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A-N-L-Dah-Dah-Dah-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-G Welcome. Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast

dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of

Hollywood's first century, part of the Panoply Network.

I'm your host, Karina Longworth. And today we're launching a new series about the life,

crimes and cultural reverberations of Charles Manson.

Charles Manson's story contains multitudes.

Of course, it's about madness and multiple murders executed by the so-called

family members of a cult that Manson created around his personal philosophy

which patched together elements of Christianity,

Scientology, science fiction, garden variety racism, Beatles lyrics,

and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Of course it's the story of the 60s and of how the utopian promise of the Civil Rights Movement

and the and

the murders were preceded by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and both Kennedy's the election of Richard Nixon and the worsening situation in Vietnam,

all events which were branded by someone as the death knell to the 60s,

as was the killing of a Rolling Stones fan

while the band played at Altamont,

...