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An Erios original. And Ereio's Original. Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy.

And each week you tell us if we got it right. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and this is the

aftermath.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into this episode of The Aftermath.

Today we'll be talking with guest expert Tom O'Neill,

investigative journalist and author of Chaos, Charles Manson,

the CIA, and the secret history of the 60s.

Now let's hear what he has to say about the Manson family murders.

So Tom, I was wondering if we could start off by having you give our

listeners some background on Charles Manson's upbringing and his first brushes

with the juvenile correction system.

Oh, okay. Well, Manson's mother was kind of a low rent, prostitute,

petty criminal, and was in an out of jail most of her childhood and when she go to jail he'd end up with different relatives, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

He didn't really have a structured home lifestyle.

So he started committing crimes himself, and he's about 10 or 11 years old, and it was petty stuff, although he did steal some automobiles I think by the time he was 13 or 14

so it was about that time that he entered the

reform schools and juvenile homes that were run by the federal government for kids, kids like

him.

And so after he gets released from prison in 1967. You have found some evidence that his parole officers

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