linda kasabian


Member of the "Manson Family" who became the star witness for prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s case against Manson and others. Kasabian was present at the scene of both the Tate and LaBianca murders, but did not participate in either of the crimes. She made a number of small attempts to stop the murders, though feared for the life of her young daughter who was living at Spahn Ranch. Two days after the LaBianca murders, Kasabian fled the "Family" and returned to New Hampshire where her mother lived and voluntarily turned herself in to authorities. Kasabian received immunity for her testimony against Manson and the other participants of the Tate-LaBianca murders and was consistently harassed throughout the trial. She is now believed to live in the state of Washington with her two children and has led a tumultuous life with small brushes with the law.

Charles "Tex" Watson:

Watson went from being an "A" student in his Texas high school to being Charles Manson's right-hand man and a cold-blooded murderer. He led the killing spree at both the Tate and LaBianca residences and participated in killing each member of both households. Found guilty of killing seven people, Watson is now living his life out in prison, he is an ordained minister, married and father of three, and claims he feels remorse for those he murdered.

Charles Watson's Childhood Years:

Charles Denton Watson was born in Dallas, Texas on December 2, 1945. His parents settled in Copeville, Texas, a small impoverished town where they worked at the local gas station and spent time at their church. The Watsons believed in the American dream and worked hard to provide better lives for their three children, of which Charles was the youngest. Their lives were financially modest, but their children were happy and following proper paths.
Early Teens: As Charles got older he became involved in his parent's church, the Copeville Methodist Church. There he led devotions for the church youth group and regularly attended the Sunday night evangelistic services. At his high school he was a honor role student and good athlete and earned the reputation as a local track star by breaking records in high hurdles. He also worked as the editor on the school paper.

College Bound:

Watson was determined to attend college and worked at an onion-packing plant to save money. Living in his small hometown was beginning to close in on him and the thought of gaining freedom and independence by attending college 50 miles away from home was appealing. In September 1964, Watson went to Denton, Texas and began his first year at North Texas State University (NTSU). His parents were proud of their son and Watson was excited and ready to enjoy his newfound freedom.

A Frat Boy:

At college academia quickly took a second seat to going to parties. Watson joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity in his second semester and his focus switched from his classes to sex and alcohol. He participated in some of the fraternity pranks, some more serious than others. One involved stealing and for the first time in his life he had to disappoint his parents by admitting he broke the law. His parents lectures failed to deter his wish to get back to the campus fun.
Watson's First Exposure to Drugs: In January 1967 he began working at Braniff Airlines as a baggage boy. He earned free airline tickets which he used to impress his girlfriends by taking them for weekend trips to Dallas and Mexico. He was getting a taste for a world away from Texas and he liked it. During a visit to a fraternity brother's home in Los Angeles, Watson was taken in by the psychedelic atmosphere of drugs and free love which took over Sunset Strip during the 60s.

From Texas to California:

Against his parents' wishes, by August 1967, Watson left NTSU and was on his way to total freedom - Los Angeles. To keep a promise to his parents to finish college he began attending classes at Cal State in business administration. His cherished frat clothes were tossed away for the cooler hippie look and his preferred "high" switched from alcohol to marijuana. Watson enjoyed becoming part of the group who separated themselves from the establishment and they accepted him.

A Mother's Plea:

Within months of being there, Watson took a job as a wig salesman and quit Cal State. He moved to West Hollywood then to Laurel Canyon in a house behind the strip. His mother came to visit him just one time after he was hurt in a serious car accident. Unimpressed with his life style, she begged him to return to Texas and although a part of him wanted to return to his hometown, pride kept him from going. He would not see her again until after he was on the run for killing seven people.

Watson's Major - Full-Time Hippie:

Watson began dealing marijuana and he and his roommate opened a wig shop called Love Locs. It closed quickly and Watson began relying on drug dealing to pay for his new Malibu beach home. His desires to earn money soon dissipated to wanting to get high, go to rock concerts and lay on the beach. He finally evolved into what he thought was a full-time hippie and he felt he had found his place in the world.

The Meeting Which Changed His Life Forever:

Watson's life changed forever after picking up a hitchhiker who was Dennis Wilson, a member of the rock-group the Beach Boys. After arriving at Wilson's Pacific Palisades' mansion, Wilson invited Watson up to see the house and meet the people hanging out there.

Watson Meets Manson:

He was introduced to various people, including Dean Moorehouse, an ex-Methodist minister and Charlie Manson. Wilson invited Watson to return to the mansion anytime to hang out and swim in the Olympic-sized pool.

