Manson was a master at manipulation…he could discern (through generalizing) the hang-ups and short-comings of his listeners. He also used drugs like LSD, PCP, and peyote to preach his "message" to his followers while they were highly vulnerable to suggestion. As far as sex with males and females, he was once quoted…

Entirely too much fantasy on the part of early or pre-Manson family. In 1967, Manson was in San Francisco, not LA. He lived in the flop houses of Haight Ashbury, not Spahn Ranch. The beginnings of his family have been well-detailed in many books. The least NBC could have done was get the Manson background correct.…