Manson: 1951 To Natural Bridge Honor Camp

He ended up getting house arrest for a full year and every day he has to write in a journal. Every couple days he visits his parole officer James and a therapist. He has to do

The word “Cult” has not always had such a negative connotation attached to it. Many religions would’ve been considered cults when they first began. By the end of the 19th century many visionaries had revealed radically new religious systems, claiming immunity to the impurities of the old ones (Powers, 1997). These were no more than a group of people organizing themselves in worship and devotion for a person, object, or movement. They practiced rituals different to other “mainstream” religions, and were therefore considered cults.

At the age of twenty-six Charles Manson was sent to the US penitentiary. By 1959 Charles had been committed of rape, drug use, pimping, stealing, and fraud. Manson was emotionally insecure and was lacking attention.

When people hear the name Charles Manson, people automatically think of the string of horrible murders this man was involved in during the summer of 1969. Charles Manson is infamous for creating “the Manson Family” and sought to create a war between races with his followers. The book Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, the main prosecutor in the Manson trial, chronicled the murders carried out by Manson and his followers, the trial following the murders, as well as the psychological diseases that may affect Manson as a person. Manson is responsible for several murders, including that of the pregnant Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. While Manson never took part in the physical murders, he was

Charles Manson became known worldwide after helping commit numerous gruesome murders near Hollywood, California. Although, Manson’s legal troubles did not start from that point, he had been in and out of institutions and prisons since the age of twelve, for many different reasons. “For, let out of prison in 1967, the year of ‘the summer of love,’ he became the most hated and vilified figure in America, a symbol of everything that had gone wrong in the ‘60s” (Smith). Even though his release from prison was short lived, he managed to do a lot of damage during his time of freedom. Manson received a life sentence in May of 1970 for the nine murders he helped execute (Baughman). Charles Manson is a well recognized name across the United States.

Charles Manson was a man behind the deaths of nine people in the late 1960s. He was a cult leader manipulated many of his followers to kill innocent people for many absurd reasons: that he was the second coming, that he was both Christ and the Devil, and that Armageddon was coming. Most people saw Manson as a madman. A select few, however, admired Manson for his cunning; to his own followers and in his own eyes, Manson was extremely clever, rather than being insane. In Rog Phillips’ “The Yellow Pill,” two men, by the names of Dr. Elton and Jerry Bocek, are either in a psychiatrist's office or in the vacuum of space. Jerry continuously tries to convince Dr. Elton that they are in a spaceship, yet Elton thinks that Jerry is insane. Evidence throughout “The Yellow Pill” shows that the two men are clearly on Earth, but that does not necessarily mean that Jerry is insane. Like Charles Manson, Jerry is simply well versed in manipulation; he did not have a skewed sense of reality at all.

Frank Morris was an inmate at the Federal Prison called Alcatraz. He was born on September 1, 1926. He was orphaned at the age of 11 at which time he stayed and lived in many foster homes. He spent a lot of time behind bars during his life.  He committed his first crime at the age of 13. He let narcotics possession and armed robbery get the best of him which landed him in prison. Frank was known as a very smart man. He ranked in the top 2% of the population for his intelligence. He was housed in Florida, Georgia and then Louisiana. He used his knowledge to break out the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was then caught again and because of his past he found himself at “The Rock” in January 1960 as inmate number AZ1441.

Kelley escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Systems in New Mexico in June 2012, months after being accused of abusing his ex-wife and her child, according to documents from the El Paso Police Department obtained by CNN affiliate KVIA.

Charles Manson is a well-known American criminal and musician. Although he was best known as a cult leader who inspired the killings of eight people between July and August of 1969, he had a long criminal record dating back to 1948 (Internet Accuracy Project, 2012). Charles Milles Manson was born on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly both an alcoholic and prostitute. According to Manson and Emmons (1986), his biological father was a transient worker who called himself Colonel Scott, whom he met only once or twice and does not remember.

He almost immediately wrote to an FBI office in Florida, but he was denied help. On October 30, 1961 less than thirty days from when he was sentenced he applied to the Florida Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus, an order freeing him on the ground

Charles Manson ended up on the streets and this led to his life of crime. By 1952, Charles had spent 17 years, which was half his life, imprisoned. He had 8 assault charges already. While in prison, Charles Manson was known as a model inmate and he even got released against his wishes because he felt he could not adjust to the world. (Rosenberg, 2009) He also fathered two children, one by his ex wife and one by another woman.

Manson still writes song lyrics from his cell in California and keeps his praise that he is a servant of god and compares himself to Jesus Christ. One would have a hard time finding an individual as devoted to evil as Manson speaks of. It makes it almost ironical that this five foot, three inch tall man weighing not more than 150 pounds can strike so much fear in the sole mention of his name. Or perhaps Charles Manson just has a lot of things to say that generally no one wants to hear about.

Charles Maddox was born November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother was Kathleen Maddox, she was a prostitute and an alcoholic, and only 16 years old when she had him. She later married William Manson, who adopted Charles giving him the Manson last name. It was said that his mother once traded him for a pitcher of beer to a woman that couldn’t have children. His uncle had to go track down the women to get him back. Charles spent time in a boy’s school then on the streets doing petty crimes to survive. By 1952 Manson had spent more time in prison than he had out of prison. In Charles Manson probation reports it described him as, “suffering from a marked degree of rejection, instability, psychic trauma, and constantly striving for status and securing some kind of love. Other descriptions included dangerous, unpredictable, and safe only under supervision.”(Biography Channel 2013.) In August of 1969 Manson gathered his group of most loyal family members to do the massacres. The first murder took place August 9, 1969 on Ceilo Drive in Beverly Hills at the home of Roman Polanski’s, and his wife Sharon Tate. The victims of this crime were Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowshi his partner Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring. There was also an 18 year old boy a friend of the gardeners who was walking down the driveway when he saw the

Manson, does not live in a stable environment, it is constantly changing in some shape or form. In the start of the film we see a six-year-old Mason sad to leave his home due to his mother wanting

November 12,1934, 16-year-old prostitute Kathleen Maddox gave birth to a baby boy (Allan,2010). When the baby was born she didn’t know what to name him, so she gave him the name “No Name” Maddox for the first weeks of his life. Soon after he was given the name Charles Milles Maddox. Charles did not know who his father was, but Kathleen would soon run of and get married to a man by the name of William Eugene Manson, who would give Charles his last name of Manson. Charles would use the last name Manson for the remainder of his life. Charles would go neglected for majority of his childhood life by his mother who was a severe alcoholic. During his life, Charles was tossed from relatives and foster homes. Kathleen and Charles were soon abandoned by William years after there marriage which caused Kathleen to go in deep depression.