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Charles Manson Dead at 83

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Charles Manson in 2014

Charles Manson, who hoped to start a race war through a convoluted plan he called “Helter Skelter,” has died in a California hospital. He was 83.

Manson had spent more than 50 years in prison after leading a cult to murder nine people, including actress Sharon Tate, in the late 1960s.

The seven-month trial of Manson and his followers was a hallmark of American culture, one of the first such trials to receive intense media coverage. Manson was sentenced to death, but the state of California suspended its use do the death penalty before he could be executed.