Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

John M. Browning, American Gunmaker. Co-author, J. Browning

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The excerpts from the Beatles’ songs “Baby, You’re a Rich Man,” “Blackbird,” “Cry Baby Cry,” “Helter Skelter,” “I Will,” “Honey Pie,” “Revolution,” and “Sexy Sadie,” words and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, are copyright © 1968 Sony/ATV Tunes LLC. (Renewed) All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN37203. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. “The context surrounding these lyrics is strictly conjecture.”

Copyright © 1974 by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi

Afterword © 1994 by Vincent Bugliosi

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Bugliosi, Vincent.

Helter skelter: the true story of the Manson murders / Vincent Bugliosi, with Curt Gentry.—/with a new afterword by Vincent Bugliosi.

p. cm.

Simultaneously published in Canada.

1. Murder—California—Case studies. 2. Manson, Charles, 1934–.

I. Gentry, Curt, 1931–. II. Title.

HV6533.C2B83 1994

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