Time Line
From various sources we're going to try and create a definitive history or timeline of Charles Manson. Please bear with us as the information grows. 12 Nov 1934
Charles Manson born as "no name Maddox" in Cincinnati OH. A bastard son of sixteen year old prostitute called Kathleen Maddox.
1947
Sent to Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute IN.
1951
Attempts to move to California.
1951
Captured, sent to National Training School for Boys, Washington, DC.
1951
Allegedly sodomises a boy by force at the National Training School, and is transferred to Federal Reformatory at Petersburg, VA.
1954
About.com: Release on parol.
1955
Rotten.com: Marries a waitress - Rosalie Willis.
1956 - March
Son born called Charles Manson, Jr.
1956 - April
Sent to prison.
1957
Manson devorced by his wife.
1958
Paroled.
Married Leona.
Had second son - Charles Luther Manson.
1960 - June
Arrested and sent to McNeil Island Penitentiary.
Got devorced again.
c. 1966
Alvin Karpis, of the Ma Barker gang, teaches Manson guitar.
21 Mar 1967
Released from prison, sent to San Francisco.
1968
Moves to Spahn Ranch.
1968
The Beatles release Helter Skelter.
August 9, 1969
About.com state that "Charles Manson sent four of members of his hippie cult "Family" to murder the people inside the home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. Among those murdered were actress Sharon Tate (director Roman Polanski's wife), Sharon's unborn child, Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Earl Parent. The following night, Manson's followers brutally killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home."
12 Oct 1969
Police capture Charles Manson at Barker Ranch, inside Death Valley National Park. Charlie is arrested for arson, after burning a maintenance vehicle blocking his favorite dune buggy route. One of his followers, Susan Atkins, is arrested the following day and spills the beans about the Tate/LaBianca murderers. Manson has not left prison since.
6 Nov 1969
Manson Family member Susan Atkins tells her cellmate that Steve McQueen, Richard Burton, Tom Jones, and Frank Sinatra are on their "death list."
27 Nov 1969
Court appointed attorney Ronald Hughes, handling the Charles Manson case, disappears on a camping trip to Sespe Hot Springs in Northern California, accompanied by two Manson followers. His decomposed body is identified by dental x-rays five months later.
1 Mar 1970
Charles Manson releases his guitar folk album Lie: The Love & Terror Cult in order to finance his legal defense. The record consists of songs recorded in Van Nuys, California in 1968.
19 Jan 1971
The Beatles song "Helter Skelter" is played during the Charles Manson court trial.
1972
Death penalty abolished in California. Sentence commuted to life imprisonment (with possibility of parole.)
5 Sep 1975
Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme almost assassinates President Gerald Ford with a .45 automatic in Sacramento, California. But Fromme is tackled by a Secret Service agent before she can remember to rack a round into the firing chamber.
13 Jun 1981
Charles Manson interviewed at Vacaville Prison by television host Tom Snyder.
