For those of you who have not been paying attention, and/or are too young to remember, Charles Manson was the infamous leader of a murderous California cult that went on a killing spree in August 1969. Among their victims was the actress Sharon Tate, who had been married to director Roman Polanski.
The murders were particularly macabre. The killers painted the word “pig” on the front door of the house. Manson, who admired Hitler and the Nazis, had hoped that blacks would be blamed for the murders, thus triggering a race war.