Manson Family Photos - Manson Family Today - Where are they now - Tate La. Bianca Murders. ? I will tell you about it. I was telling you I began to get rather disgusted and disheartened with what was going on at the ranch, because it got to be a revolution type scene where everyone was talking about revolution and we were collecting guns and building dune buggies and things like that - -. Q: Let's stop this; let's tell us about collecting guns. It was supposed to be done and I didn't want to kill anybody. I didn't want to show him how to do it. By the time the Family moved to the Gresham Street house (Yellow Submarine) from Barker, it would appear Manson was already over the top. So we could watch it coming down and see all of the things going on in the city. It was like a submarine in that when you were in it you weren’t allowed to go out. You could only peek out of the windows.” Bugliosi, Vincent; Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders . He returned on that New Years Eve, with a copy and made his . The Beatles only gave it a name: Helter Skelter. They didn’t inspire it. There was an underground expression current at the time, “the shit is coming down,” variously interpreted as meaning the day of judgment was at hand or all hell was breaking loose, and Charlie often used it in reference to the coming racial conflict. Maniac is a 1980 American psychological slasher film directed by William Lustig and written by Joe Spinell and C. The plot focuses on a disturbed and traumatized serial killer who scalps his victims. The second part of this series of articles on Eyes Wide Shut takes a closer look at the elite secret society discovered by the film's main character, Bill. Right on the heels of Madonna's Occult Ritual performance at the Super Bowl the Grammy's Provided yet another occult ritual in the form of Nikki Minaj's performance of 'Roman Holiday.' What can be said with certainty is that. Plot summary, trailer, cast and crew information, and user comments. But he wasn’t rabid about it, Gregg said; it was just one of many subjects they discussed.” Bugliosi, Vincent; Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders . Current info and recent Manson Family photos. The Manson Family today. Tate LaBianca Murders, TLB. But every one of these can be explained by the common parlance or shared beliefs of the time (except . So what event or events triggered Manson’s freak- out? The Assassination of Alprentice . Carter was the LA chapter head and Huggins was a senior . Carter, like many Panthers, was a . They were gunned down on the UCLA campus, which happens to be the only Panther shooting (or Panther bodies found) on the UCLA campus, although neither were . Manson didn’t read newspapers and there was a lot of notoriety about this event. Carter was the leader of the LA Panthers and the former . He was also a former high- ranking member of the Slauson street gang and commander of Renegade Slauson a group who could make the Crips, cower. Three hours later, ostensibly to prevent retaliation against US, 1. LAPD descended on Huggin’s home and arrested 1. Panthers confiscating a small arsenal of weapons including military carbines and home made bombs. The Argument Against. By the time the Family relocated to the Yellow Submarine Manson was already 'freaked'. The murders happened on January 1. The murders don’t fit Watkins and Poston’s timeline of November- December 1. This was one black militant group against another, the Panthers. This doesn’t fit Manson’s Helter Skelter. Blacks should have been killing whites. The Strange Case of Frank . He had spent twelve years in Sing Sing Prison in New York on robbery and murder charges. Now he was Bunchy’s right hand. He thought he had been fed peas in prison that contained small microphones, which, remaining in his body, allowed guards and police to monitor his life. That was why, even now, he lived so carefully, outright paranoid about everything, especially dirt. He showered at least twice a day and never wore any item of clothing more than once without it being cleaned or washed. He polished his shoes daily, tops and bottoms. The result was spectacular. I would make it so beautiful for you. Other than making love to a Sister, downing a pig is the greatest feeling in the world. Have you ever seen a pig shot with a . Sister Elaine?’”. Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (Kindle Locations 2. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. His preferred weapon a . He was also the LA Panther with ties to the . There is also almost a complete lack of information about the murder and only one mention in the press. Given the FBI (COINTELPRO) was at its anti- Panther pinnacle in late 1. Diggs was killed by his own people. Instead, this is the only record of the event I could find. Main and 1. 