30 Ibid.
31 Lawrence Schiller, et al., The Killing of Sharon Tate, 14.
32 Ibid., 14.
33 Ibid., 41.
34 Ibid., 72.
35 Ibid., 72–73,
36 Ibid., 114.
37 George Bishop, Witness to Evil, 232, 236.
38 Ibid., 44.
39 Ibid., 346.
40 Ibid., 122.
41 “Ivy League Hillbilly” is from the the Sandusky Register, December 4, 1970: 6.
42 George Bishop, Witness to Evil, 46–47, 139.
43 Ibid., 406.
44 Ibid., 351.
45 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 262.
46 Justin Gifford, “Harvard in Hell,” 111–112.
47 Ivor Davis and Jerry LeBlanc, 5 to Die, 16.
48 Ibid.
49 Ibid., 19–20.
50 Ibid., 223.
51 David Schmid, Natural Born Killers, 226.
52 Ivor Davis and Jerry LeBlanc, 5 to Die, 143.
53 J. D. Russell, The Beautiful People, 94.
54 Ibid., 111.
55 Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death, 244.
56 Ivor Davis and Jerry LeBlanc, 5 to Die, 212.
57 Ibid., 49.
58 Ibid., 54–55, 121.
59 Dunbar Van Ness, “Changing Focus on Manson”; John Lennon is quoted in Tommy Udo, Music Mayhem, 155; Karpis is in an article from Winnipeg Free Press from December 15, 1969: 4 (“Ex-Convict Terms Manson Product of Prison System”).
60 Ivor Davis and Jerry LeBlanc, 5 to Die, 146.
61 Ibid., 147.
62 Steven V. Roberts, “The Hippie Mystique.”
63 Paul O’Neill, “The Wreck of a Monstrous Family” (part of Life Magazine’s December 1969 coverage): 24.
64 David Smith and Alan Rose, “The Group Marriage Commune.”
65 “A Doctor and a Parole Office Remember Manson” (Sidebar to Life Magazine’s December 1969 coverage): 26.
66 Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream.
67 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 297; Mark Kermode, “We’re Still Mad about Manson.”
A Legion of Charlies
1 Rachel Rubin, Well Met, 41–45.
2 Lawrence Lipton, “An Open Letter to Piers Anderton.”
3 Marvin Garson’s letters can be found in the Free Press on January 9, 1970: 26, and January 16, 1970: 9.
4 Lawrence Lipton, “Radio Free America,” in the Free Press on February 6, 1970: 3.
5 Free Press on January 23, 1970: 12.
6 Michael Hannon, “MANSON INTERVIEW!”; Jerry Rubin, We Are Everywhere 238.
7 Michael Hannon, “MANSON INTERVIEW!”
8 Michael Hannon, “Manson’s Life: Jail Shadows.”
9 “Cheap Head Prose” from Kirkus Reviews, November 11 1974.
10 www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/charles-manson-the-incredible-story-of-the-most-dangerous-man-alive-19700625.
11 Free Press, May 1–7, 1970: 1–2.
12 See here for Ed Sanders’s Investigative Poetry: www.woodstockjournal.com/pdf/InvestigativePoetry.pdf.
13 Free Press, May 1–7, 1970: 2.
14 David Kamp, “Live at the Whisky.”
15 Free Press, May 1–7, 1970: 2
16 Keith Clarke and Jeffrey Hemphill, “The Santa Barbara Oil Spill,” www.www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~dhardy/1969_Santa_Barbara_Oil_Spill/Essays.html.
17 Free Press, March 13–19, 1970: 2.
18 Ibid., See also Michael Hannon “Judge Revokes Manson’s Right to Defend Himself.”
19 Free Press, November 6, 1970: 3.
20 Hector Tobar, “Finally, Transparency in the Ruben Salazar Case,” Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2011.
21 Robert Christgau, “Lumpenhippies and Their Guru.”
22 Free Press, August 14–20, 1970: 1, 4.
23 Free Press, January 8 1971: 4.
24 In Charles Manson: The Man Who Killed the Sixties.
25 Stew Albert found (from Good Times, April 2, 1971) found here: www.mansonblog.com/2013/08/charles-manson-and-lt-calley.html.
26 Allen Katzman, “Poor Paranoid’s Almanac,” East Village Other, August 27, 1969: 5.
27 From “Burning is the End,” 72 found at UCLA in Box 1 of John Gilmore papers.
28 www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/1970%27s/1971/1971_08.pdf.
29 www.comixjoint.com/legionofcharlies-1st.html.
