My teacher had enough and turned off the VCR. The room was dead silent. For the previous three minutes, our 11th grade class had watched a scene from Helter Skelter, a film based on former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s (now largely discredited) account of the Manson Family murders.1 Actor Steve Railsback, portraying Charles

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