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BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL MANUSCRIPT
THE MAN WHO PAVED THE WAY
FOR THE TATE-LaBIANCA MURDERS FINALLY SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
 
This description of the manuscript appeared on eBay for a few days in
January 2005, before it was removed. Beausolei has been working on this for
many years and he plans to release this chapter of his life, with Manson,
before he he publishes his autobiography.
"..I am writing another book, one that
tells the story about the events, circumstances, influences, etc. that led me
and others I know to prison. That story has not been told properly, and I
need to compartmentalize that part of my life before I write my
autobiography..."
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It should be noted that I am
obiding by ebay rules regarding the type of material being sold here. I
will not photogrpah any close-ups of the signed letters or photograph any
of the original artwork from Bobby.
I purchased this monumental Bobby Beausoleil
archive from a publsiher who all throughout his life was communicating from
prison with him in the hopes to publish a NEVER BEFORE biography of his
life with the Manson family. There is a semi completed manuscript that is
raedy to go to an editor for publishing a book.
The wife of the publisher sold me this
archive after her husband died a year ago. I retain all the rights to this
materialbut will pass on those rights to the successful winner. Included
are 100's of handwritten and typed letters signed by Bobby to the
publisher. There are 4 original color erotic pieces of artwork from Bobby
from prison. There are many actual court transcripts in binders. There is
the manuscript that was wriiten about Bobby and many writings which include
interviews with him from prision.
There are 100's of ORIGINAL photographs of
the Manson family that Bobby photographed with his own handwritten notes on
the back to identify who is in the pictures.There are some books written
about Manson that are included too. Also included is another handwritten
letter from one of the famous female family murderer. So to recap: This is
the first serious archive ever to be sold that relates to Bobby Beausoleil
and his involvement with the Manson family. If one were to buy this
archive it could be sold off individually or have a book written ready to
go.
I WILL ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS and email you
any close-ups including the original artwork.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
THE MAN WHO PAVED THE WAY
FOR THE TATE-LaBIANCA MURDERS FINALLY SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
It was July 25th, 1969, and the merciless
summer heat beat down on the dusty northwestern reaches of Los Angeles.
When Bobby Beausoleil, a slim, handsome 21-year-old musician, hit the
Pacific Highway and coastal stretch of beach he was tempted to stop for a
swim. But Beausoleil had more important business. His destination late this
afternoon was the rustic hippie enclave embedded in Topanga Canyon just
south of Malibu, the home of Gary Hinman.
Beausoleil had spent the previous evening
with his friend Charlie Manson at Manson's desert spread, the Spahn Ranch.
It was at the ranch that Beausoleil claims he delivered 1000 tabs of Hinman's
home-manufactured mescaline to Manson's buddy, Danny DeCarlo, who also
served as club treasurer for the motorcycle gang, the Straight Satans.
Several hours later, according to Beausoleil, the bikers reported back that
the substance was actually strychnine and demanded their money returned, pronto.
Beausoleil decided to confront Hinman and
retrieve his money the next day. While preparing to leave, two of Manson*s
groupie girlfriends asked Beausoleil if they could come along for the ride
because "they liked Gary Hinman." Their names were Mary Brunner
and Susan "Sadie" Atkins. The man Beausoleil planned to confront,
Gary Hinman, was a kind of hippie renaissance figure in the ‘60s, a Ph.D.
candidate in Sociology at U.C.L.A., a political activist, Zen Buddhist
devotee, a musician and a piano teacher...and a drug dealer with a
mescaline factory tucked away in his basement.
Assuming that Hinman would see the folly of
a drug burn with a biker club, Beausoleil did not anticipate much
resistance. on July 31st, Gary Hinman was found dead in his Topanga Canyon
home. He had been stabbed twice in the heart and badly slashed across the
left side of his face. His house had been ransacked and both of his cars
were missing. scrawled on the wall in Hinman*s blood was the macabre
epithet, "Political Piggy."
The police, with no leads in the case, were
resigned to tagging the crime just another unsolved hippie weirdo murder in
Los Angeles. on August 5th, the California Highway Patrol found Beausoleil
napping in the rear of Hinman*s Fiat station wagon near San Luis Obispo.
Beausoleil told the police that the car had broken down while he was
driving to San Francisco. Beausoleil didn*t have a driver*s license— only
some false ID and a sheath knife attached to his belt.
It was not long before Robert Kenneth
Beausoleil was booked for the murder of Gary Hinman. Within three days of
Beausoleil*s arrest, all the occupants of the Sharon Tate and La Bianca
homes were brutally, senselessly slaughtered. Though blood writing on the
walls was a common factor at all three murder sites ("Pig" on
the Tate wall and "Death to the Pigs" on the La Bianca
refrigerator), investigators failed to link up the obvious. According to
Beausoleil, this came as something of a shock to the Manson group who had
hoped that the authorities would assume the same killer responsible for all
three homicidal sprees, and then release Beausoleil; being in jail during
the Tate-La Bianca blood orgies, he was obviously not the Hinman killer.
Such was the lunatic logic of the Manson family.
Beausoleil*s first trial in November, 1969
ended in a hung jury. chances are he would have been acquitted had the
police not picked up the erstwhile Danny DeCarlo who had a rap sheet as
long as a roll of paper towels. DeCarlo offered to turn state*s evidence
against Beausoleil in exchange for immunity on some dozen charges (from
dope dealing to gun smuggling and car theft).
Decarlo arrived at the Beausoleil trial
after both sides had already rested. Against the ravings of the defense,
the court permitted the testimony of DeCarlo who fingered not only
Beausoleil as the Hinman killer but also a man whose name had never been
heard during the trial, Charlie Manson. It was an extremely inauspicious
day for Beausoleil. Beausoleil*s second trial came during March, 1970,
following a five-month media blitz on the Manson family. It was not a
healthy time to be known as a friend of Charlie Manson. The prosecution
asked for the death penalty and got it with Beausoleil*s conviction for 1st
degree murder. Knowing how close he had been to an acquittal, Beausoleil
was bitter in his closing remarks: "You can*t judge me. There is no
possible way to feel any remorse," he declared before feebly quoting
Bob Dylan at his conclusion, "Only God can judge me and God is on my
side."
During more than ten years, Beausoleil has
proclaimed his innocence in the murder of Gary Hinman. However, in the
summer of 1980 he granted this reporter the following interview at Deuel
vocational Institute, commonly known as Tracy Prison. For the first time,
Beausoleil admitted his guilt in the murder and related what he claims were
the actual events, motives and relationships within the Manson family.
Bobby Beausoleil has now been in jail for almost 12 years. He escaped from
death row after 26 months when California voters repealed the death penalty
(it was reinstated a few years later and automatically his sentence was
commuted to life with an indeterminate sentence).
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