This topic were what do people say to you, is it a little bit weird to be discussing and i said yes i guess it is but i find it fascinating and i think that its a significant assassination certainly affected not only American History that World History and i give a few examples in my introduction about the fact that after all its face it, world war i began because of an assassination and of course we had the fall of the Roman Republic because of an assassination and we have our country itself divided when Abraham Lincoln was of course murdered in 1865 and we are still reverberating from the events around john f. Kennedy in 1963 but its a lot more than looking at Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Assassination has been a common theme in history but also in American History and i devoted a chapter to each president who faced a direct assassination attempt both those who were assassinated into those who were wounded and were also president ial candidates which i havent seen anybody els
All the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. Seven people brutally murdered in a rare hollywood publicity. Young girls supposedly under the spell of a svengali who allegedly mastered the murders. The 70s, just brutal violence on every front and anywhere that you look in america. At the time of a mass murder, theres a lot of media coverage, but usually after a brief period of time, the identity of the perpetrator tends to fade from the publics consciousness, but not so with the manson case. It was the biggest publicity case the d. A. s office would ever have. The manson trial begins the 1970s on such an evil sadistic note. Seven innocent people died. Steve parent, a teenager, abigail foal ger abigail folger, folger coffee. And sharon tate. All of you know how beautiful she was. Only few of you know who good she was. And you had Charles Manson himself, the charismatic leader of the family, who didnt show any remorse or any respect for th