Charles Manson and His "Family" Go on Trial, 1971 - HISTORY

Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" (Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel) are escorted down the halls of a courthouse after receiving guilty verdicts on multiple counts of murder in one of the most shocking cases in history.

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