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turns my stomach to see atkins and the others with their babies, and sharon never had a chance to hold hers...

What's kinda wild is that back then (1969), Spahn Ranch seemed like a long ways away. From the LA city center to the Ranch is just 30 miles. Back then, there was only a few thousand people around. Today, it's a few billion people.

You can tell they're all riddled with the clap and crabs. Their bits nits probably all had nametags even

i can smell them all from here

Wow thank you..I didn't know that there was that many photos taken of the raids.

Great collection of photos! Thanks for posting 🙂

Thank you for sharing your photos I thought I had seen them all from the right but I guess I haven't thanked you

Several of the photos are the Back Ranch house where my cousin and I bought sears roebuck tires/ammo/lids etc... in 1969. Charley bought stuff on the parents charge cards then resold for cash. I was friendly with Cappy Gillis. My cousin Rod Beebe was working nights at the post office and got busted moving weed.in early 1968. We lived at Indian Acres development across the street,kinda. It was a development built in 1965. The Family wasn't the best crooks. Manson was a 20 watt bulb that burned bright. I'm 72 now.

Tex Watsons goofy mugshot was NOT from the raid he was in death valley at barkers/meyer hiding out w/ juanita wildebush. The mug was his belladonna root excursion into town.

Regarding the mug shots, "In their eyes, there's something lacking."

All these years and California still has more nuts than any other state.

My area. Nostalgic for a time I never lived

They effectively ended the 1960s.

Probably the last time susan atkins sees her child. There were still hippies in the 70s i knowcause i liv e d thru it i. My teenage years.

Watson was never arrested in either of those raids. His pic is from an earlier arrest, before the murders.

Why this is so interesting

No shower on the ranch apparently 😕

Why is Leslie's last name shown in the mugshot as "Owens"?

Man they all looked rough. I dont think they cared at all about their hygiene. GROSS.

People were so naive back then, and the harsh reality is, they still are...

I’m so sorry for those babies

Call me crazy, but ruthanne morehouse was very attractive

How can people live in such a mess ?

Paul Watkins was also had David Cassidy looks

Imagine the cops....it mustve been like alices restaurant....we gotta go arrest some dirty hippies today

nice

Charley is like damn, party is over

Quite the clan.

Is that the same Police Lady later seen in photographs escorting the defendants through hallways during the trial?

Tarantino had the living room spot on!

I wish it were explained when the various raids occured at barker and spahn ranch. at barker ranch when they were holed up who was at spahn ranch?

Leslie Van Houton may be looking at this right now as a free citizen

3:01 Charlieeeee 😄 3:06 Catherine Gillies

Free love gone wrong

😮

I've just stumbled onto this after recently reading the Paul Watkins book. Where does one acquire photos like that? They're really interesting. Thanks for sharing these.

What a dump they lived in.wernt all the kids put in foster care? Never seen these pics before.

I thought I'd seen all the photos! At first I thought it was nothing new, but I was wrong. Amazing collection! What other rare photos do you have? Thank you so much for sharing these rare, important images of history!

01:29 That looks like Susan Atkins ("Sadie") second from right

The arrest is not at the ranch , arresting pics took place in Death Valley,CA where they were hiding out. dune toys were found at Death Valley as well.

Black and white photos are little creepy .

Back then people were a chip off the old block. Mistakes. They make great pets

No running water at the ranch I suspect.

Historic photographs of the first rainbow gathering

I say this with pure honesty from my heart, no sarcasm........I hope the animals and four legs were well fed and taken care of. The animals that walk on two feet can suffer for all eternity, I have no sympathy or concern for them.

If they lived on the east coast, they could’ve went to Woodstock that day.

I was 16 when this gruesomness happened. It shook me to my core. I have hated hippies ever since.

These people, if they are even alive, are in their 70’s. Wander how their lives have been? Some interesting stories I’m sure! 👍👍👍

The manson girls were skanky

who is the guy on the left next to dicarlo and charlie

What happened to the rest of them?

