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In the months leading up to the Tate/LaBianca murders, Charles Manson often spoke to the members of his "Family" about Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic war arising from racial tensions between blacks and whites. This "chimerical vision"—as it was termed by the court that heard Manson's appeal from his conviction for the killings〔(Decision in appeal by Charles Manson and others from conviction for Tate-LaBianca murders ), ''People v. Manson'', 61 Cal. App. 3d 102 (California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division One, August 13, 1976). Retrieved June 19, 2007. The court's characterization of Helter Skelter as a "chimerical vision" appears in the third paragraph from the end of the decision's section headed "The Conspiratorial Relationship."〕—involved reference to music of The Beatles (particularly songs from the album ''The Beatles'', also known as ''The White Album'') and to the New Testament's Book of Revelation.〔 Manson and his followers were convicted of the murders based on the prosecution's theory that they were part of a plan to trigger the Helter Skelter scenario. ==Background== Manson had been predicting racial war for some time before he used the term Helter Skelter.〔(Watson, Charles as told to Hoekstra, Ray, ''Will You Die for Me?'', Chapter 11 ) Watson website. Retrieved 28 April 2007.〕〔Bugliosi 1994, 244.〕 His first use of the term was at a gathering of the Family on New Year's Eve 1968. This took place at the Family's base at Myers Ranch, near California's Death Valley.〔〔Watkins, Paul, and Soledad, Guillermo, ''My Life with Charles Manson'', Chapter 12.〕 In its final form, which was reached by mid-February 1969,〔 the scenario had Manson as not only the war's ultimate beneficiary but its musical cause. He and the Family would create an album with songs whose messages concerning the war would be as subtle as those he had heard in songs of The Beatles.〔〔Bugliosi 1994, 241.〕 More than merely foretell the conflict, this would trigger it; for, in instructing "the young love,"〔Watkins, Ch. 11〕 America's white youth, to join the Family, it would draw the young, white female hippies out of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury.〔〔(Prosecution's closing argument. ) Page 30 of multi-page transcript, 2Violent.com. Retrieved 28 April 2007.〕〔Bugliosi 1994, 247.〕 Black men, thus deprived of the white women whom the political changes of the 1960s had made sexually available to them, would be without an outlet for their frustrations and would lash out in violent crimes against whites.〔〔(Prosecution's closing argument ) Page 28 of multi-page transcript, 2Violent.com. Retrieved 28 April 2007.〕 A resultant murderous rampage against blacks by frightened whites would then be exploited by militant blacks to provoke an internecine war of near-extermination between racist and non-racist whites over blacks' treatment. Then the militant blacks would arise to sneakily finish off the few whites they would know to have survived; indeed, they would kill off all non-blacks.〔(Prosecution's closing argument ) Page 6 of multi-page transcript, 2Violent.com. Retrieved 20 April 2007.〕〔(Testimony of Paul Watkins in the Charles Manson Trial ) University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Retrieved 28 April 2007.〕〔In (trial testimony ), Manson associate Paul Watkins indicated the militants would be "the Black Muslims." In his (autobiography ) (as told to Ray Hoekstra), Manson associate Tex Watson said Manson sometimes indicated the Black Muslims, sometimes the Black Panthers. On page 246 of the 1994 edition of Bugliosi and Gentry's ''Helter Skelter'' is a similar statement, apparently based on statements made to Bugliosi by Paul Watkins. In Chapter 10 of the Watkins autobiography, ''My Life with Charles Manson'' (written with Guillermo Soledad), Manson is quoted as follows: "The heavy dudes, though, are the () Muslims. I've seen those cats in jail. They sit back real stoic like and watch and stay cool, you know. But they'll be the ones who bring the shit down. Yeah, it's gonna come down hard... a full-on war." The statement predates Manson's formulation of Helter Skelter.〕 In this holocaust, the members of the enlarged Family would have little to fear; they would wait out the war in a secret city that was underneath Death Valley that they would reach through a hole in the ground. As the only actual remaining whites upon the race war's true conclusion, they would emerge from underground to rule the now-satisfied blacks, who, as the vision went, would be incapable of running the world. At that point, Manson "would scratch (black man's ) fuzzy head and kick him in the butt and tell him to go pick the cotton and go be a good nigger...."〔〔(Witness Paul Watkins, quoted in prosecution's closing argument ) 2Violent.com. Retrieved 16 April 2007.〕 The term ''Helter Skelter'' was from the Beatles song of that name, which referred to the British amusement-park ride of that name and was interpreted by Manson as concerned with the war.〔 The song was on the Beatles' White Album, first heard by Manson within a month or so of its November 1968 release:〔In an interview, Family member Tex Watson has indicated he and Manson first heard the White Album on December 1, 1968;() but this does not appear to match recollections in Watson's autobiography, in which, among other things, Watson seems to indicate he and Manson first heard the album on a Saturday (which December 1 was not).() In an autobiography of his own, Paul Watkins, another Family member, seemed to think Manson first heard the album near December's end. This is not the only chronological mismatch between the recollections of Watkins and Watson.〕 Former Manson follower Catherine Share, in a 2009 documentary called ''Manson'', for Cineflix Productions et al., claimed: :"When the Beatles' ''White Album'' came out, Charlie listened to it over and over and over and over again. He was quite certain that the Beatles had tapped in to his spirit, the truth — that everything ''was'' gonna come down and the black man ''was'' going to rise. It wasn't that Charlie listened to the ''White Album'' and started following what he thought the Beatles were saying. It was the other way around. He thought that the Beatles were talking about what he had been expounding for years. Every single song on the ''White Album'', he felt that they were singing about us. The song "Helter Skelter" — he was interpreting that to mean the blacks were gonna go up and the whites were gonna go down."〔(''Manson'' ) 2009 documentary by Cineflix Productions et al.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helter Skelter (Manson scenario)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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