Charles Manson: Leader Of The Manson Family Cult

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Charles Manson
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Charles Milles Maddox – referred to by most as Charles Manson – was the leader of the Manson Family cult in the revolutionary period of the 1960’s. The Manson Family was responsible for nine murders, starting with the infamous killings of the actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends, occurring within five weeks in the year 1969. Charles Manson is still alive today serving a life sentence in Corcoran State Prison. Manson’s dark childhood was an appropriate indicator of the grisly events that would later rattle an entire nation. On November 19th, 1934, Charles Milles Manson was born in Cincinnati Ohio to an unwed sixteen-year-old, Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen had run away at the age of fifteen and reportedly was an

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