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contributed to his family’s finance by working as a janitor at a nearby college. He took up boxing at the age of 12, when he found out when his bicycle got stolen. Young Clay then reported a bike theft to Joe Elsby Martin, a Louisville police officer who ran a youth program teaching boys how to box. From there, Joe Martin invited Clay to his program and soon Clay…

boy. In 2012, Calhoun was in a nursing home suffering from dementia. He was not competent enough to testify. In 2005, District Attorney Gricar disappeared and was not available to testify. On November 9, Penn State University fired long-time coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier four days after Sandusky was initially arrested. Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, school officials, resigned from their posts. They were accused of perjury and failing to report suspected child abuse. On June 22,…

On January seventeenth, 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay was born into a small family in Louisville, Kentucky. At an early age, Clay showed that he was not afraid of any fight, whether it be inside or outside of the ring. As an African American child, growing up in the South, Clay experienced first hand racial discrimination and prejudice, which most likely contributed to his childhood passion for boxing. Upon being showed the boxing ring by a town police officer, Clay worked long and hard as an…

Early in the 20th century, boxing, baseball, and horseracing were the three of the most popular sports in America. They offered great experiences for a low cost. However, they were a reflection of how society and life was during this era from 1900 to 1930s. America was dealing with racial tensions and relations, economic struggles, conflict with labor and capital, and corruption in the sports and trying to clean it up. The issues of America were grand and these three sports brought it life in a…

He was introduced to others such as Bobby, Leslie. Pat, Linda and Tex soon to be his group of followers which have been called the “Manson family” Manson taught his followers there were the reincarnation of original Christian's, he himself told them he was Christ and often told them a story envisioning himself on a cross…

The Manson Family was a cult that was formed in California in the late 1960’s. It was let by Charles Manson and the group consisted of 100 of his “followers” who lived an unconventional lifestyle with the use of hallucinogenic drugs. Most of the members in the group were young women who came from middle-class backgrounds, many that were profound by Manson’s teachings and drawn by hippy culture and communal living. Manson grew up with a troubled childhood and displayed violent and manipulated…

Charles Manson was born November 12, 1934 and is currently still alive spending time in the Corcoran State Prison in California. His mom was 16 when she had him, and was an alcoholic and prostitute. Charles was sent to a boy's school for stealing. His mother didn’t want anything to do with him. She once sold him for some beer. A couple days later his uncle retrieved him. He was living on the streets and committing petty crimes. Manson began spending time in jail by his teenage years. Eventually…

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…

The leader of The Family was the charismatic, ruthless and manipulative Charles Manson. America was captivated by him, and by the young women who, under his spell, had snuck into two houses in Los Angeles to murder people they had never met. The trial was nationally broadcast, and Manson became a household name. (NPR. (n.d.) But how did Charles Manson become the way he did? Could it be how he was raised and/or where he grew up? Family Structure Charles Manson was born Charles Milles Maddox on…

Initially born “No-Name Maddox”, Charles Manson is regarded as one of the most notorious and sinister killers as well as cult leaders of the 20th century. The astonishing ability of Manson to manipulate and control individuals led him to assemble a vicious cult that committed gruesome murders that struck tremendous fear in to the hearts of every American during the 1960s. The criminal acts of the Manson family cult was committed on the belief that they were destined to be the ultimate…