Charles Manson Charles Manson, a man that lived a crucial life has become a cult figure. A devil to some, to others an icon. For prison officials he’s an exhibit and to psychologists a subject. Being all these things to so many different kinds of people was a technique Manson honed and used (Dolan 134). The idea of a little band of drug-crazed hippy teenagers breaking into private houses, slaughtering its occupants and smearing slogans …showed first 75 words of 1325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1325 total…a life sentence in prison. “All my woman are witches and I’m the devil”, announced Manson to reporters. He felt that he could do anything he wanted to people at anytime he wanted to, because that’s what they’ve done to him (Wynd 3). Charles Manson’s “Great Plan” was to murder rich people at random in the most revolting ways imaginable and ensure that black activists were blamed thus fomenting racial hatred (Dolan 141).