charles manson did what he did? and dr. smith said, no, i'm not surprised charles manson led people to these terrible acts. i'm surprised there are so many a potential charl charles mansons who are still around. it's going to happen and keep happening, but if we can just demystify these people, and if my book accomplishes nothing else, i hope it is demystification, he is going to be with us but let it by the truth about him rather than the self-serving legends he has put out there. i thank everybody for coming out. so nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or the title in the search bar and click search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking, share, and selecting the format. become booktv streams live every weekend. booktv.org. >> next, an interview with ishmael be beah on his book, radiance of tomorrow. this is about 15 minutes. >> on your scene is issue beah, memoirs or a boy soldier. your second book is coming out. why did you choose

for charles manson prison became his educational system. with incredible timing the year before a charles manson goes to federal prison the whole concept is punishing the people who are in jail. make the years so hellacious they will never commit crimes again but the recidivist rate is amazing. they decide to save your mailing goes into a federal prison they will do something different that we will have class's to teach the skills to help them function in the outside world. that sounds reasonable. said charles manson in roles in a class featuring the writings of the man who becomes charmian since personal group, a dale carnegie. during the research for this book and went to nashville than this is -- tennessee is that still kaufmann who was in with manson at this time and i said i keep hearing when people met charlie manson taken a look into their soul and he was friends instantly comedy think he had a mystic power? phil kaufman bigger than any five of us put together with a handlebar moustache with the biggest charlie i have ever seen in my life laughed so hard and screams i have been wai

charles manson. >> we have some manson memorabilia that charles manson has created since he's been incarcerated here our shoots at california state prison corcoran, our crew barely got a glimpse of manson before he covered up his window. a recent mug shot shows how much he has aged since first coming to prison in 1971. but his artwork provides a unique insight into his life behind bars. >> here a scorpion that he's made. basically just taking thread from various types of items, socks and t-shirts and towels, and he creates it and uses -- looks like a marker to color it. this is probably one of the items that he makes the most of would be scorpions and spiders. this is, i would, assume something like a harp, and he's made it out of toilet paper and newspaper. this looks like some dental floss, a small stick, and probably for the coloring he used kool-aid to get the coloring for it. >> why do you guys have it? >> he's not allowed to have it. occasionally we go through and do cell searches and confiscate all items. he doesn't have a hobby card, and other inmates try to sneak it out and put it on ebay a

charles manson was an ill legitimate baby. his birth certificate was filed a few days after -- a few weeks after his birth. william manson listed at the father. but the whole family and charles himself knew throughout that the real father was colonel scott. no doubt whatsoever. so the later rumors that manson hated and feared blacks because he had a black father, for instance, never, folks. never, ever. manson and kathleen's marriage lasts a couple years. he divorces her. she's still a young girl, she's trying to run around and have a little fun. her son is never left with strangers or offered for a pitcher of beer. instead, she does what many young women that age do and sticks him with her mother or her sister and her husband and daughter. but he's cared for always. kathleen and her brother luther, spectacularly botch an attempted robbery. they try to use a ketchup bottle saying it's a gun. the newspapers have a great time calling them the greatest cuppedderheads who ever attempted a crime, and kathleen gets five years in prison in west virginia. luther gets ten. yes, that's on kathleen's record. never once anywhere before then or in the next 15 years was there any record s

charles tex watson. a former rig salesman he picked up a hitchhiker on sunset boulevard. the beach boy invited him in. watson came face-to-face with his future, charles manson. >> he didn't have long hair and gruff look you can confuse him as a student at cornell boulevard. from farmersville texas an "a" average in high school. >> one of the sweetest guys i met. nice guy. drove a beautiful old pickup truck. and just a sweetheart. loved to -- just out for a good time. you know? party with the girls, go swimming. >> for the family, live with the beach boy was pretty good but they were beginning to wear out their welcome. >> manson always hitting up wilson for money. they appropriated his wardrobe did a lot of damage to the house. the gonorrhea bill was the highest gonorrhea bill probably in beverly hills history. >> a continual party dennis was paying for everything. charlie and the girl woz just stay there. they didn't leave. he had to get out of there. >> greta: now, you hear how manson cleared the dance floor at whisky a go go fro >> greta: in march, is the 19d 67 the month charles manson was released from prison a beautiful 24-year-old actress named sharon tate began filming her fourth film "valley of the dolls". tate had small rolls in shows like like "mr. red" and "beverly hill billies" before starring in "eye of the devil". >> she was a so, so actress. she was stunningly beautiful. >> sharon was aware of the fact she was extremely beautiful but she didn't act as if she had an edge on anyone because that have physical beauty. >> she was just a regular person. and that made her even more attractive if that is possible. >> greta: while filming "eye of the devil" she began dating roman polanski. >> "repulse" sort of made him an international super star, next big hit director z there is a lot of buzz about roman at the time he met sharon. >> greta: sharon remained friendly with her former boyfriend, jay sebring. >> before i entered hair business i made up i was going to do all i could to elevate the profession. >> i'm positive once sharon met roman that was it. >

