Meanwhile, Charles Manson and his co-defendants, the ragged bunch of hippies who had worshipped him and still did, tried their best to disrupt proceedings, to put her off her stride. Every now and then, Manson, himself, would look hard at her across the courtroom, threat oozing from every pore, and draw his finger across his throat in a slitting gesture. There were shouts of ‘You’re killing us!’ from Susan Atkins. Kasabian coolly responded, disgust in her voice, ‘I am not killing you. You have killed yourselves!’ On another occasion, Manson suddenly held up a newspaper to the jury. Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares its headline shouted. President Richard Nixon had made some comments about the proceedings to members of the press. Manson wanted to create a mistrial, but the judge was having none of it, in spite of the best efforts of Manson’s legal team. The defence tactics were simply to discredit Kasabian’s testimony. They focused on her LSD use and her shambolic lifestyle.
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