Charles Manson while serving time in prison.READ MORE: Danny Trejo: “The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ started a riot when I was in prison”In his newly released memoir Trejo, the actor confirmed that he met Manson in 1961, eight years before the Tate murders.
Trejo was 17 at the time.“While I was waiting to get shipped out to Tracy, there was a greasy, dirty, scrawny white boy in County,” the actor wrote.Trejor described Manson as “a slick little wimp.
He wasn’t a bully. Wasn’t a thug. But he had the jargon of prison and jail.”During their time serving together, Trejo says that Manson offered to lead him and other inmates through a form of meditation that he promised could get them high without using any drugs.
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