charles manson. he one day referred to as the -- [inaudible] but his first career was in aerospace engineering. he worked at the desk next to my mother. the day i was born, he -- charles manson's future attorney came to the hospital to give me my first birthday present. a baseball bat. i was one day old and i owned a baseball bat. [laughter] after a few days, i completed my interview with her coworkers, some i had done in persons, others over the phone. i felt i had enough information to complete the two-tales my father had given me. i typed up an 0 bitch area and stoant the los angeles times. i figured it would be a slam deng. i wrote the eulogy and delivered it. after the funeral we had a small luncheon. i served up a plate and went to sit at a table filled with my mother's former coworkers. to tell you what happened next, i'll read from the bottom of page 13. no more than two minutes went by before i felt a stern tapping. i saw an elderly gentleman sitting across the table. his face winkled and folded. he stopped tapping my hand, using his index finger to point at my nose. he spoke. you need to listen to me, young man. i was 50 years old. he was calling me young ma

made it possible for a charles manson to recruit a few dozen followers who would do these kinds of god awful things? history does not happen in a vacuum. i am convinced if charles manson was paroled in nebraska and ended up in omaha instead of los angeles and tried these things he would have been impaled on a pitch for can put up as the scarecrow he was put at the right place at the right time. said you have heard over and over people different version of what happened on the night of august 9th and 10th of 1969. there is new material in my book because in the course of interviewing besides a couple of sound bites it explained it all in such depth with such honesty and clarity she ended up answering the last couple questions the lapd has had so yes there is some new things. but if it is okay with you of a like to talk briefly about four parts of this book, a charles manson his life in the world he grew up in. let's begin with his childhood. we talked about what he claims. guess what? they are all lies. it is all documented will. i put 21,000 miles on my car in which every place that he went. with simple visits to the county courthouse charles manson was not ill

charles tex watson. a former rig salesman he picked up a hitchhiker on sunset boulevard. the beach boy invited him in. watson came face-to-face with his future, charles manson. >> he didn't have long hair and gruff look you can confuse him as a student at cornell boulevard. from farmersville texas an "a" average in high school. >> one of the sweetest guys i met. nice guy. drove a beautiful old pickup truck. and just a sweetheart. loved to -- just out for a good time. you know? party with the girls, go swimming. >> for the family, live with the beach boy was pretty good but they were beginning to wear out their welcome. >> manson always hitting up wilson for money. they appropriated his wardrobe did a lot of damage to the house. the gonorrhea bill was the highest gonorrhea bill probably in beverly hills history. >> a continual party dennis was paying for everything. charlie and the girl woz just stay there. they didn't leave. he had to get out of there. >> greta: now, you hear how manson cleared the dance floor at whisky a go go from a man who was there. you need a girls' weekend and you need it now. ladies, let's goo vegas. cute! waiter! girls' weekend here! priceline savings without the bidding. >> greta: in march, is the 19d 67 the month charles manson was released from prison a beautiful 24-year-old actress named sharon tate began filming her fourth film "valley of the dolls". tate had small rolls in shows like like "mr. red" and "beverly hill billies" before starring in "eye of the devil". >> she was a so, so actress. she was stunningly beautiful. >> sharon was aware of the fact she was extremely beautiful but she didn't act as if she had an edge on anyone because that have physical beauty. >> she was just a regular person. and that made her even more attractive if that is possible. >> greta: while filming "eye of the devil" she began dating roman polanski. >> "repulse" sort of made him an international super star, next big hit director z there is a lot of buzz about roman at the time he met sharon. >> greta: sharon remained friendly with her former boyfriend, jay sebring. >> before i entered hair business i made up i was going to do all i could to elevate the profession. >> i'm positive once sharon met roman that was it. >