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[[Image:Charles Manson.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Charles Manson sought to ignite an all-out race war in the United States. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3259228742503720963].  [[Obama]] close family friend [[Bernadine Dohrn]] was a great admirer of Manson and the Manson family's methods.]]

[[Image:Charles Manson.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Charles Manson sought to ignite an all-out race war in the United States. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3259228742503720963].  [[Obama]] close family friend [[Bernadine Dohrn]] was a great admirer of Manson and the Manson family's methods.]]

'''Charles Manson''' (November 12, 1934 - November 19, 2017) was a 1960s ringleader of a murderous [[California]] [[cult]], the Manson Family, whose most famous crime was ordering the murder of actress [[Sharon Tate]] and six other people in what came to be notoriously known as the Tate-LaBianca murders. These gruesome murders in 1969 heralded the end of the [[hippie]] era.

'''Charles Manson''' (November 12, 1934 - November 19, 2017) was a 1960s ringleader of a murderous [[California]] [[cult]], the Manson Family, whose most famous crime was ordering the murder of 8-month pregnant actress Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and six other people in what came to be notoriously known as the Tate-LaBianca murders. These gruesome murders in 1969 heralded the end of the [[hippie]] era.

He [[brainwashing|brainwashed]] a devoted group of followers into various murders, with the hope of starting a race war and being the leader of the post-apocalyptic world he said the war would create.<ref>Borsella, C. ''On Persecution, Identity and Activism: Aspects of the Italian-American Experience from the Late 19th Century to Today''; Dante University Press; Boston. p. 110, (2005) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hWkQNm6MOxQC&lpg=PA110&dq=%22Charles%20Manson%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q=%22Charles%20Manson%22&f=false]</ref> Because Manson directed the members of the cult to commit multiple murders, he was convicted of the murders under a joint-responsibility rule which makes it a crime to be involved in a conspiracy to commit murder. He was originally sentenced to death for masterminding the murders, but when California abolished the death penalty in 1972, his death sentence was commuted to life in prison.

He [[brainwashing|brainwashed]] a devoted group of followers into various murders, with the hope of starting a race war and being the leader of the post-apocalyptic world he said the war would create.<ref>Borsella, C. ''On Persecution, Identity and Activism: Aspects of the Italian-American Experience from the Late 19th Century to Today''; Dante University Press; Boston. p. 110, (2005) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hWkQNm6MOxQC&lpg=PA110&dq=%22Charles%20Manson%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q=%22Charles%20Manson%22&f=false]</ref> Because Manson directed the members of the cult to commit multiple murders, he was convicted of the murders under a joint-responsibility rule which makes it a crime to be involved in a conspiracy to commit murder. He was originally sentenced to death for masterminding the murders, but when California abolished the death penalty in 1972, his death sentence was commuted to life in prison.