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Did the Manson murders really end the sixties? How a sensational crime changed the way the public viewed "hippies" and the psychedelic experience. (with Q&A hosted by Aimee Tollan)
Joan Didion famously wrote: "Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like bushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled." O'Neill takes a deeper look at the aftermath of the horrific murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends by followers of Charles Manson in 1969, and asks, what if it was just part of a plan to discredit the "hippies" and America's left wing movement?
Bio:
Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, the Village Voice, and Details. His 2019 book, CHAOS: The Truth Behind The Manson Murders is a New York Times bestseller.
Did the Manson murders really end the sixties? How a sensational crime changed the way the public viewed "hippies" and the psychedelic experience. (with Q&A hosted by Aimee Tollan)
Joan Didion famously wrote: "Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like bushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled." O'Neill takes a deeper look at the aftermath of the horrific murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends by followers of Charles Manson in 1969, and asks, what if it was just part of a plan to discredit the "hippies" and America's left wing movement?
Bio:
Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, the Village Voice, and Details. His 2019 book, CHAOS: The Truth Behind The Manson Murders is a New York Times bestseller.
