August 9th, 1969 - Sharon Tate Has A Close Call !

Since 8/9/05 Marks the 36th Anniversary of this Hollywood Tragedy, I would like to submit this in honor of the slain... :(

According to friends, Tate spent August 8, 1969, in a funk. She was two weeks away from her son's birth and was living in a house with Abigail Folger and Folger's boyfriend, Holocaust survivor Wojciech Frykowski, with whom Folger was reportedly growing tired. Tate was lonely, but eagerly awaiting the birth of her child. The sex of the child was unknown at that time. After napping in the late afternoon, Tate, Folger, Frykowski, along with Sebring all visited the El Coyote restaurant for a meal. After dining they returned home. Frykowski fell asleep on the couch, Folger retired to her room to read a book, and Sebring and Tate were in her room having a deep conversation.

At around 12:30, Tate, Jay Sebring, Folger, Frykowski, and a teenaged boy named Steven Parent were killed by members of Charles Manson's "cult", who took the five by surprise....

BUT WI....

- During the Dinner at EL COYOTE, Sharon suffers indigestion and begins to panic thinking she's getting labor pains. She gets rushed to the Hospital and avoids the fateful encounter...

Or.....

- Sebring & Tate decide to have their little talk outside and catch sight of Manson and his bunch. They rush inside, alert the others, and call the police. Manson and his followers are blown away whilst resisting arrest...

Or...

One of the neighbors catches sight of Manson & Co. and decides to call the LAPD who in turn either scare off or arrest the bunch after finding weapons on their person....

Considering this...

Would Sharon Tate decide to straighten her life out and move away from the Fast Hollywood Lifestyle or continue on as before ? ;)

Would her career take off even further due to the public sympathy for missing a horrible fate or simply fade with the times ?

And...

Since Manson & Co. would've avoided a Murder Charge, would they manage to gain parole or be denied ? :confused:
 
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During the Dinner at EL COYOTE, Sharon suffers indigestion and begins to panic thinking she's getting labor pains. She gets rushed to the Hospital and avoids the fateful encounter...

It depends on if the others go to the hospital that night with her to be there. If they do, maybe nobody dies except William Garretson, the caretaker, and Parent, depending on when he would have came.

- Sebring & Tate decide to have their little talk outside and catch sight of Manson and his bunch. They rush inside, alert the others, and call the police. Manson and his followers are blown away whilst resisting arrest...

For one, Manson wasn't with them, he sent four of his followers, "Tex" Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian, who didn't kill anyone. Secondly, if they were outside, they might have heard the shooting of Parent, looked down the road, and seen people coming with dark clothing. They would have rushed into the house, alerted Voytek and Abigail, and tried to call the police, but couldn't because Tex cut the lines. Then, they might have ran out a back door and got away, or hid somewhere effective in the house where they wouldn't come out until morning or when they deem it to be safe.

Or...

One of the neighbors catches sight of Manson & Co. and decides to call the LAPD who in turn either scare off or arrest the bunch after finding weapons on their person....

I think that the space between houses was fairly far, so I don't know if the neighbors would have seen anything, unless it was someone driving by the gate at 10050 Cielo. Although, someone almost caught them after the murders when they stopped near someone's house when they saw a hose. They washed themselves off, and the owners came out, and tried to ask them questions. The guy tried to take their keys, but Watson sped away.

Considering this...

Would Sharon Tate decide to straighten her life out and move away from the Fast Hollywood Lifestyle or continue on as before ? ;)

It depends on how everything would have happened. Although, she probably would have ended up divorcing Roman Polanski.

Would her career take off even further due to the public sympathy for missing a horrible fate or simply fade with the times ?

If she, in that first scenario, would have went to the hospital, and the others are still there and get killed, possibly. Someone on the "Official" Tate-Labianca murders blog said that Patricia Krenwinkel told her lawyer that they didn't think that Sharon was going to be there that night.

And...

Since Manson & Co. would've avoided a Murder Charge, would they manage to gain parole or be denied ? :confused:

It depends on what would have happened and who would have prosecuted it. But, in conclusion, these murders were not what people think. They were copycat crimes devised by the girls, not Manson, to get a brother, Bobby Beausoleil, out of jail. Bobby killed Gary Hinman, a dope dealer and his friend, because the Straight Satans put heat on him about mescaline that they claimed was bad. If that didn't happen, none of this even occurs.

 
I don't think Roman Polanksi will get busy with a minor and become a fugitive in this timline--I thought that took place relatively soon after Sharon Tate's death and might get butterflied.

What might his career look like if he can work in the US?
 
What little I have read, Manson wanted a big murder as some sort of diversion. So if Tate wasn't home, somebody else will be killed. I think Manson had some conflicts with black people, so have him going after black people sounds possible.

He would get caught sooner or later, the question is if he would get the same kind of attention if he killed black people. I would say yes, I think most attention was payed to him rather then the victims. He andd his cult was interesting/newsworth in it self.
 
Manson wasn't interested in wasting the Family's time on killing black people. He wanted to start a race war, yes, because he felt it was inevitable and wanted to speed the process along, but he was more interested in killing white people and making it look like a black person or persons had done it. His whole philosophy was based on playing off racialized politics and playing the two sides against each other.
 
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