L.A. in the Time of Charles Manson (Full version)

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  @kathleenyoung8916 · 6 years ago (edited)

  <b>1969</b> &nbsp;‘So much weird going on. &nbsp;So much weird’. <br><b>2020</b> &nbsp;Same

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• JA

  @jasonhutter7534 · 5 years ago

  nothing more potentially dangerous than a poorly raised child.

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  @1999glock · 6 years ago

  I have lived in LA my entire 63 year life. My dad was an LAPD homicide detective during this time, and I can tell you, only 3 crimes that I can remember caused actual fear to the average person in Los Angeles. The Hillside Stranglers (1977-1978), The Night Stalker (Richard Ramirez) 1985 and Manson. In todays world, this might be a one day news story. In 1969 this was unheard of. It was the day Los Angeles lost whatever innocence it may have had.

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  @IvanRodriguez-hl4pg · 5 years ago

  I think it&apos;s obscene that a thrill killer like Charles &apos;Tex&apos; Watson is allowed to marry and have children when he deprived Sharron Tate of that very same privilege. &nbsp;Where&apos;s the justice in that?

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• TH

  @TheIndependentLens · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s really sad with Steven Parent as he was the youngest adult killed up there, yet is usually never even mentioned since he was just an average kid from a middle class family.

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• DU

  @dudley5658 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Drugs may not be the answer but they do make the question more interesting.

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• DE

  @DesmoDreams · 6 years ago

  A lot of these shots of young folk partying, were actually filmed at a Rolling Stones free concert in 1969 in Hyde park, London. A long way from LA...

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• MI

  @michelleobrien8036 · 5 years ago

  I was 15 years old. I almost ran away from home in Everett Washington to go to Woodstock. What he influenced was the opposite of the direction society was going in.

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• LY

  @lynnamyotte1017 · 5 years ago

  We felt the same way in 79, we knew everything and now I realize we new nothing

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• WI

  @wixom01 · 5 years ago

  And then Altamont put the final nail in the coffin of the hippy movement.

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• SC

  @scarletmacaw · 5 years ago

  I rode a Triumph 650 Bonneville through the canyons of L.A. through Hollywood and Beverly Hills at that time. Wish I could go back in time via a time machine.

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  @beamarlo3962 · 6 years ago

  If Manson really wanted to sing, he should&apos;ve kept on knocking on doors instead of going out on a killing spree. Many big time artists struggled very much before they got their first opportunity.

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