In this second installment of our series detailing the connections between Thomas Pynchon's "California Trilogy" and the Manson Family, Frankie and Geena move away from Manson and into the Cielo Drive house, where we sort through Tom O'Neill's criss-crossing stories of Reeve Whitson, Charles Tacot, and Lt. Col. Paul Tate, and try to add more to his checkered telling of these stories. From there, we move into Paul Tate's connections to cutting-edge information technology, Curtis LeMay, John K Singlaub, and the shadowy plots of the American Security Council, and the LAPD's PDID. Join us and find out what all of this and more means in relation to Doc Sportello and Zoyd Wheeler's bad trips.
Trigger warning time stamp: 0:12:53 - 0:14:27 & 0:22:50 - 0:25:30.
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Texts cited:
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon, 2009
CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O'Neill, 2019
The Family, Ed Sanders, both editions
Sharon Tate: A Life, Ed Sanders and Rick Veitch, 2014
Manson in His Own Words, Nuel Emmons, 1986
Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice,Alisa Stratman and Brie Tate
Team Lotus: The Indianapolis Years, Andrew Ferguson, 1996
A Strange and Wild Place, Lady Sandra Macpherson Glentruim, 2004
Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, Russ Bellant, 1991
Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, Sara Diamond, 1995
A Partial History of "the List", Linecook, (2020? - digital document, publication uncertain)
"Fear and Loathing in the American Security Council Parts 1-4", Steven Snyder, Visupview.blogspot.com
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Peter Dale Scott, 1993
The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, Peter Dale Scott, 1976
The Farm podcast's WACL and Albacore series by Steven Snyder, et. al.
Dig Infinity: The Life and Art of Lord Buckley, Oliver Trager, 2002
Has Corrine Been a Good Girl?, Corrine Calvet, 1983
Various articles on Chicago from Andrea Nolen's blog (andreanolen.com)
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