Saturday, August 08, 2009

When I Get to the Bottom I Go Back to the Top

"The Manson case matters not only because of the magnitude of the crime but because it revealed the violent, predatory side of the 1960s. When Winifred Chapman, who kept house at Cielo, discovered the bodies just after 8 a.m. on August 9, 1969, any hope that the counterculture would be immune was shattered. The 1960s ended by degrees, but it was here that the ending began."

Steve Oney in Los Angeles magazine presents an oral history of the Tate-LaBianca Murders.

In the Los Angeles Times, Steffie Nelson depicts the style legacy of Sharon Tate.

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