Sharon Marie TateFair Use 17 USC 1701
Excerpt from the Foreword
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"Each page of Bugliosi’s book1 was worse than the page before. I was able to fill in some blanks to the whole story depicted in the television movie, and was at least getting a view of the bigger picture. Along with these impressions, I noticed there was still scant information about Sharon Tate as a person after completing my comparative analysis between Bugliosi's book, the television movie, and a book written by one of the murderers. Sure, there was some basic data presented in Bugliosi's book such as retracing some of Sharon’s steps prior to the murder and some rather vague, overgeneralized information as to her personality. As time went by there was news about releasing Sharon’s murderers from prison which was not an entirely unexpected development. However, it caused alarm about the rate of decline going on within our justice system. I sensed that something had to be done about it by the old guard that would come out of retirement, step in, crack some knuckles, and restore public confidence in the institution. For convicts, there were only four possibilities: 1) Wrongly convicted, 2) Activists making conscientious sacrifices, 3) Mental cases, or 4) Just plain evil persons."

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1 Bugliosi, V. & Gentry, C. (1974), Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, United States. ISBN: 978-0393322231.