Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Helter Skelter (Record no. 22695)

020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 64978-64979
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 364.15230979493 Bug
Item number 9
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 364.15230979493 Bug
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bugliosi, Vencent
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Helter Skelter
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1968
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.

Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi." The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers…these elements make for a true crime classic. Helter Skelter is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of The New Republic, a "social document of rare importance."
50 pages of black-and-white photographs
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Charles Manson
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sharron Tate
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term True Crime
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Source of heading or term 1960s
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term string of murders
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Source of heading or term Manson Family
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Source of heading or term Cults
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term Los Angeles
Topical term or geographic name as entry element California
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type 300 - 399
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Barcode Date last seen
1   Arthur Johnson Memorial Library Arthur Johnson Memorial Library 25.49 364.15230979493 Bug 64979 2007-07-31
    Arthur Johnson Memorial Library Arthur Johnson Memorial Library 27.83 364.15230979493 Bug 112261 2023-09-18