ONeill had been reporting the story for 20 years, a magazine assignment that turned into an obsession.
Yet no one does a thing.
At some point, Smith got an office at a local nonprofit called the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.
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In the 1960s, an FBI program called Cointelpro was infiltrating the anti-war movement and the Black Panthers.
It coulda been just that Manson just had leeway to do whatever he wanted to do for two years.
Maybe that was all it was.
Theres no doubt in my mind what the motivation was…. Charlie had gotten paranoid of his own people.
He wanted to bind them to him through their committing bad crimes.
[Manson] was just obsessed with this race war idea and Helter Skelter, he says.
He knew Manson talked about that kind of shit… but it had nothing to do with the murders.
His intention from the get-go was to do exactly what he did.
Which is what he did.)
Theres threads that they never pull (Were the Hells Angels involved?
What did record producer and Dorris Days son Terry Melcherreallyknow?
What does Tex Watson say on his confession tapes, and why have they never been released?)
and inconsistencies in Bugliosis story that they dont consider.
Youre suggesting Manson was a puppet?
Morris asks towards the end of the film.
Im suggesting that was a possibility, yeah, ONeill replies.
