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)FD-350 (Rev, 7-16-63) - a & ‘Manson Sought Racial Conflict, State Contends BY JOHN KENDALL Times Staff Writer Cultist Charles Manson tried to start a race war with mass murder on two bloody nights last summer when his followers killed seven per- sons, the prosecution charged Fri- day in the Tate-La Bianca trial, Dep. Dist. Atty, Vincent T. Bugiio- ‘si offered the “bizarre’ motive for the savage killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in a 40-minute opening statement outlining the case. He also declared that: —The prosecution's chief witness, Linda Kasabian, 20, a petite, sandy- haired former ‘Manson "family" | member, saw three of the five mur- | ders committed at the Tate res- idence in Benedict Canyon. —Another Manson-directed mur- der—the cighth—was avoided the next night—when Leno and Rose- mary Ia Bianea were killed-—-ba- cause Mrs. Kasabian intentionally knocked on the wrong door in Ve- nice. After the opening statement, the jBtate called Miss Tate's father, Paul J. Tate, a goateed, mustachioed re-~ , tired Army colonel, as the first wit- —_—— ; _Tate | jeentibed pictures | | of bis daughter with | husband, producer Roman Polanski, and three of | Miss Tate's guests who | wore killed early last Aug.- coffee’ heiress Abigail . Folger, 26: Polish: playhoy ' Veityck Frykowski, a apd hair stylist Jay Se-" ! . . scribed living arrange- | 1 J hese © six-weel-old triacs "The fifth viclim_ag the I'\ate home, Steven Parent, | al} over the place," identi- tified through photos shown. his father, Wilfred EK. Parent, a construction | superintendent, the sc | cond witness. | _ Mrs. Winifred Chapman, the maid who ran from the Tate house screaming, "There's bodies and blood 1 all over the place," idesti- ; fied the residence and de- re ments. t Listen Impassively | Manson, an “X* scratched on his forehead- between his eyes, and three of his "girls" who are codefendants—Susan | Atkins, Patricia Krenwin-| _ kel and Leslie Van Houten! {- -listened impassively as _parents of tiva of the vie- tims testified. + Karlier, Manson had! smiled broadly and the! young women had léokect | | ,scorniul, giggled and! whispered among them- selves as Bugiliosi “spoke. | "The evidence at this , trial will show thdt these seven incredible murders were perhaps the, mosf. bi- zarre, savage nightmarish murders in the recorded , annals of crime,” he said. "Tam of course excluding wartime atrocities." Bugliosi asked: "What kind of a diaboli- contemplate or Bas lve of these mass murders? What kind of oni nd would _ want to have seven human beings brutally mur- dered?" "We expect the evidence at this trial to show that defendant Charles Manson awned thai diabolical roind., Charles Mauson, who, the evidence will show, at times has had the infinite humility, if you will, to cath himself Jesus | [ | t eal, satanic mind ar - on —— ee Chrigh." | pate apg The Sa: Fosecuter — fe | {Mount Clipping in Space Below) {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Los Angeles Times I-l Los Angeles, Calij pater 7/25/70 Edition: Final Author: John Kendall Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: (_] Being Investigated JUL2 7 1970 a1 108 aneies,