Episode 46: Charles Manson – Charismatic Cult Leader or Criminal? [True Crime]

*** DISCLAIMER *** I do not own the rights of the YouTube recordings that have been incorporated with this Podcast episode.  Charles Manson was an  American cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious  murders in the late 1960s, resulting in his life imprisonment. He died  in 2017 after spending more than four decades in prison.  Charles Manson was an American criminal who spearheaded a murderous campaign with his followers, the Manson Family Cult, that would make him one of the most infamous figures in criminal history.Notorious for his connection to the brutal slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, Manson received the death penalty in  1971, a sentence that was commuted to life in prison the following year. Sources of YouTube recordings:  "Charles Manson's first prison Interview (60 Minutes Australia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbW0agGFv88  "Notorious cult leader Charles Manson dead at 83" (ABC News)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuIPPKskBMk