Word: tates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic American western. The orderly administration of justice took a beating, and even the President inadvertently contributed in a small way. With a slip of the tongue, he passed judgment on a man on trial for his life in California: Charles Manson, accused of masterminding the gruesome 1969 Sharon Tate murders. Four days later, a California superior court judge, kidnaped from his courtroom, died along with three of his captors in a grisly gun battle with police. Black Panther Huey Newton, freed on $50,000 bail while awaiting a new trial for voluntary manslaughter, had absurdly venomous words...
...been the Sharon Tate murder case; it had become the Manson trial. Last week it was the fantastic story of Linda Kasabian, 21, whose former friends called her Yana the witch. At the end of the week, when she had finished telling her version of the murder of Miss Tate and six others a year ago, cross-examination led Linda into a description of the existence that brought her to a Los Angeles courtroom...
...presentation of her testimony carefully emphasized that she did not know the mission when she served as lookout the night Miss Tate and four houseguests were slain: that she did know the mission but went fearfully the following night when, she said, a Manson angered by the "messiness" of the Tate killings went along himself to arrange the murder of a middle-aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca. Bugliosi is trying to establish that Mrs. Kasabian, who was originally indicted but has since been promised immunity in exchange for her testimony, is not legally an accomplice in the murders...
...center of the courtroom stage, Mrs. Kasabian held her audience, particularly the seven men and five women in the jury. They leaned forward attentively, straining to hear her narrative. She approached the details of the Tate murders in a rush of words: "Then all of a sudden I heard people screaming, saying 'No, please, no.' " What kind of screams? "Loud, loud." How long did they last? "Oh, it seemed like forever, infinite. I don't know." At another point: "I saw Tex [Charles Watson, still fighting extradition from Texas] on top of him, hitting...
Defense attorneys for Manson, Leslie Van Houten, and Susan Atkins-who face charges of murder stemming from the mass killings last August of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons-moved for a mistrial yesterday after learning that Nixon had said that Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason...