There is a well established thread that goes like this. Government agencies in the late 1960's began cooperating on project to end the antiwar, leftist, and drug liberationist counterculture. The scale was enormous. The ultimate achievement which more than anything ended the anything-goes era was the Tate Murders. While Tex Watson may have held the gun, and some poor deluded women like Susan Atkins the knives after being programmed by Manson (himself trained in hypnosis and likely supplied with LSD by the CIA through programs such as CHAOS and MKULTRA) strings were being pulled from way back in Washington DC.
Like many boomers, I was a very impressionable 13 years old when the Tate Murders occurred. Just about that time I had been having my first failing episodes with girls. A friend of mine had been talking a lot about sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll (in fact, he introduced me to The Beatles with a cassette tape of The White Album in...1969.
After the Tate murders, things couldn't have been more different for me. Strangely coincident, my drug talking friend moved away in the summer of 1970 and I've only barely seen him since...he seems like a different person. I was anything but interested in drugs (perhaps not in tune with much of the times) during High School. It was a ivy league college interviewer who after listening to my straight-laced monolog walked away telling me "You will use drugs in college and will think very differently." He was right. But if it hadn't been for the Sharon Tate murders (and, well if my friend--himself related to drug using hollywood liberals--hadn't suddenly moved away--possibly from fear of further Tate Murders) my first use of drugs and thinking differently might have started in 1971 instead of 1974. For other such impressionables as myself, those hinge points may have never happened--in wake of the Tate Murders.
Because of my life not far from Hollywood (in Woodland Hills, en route from Spahn Ranch to Cielo Vista Drive, btw) I might have been more impacted than most. But many have seen and reasoned the same things...the Tate Murders were planned as or resulted from the plan to end the 1960's counterculture. And they had much of the intended effect.
Here's a resource on these ideas, which doesn't quite endorse them.
Like many boomers, I was a very impressionable 13 years old when the Tate Murders occurred. Just about that time I had been having my first failing episodes with girls. A friend of mine had been talking a lot about sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll (in fact, he introduced me to The Beatles with a cassette tape of The White Album in...1969.
After the Tate murders, things couldn't have been more different for me. Strangely coincident, my drug talking friend moved away in the summer of 1970 and I've only barely seen him since...he seems like a different person. I was anything but interested in drugs (perhaps not in tune with much of the times) during High School. It was a ivy league college interviewer who after listening to my straight-laced monolog walked away telling me "You will use drugs in college and will think very differently." He was right. But if it hadn't been for the Sharon Tate murders (and, well if my friend--himself related to drug using hollywood liberals--hadn't suddenly moved away--possibly from fear of further Tate Murders) my first use of drugs and thinking differently might have started in 1971 instead of 1974. For other such impressionables as myself, those hinge points may have never happened--in wake of the Tate Murders.
Because of my life not far from Hollywood (in Woodland Hills, en route from Spahn Ranch to Cielo Vista Drive, btw) I might have been more impacted than most. But many have seen and reasoned the same things...the Tate Murders were planned as or resulted from the plan to end the 1960's counterculture. And they had much of the intended effect.
Here's a resource on these ideas, which doesn't quite endorse them.
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