Sharon Tate survives the Manson family attacks

If let’s say POD is Steve McQueen does join the group for dinner as he was supposed to in OTL. Still at the house when Tex, Van Houten and Atkins show up.
McQueen was a former marine and a guy who had some pretty heavy street fighting experience. These were a stoned hippie and two women. He could take them easily.
McQueen gets hurt but manages to overpower them. The other two men help him and also suffers slight injuries. Both Folger and Tate are unharmed.

How does this effect Hollywood? OTL, Manson murders had a big effect California and the US. They get butterflied away.
Guess Sharon Tate becomes a big actress.
Polanski’s career? Bigger than OTL?
 
Polanski probably (assuming the trauma of his wife and unborn child is what caused him to act like he did) goes on to a longer and more profitable career in Hollywood.
 
It doesn't get nearly as much attention as it did in real life. Manson might not even get charged, especially if he gets word of the failed home invasion and skips town before the police come to Spahn Ranch. Tex and the others do a spell in jail, and the home invasion becomes nothing more than a minor piece of trivia about McQueen.
 
Does hippie culture last longer? The Tate murders certainly hastened the end.

Polanski probably (assuming the trauma of his wife and unborn child is what caused him to act like he did) goes on to a longer and more profitable career in Hollywood.
Lots of his friends have said it played a role in him being willing to skirt the line.

Certainly it’s possible, he practices more self control if he is a father and husband in 1977 rather than a 44 year old bachelor.
 
Polanski probably (assuming the trauma of his wife and unborn child is what caused him to act like he did) goes on to a longer and more profitable career in Hollywood.

It’s unlikely that it was the trauma which caused it. In fact he would likely end up in a similar case anyway. Sexual abuse was rampant in Hollywood, and the judge was looking for someone to send a signal that times was changing, Polanski was deeply hated among much of the American population for Rosemary’s Baby, which was seen as a satanic movie. So Polanski had a target on his back and he was a vile man, so it was pretty much given that he would get into trouble.
 
Does hippie culture last longer? The Tate murders certainly hastened the end.

As folks have pointed out elsewhere, you still have organizations like the Symbionese Libertarian Army and the Weather Underground who will still likely do something that taints the counterculture’s public image.
 
It’s unlikely that it was the trauma which caused it. In fact he would likely end up in a similar case anyway. Sexual abuse was rampant in Hollywood, and the judge was looking for someone to send a signal that times was changing, Polanski was deeply hated among much of the American population for Rosemary’s Baby, which was seen as a satanic movie. So Polanski had a target on his back and he was a vile man, so it was pretty much given that he would get into trouble.
Never understood why Polanski didn’t try and appeal the matter, rather than running away. The level of judicial misconduct in this case was so high that it would have quickly been vacated.
Even his worst detractors concede that the judge was out of line.

While Polanski might have the propensity, a living Sharon Tate and Junior would supply enough butterflies that whatever’s happens would be very different than OTL.

Would’ve Tate become the big star people say she would have?
A wounded McQueen, end of his career?

As folks have pointed out elsewhere, you still have organizations like the Symbionese Libertarian Army and the Weather Underground who will still likely do something that taints the counterculture’s public image.
As someone born well after the era, I thought the Manson murders were uniquely shocking to people? It was killing for its own sake.
More so than yet another disaffected militant group.
 
Never understood why Polanski didn’t try and appeal the matter, rather than running away. The level of judicial misconduct in this case was so high that it would have quickly been vacated.
Even his worst detractors concede that the judge was out of line.

I suspect because he wasn’t fully aware of the American legal system. As for the judicial misconduct, yes technical the judge was out of line, but only because the system are so build in a manner, where a rich and famous guy should get away with anal raping a drugged 13 year old with slap on his wrist.
 
As far as I know, he never has admitted to rape. He accepts the underage sex charge, and has said it was consensual.
The law as it stood at the time did not recognise statutory rape, rather a separate illicit intercourse law. And the punishment for that was 1-4 years.
Doubtless his lawyers would have made him cognisant of the fact.
Which is why his running away was surprising.
 
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