The Manson Family was a cult led by Charles Manson that gained national attention in the late 1960s. Manson, a convicted criminal and failed musician, attracted a group of mostly young women and men to live with him on a ranch in California. Manson convinced his followers that he was a messiah figure, and that a race war was imminent. He believed that the war would be between black people and white people, and that he and his followers would emerge as the leaders of a new world order after the conflict. In August of 1969, Manson ordered several of his followers to commit a series of brutal murders in the Los Angeles area. The most famous of these was the murder of actress Sharon Tate and several of her friends in her home. Manson believed that these murders would spark the race war that he had predicted, and that his group would emerge as the new rulers of the world. The Manson Family members who committed the murders were eventually arrested and tried for their crimes. Manson himself was also arrested and tried, and was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to life in prison and died in 2017. One thing I would do to prevent myself getting caught up in a cult like this would be to simply move away as far as I possibly can to prevent them from finding me.
