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A Note on Sources
This is primarily a work of cultural history and analysis, and as such my main objects of study are often widely available published works, popular culture artifacts, and so on. There is no major “Manson archive” to speak of, though I learned much from John Gilmore’s papers at UCLA’s Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Library and from an amazing trove of television clips—mostly local news coverage—also at UCLA. Gilmore’s papers include early interviews with Charles Manson and Bobby Beausoleil, a manuscript Beausoleil appears to have intended as an afterword for Gilmore’s book (“Burning is the End”), and many other rich resources.
With respect to archival materials, I also learned quite a bit from some truly, madly, wildly (dis)organized boxes of trial documents and related correspondence at the Los Angeles Superior Court Archives and Records Center. Among other finds here are copies of subpoenas served to potential witnesses and a collection of notes potential jurors wrote to the judge in the hopes they would be excused from serving. (Favorites? The older person who explained that his doctor worried that even his prescribed nitroglycerin would not protect his heart from the potential shocks of this work, and the note from a scholar who explained that the day he was supposed to appear for jury selection he had a previous commitment—a “luncheon” with an editor from a press that had interest in publishing his manuscript. I followed the lead and discovered that he seems to have landed the deal!)
One of the real challenges facing students of Manson and the Family is that there is not even a generally available transcript of the 1970 and 1971 major trials. The Archives and Records Center does have daily minutes of the trial. Manson’s own speech at his trial has been reproduced widely and numerous websites have posted important selections from the Grand Jury and trial p
roceedings. The few researchers and webmasters who have gained access to the main trial transcript (which is, allegedly, 24,000 pages long) seem to have done so through connections to either Vincent Bugliosi himself or other members of his original team.
I learned, ultimately, that it might be possible to engage in legal proceedings to try to find out more about the extant records, but this was not a road I wanted to go down. I contacted a number of webmasters whose sites have published excerpts and mostly not heard back. One of the few who responded explained that Bugliosi had personally shared his copy but that the process of scanning the thousands of pages would take some time! This webmaster stopped answering my emails when I asked if I could help expedite the process in any way in the hopes of obtaining a copy for myself. Since Bugliosi’s death in 2015 there has been no announcement from his estate about the donation of his papers, so the transcript question remains unresolved. Since I am the kind of historian who is most interested in “stories about” events—rather than some elusive “actual” truth of the event—the mysterious case of the missing transcript has struck me as fascinating in its own right.
Decades ago, Ed Sanders wrote about areas of silence in and around the case and it struck me as a fitting that Sanders himself is one of these areas. Sanders himself won’t talk much about the case anymore; I know for sure that I am not the only contemporary researcher who has been rebuffed by the cranky old Fug. His series of articles for the Free Press—all of its coverage in fact—are a crucial resource. For a while the Freep used to offer up all of its Manson-related material in a compact digital portfolio for a small price. That seems to have disappeared, as things do online, but at least one Manson-omnibus site still has it posted (see website listings below for more information on this). The East Village Other also had fascinating regular coverage, but is harder to access. I found a complete run at New York University’s Fales Library.
If you study the Manson Family and trials you have to accept that your work will be upsetting to some people who either want to guard the materials they own or want to lock down (or define the parameters) of historical discussion. This is just how it is in Mansonland. In my years of research I have met an impressive number of incredible people who were willing to share their stories and their work, but also a few who not only refused, but felt the need to critique the project right out of the gate. (My favorite here came from the musician and Beach Boy associate Van Dyke Parks who responded to my query about a possible interview by sending me the following email two days running: “No time for this. I view it as a trivial pursuit, and redundant at best.”) In this light I want to invite students, scholars, and other interested parties to get in touch if you think I might have any materials or insights that could help you with your own work. I’m at [email protected].
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