Editing Manson Family (section)

===San Francisco followers===
Following his release from prison on March 22, 1967, [[Charles Manson]] moved to [[San Francisco]], where, with the help of a prison acquaintance, he moved into an apartment in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]. In prison, bank robber [[Alvin Karpis]] had taught Manson to play the [[steel guitar]].<ref name="bugliosi">Bugliosi, Vincent with Gentry, Curt. ''Helter Skelter&nbsp;— The True Story of the Manson Murders 25th Anniversary Edition'', W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. {{ISBN|0-393-08700-X}}, {{OCLC|15164618}}.</ref>{{Rp|137–146}}<ref name="emmons">Emmons, Nuel. ''Manson in His Own Words''. Grove Press, New York (1988); {{ISBN|0-8021-3024-0}}</ref><ref>Karpis, Alvin, with Robert Livesey. ''On the Rock: Twenty-five Years at Alcatraz'', 1980</ref> Living mostly by [[begging]], Manson soon became acquainted with [[Mary Brunner]], a 23-year-old graduate of the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], who was working as a library assistant at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and moved in with her. According to a second-hand account, Manson overcame Brunner's resistance to him bringing other women in to live with them. Before long, the pair were sharing Brunner's residence with eighteen other women.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|163–174}}

Manson established himself as a [[guru]] in San Francisco's [[Haight-Ashbury]] district, which during 1967's "[[Summer of Love]]" was emerging as the signature hippie locale. He may have borrowed some of his philosophy from the [[Process Church of the Final Judgement]], members of which believed [[Satan]] would become reconciled to [[Jesus]] and they would come together at the [[Eschatology|end of the world]] to judge humanity. Manson soon had the first of his groups of followers, most of them female;  they were later dubbed the "Manson Family" by Los Angeles prosecutor [[Vincent Bugliosi]] and the media.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|137–146}} Manson allegedly taught his followers that they were the [[reincarnation]] of the [[Early Christianity|original Christians]], and that [[the establishment]] could be characterized as the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]]. Sometime around 1967, he began using the alias "Charles Willis Manson."<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|315}}

Before the end of summer, Manson and some of his followers began traveling in an old [[school bus]] they had adapted, putting colored rugs and pillows in place of the many seats they had removed. They eventually settled in the [[Los Angeles]] areas of [[Topanga, California|Topanga Canyon]], [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] and [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice]].<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|163–174}}<ref name="Sanders">{{cite book|last=Sanders|first=Ed|author-link=Ed Sanders|date=2002|title=The Family|location=[[New York City]]|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|isbn=1-56025-396-7}}</ref>{{rp|13–20}}

In 1967, Brunner became pregnant by Manson. On April 15, 1968, she gave birth to their son, whom she named Valentine Michael, in a condemned house where they were living in Topanga Canyon. She was assisted by several of the young women from the Family. Like most members of the group, Brunner acquired a number of [[Pseudonym|aliases]] and nicknames, including: "Marioche", "Och", "Mother Mary", "Mary Manson", "Linda Dee Manson" and "Christine Marie Euchts."<ref name="bugliosi"/>{{rp|xv}}