Charles Manson (1934-2017) was an American cult leader who was found guilty of orchestrating a series of murders in Los Angeles in 1969. Manson's teachings merged new age hippie beliefs, Christianity and racism. He believed a race war was imminent, and that it should be accelerated in order to ensure that he and his cult could rule the world as the world's last white people. From his jail cell, Manson became a figure of inspiration and eventually a figurehead for neo-Nazi accelerationist groups.