... who convinced his members of The Family to commit murders in California in the late 1960s. Charles Manson believed in an impending race war from Black Americans against White Americans and that they would overthrow the White race. After being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in 1971, Charles ... so much that Manson named his delusional idea after the Beatles song. "Helter Skelter" was the idea that Charles Manson had of a Black uprising against Whites. Manson believed that the Beatles hid this meaning within their album. Charles Manson believed that the Beatles made the White ...

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... yes she is."" Now Manson's racial war had a name it was called Helter Skelter. According to Manson, Helter Skelter would begin like this, "with the black man going into white people's homes and ripping off the white people, physically destroying them. A couple of spades from Watts would come up into Bel Air and ... crimes that would really make the white man mad until there was open revolution on the streets, until they finally won and took over. Then the black man would assume the white man's karma. He would then be the establishment - Charlie predicted that his family would survive this...

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... country seems to continue to grow with the more unbelievable stories that hit the news. The first big news event that was cult related occurred in 1969. The killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others. The cult that was responsible for this was Charles Manson and "The Family". This event played a major role in creating cult fear all over the ... Cause." Through this type of test, Jones was able to gauge the level of his followers' commitment to his ideals and theology (Hall, Gone 246). Jones read the work of Black Panther Huey Newton and painted a frightening picture of the future to...

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