Kill The Pigs by The Looking Glass

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In Episode 1, we noted a widely held view about the MacDonald
murders: namely, that MacDonald’s story is too implausible to be
taken seriously. In Episode 2, we ask why. Why does Jeffrey
MacDonald’s account of the murders strike so many people as simply
not believable?

One answer is that these people have a background understanding of
another set of murders that happened six months earlier: namely,
the Manson murders. And that understanding is that the Manson
murders were a singular, unrepeatable, one-of-a-kind occurrence ––
not the kind of thing that happens twice in six months, three
thousand miles apart.

On this understanding of the Manson murders, the MacDonald murders
become self-explanatory. Jeffrey MacDonald clearly killed his own
family and then reached for the lowest hanging fruit in the garden
of American popular culture: he tried to peddle the idea that the
Mansons –– or people like them –– had murdered his family. Hence
the talk of pigs, acid, and the word written in blood.

The question for the historian, then, is obvious: how singular were
the Manson murders? Were they, in reality, the product of one
madman’s dark vision, or did they emerge from countercultural
currents that ran deeper than Charles Manson –– that had, indeed,
brought Manson himself screaming to the surface of the popular
American imagination?

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