Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 2)
REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.3 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As we dive deeper down the Charles Manson rabbit hole in Part 2, we explore the shocking link between the cult leader, mind control, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As Tom O’Neill concludes his two decade long investigation, we look at the author’s findings that have rocked everything that the American public thought they knew about the Manson Family Murders.
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| 0:35.3 | In the library basement of UCLA, on a June afternoon in 2001, time suddenly slowed to a crawl for journalist Tom O'Neill. For more than two years, |
| 0:40.4 | O'Neill had been searching for the truth about the notorious cult leader and murderer Charles |
| 0:45.7 | Manson in dusty archives just like this. He was convinced that Manson did not act alone |
| 0:52.8 | when he sent his followers to slaughter Hollywood actress Sharon Tate |
| 0:57.3 | and six others in August of 1969. |
| 1:02.0 | Manson and members of his so-called family all went to prison for the shocking crimes. |
| 1:08.5 | But O'Neill thought other people had blood on their hands, too. He had begun to suspect |
| 1:13.4 | that the CIA might somehow be involved. So what started out as an assignment to write a magazine |
| 1:20.5 | article had become an obsession, and O'Neill had missed his deadline by more than two years. Now, he was determined to write a book that exposed a potentially massive government cover-up. |
| 1:33.3 | If, that is, he could prove it happened. |
| 1:38.3 | Standing over a box of old government documents in the UCLA basement that day in 2001, |
| 1:45.0 | O'Neill felt the rush of a eureka moment. |
| 1:49.0 | Finally, all the pieces of his exhaustive research seemed to fall together. |
| 1:54.0 | In O'Neill's hand was a 1963 letter from a CIA psychiatrist |
| 2:00.0 | requesting to examine an infamous murderer. The letter was written |
| 2:04.1 | just two days after Jack Ruby had shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who was suspected |
| 2:11.1 | of assassinating President John F. Kennedy, and the psychiatrist, Dr. Jolly West, was eager to learn more about Ruby's state of mind. |
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