30 Esther Sundell Lichti, “Richard Schechner and the Performance Group” 26–28.
31 Theodore Shank, Beyond the Boundaries, 98–99.
32 Esther Sundell Lichti, “Richard Schechner and the Performance Group,” 151; Theodore Shank, Beyond the Boundaries, 100.
33 In Theo Wilson, Headline Justice, 192.
Hippie Ugly! Hippie Shit! Toothpaste Good!
1 Free Press, June 1 1970: 1–2.
2 Free Press, August 7, 1970: 1.
3 Joan Didion, The White Album, 44–45.
4 Ibid., 45.
5 www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/charles-manson-the-incredible-story-of-the-most-dangerous-man-alive-19700625.
6 Paul Watkins with Guillermo Soledad, My Life, 55.
7 Ibid.,
8 Ed Sanders, The Family (2002), 323.
9 Thomas Myers, “Rerunning the Creepy Crawl,” 84.
10 Ed Sanders, The Family (1971), 11.
11 Robert Christgau, “Lumpenhippies and Their Guru.”
12 Ed Sanders, The Family (2002), xi.
13 Thomas Myers, “Rerunning the Creepy Crawl,” 85.
14 Free Press, August 28, 1970: 6; Ed Sanders, The Family, 105.
15 Ed Sanders, The Family (1971), 412.
16 Ed Sanders, The Family (2002), 420.
17 Ed Sanders, The Family (1971), 8.
18 Thomas Myers, “Rerunning the Creepy Crawl,” 86.
19 Robert Christgau, “Lumpenhippies and Their Guru.”
20 Peter Gilstrap, “On Top of the Underbelly,” found here www.articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/17/magazine/tm-gilmore38.
21 Ed Sanders, The Family (2002), 88.
22 Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures.
23 Ed Sanders, The Family (2002), 63, 201, 288.
24 www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/charles-manson-the-incredible-story-of-the-most-dangerous-man-alive-19700625.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Free Press, October 23, 1970: 12.
28 Ed Sanders The Family (2002), 30.
29 Free Press, November 6, 1970: 3.
30 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 526.
31 Tommy Udo, Music Mayhem Murder, 153.
A Newcomer, an Intruder
1 John Gilmore with Ron Kenner, Garbage People, i–ii.
2 Jean Murley Rise of True Crime, 93–94.
3 Ibid., 93.
4 Michael Rogers, “Manson Meets the Bug.”
5 Ibid.
6 This all circulated in 1974. Some Los Angeles Times coverage can be found here: www.mansondirect.com/thebug.html, and here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3130075/Charles-Manson-prosecutor-secret-love-child-lover-23-years.html.
7 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 259.
8 Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles, 203.
9 Ibid., 203–204.
10 Bobby Beausoleil, personal communication.
11 David Schmid, “Capote’s Children” 218–219.
12 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 165.
13 Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Prosecuting the Manson Case.”
14 Jean Murley, The Rise of True Crime, 65–66.
15 Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Prosecuting the Manson Case.”
16 Ed Sanders, The Family (2002), 367.
17 Jerry Rubin, We Are Everywhere, 135.
18 From “Burning Is the End,” 72, found in Box 1 of John Gilmore papers.
Not Just the Facts, Ma’am
1 David Schmid, Natural Born Killers, 193.
2 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 80.
3 From “Burning Is the End,” 45–46, in Box 1 of John Gilmo
re papers.
4 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 79.
5 www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/L/lotsa_poppa/index.php; In personal communication, Bobby Beausoleil has also made the case to me that the shooting of Bernard Crowe was a major engine of all the violence that the Manson Family engaged in for the rest of 1969.
6 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 54.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., 188–189.
9 Deana Martin, Memories Are Made of This, 163.
10 Steve Oney, “Manson: An Oral History,” at www.lamag.com/longform/manson-an-oral-history1/5/.
11 Jeffrey Sconce, “XXX: Love and Kisses,” 214.
12 Grady Turner, “Raymond Pettibon” at www.bombmagazine.org/article/2257/raymond-pettibon.
13 Paul Watkins, My Life, 36.
14 Karlene Faith, Long Prison Journey, 9.
15 Elaine Woo, “Historian Curt Gentry.”
16 Howard Becker, Outsiders, 9; Kai Erickson, Wayward Puritans; Jeffrey Melnick, Black-Jewish Relations on Trial, 48–50.
17 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 118, 159, 184–185, 331.
18 George Bishop, Witness to Evil, 57.
19 Nancy MacLean, “Leo Frank Case Reconsidered,” 919.
20 Jim Knipfel, “Manson on Film.”
21 Theo Wilson, Headline Justice, 182.
22 Steve Oney, “Manson: An Oral History” at www.lamag.com/longform/manson-an-oral-history1/5/.
23 Theo Wilson, Headline Justice, 182.
24 Jim Knipfel, Manson on Film.
25 Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 101.
