1993 THROWBACK: "Charles Manson RAW INTERVIEW With Diane Sawyer"

ABC News gets this week’s award for the story you really didn’t know you needed to hear more about. “The Manson Women: Inside the Murders“ delivers the accounts of Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel of how they and other members of their love-in went about killing seven people in California 25 years ago. (No re-enactments; just the camera moving threateningly to spooky sounds.) Charles Manson himself, hairy and running to fat, with a swastika decorating the bridge of his nose, is also heard from. He is plainly impressed with himself and has the nerve to address Diane Sawyer as “woman.“ Ms. Sawyer, who presides over this official opening of “Turning Point,“ the fourth ABC prime-time news magazine, gives an explanation of sorts for a show whose main attraction is its stab-by-stab description of the killings. She cautions that children are now playing Manson’s music: “He has a following.“ An alternative explanation for “The Mans