You Must Remember Manson

By Karina Longworth

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From the archives of You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth presents her hugely popular series, “Charles Manson’s Hollywood.” It chronicles the murders committed by followers of Charlie Manson in the summer of 1969, and how the lurid crime and its aftermath were inseparable from the show business milieu in which they occurred. Originally released in 2015. For more great Hollywood stories, subscribe to the You Must Remember This podcast.

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08.17.2022 Welcome to The Sunshine Place Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It ...
11.20.2017 E12: The Manson Family on Trial The trials of the Manson family became a kind of public theater which a number of current and future filmmakers found themselves caught up in. Joan Didion bought a dress for a Manson girl to wear to court, Dennis Hopper ...
11.20.2017 E11: Death Valley ’69 After the murders, Manson moved his family to the depths of the California desert. There, even before they were finally apprehended by the law, their utopia started to fall apart. Hollywood was in the process of being changed by Dennis ...
11.20.2017 E10: Roman Polanski After Sharon Tate Roman Polanski was in London the night his pregnant wife was murdered in their home. He returned to Los Angeles, devastated, to find himself wanted for questioning in a crime which the LAPD, initially, had no idea how to solve. ...
11.20.2017 E9: August 8-10, 1969 Over the course of a single weekend, half a dozen hippies massacred seven people. This episode includes disturbing details about very violent crimes. Originally released in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more about listener ...
11.20.2017 E8: Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski While trying to launch her own acting career, Sharon Tate fell in love with, and eventually married, Roman Polanski, the hotshot Polish filmmaker who had his first massive American hit in the summer of 1968, Rosemary’s Baby. Originally released in ...
11.20.2017 E7: Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring In the first of two episodes about the Manson Family’s most famous victim, we’ll trace actress Sharon Tate’s early years, her romance with celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, and the on-set affair that changed the course of Tate’s life and career. ...
11.20.2017 E6: Kenneth Anger and Bobby Beausoleil The first person to go to jail for a Charles Manson-associated murder was Bobby Beausoleil, a charismatic would-be rock star who had put in time as a muse to Kenneth Anger -- child actor-turned-occultist experimental filmmaker and author. Originally released ...
11.20.2017 E5: Doris Day and Terry Melcher Charles Manson became convinced his best chance at rock stardom was impressing Terry Melcher, a record executive who had made stars out of The Byrds, who was also Doris Day's son and Candice Bergen's boyfriend. Originally released in 2015. Learn ...
11.20.2017 E4: Spahn Ranch and the Beatles’ White Album After wearing out his welcome at Dennis Wilson’s house, Charlie Manson moves his family to Spahn Ranch, a dilapidated Western movie set where the cult starts preparing for Helter Skelter, Manson's made-up apocalypse inspired by The Beatles. Originally released in ...
11.20.2017 E3: The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, and Charles Manson, Songwriter In part three, we’ll talk about Charlie Manson’s arrival in Los Angeles, discuss Dennis Wilson’s life and the role he played in enabling Manson’s rock n’ roll delusions, and explain how The Beach Boys came to record a song written ...
11.20.2017 E2: How Manson Found His Family In part two, we trace Charlie Manson's life from his birth to a teenage con artist, through multiple stints in reform schools and prisons, and finally to San Francisco circa 1967, where Manson began to try out his guru act ...
11.20.2017 E1: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Manson Murders You Must Remember Manson explores the murders committed in the summer of 1969 by followers of Charles Manson. In part one, we’ll talk about what was going on in the show business capital that made Charlie Manson seem like a ...