1. In 1963, while in prison Charles Manson encountered 2 books: Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land & L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics
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3. The Manson Family were devotees of Heinlein's Stranger (as were many others): created own rituals of water sharing.
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4. When Manson Family murders went down, one Family member (Lynette Fromme) made desperate attempts to call Heinlein, thinking he could help.
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5. In May 1969, at a film festival in Rio, Robert Heinlein met Sharon Tate, who was murdered by the family a few months later.
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6. My extended thoughts on Manson, Hubbard, Heinlein here: https://newrepublic.com/article/145906/charles-mansons-science-fiction-roots …
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well...those books and the Beatles White album
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He never read them. He even said in interviews he never read them. This is an urban myth that keeps getting passed around.
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There's pretty good evidence he did read them in part and the members of the family certainly did.
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Loved Stranger in a Strange Land when I first read it as a teen. In later years became increasingly skeptical if it wasn't just wish fulfillment for middle aged guys fantasizing about having orgies with
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