Don't say Dan Bayless!!
Well, it's Charles Manson. Some may know about Charlie and his history while others may not be a part of the hippie crowd that remembers him. Here's some information many may not know.
First known as "no name Maddox,". Manson was born to unmarried, 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox in Cincinnati General Hospital, in
Cincinnati, Ohio; no more than three weeks after his birth, he was Charles Milles Maddox. For a period after her son's birth Kathleen Maddox was married to a laborer named William Manson, whose last name the boy was given. Charles Manson's biological father appears to have been a "Colonel Scott", against whom Maddox filed a
bastardy suit that resulted in an
agreed judgment in 1937. Possibly, the boy never really knew him.
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an
American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-
commune that arose in
California in the late 1960s.
[1][2][3] He was found guilty of
conspiracy to commit the
Tate/
LaBianca murders, which members of the group carried out at his instruction. Through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy,
[4] he was convicted of the murders themselves.
Manson is associated with "
Helter Skelter," the term he took from the
Beatles song of that name and construed as an
apocalyptic race war the murders were putatively intended to precipitate. This connection with
rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with
pop culture, in which he became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the
macabre. Ultimately, the term was used as the title of the
book that prosecutor
Vincent Bugliosi wrote about the Manson murders.
At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict, who had spent half his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. In the period before the murders, he was a distant fringe member of the
Los Angeles music industry, chiefly via a chance association with
Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. After Manson was charged with the crimes, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. Artists including
Guns N' Roses and
Marilyn Manson have
covered his songs in the decades since.
Manson's
death sentence was automatically reduced to
life imprisonment when a decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty in 1972.
[5] California's eventual reestablishment of
capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is an inmate at
Corcoran State Prison.
You can find more on him in
Wikidpedia here.
