Famed Manson Family Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi Dies at 80

based upon real events surrounding Charlie Manson before the murders took place. It stars one of my favorite actors David Duchovny. I find it interesting that Manson was actually casual friends with Neil Young who tried to help him get a recording contract. Manson also ran into Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.

There are some things so evil that I do not want to revisit them.

Wilson put him in touch with record producer Terry Melcher who went out and spent the day with Manson.
Listened to their music and promised to get back to him
After waiting several weeks Manson got angry
Sadly, for Tate, Folger, Frykowski, Febring and Parent, Melcher and actress Candice Bergen, who were living there, had broken up and moved out of the rental and Polanski/Tate moved in
They went there to find Melcher, but found the 4 of them instead and Parent in his car.

Sick, sad and twisted group. Sad endings for the 5 of them, the LaBianca's who were killed a few days later and (often forgotten) their first victim Gary Hinman, whom they held hostage and tortured for two days thinking he had money

on edit: the house at 10050 Cielo Drive (torn down in 94). The story behind the various residents and the house itself
http://www.house-crazy.com/10050-cielo-drive-the-last-house-of-sharon-tate/

horrific

given him a record contract if any of those tragic events would have happened. Or were those people so crazy that some other evil event would have happened?

the first 2 episodes have been disappointing.

Aquarius might even be a masterpiece in the way
plot and characters are so well developed.

And it manages to avoid the anachronisms of
so many tv dramas. The dress, the attitudes,
the dialogue -- the whole ambience of the time --
is greatly evoked and authentic.

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I saw him when he came to San Francisco on his book tour. All those questions got totally shut down after Sept. 11.

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4018

"He Still Dares Call It Treason"
Monica Friedlander 2001

"What happened here is not the sunlight of democracy, but the dark and ominous shadows of totalitarianism." -- Vincent Bugliosi

What unfolded on August 2 under the elegant, gilded dome of the landmark historic Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California was one of the harshest, no-holds-barred indictments of the U.S. Supreme Court ever made. Famed prosecutor and writer Vincent Bugliosi blasted the Bush v Gore ruling, calling it the "worst crime in U.S. history" - in effect, the "theft of the Presidency."

The talk was part of promotional tour for his book, "The Betrayal of America," in which he charges that (in)Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, and Kennedy betrayed everything they ever believed in to take the election away from the American people and into their own hands based on an inapplicable constitutional principle.

"I will stake my prosecutorial reputation on the fact that within the pages of this book I prove beyond reasonable doubt that these five Justices deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush," Bugliosi says. "The evidence against them is absolutely overwhelming. Like typical criminals on the run, they left their dirty fingerprints everywhere.>>

Bugliosi was all about JUSTICE

Or dancing a jig? My money is on the latter

if there was any justice he would be there for the rest of his miserable life

This book should leave no doubt about OJ's guilt. Possibly the most convincing (and convicting) book on the topic.

When they overrode the will of the American people and gave George W. Bush the presidency.

The man was a true patriot.

RIP, Vincent, you've earned it.



edit: clarity

just so he'd get the last word on that scumbag and his idiot fanboys.

...even though Manson was not present at either murder scene. He had to make the case that Manson had brainwashed them and controlled them to the point that they would commit murder if he told them to. Of course, Manson didn't help his own case by carving a swastika in his own forehead during the trial.

He was not present for the murder (he took a second group to commit other murders, but failed), but tying people up during a home invasion burglary when they are later murdered by your co-conspirators is not really that high a bar. The convictions for the Tate homicides was certainly more difficult, especially since the main co-conspirator (Watson) did not testify against Manson.

changed my life forever.

Rest in peace, counselor. Thank you.

Still on my bookshelf.

You will be missed.

In a profession in which it is all too easy to be dishonorable.

He'll be missed.

His other books were also great reads, particularly "Til Death Us Do Part" - a murder case he prosecuted pre-Manson.

I recall his quote that he could have convicted OJ with a legal pad and a pen, or words to that effect. What a trial that would have been.

I always thought that if I were charged with a crime which I didn't commit, he'd be the first person I'd want to defend me, and if I were charged with a crime of which I was guilty, he'd be the last person I'd want to prosecute me.

His hatred for the BFEE was only one of many reasons he was a great man in my book.

RIP Mr. Bug (the G is silent*) liosi

*I've seen many reports of the times during the Manson trial when he had to remind the other attorneys, press, etc. how to properly pronounce his name. Manson and the girls call him "The Bug".

So much for scanning headlines!