Charles Manson Research Paper

Charles Manson is the founder of the Manson family. He is the mastermind behind many devistating murders in the late 1960's. Charles is still alive but is living in jail. He got a sentance for life in prison after what he has done. Charles childhood may have been the cause of all his destructive activites. Let us start by looking at a history about Charles Manson and his activites while leader of the Manson family. In 1934, Charles Milles Maddox was born to an unmarried sixteen year old prostituite named Kathleen Maddox. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles got his name a few weeks after he was born, his last name changed to Charles when Kathleen married William Manson. This marrage did not last long. Charles's boilogical father was …show more content…
They were caught driving in California. Charles was sent to another boys school in washington D.C. He spent four years there and had an I.Q of 109 but he was illiterate. During his time at this boys school, Charles was called aggressively antisocial. In october 1951, Charles was moved to a minimum security institution. About a month before Charles was schedualed to get out of the institution, one of the boys was found with “a razor blade and held it against another boy's throat while Manson sodomized him.” ( Bugliosi, Curt 1994) Charles was then moved to a Federal Reformatory, where he was considered dangerous. About six months after arriving at the federal Reformatory, Charles was moved to another Federal Reformatory that is a more secure intitution. This was do to many serious disciplinary offenses. Charles was at the second Federal Reformatory about a month and he was a completely different person. He had good work habbits and Charles raises his educational level. The Reformatory even gave him an early parole. A condition of the parole was Charles had to live with his Aunt and uncle back in West Virginia. He only lived with them a short while, then moved in with his