26 Ibid., 91.
27 Dana Parsons, “Barred from World He Loved.”
28 Rory Carroll and Simon Hattenstone, “Defending the Indefensible.”
29 In Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, 509–510.
30 Jerry Lembcke, The Spitting Image.
31 Michael Hannon, “Judge Revokes Manson’s Right.”
Notes to Part IV
Blood in a Swimming Pool
1 Editors of Phaidon, PressPLAY, 496.
2 Kliph Nesteroff, “The Mel Lyman Personality Cult Revisited.”
3 Zachary Lazar, Sway, front matter.
4 www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_anywhere.htm.
5 The Columbus, Ohio–based band DarkDixie also released a record in 1995 titled The Manson-Nixon Line.
6 See, for instance, here: www.digitalspy.com/tv/american-horror-story/news/a807911/is-charles-manson-a-character-in-american-horror-story-season-6/.
7 See Gerald Carlin and Mark Jones, “‘Helter Skelter’ and Sixties Revisionism” and their stunning website (www.helterskeltercovers.wordpress.com/) for a good overview.
8 See, for instance, Clara Livesey, The Manson Women, 32.
9 Gerald Carlin and Mark Jones, “‘Helter Skelter’ and Sixties Revisionism.”
10 Ibid.
11 Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry, Helter Skelter, 525.
12 June Thomas, “NBC’s New Drama.”
13 Ibid.
14 Adam Bryant, “Why David Duchovny.”
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, 234.
18 Ibid., 7.
19 Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, 304.
20 Dana Spiotta, Lightning Field, 208.
21 Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, 208.
They Are Still among Us
1 For more see my chapter on shout-outs in 9/11 Culture.
2 Andrew Gross, Eyes Wide Open, 133.
3 Madison Smartt Bell, Color of Night, 62.
4 www.jungleredwriters.com/2011/07/eyes-wide-open.html.
5 Andrew Gross, Eyes Wide Open, 190.
6 John Harrison, “The Hip Pocket Sleaze Files.”
7 Ibid.
8 Michael Perry, Skelter, 401–402.
9 Lary May, “Redeeming the Lost War,” 23–24. What follows draws heavily from May, especially pages 35–40.
10 Bell’s claims are here: www.huffingtonpost.com/madison-smartt-bell/american-terror_b_842036.html, and Lindgren’s review is here: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-the-color-of-night-by-madison-smartt-bell/2011/04/11/AFWp715G_story.html.
11 John Kaye, The Dead Circus, epigraph.
12 Ibid., 124, 187, 218, 257.
13 Ibid., 91.
14 Ibid., 170.
15 Ibid., 170–171.
16 Ibid., 60, 171.
17 Ibid., 98.
18 Tony O’Neill, Sick City, 144–145, 147.
19 John Kaye, The Dead Circus, 270–271.
20 Ibid., 271.
21 Ibid., 290.
22 Amanda Petrusich, Do Not Sell at Any Price, 5.
He’s a Magic Man
1 Karen Halttunen, Murder Most Foul, 5, 146.
2 Simon Wells, Charles Manson, 410.
3 Tom Brinkman, Bad Mags 2, 395.
4 Ibid., 443, 385.
5 Allan Kozinn, “Will the Manson Story Play as Myth.”
6 Tommy Udo, Music Mayhem Murder, 178.
7 Jon Towlson, Subversive Horror Cinema, 131–132.
8 David Ray Carter, “It’s Only a Movie?” 299.
9 John Cline and Robert Weiner, “Arch Hall,” 199.
10 Jeffrey Sconce, “XXX: Love and Kisses,” 207, 209, 213, 219.
11 Ibid., 223–31.
Waves of Mutilation
1 Sanders quoted in Manson quoted Steven Blush and George Petros, .45 Dangerous Minds 290-291; Bugliosi quoted in “Charles Manson: A Portrait in Terror” on KABC (in UCLA Film and Television Archive.)
2 See especially Mike Rubin’s great account in “Summer of ‘69.”
3 Ed Sanders in the Los Angeles Free Press, May 1–7, 1970: 1.
4 Mark Goodall, “Arise” 10–11, 17–18, 22.
5 Lewis Parker, personal communication.
6 Zachary Lazar, Sway 14.
7 Ibid., 9.
8 Ibid., 209.
9 Kory Grow, “Redd Kross”; Roger Ebert, “Beyond”; Mike Rubin, “Summer of ’69”
10 Tommy Udo, Music Mayhem Murder, 43; Mike Rubin “Summer of ’69.”
11 Frank Black insights at www.genius.com/2247041.
12 Thomas Crow, The Long March, 366.
13 Mark Jones and Gerry Carlin, “Unfound Footage and Unfounded Rumors,” 183.
14 Thomas Crow, The Long March, 366.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.; also Mark Goodall, “The ‘Book of Manson.’”
