Category Archives: Archived News
Manson Courtroom – Unbelievable World
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9 – It’s an unbelievable world in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Dept. 101. In the always crowded courtroom, spectators, defendants, attorneys and even the jury have been described like “something out of central casting.” Little old […]
Sharon Tate Murdered One Year Ago Today
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9 – One year ago Saturday actress Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant, sunbathed by her swimming pool, talked by transatlantic telephone to her director husband in London, and thumbed through a book of names for the baby. […]
Prosecution Feels Witness Tells Truth in Tate Case
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 – During seven days of cross-examination, defense attorney Irving Kanarek has constantly hammered the veracity of Linda Kasabian’s story of the Tate-LaBianca murders. But during a break in Friday’s session, Assistant District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi said […]
Murder Victim’s Picture Shakes Up State Witness
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 – With a gasping cry of “Ohhh,” Linda Kasabian buried her head in her hands and sobbed after Charles Manson’s attorney thrust in front of her a color picture of actress Sharon Tate in death — […]
Manson Trial Witness Dies
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 – Randy Starr, a cowboy stunt man and resident at the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, died Thursday of meningitis, in Veterans Hospital. Starr, who was about 55, was one of the chief prosecution witnesses in the […]
How Could You? Linda Gasps at Manson Clan
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 – “Oh God…How could You do that?’” Sobbing, and her face contorted in horror, Linda Kasabian today gasped out the question to hippie leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers as she viewed “nightmarish” […]
Linda Didn’t Know 5 Were Killed in Tate Home Raid
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 – Linda Kasabian, on the witness stand for the eighth straight day in the Tate-LaBianca murder case, testified today she was “really upset” when she eventually learned the next day that five persons had died in […]
‘Family’ Heckles, Scoffs at ‘Manson’s Mother’
THIS WOMAN, Mrs. Ethel Garvey, claims to be the mother of Charles Manson, leader of the “family” accused of the Tate-Labianca murders. Manson has said his mother abandoned him when he was a child and he was forced to live […]
Manson Girls Chant ‘Why Go on With Trial!’ After Nixon Remark
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 – The Charles Manson murder trial jury got another dose of “the Nixon statement” yesterday, this time from the cult leaders’ three female codefendants. Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten stood up before the […]
New Mistrial Bid Over Manson’s Antics is Denied
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 – Another motion for a mistrial in the Tate-LaBianca murder case was denied in Los Angeles Superior Court today. The motion, by chief defense counsel Paul Fitzgerald, was based on the actions of cult leader Charles […]
Nixon Censure Denied by Judge in Manson Trial
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 – A barrage of legal motions, including one to censure the President of the United States, threw the murder trial of cultist Charles Manson and three of his followers into an uproar today. The motions, all […]
Nixon Backs off From Calling Manson Guilty
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 – President Nixon has backed away from an off-the-cuff comment that Charles Manson, the California hippie-cult leader, was guilty, directly or indirectly, of “eight murders without reason.” While Air Force One circled Washington for nearly a half […]
Manson Denied Mistrial Due to Nixon’s Remarks
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 – Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older yesterday refused to grant a mistrial for Charles Manson and three followers after defense attorneys complained of President Richard Nixon’s remarks about the case. President Richard Nixon Says Charles […]
Linda Kasabian On Stand For Third Day Of Cross-Examination in Manson Murder Trial
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 – Linda Kasabian, the prosecution’s key witness in the Charles Manson trial, withstood her third day of intense cross-examination yesterday without changing her story of the Tate-LaBianca murders. Earlier, a Miami woman testified Mrs. Kasabian, 21, […]
Manson, ‘Family’ Not Moved by Testimony
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 – The three long-haired girls in jail uniforms giggle and whisper at times while Charles M. Manson strokes his beard and makes funny faces at an artist drawing his picture. At moments, the defendants in the […]
Companion Calls Linda a Liar
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 – A woman with whom Linda Kasabian, chief prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial, lived after the killings testified today that Mrs. Kasabian was a “liar” and a constant user of narcotics. Mrs. June Emmer […]
Manson Family Still Makes Garbage Run
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 – The remnants of the Charles Manson family continue to live amid the bouldered slopes and sylvan caves and waterfalls of the Spahn movie ranch, about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. “We’re still singing, we […]
She Loved ‘Messiah’ Manson, Linda Says
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 – The star prosecution witness in the Tate-La Bianca murder case, whose testimony could send Charles Manson to the gas chamber, Friday testified she loved him and considered him “the Messiah, come again.” Twenty-one year old […]
Thought Manson Was ‘Love, Truth’ But Grew To Fear Him, Linda Says
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 – Linda Kasabian, whose testimony could send Charles Manson to the gas chamber, said yesterday she had “loved Charlie” when she first came to his “family” and thought he was what she always had been looking […]
Circuit Court Delays Extradition Of Watson
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1 – The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Friday threw another two week delay into California’s attempts to extradite Charles Watson from Texas. Watson, charged in California’s Tate – LaBianca murders, began his ninth month in […]
