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“Charles Manson Dies At 83”

Charles Manson, the cult leader who drew lasting infamy for directing mass killings in 1969, has died of natural causes at the age of 83. Manson had been removed from prison in Corcoran, Calif. , where he had been serving nine life sentences, and placed in a nearby hospital for a serious illness. For nearly five decades, Manson has occupied a unique position in the American cultural imagination. This violent legacy can be traced principally to two late-summer nights in Los Angeles in 1969, when Manson orchestrated a series of gruesome murders. The attacks left seven people dead. His followers, a cult known as The Family, carried out Manson’s plan. The murders were intended to incite a race war, after which he and his followers would rise up to lead the surviving world. Instead, Manson and several members of his cult were caught and convicted of first-degree murder — but only after what was one of the longest and most expensive trials in American history.

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