133 "And they said, probably not": Melcher was less kind in his mother's biography, writing: "The cops said that five or six of the Manson girls claimed that Manson had set me up with them and that I was the father of their babies. I finally got so fed up with the cops over these sex inquiries that I got out the pictures of the most recent ladies in my life, real beauties all of them, and I said, "Listen, when I've got beauties like these to get in bed with, why would I want to screw any of Manson's clap-ridden, unwashed dogs?" (A. E. Hotchner, Doris Day [New York: Bantam, 1976], 247.
Sheesh.
My notes for the song, section of a book, or book club meeting.
Chapter 2: "In California, Everyone Has a Tan". I just liked the subsection title
pg. 79: "I suggested that I didn't believe him (Charles Talcot. Drug dealer. Ties to military intelligence) about (Corrine) Calvet (actress). "You are going to come to a horrible truth," he said. "Be nervous that you may have discovered the truth and you won't like it". Also Talcot same paragraph: "The community has looked at this as a settled thing until you started talking to us."
pg. 110: I had to look up what "Toscanini of Tedium" meant.
Chapter 7. pg. 229: "Even (William H. - LAPD officer and "helped with counterintelligence actions") Herrmann's ephemera captivated me. Cindy (Herrmann's daughter) had held on to a photo of dozens of men on an airplane, captioned, "'Bad guys leaving a bad spot having been bad."
pg. 255 "My lawyer is coming soon...and he's bringing me a dish of vanilla ice cream. Vanilla ice cream really blows my mind" - Susan Atkins (convicted murderer).
- In April 2002, she (Atkins) told a Los Angeles Times reporter of her work to discourage teenagers from idolizing Manson and her hope of someday leaving prison to live in Laguna Beach, California. - Moxley, R. Scott (13 June 2008). "Charles Manson Gal Could Get Laguna Beach Wish". OC Weekly.
Chapter 9: pg. 283: "One other strange fact that bears mentioning, even though I've never known what to make of it. Six months after the Ukiah trial, one of the judges, Robert Winslow, lost his reelection bid to the bench - in no small part, according to one insider, because of his leniency with the Manson girls. Winslow resurfaced in Los Angeles. Remarkably, he'd become the attorney for Doris Day and her son, Terry Melcher. It was Winslow who prepped Melcher for his appearances at the Tate-LaBianca trial, and Winslow who accompanied him in the courtyard as he testified, incorrectly, about the number of times he'd met Manson. Ironically, Winslow was helping Melcher speak out against the same group he'd helped the year before. Neither he nor Melcher ever made a public comment about the sheer unlikeliness of it all.
Chapter 13. pg 425: "In 2012, I became one of the dozen authors Penguin sued for failing to deliver manuscripts."
- Kellogg, Carolyn (September 28, 2012). "Penguin lawsuit would force authors to repay book advances". LA Times. https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2012-sep-28-la-jc-penguin-suit-authors-book-advances-20120926-story.html
- Neary, Lynn (October 9, 2012). "Publisher Sues Authors Who Didn't Produce Books. Heard on Morning Edition". NPR. https://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162551944/publisher-sues-authors-who-dont-produce-manuscripts
Epilogue pg 429: "In my twenty years of reporting on this case, people have asked me all the time: What do you think really happened? I hate that question more than anything" I assume that is a Tom O'Neill quote or it could have come from mind of Dan Piepenbring.
back to the Notes section... for something I planned on skipping I did highlight a lot of the passages.
Notes:
pg. 443 - Chapter 1, 18 Steven Parent. "At the top of the driveway they found Steven Parent: I uncovered ample evidence suggesting that Parent's relationship with William Garretson was significantly different than the one depicted at trial and in Helter Skelter, including the purpose of his visit to the guesthouse on August 8, 1969".
pg. 445 - Chapter 2, 53 William Garretson. "sound tests that supported Garretson: The police, nonetheless , were hardly convinced, as noted in the LAPD First Homicide Investigation Progress Report, DR 69-059-593 (p 29): "It is highly unlikely that Garretson was not aware of the screams, gunshots and other turmoil that would result from a multiple homicide such as it took place in his near proximity," Stephen Kay told me he believed Garretson had fled the guesthouse during the murders and hid in the hills above the house. In interviews with me and other reporters before his death in 2017, Garretson claimed that he'd recovered memories of the night of the murders after seeing a reenactment on television in the 1990s. He believed he'd been picked up by associates of the killers who were casing the house earlier that evening. He added that Barry Tarlow, the attorney who represented him at the time of his arrest, had said he'd been sent "by a friend," refusing to identify who that "friend" was. (Tarlow's office confirmed that he had been sent by a "friend," but insisted he wasn't paid and never learned the friend's identity.)
