Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment
reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties was published by Little, Brown in the summer of 2019 (paperback in the summer of 2020).
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Tom, thank you for your incredible dedication to finding the “truth.” It seems you encountered a frustrating amound of people for whom truth was a secondary concern to their own agenda. I’m glad your work paid off in financial stablility and acclaim. Not many people could have that fortitude.
Thanks! Been soaking up this info like a sponge! This has been a P/T obsession for years since the mid 80s when I first became aware of the diff between the public story and the private reality that was lurking in the background.
have you heard about or explored the subject of the second manson album that was to be released by the record label SST? That was run by the band Black Flag while they were run out of los alimitos ca. I got to pick the brain of the bass player about this in the early 90s when he was at my house. I’ve always been fascinated by that bands obsession with CM and the guitarists cousin Raymond pettibones artwork which has an early simplicity and years of creepy manson dedicated designs. Not sure if there’s any meat there for your next book? But, it is a very relevant part of his story. As far as I know, the FBI shut the project down and all materials were seized. I do think someone else released the music which was smuggled out of prison later on. But that lable was the one who got the project done originally. And I think there story would be a good read for anyone who had the time to research it.
I read Helter Skelter in the 70’s and since then felt I had an understanding around The Manson Murders; now I’ve ready Chaos and I feel like, while I don’t know exactly what the true story is, I do know it isn’t the story I read in Helter Skelter. Thank You Tom O’Neill for an excellent, thoroughly researched and extremely thought provoking book.