The Wilson Mansion:

The mansion was filled with dropouts who hung out doing drugs and listening to music. Waston eventually moved into the mansion where he mingled with rock musicians, actors, children of stars, Hollywood producers, Charlie Manson and members of the Manson "Love Family." He was impressed with himself, the boy from Texas - rubbing elbows with the famous and he was drawn to Manson and his family, drawn to Manson's prophesizing and to the relationship his family members seemed to have with one another.

Heavy Hallucinogens:

Watson began doing heavy hallucinogens regularly and became consumed by a new drug-induced perspective in which he believed love and deep bonds to others were formed. He described it as a "kind of connection even deeper and better than sex." His friendship with Dean had deepened as well as with many of Manson's "girls," both of whom encouraged Watson to rid himself from his ego, and join the Manson family.

Joining the Manson Family:

Wilson began to pull away from the regulars who were living in his mansion after complaints of sexual child abuse circulated. His manager told Dean, Watson and others living there that they would have to move. With nowhere to go, Dean and Watson turned to Charlie Manson. Acceptance wasn't immediate, but in time Watson's name changed from Charles to "Tex", he turned over all of his possessions to Charlie and moved in with the family.

Charles Manson and The Family

the name that Charles Manson give to all his theory of the apocalipsis has Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

I want to describe the song helter skelter of the Beatles. Mostly for the reason that is a very symbolic song in the life of Charles Manson because he give a meaning to all the lyrics of the song and because he have a theory, that has going to happened a war between black an white people and was going to became in a epic sequence of events, this sequence of events he named helter skelter. Also I am going to describe all the inspiration that Paul McCartney used to compose the song and the recording process.

This is the interpretation of Charlie of the lyrics of the song Helter Skelter:
Lyric: When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide/ Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride.
Meaning: It is a reference to the Family's emergence from "the Bottomless Pit," that is the underground Death Valley hideaway where the group will escape the violence of the Helter skelter.
In British English, helter-skelter is not only the meaning of "confused" or "confusedly" but is the name of a park slide, which this portion of the lyrics suggests is one of the term's surface denotations in the song. There is nothing to indicate Charlie was aware of this meaning.
Lyric: Look out... Helter Skelter... She's coming down fast... Yes she is.
Meaning: The upcoming explosion of race-based violence is imminent. These are the "last few months, weeks, perhaps days, of the old order”. This is the meaning that Charlie gives to the last lyric.
We can see that Charlie really think that this thing can happened and I can describe what Manson think in that moment. I supposed that he can tasted and smell the apocalypses in this song and most of all he can feel the satisfaction of now how to survive to this apocalypse.
The second part that I’m going to talk about the theory that Charles has about the “helter skelter”. To introduce a little bit to history I’m going to tell the theory of Charlie. The first thing that he do was start to convinced people about all his theory, to do this, he recollect people in the death valley, in a ranch with the argument that they were the choose to safe the world. He said that they will get down in the ground and thy will refuge from the attack of the black people, that were going to kill every one white person in the earth and then the black people will loose the control of the earth because the only thing that they now to do was to make the things that the white people do (like the monkeys) so if there were no more white people the black ones were supposed to loose the control of the earth. Then he will become a god with the other 4 Beatles and they will rise up from the earth to the heaven. Finally the 5 will be god to every one in the earth.
Now am going to describe the way that the song was created. This is not a song that is important because of the lyric it is important because the aggressive sound, and the rhythm transmit fear and you get a little bit hypnotized by the guitars, because they carry the same rhythm during all the song, to named in other words it is like a chaos song.
Other important fact in the description of the song helter skelter is the way that the singer sings. He used a sound as loud and dirty as possible, and a the voice experiment different textures some times he used a loud voice some other he used a pacific voice, and this is the way of the Beatles to create this sensation of chaos and craziness.

Helter skelter lyrics:

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and then I go for a ride'
Til I get to the bottom and I see you again, yeh, yeh yeh
Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you
Tell me, tell me tell me, c'mon tell me the answer
Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Now Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter, yeah ...a
-Will you, won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast, but don't let me break you
Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out! Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter, oooh...
Look out, 'cause here she come ...
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
And I stop and I turn and then I go for a ride
And I get to the bottom and I see you again, yeh, yeh yeh
Well do you, don't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast, but don't let me break you
Tell me, tell me, tell me your answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer Look out!
helter skelter, helter skelter, helter skelterLook out!
Helter Skelter ... she coming down fastyes she is
yes she iscoming down fast oh now helter skelter ...
woo hooo(yelled)I got blisters on my fingers!