pg. 446 - Chapter 3, 57. "Denny's parking lot". I placed a sticky note next to Denny's parking lot. Will there be a Denny's in the future? Things go down in the parking lot.
pg. 446 - 65. I intend to look up the article "Exec Comes Full Circle After Descent into Despair" by Peter Bart (February 8, 1993). Variety. https://variety.com/1993/voices/columns/exec-comes-full-circle-after-descent-into-despair-1117859405/
pg. 451 - still Chapter 3, 100. "she pursued a romance with Jay Sebring: Carole Wilson, LAPD interview, #66, by Gilmore, August 15, 1969, which includes: "Miss Wilson states she slept with Sebring at his home off and on for the past two years." No judging, sex positive here. The 60's man.
pg. 455 - Chapter 4 "The holes in Helter Skelter", 133. See first note.
pg. 455, 136. "... The second arrest, according to Melcher's first police interview (LAPD Interview, #231, by Patchett, Nov. 31 [sic], 1969), occurred on his and Jakobson's third visit to the Spahn Ranch. LAPD detective Frank Patchett wrote, "It was on that visit that the three were stopped by LA Country sheriffs and Jakobson was arrested for a ticket. Melcher bailed him out." It seemed curious to me that there was actually a sheriff's officer at the Spahn Ranch who arrested Jakobson during his and Melcher's "final" visit to Manson in May 1969.
pg. 456. Chapter 4, 145. "he had at least one accomplice: Gleason timeline; the applicable entry reads: 7-26-69: Dave Ewing knocks on front door of Gary Hinman's home, Susan Atkins answers door carrying candle, said Hinman in Colorado. (He was being tortured at the time.) Creepy. Is this the 60's, too? People answering the door holding a candle? Yikes.
pg. 473, Chapter 8, 261. "...A decade later, in Carl Bernstein's groundbreaking exposé , "The CIA and the Media" (Rolling Stone, Oct 20, 1977), Bernstein reported that "CBS was unquestionably the CIA's most valuable asset," adding, "over the years the network provided cover for CIA employees, including at least one well-known foreign correspondent and several stringers" (61).
pg. 474, 261 (still 261.) Book interested me. Well at least the author and title interested me. A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen.
pg. 493, Chapter 11 Mind Control, 369. "Deanyer had learned hypnosis in the navy: A FOIA to the FBI resulted in the release of forty-seven heavily redacted pages of a forty-nine-page file (FOIPA no. 0961945-000). The file confirmed that Deanyer, born Burnie William Smith Jr, on June 3, 1934, in Wheeling, West Virginia, learned hypnotism while stationed in Pearl Harbor with the U.S. Navy, between 1942 and 1946. After changing his name and opening the Deanyer School of Hypnotism in Honolulu, he was indicted in 1956 on charges of sex trafficking underage girls. At his trial, prosecutors presented evidence that he'd used hypnotism to induce female students at his school to become prostitutes. Several police officers testified that when they interviewed the victims they still "appeared to be in a trance and would say nothing [redacted] and refused to testify against him." Fascinating. FOIA: Freedom of Information Act. FOIPA: Freedom of Information/Privacy Act.
I'll go back and fix the html codes. With the new blogger template I am unable to save the edited links. The Boston Bruins play game 4 in eight hours. I wonder if anyone on the team is up? I wonder if anyone is still up from playing video games. Well if anyone is up I hope they are on the Bolts.
"There Is A Whole Lot Of Patrick Beverley Drama Surrounding The NBA Players Meeting." Greenberg, Dan. (August 28, 2020) Barstool Sports. There are moles everywhere.
Articles:
Williams, Alex (July 28, 2019). "Journalist Misses His Deadline on Manson Article. By 20 Years." The NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/style/charles-manson-book.html.
- "Williams: Any advice for other reporters who want to pick up the story where you left off? O'Neill: Just move on. Don’t make the same mistake I did."
