charles manson. >> you don't understand me. that's your trouble, not my recommending the release of former charles manson following lest see vanhouten. >> linked to charles manson. >> you don't understand me. that's your trouble, not my fault because you don't understand me. i don't understand you either. >> the story of charles manson is family, and all of the horror they rot is s.e ime >>bu archives. long obsolete. yet somehow it infeels present. that hot summer night that caught the world utterly unprepared. when louisiana -- the lapd working the shift. >> officer pedrosa found the dead end street, and a neighbor flagged him down. m suddenly the drunken call was something else. >> he told me the maid came running back out, blood, bodies. >> derosa all alone d,nosed his squad car up the gated driveway. he could see right away things were not right. >> the telephone wires that were cut were hanging over the gate. i go through the gate, and t there's a car parked in the driveway. >> in the thcar he fo

president gerald ford was in a park in sacramento, california, when a fanatical follower of charles manson pulled out a .45 and pointed it at him. then not even three weeks later, also in california, but in another city in san francisco, another woman actually did fire two shots at president ford in a close proximity, at a hotel in san francisco. both of the shots she fired from her .38 special went wide after a gay u.s. marine combat veteran saw her pull out the gun, and he knocked her arm while she fired, and that is why she missed. so president ford was not hurt in either of those attempts. but they came in very quick succession, and in september 1975, the country was very an deeply unnerved by having two different crazy people pull a gun on the president of the united states twice in the space of a month. we have not seen anything like this since then. but now, with the arrest of the suspected gunman who pointed a rifle toward donald trump while he was golfing in florida yesterday, we have had the second instance in the space of nine weeks of former president and presidential candidate

she was in the courtroom for proceedings against cult leader charles manson and "unabomber" ted kaczynskiinst michael jackson and o.j. simpson. trials, she once said, are human drama. >> oh, you cover all these grisly, horrible things, so don't you feel like a voyeur? do you feel like you are a voyeur when you're watching hamlet or macbeth? it's the same thing. and it's as old as shakespeare and as old as socrates. and it's an extremely powerful theater. john: linda deutsch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022. she was 80 years old. still to come on the "newshour", our politics monday duo weighs in on the presidential candidates' efforts to woo union workers. and a new book chronicles the precipitous downfall of former lawyer turned convicted murderer alex murdaugh. >> this is the pbs news hour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. john: candidates are heading into the campaign season's closing stretch that traditionally kicks off on labor day. former president donald trump was off the trail today

in 1975 a member of the charles manson family tried to assassinate ford in sacramento. 17 days laterher attempt in san francisco. william e. simon joined "meet the press" two days after the attempt. he was the secretary of the treasury which at the time meant he oversaw the u.s. secret service. >> new york times editorial yesterday said, quote, it is startling after secret service tightening in the wake of its procedures in the wake of the 1960s that a vociferous member of the manson family would wander so easily into the path of a strolling president. what's your response to that comment? do you have any plans for reviewing the secret service procedures? >> the secret service procedures are as adequate as any procedures can be in carrying out their duties of protecting the various people that they protect by law and they carry it out in a way that i think is as professional, if not more professional than any other agency in the world in carrying out these duties. >>> when we come back, early voting is already underway, but are republicans looking to make some last-minute changes to

of course, i tnk most people know vincent wilsey and curt work helter skelter about charles manson murders. and this, of course, is the most highly published work in true crime fiction of all time. then there's norman mailer's executioner's song, which won the pulitzer prize, and he was greatly influenced by truman capote. and we can how the genre right is becoming more well-respected and and roles. i mean you might know her she published the work the stranger beside me about, ted bundy, the serial killer, and erik larson devil in the white city, about h.h. holmes was a serial killer in the 19th century that i had mentioned to. you also in a so have a number of different works the true crime genre and truman capote is working blood helped establish this genre as an important work in literary history. now i want to just mention for a moment the title in cold blood, because the title in cold blood is a very sensationalized title. it doesn't seem like it's going to be a work of serious fiction. it seems like it's coming of popular fiction or pulp fiction, and it seems like it's one of those h

. >> charles manson will remain, forever seared in the public consciousness, evil personified. some say helping bring down the curtain on the '60s as an age of innocence who ultimately in his own twisted way achieved the fame he had been seeking all along. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm andrea canning. thanks for watching. ng. thanks for atching. in both in both georgia and nevada. trump, meanwhile, leads by a single point in the bout appeared all of those results are within the margin of error, but the trendlines favor harris. it previous fox polls, conducted by president joe biden exited the 2024 race about six weeks ago, trump led by five points, in arizona, nevada, north carolina and by six points in georgia, and we can hold the graph above the screen there for one more. and yes, the race is close, but when president biden dropped out it reshaped the race. not only does harris have omentum, but suddenly her path to 270 electoral college votes have really opened up. >> well, and then you also looked at the down ballot races, and i was just, frankly shocked