Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Hardcover (62 page)
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Authors: Jeff Guinn
Charlie’s sister, Nancy, and cousin Jo Ann agreed to talk to me only if I concealed their identities. For that reason, nowhere in this book do I disclose their last names, where they live, or any physical description of them. It took great courage for Nancy and Jo Ann to agree to interviews after spending much of their lives trying to avoid Manson-related notice.
(1) The children of Charlie and Nancy Maddox.
Clockwise from the lower left
they are Luther, Aileene, Glenna (with glasses), and Ada Kathleen, the mother of Charles Manson.
(2)
Left to right:
Jo Ann Thomas, Manson’s cousin; Nancy Maddox, his maternal grandmother; and Charles, age about five.
(3) Manson just before his first day of elementary school. It would prove to be an inauspicious start to his abbreviated formal education.
(4) Charles Manson on the day of his sentencing to Boys Town. Manson was sent there because he convinced a gullible judge that he was Catholic. He ran away after only four days.
(5) Nineteen-year-old Charles Manson at a Halloween party. Only months after being released from reform school, he already had a reputation as a bad character.
(6) At age twenty, Charles Manson married teenager Rosalie Willis. The marriage would last only two years.
(7) Mary Brunner, the first follower recruited by Charles Manson. They met when she was working as a librarian at UC Berkeley.
(8) The Watts riots in August 1965 exacerbated the racial tension in Los Angeles, which Manson used to help convince his followers that a racial war in America was inevitable.
(9) Gregg Jakobson (
left
) and Dennis Wilson. Manson used his friendship with Wilson to further his goal of becoming a bigger musical star than the Beatles.
(10) The Manson Family (a name coined by Jakobson) on a garbage run behind a Los Angeles supermarket.
Left to right:
Lynne “Squeaky” Fromme, Sandra Good, Mary Brunner, and Ruth Ann Moorehouse.
(11) Spahn Ranch. With its rolling hills and old movie and TV sets, the ranch became the Family’s home and sanctuary.
(12) Family members at Spahn.
Left to right:
Jennifer Gentry, Catherine “Gypsy” Share, Sue Bartlett, Danny DeCarlo (facing away from the camera), Sandra Good, Squeaky Fromme, Chuck Lovett, and Ruth Ann Moorehouse.