Jeff Melnick

wow they're talking right to me right like they're like like right like they they know me they understand you know yeah manson had that in a path you know in a pathological way like it tipped over into him thinking it was secret messages he listened to other music too that he didn't take that like he his second favorite band was the moody blues and it's like he didn't get any secret messages you know from them like they weren't telling him you know that he should

dress his knights in white satin or whatever, you know, like he, it was something about the Beatles that really reached him and a lot of people.

dress his knights in white satin or whatever, you know, like he, it was something about the Beatles that really reached him and a lot of people.

dress his knights in white satin or whatever, you know, like he, it was something about the Beatles that really reached him and a lot of people.

Absolutely. They have agency and that, you know, like there's a one or two of them I want to sort of separate out because they were literally what we would now call underage. And so not legally responsible, you know, for. Yeah. But yes, these are women who have agency and they are making decisions to join Manson in this delusional quest.

Absolutely. They have agency and that, you know, like there's a one or two of them I want to sort of separate out because they were literally what we would now call underage. And so not legally responsible, you know, for. Yeah. But yes, these are women who have agency and they are making decisions to join Manson in this delusional quest.

Absolutely. They have agency and that, you know, like there's a one or two of them I want to sort of separate out because they were literally what we would now call underage. And so not legally responsible, you know, for. Yeah. But yes, these are women who have agency and they are making decisions to join Manson in this delusional quest.

I want to answer really carefully the question of how much of a white supremacist Manson was. Charles Manson was clearly a racist. He was clearly someone who believed that black people were subhuman and he articulated that again and again in his life. That, as we spoke about earlier, was very much a product of his prison training.

I want to answer really carefully the question of how much of a white supremacist Manson was. Charles Manson was clearly a racist. He was clearly someone who believed that black people were subhuman and he articulated that again and again in his life. That, as we spoke about earlier, was very much a product of his prison training.

I want to answer really carefully the question of how much of a white supremacist Manson was. Charles Manson was clearly a racist. He was clearly someone who believed that black people were subhuman and he articulated that again and again in his life. That, as we spoke about earlier, was very much a product of his prison training.

Like that was clearly part of the kind of segregated antagonistic world. I'm not excusing this in any way. I'm just trying to understand it. was he mostly motivated by this thing that Vincent Bugliosi framed at the trial as this race? I mean, that was a fairly late breaking thing in the life of the family.

Like that was clearly part of the kind of segregated antagonistic world. I'm not excusing this in any way. I'm just trying to understand it. was he mostly motivated by this thing that Vincent Bugliosi framed at the trial as this race? I mean, that was a fairly late breaking thing in the life of the family.

Like that was clearly part of the kind of segregated antagonistic world. I'm not excusing this in any way. I'm just trying to understand it. was he mostly motivated by this thing that Vincent Bugliosi framed at the trial as this race? I mean, that was a fairly late breaking thing in the life of the family.

Manson did begin talking about it with them, but it's no, it had nowhere near the weight that the music business stuff had for the family. The family was organized for months and months and months around getting Charlie a contract. It's not like they actually made a lot of plans for living in a hole in the desert and waiting out the race war and then taking, you know,

Manson did begin talking about it with them, but it's no, it had nowhere near the weight that the music business stuff had for the family. The family was organized for months and months and months around getting Charlie a contract. It's not like they actually made a lot of plans for living in a hole in the desert and waiting out the race war and then taking, you know,

Manson did begin talking about it with them, but it's no, it had nowhere near the weight that the music business stuff had for the family. The family was organized for months and months and months around getting Charlie a contract. It's not like they actually made a lot of plans for living in a hole in the desert and waiting out the race war and then taking, you know,

I mean, that was when he was really starting to fall apart. And it was very much a symptom of his, you know, what psychologists would call decompensation. You know, like he was losing his shit. And the direction it took, not surprisingly in American culture, given that we're a culture kind of rooted in systemic racism, is that he kind of grabbed that narrative and ran with it.

I mean, that was when he was really starting to fall apart. And it was very much a symptom of his, you know, what psychologists would call decompensation. You know, like he was losing his shit. And the direction it took, not surprisingly in American culture, given that we're a culture kind of rooted in systemic racism, is that he kind of grabbed that narrative and ran with it.

I mean, that was when he was really starting to fall apart. And it was very much a symptom of his, you know, what psychologists would call decompensation. You know, like he was losing his shit. And the direction it took, not surprisingly in American culture, given that we're a culture kind of rooted in systemic racism, is that he kind of grabbed that narrative and ran with it.

It's almost impossible to do a head count on the cult because people are coming and going. There are people who are not all the time with them, like Bobby Beausoleil and folks who are associates of the family. But there's a core of a couple dozen people who are always at the ranch.