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...TRUE STORY OF THE MANSON MURDERS by VINCENT BUGLIOSI with CURT GENTRY 502 pages. Norton...
...prominence of the first victims, plus Polanski's identification with macabre films (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby), the killings produced a mudslide of speculative explanations: drugs, kinky sex, human sacrifice. When suspects were arrested four months later, reality proved even more bizarre. No one had dreamed up Charles Manson and his marauding band of zombies...
...certainly have broken the case at once if it had been released. The words "Healter Skelter," a misspelling of a Beatles' song title, had been written on the LaBianca refrigerator, and there were scores of people in the L.A. area who could have assigned the phrase to Charles Manson...
California: home of Richard Nixon, Charlie Manson, Patty Hearst and the SLA. California: the only state where Hollywood stars can tap dance their way into the political arena. California: land of sunshine, palm trees, and earthquakes...
Jury selection has, in fact, become a well-developed legal art. The U.S. has been through a dozen years of sensational trials-Angela Davis, the Chicago Seven, Charles Manson, Jack Ruby -and jury fairness was almost never seriously challenged. The same should be true for Watergate. Columbia Constitutional Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. carefully states the widely shared view of experts: "It's entirely possible to get a trial which is both fair in the sense that the average person thinks of as fair, and also fair in the legal sense of satisfying due-process standards." Adds the University...