SACRAMENTO, Sept. 26 – In Lynette Fromme’s dream, she was walking down “some sort of a boardwalk.”

At one point, there was something “like a lighthouse, and it said ‘Little San Quentin’ on it and I went up and got to a turnstyle, and I …”

She giggled in her little girl way and continued:

“This is funny, kind of, but I actually ducked the woman who was in the ticket booth, you know, and ducked into the place.

“Well, I was running through there and I woke up about midway through the place.”

The dream’s significance, if there is any, will have to be left to the experts, but as she’s telling it, it’s hard to visualize that this freckly-faced, red-haired young woman stands accused of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States.

Petite, almost frail looking, she seems to be little more than a child.

“We are all children,” she said during one of two interviews granted last night at Sacramento County Jail.

“I’m looking for some kind of understanding,” Miss Fromme told The Bee. “We’ve been the object of a type of, I won’t call it persecution, a type of abuse, really, from all sides.”

Miss Fromme, who says her name is pronounced “fruhme” with the emphasis on the second syllable, is an original member of the Manson Family, followers of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson.

Manson now is confined at San Quentin Prison.

She speaks fondly of “my family.”

“We gathered together…and began to tell each other the truth.

“In telling each other the truth, and in becoming the truth, we opened ourselves up to a world that most people don’t know because they are so much on a physical level and a (pause) supermarket level.”

Materialism, Miss Fromme asserts, led to the troubles in which the world now finds itself. Materialism and guilty sex. “We want to raise ourselves above this. That’s one reason why we put on our robes. We wish to start over. We don’t want to be on the level of dogs.”

Woman’s role in society was another of Miss Fromme’s favorite subjects.

“My self, as a woman, receives immense satisfaction out of being able to present a man with a nice meal. But only if he appreciates it. If I know that he appreciates it, he doesn’t have to say anything. I just know it.

“Woman today is forsaking her man. I don’t mean all of them, but there’s a general thought in the women’s lib movement to compete with man.

“Now, (they’re) calling Manson a male chauvinist and us (his women) servants. But we’re the ones who perpetuated this thought. That we want to serve. It wasn’t Manson. He didn’t make us slaves. We said, ‘What can we do?’ Because this is an abnormal occurrence in everyday households, people don’t like it. It’s hard to accept.”

Manson’s nickname for Miss Fromme, incidentally, is “Red,” not “Squeaky.”

Each of Manson’s girls is nicknamed a color of the rainbow, Miss Fromme said. Miss Good is “Blue,” Patricia Krenwinkel is “Yellow,” Leslie Van Houten is “Green,” Sadie Glutz (Susan Atkins) is “Violet” and Brenda McCann (Nancy Pitman) is “Gold.”

Misses Krenwinkel, and Glutz were convicted of murder in the infamous Tate-LaBianca killings which claimed seven lives in 1969.

“I miss my family,” Miss Fromme said. “I miss them more than I ever knew that I could.”

The dream really surprised her, Miss Fromme said, “because ordinarily I don’t have dreams.

“But in here (jail), there’s time lapse and there’s no sunshine. Consequently, yesterday night I slept a little bit during the day and had so much activity in my dreams, I guess, that when I woke up, I thought it was the next morning.

“So I drank a cup of coffee and it got to be about 10 o’clock and the girls told me it was night. And here I was already into the next day.”

By WAYNE WILSON