Manson: the Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family

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Notable for beingness the identify, in those pre-internet times, where I offset saw the morgue photos. Terrible. Now they're in my caput forever.

December 01, 2008 Kim Garcia rated it liked information technology · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Manson fanatics

I have a copy of the original volume, published years agone.

Information technology's tough to read (as it doesn't menstruum well) just interesting if you are a Manson/Helter Skelter fanatic equally I am. Written from a sympathetic point of view, information technology elicits several new details from the Manson Family.

I have a copy of the original volume, published years ago.

It's tough to read (equally it doesn't menses well) merely interesting if y'all are a Manson/Helter Skelter fanatic equally I am. Written from a sympathetic bespeak of view, it elicits several new details from the Manson Family.

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Jun 29, 2012 Stacey Lewis rated it really liked it

Gilmore is a great writer and this book offers more insight on the Family. Not the same info from Helter Skelter, which I liked.

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John Gilmore was born in the Charity Ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital and was raised in Hollywood. His female parent had been a studio contract-player for MGM while his step-gramps worked as caput carpenter for RKO Pictures. Gilmore'southward parents separated when he was half dozen months old and he was subsequently raised by his grandmother. Gilmore's father became a Los Angeles Constabulary Section (LAPD) officer, and also wrote and acted on radio shows, a police public service (the shows featured promising movie starlets as well as established performers like Bonita Granville, Ann Rutherford, the "jungle girl" Aquanetta, Joan Davis, Hillary Brooke, Ann Jeffreys, Brenda Marshall and other players young John Gilmore became acquainted with. As a child role player, he appeared in a Gene Autry motion picture and bit parts at Republic Studios. He worked in LAPD safety films and did stints on radio. Eventually he appeared in commercial films. Actors Ida Lupino and John Hodiak were mentors to Gilmore, who worked in numerous telly shows and feature films at Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and Universal International studios. During the 1950s, through John Hodiak, Gilmore sustained an acquaintanceship with Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood, and then in New York, where Gilmore was involved with the Actors Studio, transcribing the lectures of Lee Strasberg into book form. Gilmore performed on stage and in live TV, wrote poesy and screenplays, directed 2 experimental plays, ane by Jean Genet. He wrote and directed a low-budget motion picture entitled "Expressions", later on inverse to "Dejection for Benny." The motion picture did not get general release but was shown independently. Gilmore eventually settled into a writing career; journalist, true law-breaking writer and novelist. He served as head of the writing programme at Antioch University and has taught and lectured at length.

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