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Post by the Scribe on Sept 7, 2019 2:31:21 GMT -5
Just found this video regarding Hinman, in part. It starts at 22:00 and is chilling. Evidently Hinman had allowed several people that ended up as part of the Manson Family stay at his house off and on. This included one Manson Family member that killed him. This should bother people knowing that just next door was Linda Ronstadt who probably had seen many of them coming and going on a daily basis.
Charles Manson - the Helter Skelter Murders and the Murder of Gary Hinman - Part 1
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Post by Val on Sept 8, 2019 0:20:02 GMT -5
Michael Schulman of The New Yorker must have read this thread lol!!
Thanks Michael for more pieces to the puzzle.Evidently Linda's neighbor Gary Hinman was a music teacher who supposedly came into some inheritance that the Manson Family wanted. This whole episode still resonates today as from the below video I discovered Gary's murderer now has a connection to Lady Gaga whom Linda just mentioned in her New Yorker interview. Gary Hinman's Cousin Kay Martley Re: Manson Cult Killer Bobby Beausoleil Parole 2-1-19
While some people might be uncomfortable with the topic of Manson, imagine how those of us who lived in Topanga felt at the time. I was only 17 and I had friends that lived up Old Topanga and one near Linda. None of them wanted to stay at their own houses, they wanted to do sleep overs with friends in other parts of the canyon. The memories of actually having looked Manson in the eye on time have never left me, nor has the murder of Gary. If not for a job up at the stables, I might have gone out to that ranch but I worked weekends and had school weekdays.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 8, 2019 0:26:41 GMT -5
I can't even imagine. To most in the country it was just a horrible story but to the neighborhood it had to be a living nightmare. It doesn't leave you.
L.A. in the Time of Charles Manson (Full version)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2021 16:00:58 GMT -5
I wonder if Linda knew or had met Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son) who was a music promoter/musician and who Manson had a grudge with. Sharon Tate & Roman Polanski lived in the house, 10050 Cielo Drive, that Melcher used to live in. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_MelcherDoris Day spent a great deal of time and money clearing him and getting him detoxed, its why she went on TV, to help funding.
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Post by erik on Aug 22, 2021 18:10:26 GMT -5
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Linda has, so far as I know, never said that she ever met Terry Melcher, though, given how much people in the Los Angeles music scene of that time seemed to know one another, she may very well may have, and certainly she knew about him from his work with the Byrds.
Melcher and Dennis Wilson (of the Beach Boys) had the most direct contact with Manson, who saw himself (in a dangerously narcissistic way) as a musical genius. Melcher's principal mistake was in implying that he'd get "Charlie" some kind of a record deal, while in fact never intending to go through with it. Manson just got vengeful, with the infamous end results that shook L.A. to the core, including even Linda herself.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2021 11:07:20 GMT -5
I hope Linda was not in Wonderland when the drug gang murders took place in early 1980s, she was shaken by John Lennon's murder I think.
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Post by PoP80 on Aug 23, 2021 14:30:14 GMT -5
I hope Linda was not in Wonderland when the drug gang murders took place in early 1980s, she was shaken by John Lennon's murder I think. Absolutely right, heartbreaker. Linda was wary of fans to begin with, and she was extremely frightened after John Lennon was killed. She was living in NYC not far from the Dakota and doing Pirates on Broadway at that time. She would run into the stage door as quickly as possible to avoid the fans, understandably so.
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