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Jeff Melnick

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American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

I mean, Charlie, there's like there's plenty of evidence that he was physically abusive to women in the family, but he's not he's not a shoot him up. You know, there's an earlier murder of Gary Hinman a few weeks before the tape murders that we jumped over. Who's this grad student drug dealer who the family was involved with? And like Charlie showed up at that house and seemed to have.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

I mean, Charlie, there's like there's plenty of evidence that he was physically abusive to women in the family, but he's not he's not a shoot him up. You know, there's an earlier murder of Gary Hinman a few weeks before the tape murders that we jumped over. Who's this grad student drug dealer who the family was involved with? And like Charlie showed up at that house and seemed to have.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

done some of the actual violence. But Charlie's a director. I mean, Charlie's a, you know, he's not a get his hands messy kind of guy, right? He's a, you know, write the script and tell people what their roles are in the script. And that's very much what happened. He's a manipulator. He's a manipulator, yeah.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

done some of the actual violence. But Charlie's a director. I mean, Charlie's a, you know, he's not a get his hands messy kind of guy, right? He's a, you know, write the script and tell people what their roles are in the script. And that's very much what happened. He's a manipulator. He's a manipulator, yeah.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

done some of the actual violence. But Charlie's a director. I mean, Charlie's a, you know, he's not a get his hands messy kind of guy, right? He's a, you know, write the script and tell people what their roles are in the script. And that's very much what happened. He's a manipulator. He's a manipulator, yeah.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

Big guy.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

Big guy.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

Big guy.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

And this one is even harder to get a beat on because it's not it doesn't fit exactly, you know, in the narrative, you know, of Charlie's resentment about the music business or, you know, about kind of street culture versus free culture. Like they end up at the house.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

And this one is even harder to get a beat on because it's not it doesn't fit exactly, you know, in the narrative, you know, of Charlie's resentment about the music business or, you know, about kind of street culture versus free culture. Like they end up at the house.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

And this one is even harder to get a beat on because it's not it doesn't fit exactly, you know, in the narrative, you know, of Charlie's resentment about the music business or, you know, about kind of street culture versus free culture. Like they end up at the house.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

Of Rosemary and Lino LaBianca, who are just these middle class, you know, I mean, they're pretty well off, but it's still to my mind. And if you if you've got a different take, I'd love to hear it. Like, it's still not exactly clear how they ended up there randomly, as far as I know. Right. It seems pretty randomly. Maybe they thought somebody else lived there.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

Of Rosemary and Lino LaBianca, who are just these middle class, you know, I mean, they're pretty well off, but it's still to my mind. And if you if you've got a different take, I'd love to hear it. Like, it's still not exactly clear how they ended up there randomly, as far as I know. Right. It seems pretty randomly. Maybe they thought somebody else lived there.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

Of Rosemary and Lino LaBianca, who are just these middle class, you know, I mean, they're pretty well off, but it's still to my mind. And if you if you've got a different take, I'd love to hear it. Like, it's still not exactly clear how they ended up there randomly, as far as I know. Right. It seems pretty randomly. Maybe they thought somebody else lived there.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

There's all kinds of conflicting testimony about this, but, but be that as it may, they end up, you know, in this home in a much different kind of neighborhood, also a nice, nice neighborhood, but not that kind of hill fancy. These are like solidly up the middle.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

There's all kinds of conflicting testimony about this, but, but be that as it may, they end up, you know, in this home in a much different kind of neighborhood, also a nice, nice neighborhood, but not that kind of hill fancy. These are like solidly up the middle.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

There's all kinds of conflicting testimony about this, but, but be that as it may, they end up, you know, in this home in a much different kind of neighborhood, also a nice, nice neighborhood, but not that kind of hill fancy. These are like solidly up the middle.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

I love the way you set that up because it's like, these are marginal people. Yeah. These are not like, I mean, we're so used to like heist movies and like George Clooney in a nice suit. We have all these kind of mythologized image of the bad guys, you know, whether it's outlaws from old Western movies or, you know, gangsters from our more recent stuff.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

I love the way you set that up because it's like, these are marginal people. Yeah. These are not like, I mean, we're so used to like heist movies and like George Clooney in a nice suit. We have all these kind of mythologized image of the bad guys, you know, whether it's outlaws from old Western movies or, you know, gangsters from our more recent stuff.

American History Hit
The Manson Family: Cult Murder in Hollywood

I love the way you set that up because it's like, these are marginal people. Yeah. These are not like, I mean, we're so used to like heist movies and like George Clooney in a nice suit. We have all these kind of mythologized image of the bad guys, you know, whether it's outlaws from old Western movies or, you know, gangsters from our more recent stuff.