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Ford Will Videotape Testimony on Fromme Incident
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — President Ford will give his videotaped testimony this morning on what he saw and heard when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme allegedly threatened him with a loaded gun in Sacramento, Calif. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford has […]
Lynette Fromme Plans Subpoena For President Ford
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 20 – Lynette Fromme will seek to subpoena President Ford as a witness in her federal court trial on a charge she attempted to murder Ford when he visited Sacramento Sept. 5. Miss Fromme’s motion to subpoena the […]
What Makes A Revolutionary?
Oct. 10 – Patricia Hearst. Lynn Fromme. Sara Jane Moore. Names of three women, the names of three real women written about in the newspapers so that everybody who reads one knows who they are. Or do we — really? […]
Fromme Requests Lawyer’s Firing
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 7 – Lynette Alice Fromme today asked a federal judge to allow her to fire her court-appointed attorney in her trial on a charge she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The 26-year-old Charles Manson cultist told U.S. […]
Welfare Helped Ford Attacker
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 22 – Lynette A. Fromme, accused of attempting to assassinate President Ford, received $1,194.74 in welfare payments during a 13-month period ending in September 1974, officials say. Sandra Good, Miss Fromme’s roommate and also a disciple of […]
No Crime In Miss Good’s Death List
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 12 – A Sacramento prosecutor says Lynette Fromme’s roommate, Sandra Good, apparently has violated no laws in issuing a list of corporate officers and their wives who Miss Good says are marked for death for polluting the earth. […]
Manson Informer Gets Guard In Jail
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 – The woman who first linked the hippie Manson family to the Sharon Tate murders is being given special protection in jail because of reported threats to kill her, the woman’s lawyer said today. Mrs. Ronnie […]
How Curt Gentry Got It Together
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 – He’s not particularly impressive to look at: medium height, modest beard and hush jacket. And he’s quiet, soft-spoken so that you have to listen hard to hear him relate, with some astonishment, how he has […]
Charges of Perjury by Shinn Dismissed
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 – Perjury charges against attorney Daye Shinn were dismissed Wednesday when special prosecutor Theodore P. Shield was unable to prove that anybody ever lied under oath about statements handed to reporter William Farr during the 1970 […]
About Manson: Prosecutor’s Tale and Infiltrator’s View
HELTER SKELTER: The True Story of the Manson Murders, by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry (502 pages; Norton; $10) In his novel “The Third Man,” Graham Greene has the British intelligence officer who narrates the story make a statement that […]
Escape Plot Spurs Move of Manson
VACAVILLE, Nov. 19 — Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson was transferred from the medical facility here to maximum security Folsom Prison last month after authorities discovered an escape plot involving guns and grenades. Jess Marquez, program administrator of the unit […]
The Hero is Too Obvious
Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (George J. McLeod, 502 pages, $11.50) To hear Vincent Bugliosi tell it, Charles Manson and his family of mass murderers would still be free, preying on unsuspecting southern California residents if it […]
Manson Says Nixon’s Fall Due to Hex
VACAVILLE, Nov. 5 – Charles Manson, convicted in the Sharon Tate murders, believed his own personal hex on former President Richard M. Nixon caused Nixon’s Watergate woes, says an ex-prison psychologist. Wesley Hiler, Manson’s therapist at the California Medical Facility […]
City Officer Leaving For Post With DA
RIVERSIDE, Oct. 5 – A former Los Angeles police department Medal of Valor winner and Palm Springs police officer will begin work Thursday for the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. Det. Ed Williams left his post Friday as fugitive warrants […]
He Captured Manson With a Pad and Pencil
Susan Atkins, center, exchanges hand signals with Leslie Van Houten, at right. Patricia Krenwinkel, at left, and Charles Manson, rising, watch. Lignante says he has to work quickly to catch scenes like this in the courtroom MARINA DEL REY, Oct. […]
Judge Indicates He Won’t Hold Farr in Contempt for Silence
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 – Superior Judge Earl C. Broady indicated Tuesday he would not hold Times reporter William Farr in contempt for his refusal to answer 15 questions in the perjury trial of attorney Vincent T. Bugliosi. Bugliosi is […]
Judge Cuts Off Testimony in Trial of Bugliosi
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 – The testimony of key prosecution witness Dep. Dist. Atty. Stephen Kay in the perjury trial of attorney Vincent T. Bugliosi was halted abruptly Monday until prosecutors prove a crime actually was committed. Kay had testified […]
Deputy DA to Be First Bugliosi Trial Witness
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 – Dep. Dist. Atty. Stephen Kay is expected to be called as the first witness today in the perjury trial of Vincent T. Bugliosi, the lawyer Kay assisted in prosecuting convicted murderer Charles Manson. An eight-woman, […]
Charles Manson Is Back In Tight Security at CMF
VACAVILLE, Sept. 26 – Infamous multiple murderer Charles Manson was clamped back into supertight security in Vacaville’s California Medical Facility last week, shortly after the world was told he had been allowed to mingle with other prisoners, the Reporter has […]
Trial Opens in Tate Murder Arrest Suit
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 – A $1 million false arrest suit against the city of Los Angeles by William Etson Garretson, who was jailed for two days after the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others Aug. 9, 1969, […]
