He married a nice girl named Rosalie at 19 and had a baby soon thereafter. But as a young man in the '50s, Manson loved Frank Sinatra and, yes, Perry Como. Manson is associated strongly with '60s counterculture - after all, he found his calling on Haight-Ashbury, painted himself as a guru to the young women he recruited, and kept them tripping on acid and sexually pliant (free love, don't you know?).
In Manson's previous life, he was a square.
Charlie last name wilson tabs how to#
For the first time in his life he was considered an outstanding pupil.” How to Win Friends, Guinn reports, “seemed to formally codify all the ways Charlie had manipulated people since childhood.” Acquaintances would later recall Manson using just those techniques on the young women in his “family.”ĩ. “Virtually every word in the Carnegie publications resonated with Charlie. “Charlie had always evinced limited reading skills, but in this Carnegie class he proved that he could not only read but fully comprehend printed material if he was sufficiently engaged, and if instructors were helpful enough,” Guinn writes. Good information for a salesman, yes, but supremely helpful for a con man.Īfter stealing a car in Ohio and driving it to L.A., where his mother was living, Manson was sent to prison in San Pedro - and there he enrolled in a Carnegie course. Carnegie, a salesman, had published How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936, sharing his techniques for convincing others to do what you want. Manson learned his most effective techniques by studying Dale Carnegie. Turn the page to find out 10 chilling new things we learned from Guinn's biography - including the unlikely book the author credits for transforming Manson into a guru who fooled dozens of kids into following him straight into “Helter Skelter.”ġ0. Manson is making progress for the first time in his life.'”īut Hubbard isn't responsible for Manson turning into Manson. “His September 1961 report noted, 'He appears to have developed a certain amount of insight into his problems through the study of. Yep, L.A.'s favorite “religion” also influenced its most notorious mass murderer - in prison, “Charlie adopted those aspects of Hubbard's teachings that lent themselves to manipulating others,” Guinn reports.
Even those who've already read extensively about the Manson murders and their aftermath may find new insight into the pint-sized West Virginia-born con man who convinced a bevy of middle-class young women (and a few men) to murder for him.Īmong the revelations? Manson studied Scientology. There's a new biography of Charles Manson out this month - which seems like the last thing America needs, in light of the reams of print that have already been devoted to the wannabe pop star who led his “family” to commit nine murders in the summer of 1969, terrifying Los Angeles.Īnd yet Manson: The Life of Times and Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn is riveting, a thoroughly researched biography that manages to be a breezy page-turner.
0 kommentar(er)
