'I started visiting my mother in jail when I was just barely walking. When she got out she came and got me from a foster home and took me and put me in the boys' school. So I been military raised.'' -Charles Manson
''My grandfather told my grandmother that -- in World War One -- he was standing on a dead body and he seen a Bible in the guy's pocket. And he reached down and he got the Bible and he opened it up. And there was the man's picture with his wife and his kids, two, three children, you dig? And he had a chain with a cross on it. And he looked at the cross, and he looked down and he seen himself. He said, "What am I doing fighting my brother?" ... He came back and told my Grandmother, "I was fighting my brothers and I don't even know why." -Charles Manson
Grandson of Charles Milles Maddox, conductor of the B&O Railroad and Nancy Loraine Ingram Maddox, a devout Nazarene Christian, both from Morehead Kentucky. Manson was born during the hardest times of the Great Depression. His mother went to prison for strongarm robery when he was a child so much of his early years were spent with his Granparents in Kentucky and his Aunt and Uncle in West Virginia.
THE MANSON FAMILY
''I'm not surrendering my soul. I'm not surrendering my father. I'm not giving up my dad, you know. My dad drinks scotch whiskey and plays the bagpipes -- does what he wants to do, you know. I ain't gonna surrender that. And they tell me, "Your dad's dead." My dad never dies, man. There ain't no such thing as death.'' - Charles Manson
Manson is a Scottish surname of Viking origin, the anglicised version of the Scandinavian name Magnusson, meaning son of Magnus. Magnus was a common name among the Scandinavian aristocracy. Magnus, meaning "Great" in Latin (i.e. magnificent), gained wider currency during the Middle Ages, when various European nations, and their royal houses, introduced it upon being converted to Latin-speaking Catholic Christianity. This was especially the case with Scandinavian royalty and nobility. As a Scandinavian forename, it was inspired by the ruler of the Franks, Charlemagne whose Latin name was "Carolus Magnus" and understood in Old Norse as magn-hús, "house of might/power". The word ''magnus'' is rooted in the Proto-Indo-European "Mag" which is from where words such as magic, magi, magus, magnitude, magistrate etc. derive.
CLAN GUNN
''...Got Children in the darkness where the highlander rolls, got knights in the battles of the shadows of my soul...'' - Charles Manson
Manson's blood is Scottish and Irish, he is of the Clan Gunn a clan hailing from with northeastern Scotland, in the regions of Caithness, Sutherland and the Orkney Islands. The origins of Clan Gunn stretch over the sea to Norway, as the Clan Gunn themselves are descended from the legendary Sweyn Asleifsson, known as the 'Ultimate Viking' and the progenitor of the clan, his grandson Gunni, is the "namefather" of Clan Gunn. The clan is an armigerous clan, without a chief.
ON THE 11TH DAY OF THE 11TH MONTH
The President of the United States is supposedly the leader of us all. Well, you can't pick me for the leader of the family and then give Nixon immunity. He killed a lot more people than Charlie did.'' - Charles Manson
Charles Manson, who's ancestors and family members are on record as fighting in the American Revolution for Independence, the U.S. Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War was denied his Constitutional Right to defend himself in a court of law and subsequently given the death penalty for murders he did not commit and was never accused of committing. The death penalty in the state of California was overturned and Manson was sentenced to life with possibility of parole.
Charles Manson has been unjustly imprisoned for the last 40 years. Previous to his last release from prison on the Spring Equinox in 1967, Manson had already served 22 years locked behind bars since he set the schoolhouse on fire at 9 years old. He was raised by Veterans of World War I and World War II. At 13 he was placed in the Gibault school for boys, he continued to be placed in several institutions throughout the 1940's and early 1950's for burglary, car theft and escaping most of the institutions in which he was placed. Some of the places where Manson lived during these times were Natural Bridge Honor Camp , National Training School for Boys in Washington DC, Federal Reformatory, Petersburg Federal Reformatory, Chillicothe Federal Reformatory. Manson was raised primarily by retired veterens who worked in these institutions. President Nixon who declared Manson guilty "directly or indirectly'' was a lawyer and knew what he was doing was illegal.
CHARLES MANSON IS IN THE WORLD
Manson has served a total of over 62 years in prisons and institutions. More than any living U.S. citizen. He has spent his entire life with rebels, revolutionaries, veterans and warriors, judges and guards.
