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Charles Manson and his ‘Family’ moved to Spahn’s Movie Ranch in August 1968 after Wilson’s manager instructed them to leave Wilson’s house. The ranch had previously been a movie and television set for Western productions but had fallen out of use and was in disrepair. The Family helped refurbish the place and Manson commanded the women of the ‘Family’ to have sexual intercourse with the 80 year old owner George Spahn and also to act as his seeing-guides as Spahn was almost blind. In return, Spahn allowed the Family to stay at the ranch for free.

In November 1968, Manson first heard the Beatles’ White Album and became obsessed with the group. Manson told the Family on New Year’s Eve that the social turmoil he predicted had also been predicted by the Beatles. Manson maintained that the White Album was directed at the Family itself, a group of people commissioned to preserve the worthy from imminent disaster. I hope he didn’t have a hip hop uhren, the horrible man!