The Manson Family cult was led by Charles Manson. Following his release from prison in 1967, Manson moved to San Francisco. There the charismatic 32-year-old played the guitar and quickly established himself as a musician and a guru in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, which at the time was a center of American hippie culture. He soon gained a number of followers, primarily young women, later called the “Manson girls,” from middle-class backgrounds. They formed the core of the Manson Family.
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