How did Charles Manson affect the world?

Answer 1

We can always hope it didn't give them ideas, or expectations to live up to, but it may have. Among killers, even serial killers which enjoy a certain celebrity status, Manson seems to be the "granddaddy" of them all. His crimes were so brutal and gory, that he was bound to attract attention.

It is a fact that killers correspond with each other in prison. Manson is no exception. He is enjoying his infamy. Go figure!

Answer 2

The justice system is as old as the United States is and it was well enough grown by the time Charles Manson made it to the justice system. He had nothing to add to the justice system, not change in any way.

Answer 3

Charles Manson and his crimes was the straw that broke the camel's back. The death of America's innocence, the death of free love. The Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco had turned sinister by August 1969. People can't live without rules and consequences for their actions. Manson taught society this like nobody else.

On an international level the world looked on in shock as Manson and his 'family' were arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. He was an embarassment for our country and a disgrace to mankind. We have never fully recovered. Manson gave way to Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, Jeffrey Dahmer, Gary Ridgeway and John Wayne Gacy and others like them, most with much higher body counts. Ridgeway confessed to over 60 murders in Washington state before DNA put him away for good.

It is probably true that we can no longer be shocked like we were when we first learned of Manson's exploites more than 40 years ago. Let's hope that we don't loose that completely, though. When horrible, brutal, senseless cruelty and death fail to cause raised eyebrows and indignation we are a lost people.

Answer 4

It was not so much as Manson himself but his trial and the strategy of the prosecution. Bugliosi proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Manson was just as guilty as the 'family' members that actually commited the murders.

Answer 5

Of course this is just my perspective on Mr Manson, I am 45 and had read Helter Skelter when I was in 8th grade and saw the movie and I've always had question as to why..My conclusion at this time is that It was Mr Manson thinking that there was war about to come in..The Black Panthers' were really really active at that time. They had and still were suffering from per suction from the community ..on some level at least ..some more extreme then others and it was coming to a head . Mr Manson was running the street's at the time and had an acquaintance who was A Black Panther member ..I think that his Acquaintance scared Mr Manson and set him off to the fact that the white race was about to be annihilated..

Because of the racial tension and the drug use, he created a plan to get the attention of the people ..Especially prevalent at the time was the division of the class's ..the Rich being hated by poor and the Rich playing oblivious to there fellow man , especially the hippies ..So he targeted who he thought was known well enough and was symbolic of lifestyle that he could not have .

In having his follower's perform his deed's , he had brought to the attention of the group consciousness ..a deeper attention to the perceived threat that he was believing to be ..So he could have stopped the race war between the black and white population ..who knows for certain

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Answer 6

He had everybody paranoid. And many people wanted to kill him.