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Charlie. the session fizzled. but the beachboys did play one of manson's songs on the mike douglas tv show. but dennis rewrote the words and the title. >> oh, charlie was so angry that anybody would dare to change the lyric or anything he said. it was like misquoting him. >> so the beach boys were not the answer to manson's dreams. but there was one more chance. greg jacobson knew a man in los angeles who could snap his fingers and get him a contract. his name was terry melcher. one of l.a.'s top music producers. in the late spring of '69, melcher agreed to come to spahn ranch to hear him sing...

After the labianca murders, more than 100 deputies descended on the family. >> they decide they're going to have a huge raid on spahn ranch. they're going to arrest everybody in it. >> but, the raid turned out to be good news for charlie manson. because it didn't have anything to do with murder. the warrant was for auto theft. totally unrelated. and even that charge dwn stick? manson uses this as a great example. see how powerful he is? they arrested all of us, but i used my power and they're letting us go. >> the "l.a. times" ran a small story about the car theft raid, along with an article a...

Lot of people are going to die. >> manson had a term for these people, pig gis, another part of the album. >> if you want to be a piggy, today's pork is tomorrow's bacon. >> tomorrow, on the wall of his house they wrote the word political piggy and left a paw print, all in the blood. hopefully to lead police to think it was black panther. >> police think it's a murder, they don't link it to a plaque revolutionary execution. >> manson's misdirection failed. in less than a week, bobby beausoleil was pulled over driving one of gary hinman's cars, where police found a bloody knife. beausoleil call...

Heard that. >> they didn't have a high opinion of the music, or charlie. >> the session fizzled. but the beachboys did play one of manson's songs on the mike douglas tv show. but dennis rewrote the words and the title. >> oh, charlie was so angry that anybody would dare to change the lyric or anything he said. it was like misquoting him. >> so the beachboys were not the answer to manson's dreams. but there was one more chance. greg jacobson knew a man in los angeles who could snap his fingers and get him a contract. his name was terry melcher. one of l.a.'s top music producers. in the late spr...

Singer song writer. he and his family, about 20 of them had settled in the foothills at a place called spahn ranch. >> one of the best things about the ranch was they were allowed to stay there because they would do chores. >> when they weren't working the family went dumpster diving for food. there were a lot of drugs and plenty of sex all directed by manson. >> he told people who to sleep with. what to eat. where to, you know, do their bodily functions. >> she told the detectives that charlie preached to his flock constantly. >> he would quote from the book of revelation. >> which he knew pr...