involvement of a mystical hippie clan which despised the straight, affluent society. young girls, supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali, who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. >> good morning. >> why? >> the sun's shining this morning. >> it is? >> yeah. >> charles manson cleverly masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippie, goes up to the haight-ashbury district. surrounds himself with a bunch of young followers. their lifestyle was sex, orgies, and lsd trips. eventually he gets them to do mass murder for him. >> with blood, the killer scrawled on a refrigerator door "death to pigs." >> you see, prior to these murders, no one associated hippies with violence and murder. people would pick up a hitch-hiking hippie. there was no big deal. but after the manson murders, you saw a hippie with long hair hitch-hiking and the image of manson would enter the driver's mind, and they'd drive right by.