Key Insights From:
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
Key Insights From:
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
What You'll Learn:
Tom O’Neill had no interest in the Manson Family murders when he was tasked with writing a piece for the thirtieth anniversary of this series of crimes that marked a generation and has lingered in popular imagination. But as O’Neill began looking for a new angle to shed light on an already thoroughly discussed story, he discovered holes in the official narrative. It became an obsession. He missed his magazine deadline by 20 years, but by that time, had enough for a book. What actually happened is difficult to say with certainty, but it’s now obvious that the official story definitely never happened. O’Neill (with some help from Piepenbring) tells us why.
Key Insights:
- The spirit of the 1960s counterculture came to a screeching halt on August 9, 1969.
- Hollywood elites refused to talk about Manson or the trial, but the chief prosecutor had plenty to say.
- Doris Day’s son, Terry Melcher, lied on the stand and the chief prosecutor seemed to be protecting him.
- There are unsettling coincidences between the CIA’s mind control objectives and the blind obedience that Manson inculcated in his followers.
- The chief prosecutor in the Manson case died before the book’s publication, but he had a lot to answer for.
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