re: #20 William Lewis

Ah. Never mind a story when making Peckinpah look like a pacifist will do.

The Tate/LaBianca murders are a seminal event in Los Angeles history; from what I’ve read (it happened five days after I was born), it also represented a rather brutal end to what we popularly think of as “the ’60s”. Basically, the end of an era, particularly, the hippie era. Charlie and his nutty followers became the hippies America loved to hate and seems like it was one of the events that helped set the stage for the conservative backlash that began in the mid-1970s.