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...found peace when he saw the face of Jesus in the full moon over Cannes. Cleaver was later converted by a prison "God squad." In Will You Die for Me? (Revell), due in April, Charles ("Tex") Watson, leader of the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders, tells how he supplanted Charles Manson with Jesus Christ. Watson, a mandatory lifer, now preaches three times a month and teaches a weekly class for newly converted convicts...
...Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home near Johannesburg. The victims were shot and stabbed, and their killers sprayed mysterious letters in red paint on the kitchen walls. Police were not sure whether the killings were a South African variant of the Charles Manson case, as one anonymous caller hinted, or whether they had political connotations...
Hartford City, Ind., an accused murderer testified last month that he and a friend were involved in killing four brothers in a trailer camp shortly after viewing a television dramatization of the Manson murders. While some psychologists argue that for the vast majority of viewers TV violence provides a vicarious release of aggression, most leading researchers have found that violence on television tends to reduce a child's inhibitions against behaving aggressively. Studies indicate TV teaches the young that violence often succeeds and that problems can be solved by aggressive behavior. Moreover, kids are likely to copy what they...
...killing spree-reminiscent of Charles Manson and his "family"-began five years ago in the Baja California community of Los Molinos, 169 miles down the coast from San Diego. There, Ervil's older brother, Joel, patriarch of the Church of the First Born, established a settlement in 1963 as a haven for polygamous Mormons. With Ervil as second in command, the community attracted more than 200 followers, nearly half of whom were excommunicated Mormons (the church banned polygamy...
...shifting pictorial backgrounds-sometimes raw and powerful, sometimes peaceful-are remarkably varied: newsreels of the Chicago riots, the Selma civil rights march, Charles Manson, the flower children putting daisies into rifle barrels, the death of Bobby Kennedy...