Charles Manson led a quasi-commune that arose in universities in the late 1960s.
 The Manson Family gained national notoriety after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others in her home on August 8 and 9, 1969, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the next day
 In his book Love Needs Care about his time at the HAFMC, David Smith claims that Manson attempted to reprogram their minds to "submit totally to his will" through the use of "LSD and  unconventional sexual practices" that would turn his followers into "empty vessels that would accept anything he poured

