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Manson Complains He’s Being Mistreated in Jail
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Charles Manson, accused of masterminding the brutal Tate-LaBianca murders, today complained he was being mistreated in county jail. At a hearing preceding his trial on seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy, the self-styled […]
Star Witness Says Manson ‘Should Beg Forgiveness’
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Linda Kasabian, the prosecution’s star witness in the Charles Manson murder trial, said yesterday she would like to see the hippie chief and his three codefendants “just fall down on their knees and beg forgiveness.” […]
Linda Kasabian Completes 18-Day Stint on Stand; Testimony Unshaken
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Tate-LaBianca murder eyewitness Linda Kasabian was excused yesterday after spending 18 days on the stand at the trial of Charles Manson and three female followers. Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older excused Mrs. Kasabian at […]
Linda Kasabian, Free, To Go to Wilderness
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Linda Kasabian ended 18 days as the star state witness at the Sharon Tate murder trial Wednesday and then said of the four defendants: “I’d like to see them fall down on their knees and […]
Tate Witness Describes ‘Vibrations’
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 – Serene but weary, Linda Kasabian is concluding her key prosecution testimony in the Sharon Tate murder trial, telling how she received “vibrations from the universe.” “It’s sort of like when you get down on your […]
Ship Hijackers Held at Cambodia Base
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Aug. 19 – Charles Manson is their hero. Violent revolution is their cause. But Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatowski, the two Americans who hijacked a U.S. munitions ship, to Cambodia five months ago, stand little chance of […]
The Most Grotesque Trial Of The Century
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 – Charles Manson sits barefoot on a hard courtroom chair, his legs tucked under him in a yoga crouch, his face hairy and serene, like that of a road-show Mahareshi showing us how to attain an […]
Linda Tells Why She Didn’t Report Killings to Police
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 – Linda Kasabian, an eyewitness to three of the seven Tate-LaBianca murders, testified today that she had “no thought of going to the police” when she fled from the Spahn Ranch home of the Charles Manson […]
Linda Kasabian Calls Manson ‘Devil’ in Trial Testimony
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 – Linda Kasabian testified yesterday she believed Charles Manson was “the Devil” after she witnessed one of the Tate-LaBianca murders and was afraid to tell authorities because she believed he might kill her daughter. The 21-year-old […]
Linda Says Manson Threatened Her Life
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 – Accused murder mastermind Charles Manson threatened the life of the prosecution’s chief witness if she didn’t remain silent, the girl testified in Los Angeles Superior Court today. Linda Kasabian, going over her eyewitness account of […]
Linda: No Angel, Just God’s Emissary
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 – Linda Kasabian yesterday testified at the Tate murder trial that she felt God had called on her to expose Charles Manson as a “false prophet” who posed as Jesus Christ but actually was the devil. […]
Lawyer New Hero To Defendants
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 – The three young women ignore Charles Manson and sit clustered in court around a slim young attorney – whispering, giggling and passing him notes. Paul Fitzgerald gives the women defendants in the Sharon Tate murder […]
Linda Calls Self ‘Emissary of God’ to Expose Manson
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 – Linda Kasabian testified today in the Tate-LaBianca murder case that she is an “emissary from God” whose mission is to tell what Charles Manson really is — “a devil…a false prophet.” On the witness stand […]
Linda Seer Herself As A Messiah
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 – Linda Kasabian testified today that she believes she is an “emissary from God,” sent to tell the world that Charles Manson is a “false prophet.” Mrs. Kasabian, in her 16th day on the witness stand, […]
Sheriff Denies Manson’s Claims of Mistreatment
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 – Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess today had called “utterly ridiculous” charges that Charles Manson was mistreated in the Los Angeles County Jail. Pitchess released the following statement concerning the accusation made by Manson’s attorney. “Any prisoner […]
Marine Testifies At Manson Trial, Arrested by Military Police
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 – A young Marine brought into the Tate-LaBianca murder case by defense attorneys was arrested Friday on suspicion of being AWOL as he walked out of the courtroom. Jon Hayan Marsh 23, of Santa Barbara, was […]
Marine Says Linda ‘Poured’ Drug
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 – A Marine corporal, who claims to have seen the star prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder case take a drug a few weeks before the killings, something she has vehemently denied, was arrested Friday as […]
Linda A Free Woman
LINDA KASABIAN, star prosecution witness in the Charles Manson trial, is accompanied by her lawyers in an auto in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – A year and a few days ago Linda Kasabian listened to the death cries […]
Manson Carried Sword or Gun at LaBiancas’: Linda
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – Hippie leader Charles Manson took a sword or a gun with him when he entered the home of market owner Leno LaBianca, the star prosecution witness against the cultist testified today. Linda Kasabian wound up […]
Mary Brunner Is Jailed; Fight Starts Over Her Baby
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – Mary Brunner, a former Madison librarian, and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, was sentenced to the Los Angeles County Jail for 90 days Thursday, thereby assuring her presence at the October trial of Charles […]