Who is the guy 2nd from left at 3:00? Thx

What happened to the blind guy after the ranch?

Who is pictured at 4:14 ? I thought perhaps it was Mary Brunner, but she is pictured at 4:31 .

Talk about a ragtag bunch of misfits.

3:05 😍😍

3:54 name please?

trying to be your own god... recipe for success

THERE MY FRIENDS😁

And today young democrats are the same, destroy those with different ideas

1:07 was that photo taken inside spahn's house ? don't see any other building that would've had windows like that .

Wonder why Cali is weird? Here you go folks!!!!

Some of those girls weren't bad looking. I can see how a guy would have been attracted to the place. Sex, drugs, freedom to do whatever. These pictures were great. Ive never seen most of them

Ruth Ann 😍

You better believe some of those cops are tough. I’m sure more than a few were World War II or Korean veterans.

at the end charles looks like lil pump

Moldy ceilings

George did you give permission for all these hippies to be here 😂

Can u imagine if only the cops would have known wat they really did a few weeks back from heir as they would have been really thrown onto the ground n treated like the low-down mongrels' that they had turned into.. like wat boggles the mind is how can someone go from love child flower person to out n out devil murdering's maniac pmsl eh.. 'well it tells me that they were not the loving people they portrayed they were right from the beginning bc u cant go from being a really nice caring n loving person to a blood curding maniac murderer especially not in a few months lol it just doesn't happen n ppl r not build like that as its ether one or the other. period ! 'anyway great pictures mate eh as iv never seen them ether bro.

I bet it smelled awful there.

Criminals!

Where's NAMBLA WATSON?

Idk.... the sex and drugs weren't worth what you would've had to put up with

i want to know tex’s backstory and how he even ended up at the ranch

Nice. So this was for auto theft right

Most of them did not kill and eventually became ordinary law abiding citizens. There was nothing remarkable about most of them. Most "respectable' people have quite a wide circle of friends and associates and these often include criminals or people on the fringe of the criminal world.

WOW😮

What is the difference between Spahn and Barker ranch ?

damn they were serious about the Dune Buggies. They were really about to go all Mad Max on the blacks.

who is the guy next to dicarlo in the thumbnail ?

Is this raid the one where little Charlie hid from the police in a cabinet? Sure chuck, they’ll never find you there!

Summer of Love Turned on it's head🛸👽👽👽👽 The Power of Drugs 🎶

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD MAN

Just think,state could've saved themselves and the taxpayers alot of time n money,had they just gone in shooting!

Bunch of kids

Pero que sea een castellano esapñol para entenderle mejor

At the time of this raid by the CHP law enforcement had absolutely no idea who had committed the infamous murders. It would seem at the time that these rascals were the least likely.

So this was pre or post murders? I know there was an arrest for stolen cars etc. And off topic, other than mammons alleged son and Mary brunners do we know what became of the other children. I know Bugliosi claimed they they were given lsd and sexually assaulted

machete? 2:19

It was the 60's, but the guys who worked in the parole offices weren't getting any free love. Then Charlie happened. Begin with that fact, and everything else falls into place as comprehensible.

The seeds of the homeless epidemic

1:36 i think its Leslie van houten

Not a very Groovy time

What was their deal exactly . . . as in how did they get so f*ck'd up?

charlie's prophesy of helter skelter seems to be coming true. maybe charlie is jesus.

Oooh, as real as the moon landing or OJ trial...

Ouisch looks like a good lay.

Manson's mug shot says 5'7", which he was. The famous shot of him against the ruler showing 5'1" is incorrect, because if you project the rest of the ruler to the ground, it start at least at negative 6 inches. So he was the low end of average, and he slouched over, so people tended to notice he was slightly short, but not 5'1" which would be abnormally short. Wikipedia of course lies about this.

I am surprised at the condition of these people. In interviews, I hear them talk about “pretty girls”…that’s what enticed others to join…all the “pretty girls”. I’m looking at unwashed hair, facial breakouts, filthy clothing. I am not seeing what I thought I would see in their faces.