Claire V. Watkins
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479 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Claire V. Watkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It had to like come within.
So when she was born
that was really the beginning of me starting to like dig in deep with myself and um
I think the way M Mary Oliver phrases it is like live your one precious
Most people would probably describe him as the leader of a cult, a cult of young hippies who were, as Joan Diddian says, participating in the paranoia of their times.
And eventually, spectacularly so, it culminated in um these murders in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty nine.
My dad was a teenager.
For him, in the beginning, the family was all about um music and sex and drugs.
And he'd come from a pretty gnarly household and I think Your father.
Yeah.
And Manson too.
Not not incidentally.
Yeah.
So yeah, he Manson was a lot older than most of them.
A lot of them were young women.
A lot of them had been like given to Manson as children.
So it was a really exploitative scene, it sounds like.
What I would say to people if they're not familiar with him, he became this like boogeyman.
Joan Didion described it, uh, the day of the Manson murders as the day the sixties ended.
And it became this
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