60-year old Lynette Squeaky Fromme, member of the Charles Manson Family and would-be assassin of President Gerald Ford (in 1975), was released earlier today from the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell, a federal prison for women on the grounds of the former Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas* -- from which President John F. Kennedy flew by Air Force One to Love Field, Dallas, on November 22, 1963.
The whole Manson Family creeps me out. How about you?
Image above: "THE GIRL WHO ALMOST KILLED FORD," Time, September 15, 1975. The cover article itself characterizes her as "a social misfit, a psychological cripple," and "woman" (not the more sensational "girl"). Here's a link to the full article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917812,00.html
Today's Rune: Warrior.
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Huffington Post just ran a five part series by (Film Director) John Waters and his 35+ year relationship with Leslie Van Houten. Which is excerpted from a book of his soon to be published.
"Leslie Van Houten has served more time than any Nazi war criminal who was not sentenced to death at Nuremberg. She has served more time that any of the Nazi defendants who were sentenced to life in prison except for Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, who died in his fortieth year in prison (the exact amount of time Leslie has now served). She's served more time than Lt. William Calley who was originally sentenced to life in prison for the My Lai massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians. She has served longer than the surviving female member of the Baader Meinhoff Gang, a German terrorist group who murdered thirty-four people for left-wing "politics" and "revolution." This group began with the student protest movement in 1968, the same year Charles Manson was recruiting his hippy army of LSD soldiers. Brigitte Mahnhaupt was convicted of nine political murders and sentenced to five life sentences, but served just twenty-four years. Another member, Irmgard Molle, convicted of a 1972 bomb attack in Heidelberg that killed three American soldiers, was released in 1994 after serving twenty-four years. Courts ruled that "the decision for probation was reached based on the determination that no security risks exist today." And none of these radicals even said they were sorry!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/searchG/?cx=partner-pub-3264687723376607%3Atlvacw-gkue&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Susan+Atkins+John+Waters&sa.x=29&sa.y=10&sa=Search#1388
Personally the women do not creep me out anymore.
My, how much attention goes to the dysfunctional among us.
Heard John Waters on NPR talking about his friendship with Leslie Van Houten and why she should be released. She is obviously repentant and reformed. I have to say he was pretty convincing.
Anybody who blindly follows anybody creeps me out. They actually thought Manson, who was a white trash loser, was a god. The "Manson Girls" must have had really bad self-esteem to be influenced by this guy.
none of the manson family should be let out- i dont care how much repenting has gone on -
as for squeaks. they also let sarah jane moore out a few months ago - she also tried to assassinate ford.
fromme will probably end up as a host on fox news
What some people will do to make the cover of a magazine. There seems to be an increase in incarcerated females.
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