17 Barney Hoskyns, Waiting for the Sun, 309.
18 Dewar MacLeod, Kids of the Black Hole, 127.
19 Tim Tonooka, Black Flag interview in Ripper 6 (1981). www.dementlieu.com/users/obik/arc/blackflag/int_ripper6.html.
20 “Is There Any Escape from Stupid?”
21 Cory Frye, “Negativland’s ‘Helter Stupid.’”
22 Robert Barry, “Key Tracks.”
23 Kembrew McLeod, Pranksters, 208–209.
24 Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band, 57, 141.
25 Alec Foege, Confusion Is Next, 122–123.
26 Greil Marcus, In the Fascist Bathroom, 134.
27 Robert Barry, “Key Tracks.”
28 Aram Sinnreich, Mashed Up.
29 Robert Barry, “Key Tracks.”
30 Ibid.
31 Cory Frye, “Negativland’s ‘Helter Stupid.’”
32 Robert Barry, “Key Tracks.”
33 “Is There Any Escape from Stupid?”
34 Ibid.
35 Kristine McKenna, “Eno.” www.music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/musn82.htm.
36 On Christopher Wool, see Peter Schjeldahl, “Writing on the Wall: A Christopher Wool Retrospective,” New Yorker, November 4, 2013; see also www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.5.html/2006/contemporary-art-evening-sale-n08201; and Ken Johnson, “Art in Review,” New York Times, March 17, 2000.
Desperados under the Eaves
1 Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents.
2 JR Robinson, personal communication.
/>
3 JR Robinson, “Beau Soleil.”
4 Bud Scoppa review in Rolling Stone, June 6, 1974: 70.
5 George Lipsitz, Midnight at the Barrelhouse, 68.
6 Joel Selvin, Sly and the Family Stone, 125.
7 For background here see A. E. Hotchner, Doris Day; Joel Selvin, Sly and the Family Stone; and Karina Longworth’s podcast, Charles Manson’s Hollywood, episode 48.
8 Sean Nelson, Court and Spark, 42.
9 Greil Marcus, Stranded, 293.
Zeroville
1 Jimmy McDonough, Shakey, 441.
2 Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff, Long May You Run, 81.
3 Jimmy McDonough, Shakey, 441.
4 Stephen Holden’s review can be found here: www.thrasherswheat.org/tnfy/on_the_beach_rolling_stone_092674.htm.
5 Song counts found at www.sugarmtn.org/.
6 On Manson dedication, see www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/otb.htm.
7 See James Reich’s work at www.jamesreichbooks.com/on-the-beach/.
8 Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV, 141–142; Phil Patton, “Tailfins.”
9 Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV, 154.
10 Phil Patton, “Punctuation.”
11 Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV, 131.
12 Bernard Gendron, “Theodor Adorno Meets the Cadillacs.”
13 Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV, 133.
14 Phil Patton, “Punctuation.”
15 Jimmy McDonough, Shakey, 104.
16 Charles Derry, Dark Dreams, 98.
17 Bryan Reynolds, Performing Transversally, 114.
18 Ibid.
19 Kael in Bryan Reynolds, Performing Transversally, 117; Vincent Brook, Land of Smoke and Mirrors, 142.
20 Christopher Sandford, Polanski, 200.
21 Mike Davis, City of Quartz, 114.
22 Steven Erie, Beyond Chinatown, 31.
23 Vincent Brook, Land of Smoke and Mirrors, 143.
24 Foster Hirsch, Detours and Lost Highways, 153.
25 Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear, 276.
26 Peter Biskind, Star, 217.
27 Ibid.
28 In episode 50 of Karina Longworth’s podcast, Charles Manson’s Hollywood.
29 Peter Biskind, Star, 196.
30 Episode 50 of Karina Longworth’s Charles Manson’s Hollywood.
31 In Peter Biskind, Star, 217.
Wrecking Crews
1 David Herrle, Sharon Tate, 183.
2 Christopher Sorrentino, “Zachary Lazar.”
3 Ibid.
4 John Waters, Role Models, 50.
5 John Waters, Shock Value, 62.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Greil Marcus, The Doors, 42; John Waters, Role Models, 46.
9 John Waters, Role Models, 45.
10 Ibid., 54.
11 John Waters, Shock Value, 116–117.
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