“Manson wasn’t even there when the Tate-LaBianca killings took place. So how do you convict somebody who wasn’t there? Well, you come up with this organizing principle that he convinced his followers that a race war was coming, and he was trying to make that race war happen. It was a brilliant legal theory, but it’s a false story.”

Joe Berlinger · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-05

Berlinger calls the race war prosecution theory brilliant but false, since Manson was not present at the Tate-LaBianca killings.