969, and that was the curtain. that was the final curtain. >> who could make sense of it? >> sane? that's relevant. >> who? even though. >> how do our kids and up doing this kind of incredible violent crime? how did that happen? we will do our best to answer that question, to get past the myths of the clouded story of charles manson, and without those who witnessed finally
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explain the chaos, the crimes, the horror. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ los angeles, 1968. the center of the rock'n'roll universe. here was capitol records, the beatles record company. the sunset strip. and here the producers who could make charles manson a here's jeff quinn, the author of, manson men whose research revealed the man behind the myths. >> manson was raised by a very loving family, his uncle and aunt and his grandmother. these were folks that were very religious, and they want to charlie to go to church, which he hated. but he had amazing knack to memorize scripture.
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>> >> he was fascinated particularly with the book of revelation. which he learned to quote at great length. but he did not learn to be good. >> he constantly stole. he lied. he picked on people. he was fascinated with knives and nothing you would do to try to discipline him worked. >> finally, was manson sent to reform school. eventually prison. by 32, he had spent half his life locked up. >> he was immediately struck by the pimps. from them, he learned how to control women who were and this is his quote, bent but not broken. >> manson also became fascinated with a popular book by dale carnegie. called "how to win friends and influence people". this is so strange to hear. that he read dale carnegie. >> not only red dale carnegie, absorbed it. >> that wasn't the only thing manson picked up in prison. another inmate gave him guitar
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lessons. and one day in the prison workshop, a radio was blaring the top 40 at of 1964. >> he hears the song by the beatles. and so, he sets a goal for himself of becoming even better than the beatles and he starts writing songs and performing in prison shows. >> and so, by the time charlie manson was released from prison on parole, his fantasy was very strong. >> he would be signed to a contract. he would become world famous, rich, have all the women and drugs he wanted. >> a fantasy that charles manson himself would have remained anonymous. a complete unknown. had it not been for this -- san francisco cisco's haight district, were that very moment in 1967 busloads of kids were arriving. to what they thought would be a
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new world of peace and love. >> there would be hundreds of people sitting on the sidewalks and you'd go grass, pass it. speed. >> roger smith was her manson's parole officer in san francisco. and in that scene walked charlie medicine? >> he did. >> he could somehow identify the ones who could be tricked, coerced, drawn in. >> vent but not broken. troubled young women. like susan atkins, she left home as a teenager and drifted. washed up in the haight. she looked worked as a topless dancer, quit then fell under manson's spell. he nicknamed her, sadie. later, there was leslie van houten. who got into drugs, ran away from home, had an abortion and
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then met him. people magazine's elaine diaz has written about manson. >> he slept with all those girls right away. making a connection with them. and they felt this man gets me. >> he kept adding women to his entourage. and they went with him everywhere. even to me and flirt with his parole officer. who heard firsthand manson's preaching to his flock and oddball makes a free but love, social commentary and apocalyptic prophesy's. >> i found a lot of this stuff pretty silly. but he would always frame his statements, this is what i believe and the girls all believed it. >> the girls hung on every word he spoke. seemed ready to do anything he asked. like when he told them to have sex with men he wanted to win over. when he told them he was destined to be bigger than the beatles. >> manson philly intended to become a rock'n'roll star and didn't think it would be very hard. >> the summer of love was over. manson loaded his family, they now numbered about half a dozen, onto a school bus. took them to los angeles.
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he was still just a small time criminal with, adrienne. but not for long. >> a most unlikely pair. a beach boy and charles manson. coming up -- >> dennis was could convince he could make charlie a star. >> and's strange hold on his family. >> he dances, he sings, it looks beautiful, he looks happy -- and this draws a lot of people. >> when "dateline" continues. it's an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. and can help improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks... and can even reduce or eliminate oral steroids. are you in? dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. get help right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs.
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