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Slaying Version: ‘ By WILLIAM FARR % Herald-Examiner Staff Writer, , - - Actress Sharon Tate and’ six others wete, miur- dered because Charles Manson, ‘‘basing his beliefs or the .Bible and the Beatles,”. thought the -slayings would trigger a race. war, Deputy Dist. Atty. Vincent T. Bugliosi charged today. In the prosecution’s opening statement; at the trial of Manson and three young women, at the Los Angeles County Hall of-Justice before Superior Court Judge Charles Older, Bugliosi said the. 35-year-old hippie cult leader derived his apocalyptic views about a blac . |versus white uprising fromthe Bible’s. Book of Reve- lation, and-from songs by the: famous English, group: Regarding, the motives behind the two. murder rampages last August, the prosecutor alleged: @. Besides Manson’s passion for violent death and ais exteme anti-establishment state of mind, the evid- ence at‘the trial will show ‘that there was a further mo- tive, which was almost’as bizarre as the. murders themselves. @ The evidence will show Manson’s fanatical. obs session with. ‘Helter Skelter,” a term he got from the Beatles. He was an avid follower of the Béatles and believed that they were speaking to him through the lyrics’ of their songs. @ Manson told his followers: that he found com- plete. support for his philosophies in the words: ‘sung, b the Beatles. @ Manson hated. black people, but he also hated, the white. establishment, whom he called ‘pigs.’ The word. ‘Pig’ was printed in blood on the outside of the front. door. of the Tate residence. @ The.words ‘Death to Pigs,’ ‘Helter Skelter,’ and fe were printed ' in. blood inside the. LaBianea rési-! lence. “The évidence will show that. one of Manson’s principal motives. for the Tate-La Bianca. murders: was to ignite ‘Helter Skelter,’”’ Bugliosi declared. “In! Mher words, start the black- white.revolution by mak- ing'it look’ like the black people.had. murdered. the five "Tate. victims and Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBiarca. “Manson, thougtit this. would cause the White ¢om- munity toturn against the black man, and. ultimatel lead toa civil, war . - which (he) foresaw the blac man winning:” The prosecutor said Manson envisioned that blac people, once they destroyed the white race and as- ‘suméd power,.would be unable to handle the reins: of power because of inexperience, Manson believed ing bla ould have “to turn over: the ‘rej white people who had escaped. ‘Helter Skelter, Le, gk oe