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...by James Mason
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Just as one can't get a clear picture of the so-called "Holocaust" by glimpsing a picture of a pile of bodies, one can't understand the happenings of that summer of 1969 by looking at the events of one night.
Fewer people know of the Gary Hinman and Donald Shea killings than of the Tate killings but they form part of the picture equally as important as the rest.
Gary Hinman had been a student at U.C.L.A. with a Ph.D. in Sociology. (Those again with a National Socialist background recall what Commander Rockwell wrote about Sociology.) Hinman was a convert to a thing called Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and was also engaged at home in the manufacturing of synthetic mescaline. Hinman was also a homosexual. He had made the acquaintance of Manson and some of his associates and his home was known as a hide-out for various drop-outs and drug-users. The stories were that Hinman had been responsible for drug "burns", in the selling of bad drugs, and that he had the habit of making passes at male members of Manson's group. Hinman turned up dead and a number of Manson's people were arrested as suspects in his killing in July of 1969.
The theory has already been put forth that the Tate killings were originally designed to take heat away from those of Manson's people already being held by making it appear the real killers were still at large. "Political Piggy" was found written at Hinman's place and "Helter Skelter" was found at Cielo Drive. The choice of who and where to strike would have been obvious and would have been a matter of killing two birds with one stone, as it were.
Donald "Shorty" Shea had been a Hollywood stunt man as well as a ranch hand at the Spahn Ranch where Manson and his group called home part of the time, George Spahn had recently sold the ranch and the new owners enlisted Shea's help as a pimp to try and involve Manson with the law or otherwise aid in his removal from the ranch. Shea also happened to be married to a Black chorus girl. Shea too was reportedly killed though his body was never found.
The deaths of the LaBiancas which followed immediately after those of Tate & Co. were most likely intended as more of the same smokescreen tactic aimed at the police investigation.
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