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| Program Number | S0206 |
| Title | The Implication of the Manson Phenomenon |
| PBS Number | 518 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Bugliosi, Vincent. - lawyer, former Assistant District Attorney in Los
Angeles County |
| Taped on | Oct 3, 1975 (Sacramento, CA) |
| Broadcast Date | Nov 8, 1975 |
| Duration | 60 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | In a show taped just a few weeks after Squeaky Fromme's attempt on Gerald Ford's life, WFB engages his guest--who had prosecuted Charles Manson and his "family" for the murders of Sharon Tate et al. six years earlier--in an absorbing exploration of the Manson phenomenon: to what extent it grew out of the Sixties culture; whether executing Manson might have put an end to his cult; how Manson resembles and differs from Hitler. VB: "You could look at a photograph of Hitler in high school in a group of fifty people, and right away you'd focus on his eyes. That was not Manson's typical look: he was a visual schizophrenic. He could sit down and talk with you the way I am right now, about football, tennis, anything, and then you might look away from him and then back--and in that momentary interlude, his face would become [transformed] and he'd have that maniacal stare." |
| Subject Heading(s) | Manson, Charles, 1934- |
| Related Document(s) | Type(s): Transcript Type(s): News releases, photos, negatives Type(s): Research materials Type(s): Transcript |
| Purchase show | Program is unavailable on DVD at this time. |
| Transcript | Download transcript (80040_s0206_trans.pdf) |