57th is not in Long Beach it’s in West Compton and he was killed on December 1. Franco had been killed. He had been shot in the head three times in an alley in Long Beach. It had happened earlier that evening . A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. The slaying of Frank Diggs in Los Angeles in December, 1. Panther party. His lacerated body, with two bullet holes in the chest, was found in an alley.” Who Will Bell the Panthers, James Kilpatrick, The Fresno Bee, June 2. Captain Franco (Frank Diggs), the reputed leader of the BPP's local underground apparatus, was shot dead in an alley in Long Beach.” The FBI's War on the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter. Franko Diggs, forty, who was a captain in the Black Panther Party, was found fatally shot in the Watts section of Los Angeles on December 1. No witnesses to the shooting could be found, but the police identified the murder weapon from the bullets as a foreign- made 9- mm. Almost a year later, when the Los Angeles police crime laboratory was doing routine ballistics tests on eighteen weapons seized in a raid on Black Panther headquarters early in 1. Panther automatics ballistically matched the bullet that had killed Diggs.” The Black Panthers and the Police: A Pattern of Genocide? NEW YORKER, February 1. Edward Jay Epstein. Epstein puts an end the discussion by claiming Panthers killed Diggs. His accusation is picked up and repeated by other . Kilpatrick, above, was the first to make the claim. The problem is no source is cited for this information and there does not appear to be one that I could find. Diggs was Bunchy Carter’s . While it is possible US murdered Diggs, a Panther murder, given his connection, seems unlikely. A Panther hit on a Panther is precisely the type of information the FBI was struggling to make up in 1. They’d have dropped to their knees thanking the Lord above if they had been handed these ballistics. Here is what Elaine Brown (not a particularly trustworthy reporter) says. It fills the pages of her book. We, to this minute, can't trace how that happened. Franco was one of the key figures in the formation of the chapter and probably one of the people closest to Bunchy Carter. He is essentially a gunrunner and drug dealer. He may have been dumped in an alley (not at UCLA). Why does anyone believe that Manson or anyone else believed Bernard Crowe was a Panther when they knew who he was- a drug dealer? Diggs was killed by a 9mm, isn’t that a Family favorite? Where did Manson get his small arsenal, confiscated at Spahn? Wouldn’t killing an actual Panther, especially Diggs give Manson a real reason to be paranoid they were after him? The Argument Against. The murder is too obscure. It gained little notoriety. Even Panthers who were close to it at the time (Elaine Brown) get the facts wrong and again it is a Panther being killed so it doesn’t fit Helter Skelter. The Murder of Bryan Clay. On December 9, 1. At least that is what Manson likely heard. Trivia: Paul Fitzgerald represented the murderer. The student body was drawn primarily from affluent, white families. One fraternity brother described USC like this: . Blacks leave the ghetto and kill whitey. Its timing is right, early December 1. It is a seemingly random murder (unless you read). It is a black murdering an affluent white young man in a . Because it involved a black man killing a white man it received a good deal of press at the time so it likely was common knowledge. Is that why, despite the multiple guns at Spahn, Manson sent knives? Certainly he should have realized the Panthers were about guns, not knives. Didn’t he know about the Panthers appearing armed at the state legislature? That act, incidentally, spawned the most restrictive anti- Second Amendment (right to bear arms) law in history- a law signed by Governor Ronald Reagan- because openly armed black men showed up at the capital. Guns were the whole point of the Panthers. It stirred memories of . Was he trying to tie the later murders back to Clay? The Argument Against. I’ll leave the arguments for you. The Times. Of course it could have been the times. Until January 1. 96. Black Panthers in LA and likely they didn’t even make an impression until a month or so later. Then they were there and a big, scary presence. When three of the four Panthers refused to respond to police commands ashootout followed. By all accounts the Panthers fired first. Three Panthers were killed and two police officers were wounded. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (p. University of California Press. The feud also developed between the Panthers and the US Organization that culminated in the deaths of . Even the Panthers believed it was occurring. But in the late 1. Black Panther Party and dedicated their lives to revolutionary struggle”. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (p. University of California Press. Kindle Edition. The Argument Against. This was a . Manson may have seen this all happening and viewed it from the perspective of his apocalyptic hallucination but nothing on the timeline stands out as a catalyst after August 5th. I do wonder if Manson used the anniversary of the Watts Riots (August 1. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders .
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