Three days before he ran away from Boy's Town, Charles Manson poses in a suit and tie. (1947)

Charles Manson, 34, arrives at the Inyo County Courthouse December 3rd for a preliminary hearing on
charges of arson and receiving stolen goods. The leader of a quasi-religious hippie group and four
of his followers have been indicted for the August 9th murders of actress Sharon Tate and four
other persons. (December 3, 1969).

Charles Manson arrives at Inyo County Courthouse in Independence, California, for a preliminary hearing
 on charges of arson and receiving stolen goods. He is alleged to be the leader of the "Manson Family,"
a group whose members are suspected in the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others.
(December 3, 1969)

Cameramen film the scene as Charles Manson is brought into the Los Angeles city jail under suspicion of
having masterminded the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969. (December 9, 1969)

This 1969 file photo shows Charles Manson being escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges
in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case.

Charles Manson, accused leader of a hippie cult charged with the Tate-LaBianca murders, is heavily guarded
as he leaves the Hall of Justice following arraignment December 11th. He is shown being taken to a police
van for removal to a jail cell and peering through the barred windows of the police van. Bearded, short
of stature, he is wearing a fringed buckskin outfit. (December 11, 1969)

Charles Manson, accused leader of a hippie cult charged with the Tate-LaBianca murders, is heavily guarded
as he leaves the Hall of Justice following arraignment December 11th. He is shown being taken to a police
van for removal to a jail cell and peering through the barred windows of the police van. Bearded, short
 of stature, he is wearing a fringed buckskin outfit. (December 11, 1969)

Charles Manson, accused leader of a hippie cult charged with the Tate-LaBianca murders, is heavily guarded
as he leaves the Hall of Justice following arraignment. The 35-year-old Manson wore a fringed buckskin
 jacket and trousers and a full beard and shoulder length hair. Manson deferred making a plea.
(December 11, 1969)

Charles Manson, accused leader of a hippie cult charges. The bearded, 35-year old Manson is shown in the
custody of Los Angeles police officers. Some frames show him peering through the window of a Hall of Justice
detention room. Photographers try through locked gates to get pictures of Manson. (December 11, 1969)

Charles Manson enters Los Angeles county court in the Sharon Tate murder case, where he is acting
as his own attorney. Manson is charged with seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy.
(January 27, 1970)