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Coming Down Fast: The Manson Family Murders, 50 Years Later

Connecticut Public Radio | By Jonathan McNicol
Published August 29, 2019 at 1:00 PM EDT
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Damon Herriman as Charles Manson in Netflix's 'Mindhunter.'

Last year, there was a movie about Charles Manson. This year, there was another movie about Charles Manson. Charles Manson is a character in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and in the second season of David Fincher's Mindhunter.

The Manson Family murders were fifty years ago this summer, and Manson still seems to fascinate us and our popular culture.

This hour, we wonder why.

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Jonathan is a producer for ‘The Colin McEnroe Show.’ His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on Connecticut Public’s talk shows and news magazines. He’s as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. Jonathan can be reached at jmcnicol@ctpublic.org.
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