Charles Manson’s Hollywood, Part 2: How Manson Found His Family

Charles Manson’s Hollywood, Part 2: How Manson Found His Family

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Today we’re tracing Charles Manson’s life from his birth to a teenage con artist, through multiple stints in reform schools and prisons, and finally to San Francisco circa 1967, where Manson began to try out his guru act on the local hippie kids.