The Beatles - The "White Album" cover artwork. To distract attention away from the police investigation, Manson ordered more killings, and as the Family listened to the “White Album” over and over while stoned, Manson thought that The Beatles were "speaking" to him. On 25 July 1969, Manson visited a man called Gary Hinman over an argument about money and ordered one of his followers, Bobby Beausoleil, to kill him. On New Year’s Eve 1968, Manson sat around a campfire with the Family and explained that The Beatles had foreseen what was to go down via the songs on the “White Album” - a race war between whites and blacks would break out and the Family would need to prepare for the oncoming apocalypse.Ĭharles Manson followers, from left: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, shown walking to court to appear for their roles in the 1969 cult killings of seven people.Īs 1969 wore on, the cult leader became convinced that The Beatles had prophesied that the tension would spill into all-out war and pointed to the “clues” within their songs. The lyrics and the sounds on the double album festered in the criminal’s disturbed mind. At the end of 1968, Manson became obsessed with the newly-released self-titled Beatles LP - the “White Album”. The Manson Family wound up at Spahn Ranch, a dilapidated movie set in Los Angeles County (featured in the Tarantino movie), where the drug-taking, sex and paranoia within the group increased. America in the late 1960s was rife with racial tension and the assassination of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr in April 1968 caused riots in Washington, Chicago and other cities.Ĭharles Manson, pictured en route to court in Independence, Calif., for a preliminary hearing on charges of possessing stolen property, December 1969. No longer were hippies seen as harmless or comical.īut one myth perpetrated by Manson himself was that the murders were “inspired” by the music of The Beatles - the Fab Four were sending messages through their music to “warn” him of an imminent race war. Manson and the followers that were involved in the murders were sentenced to death (later commuted to life) in 1971, but the shockwaves from the crimes lasted for years. The “Manson Family”, were ragtag group of drifters, drop-outs and hippies that had come into the orbit of petty criminal Charles Manson.
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