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Off Beat: Charlie Manson Manson 'Still a Danger'

Chales Manson, ca. 1969.

Charles Manson, one of the United States' most notorious mass murderers, has failed in his 11th bid to be freed.

California's parole board said that Manson, 72, "continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with".

Manson and his "family" were sentenced to death for the 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, the pregnant actress Sharon Tate - director Roman Polanski's wife - and four others. Manson believed the Beatles song Helter Skelter warned of a war between blacks and whites and hoped to spark such a conflict by killing whites in such a manner blacks would be blamed.

Manson, whose sentence was commuted to life in 1977, can interact with only 17 other inmates, including Senator Robert Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan.

posted by Fergie @ 5/24/2007 06:10:00 PM