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Sandra "Sandy" Collins Good is a US-American political activist, ecologist and supporter of the Manson Family who tried to enforce her goals by all means.
Charles Manson gave her the nickname "Blue".
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Sandra Good was born on Febuary 20th, 1944. She is the youngest of three sisters. Her older sisters are Deborah Good and Virginia Good. Virginia Good was a famous hippie activist in her region.
Sandra Good comes from a well-off banker's family. But this family was at odds in the inside. Her parents were divorced shortly after the Second World War (maybe 1946). The father was quiet and career oriented her mother was described as affectatious, who didn't care mush about her children. Therefore the education lay in the handy of the Latin-American nanny. In Sandy's case there has to be added that she was often ill as a child and almost died of a lung damage when she was a baby. Her mother was called back while leaving the hospital when Sandy finally survived.
Later when Sandra Good was politically active and stated in interviews she now was even capable of killing her own mother, her mother commented in a newspaper interview in the 1970s: "Why did she have to pull through?" (and meant her daughters struggle as a baby).
alleged school book photos of Sandra Good,
but they probably show another student
but they probably show another student
Sandra Good visited Point Loma High School like her sister Virginia Good and was a member of the Student Opinion Club with Margaret Avery there. Here interests at school were Spanish, drama and music. She was viewed as quite a good student what may have been connected to the pressure of her home.
In an interview in the 1990s she once said that she resented her social environment of these times and was annoyed that her mother expected a doctor's degree of her. Goods academic interests were biology and English. In the 1960s she got into the political conflicts of that time and changed her universities several times. It's not yet clear whether she did a bachelor's degree or not. Some biographers say no, the movie "Manson" of 1973 says yes.
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| Sandra Good (above, 1st row left; www.eviliz.com) |
The turning point in her life was in the 60s when Sandra Good met the political movements and ... Charles Manson.
It's said that she only got to know by friends about his commune but then she caught fire. In 1968 she flew in a private plane from San Francisco to Topango and then visited the Commune. She felt a warm welcome there and from then on she was one of Mansons most zealotic supporters. With time the commune was called the "Manson Family".
The Family was at first driving around in a black school bus and then joined the house(hold) of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. Later they went to the Spahn Movie Ranch and try to discover the surrounding territory directing to Death Valley.
As soon as Mai 1968 she got into trouble with police because of the possession of marihuana. On August 8th '68 she was caught together with Mary Brunner because of credit card fraud.
But this arrest together with the fact that she was heavily pregnant were positive to her "criminal record": She was not drawn into (involved) the Tate-LaBianca-Murders!
It seems she was sympathizing with these murders (→ interviews). But there is nothing known about her participation or connivance in additional murders.
On 16 September Sandra Good gave birth to her son Ivan. Because of the polygamous sex life in the family, she did not know who the father was. Charles Manson, her former husband / husband Joel Pugh (whom she disowned as husband in some interviews), and Bobby Beausoleil. Sandra Good asked Joel Pugh to recognize paternity. He was a biologist and her acquaintance with the families and from the academic pages. Sandra Good had also brought him to the family, but he remained skeptical. Pugh, however, decided to "find himself" on a long voyage through South America. Members of the Manson Family may have been present, including Bruce Davis. On 1 December 1969, Pugh's corpse was found in a London hotel. His throat was cut twofold, but the police decided to commit suicide. Later a murder theory was developed, according to which the manson-follower Bruce Davis was the murderer. Davis visited Britain around the time to get in touch with Scientology offices there, and possibly to work with Joel Pugh to settle an inheritance.
Sandra Good and Joel Pugh in late 1967
When the actions of the Manson Family became extinct at the end of 1969, because Susan Atkins had imprisoned the killings in jail, a murder weapon was found, and the investigators talked with the rocker about the manners of the family, a gigantic process against Charles Manson and his murderers from. The Manson Family was now no longer active only on their ranches, but acted as process influencers.
Sandra Good was one of the supporters who regularly held vigils before the process building and began singing. When Manson cut his hair out of protest and burned an X in the forehead, Good followed him as many followers.
Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good with their son Ivan at a trial
But the Manson supporters were not left with symbolic protests. In August 1971, they tried, together with AB members, to attack a gun shop in Hawthorne. This coup failed, however, because the seller could trigger a silent alarm and because the arriving police appeared as a shooter. Many mansonites were injured, but no one was killed. Supposedly, the captured weapons should be used to take a jumbo jet to free Manson. If the state does not yield, a hostage should be shot at every time interval.
Sandra Good was not on the scene but was arrested in October 1971 for helping Kenneth Como escape the Hall of Justice.
During the Manson trial, Charles Manson, Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Leslie van Houten, and Patricia Krenwinkel were lucky enough to win their death sentences in 1972 by a decision of the California Supreme Court Prison sentences. Bruce Davis and Clem Grogan were also sentenced to long prison sentences for their involvement in other murders.
N. Pitman, L. Fromme and S. Good in the movie "Manson"
Sandra Good remained faithful to the Manson Family. She gave some interviews that underlined this.Good collaborated with Lynette Fromme. They were also called "Blue" and "Red". Other active followers were Nancy Pitman, Catherine Gillies, Catherine Share a.On the whole, however, changes in the group were noticeable. Manson concluded a pact with the Aryan Brotherhood for his protection in prison. At the same time the women functioned freely as messengers and slept with the free AB supporters. This, however, gave rise to another question of power.Manson had to protect his influence against that of the AB members.Sandra Good lived in this time with AB member Steve Bekins in Oregon. In July, after a supermarket attack by Bekins, Sandra Good was arrested for hiding him. Bekins tried to come to Sandra Good. When the police searched the area and also met the apartment, Good ran naked through the apartment to distract the police.Sandra Good then went to San Francisco, then had to face the allegations of hiding a wanted criminals in Oregon and moved to Sacramento after her acquittal.
Digression Steve Bekins:
Steve Bekins comes from a family that founded the famous trucking company Bekins Van Lines in the USA in 1891. This company initially helped with removals with carriages, but got into truck transport early on (1903). The family expanded first nationally and then internationally and was only acquired by another company, Wheaton World Wide Moving in 2012. The company worked very closely with the US military over time. Tensions ran high in the Bekins family. Steve Bekins (born ca. 1939) is a son of Bruce Bekins and two years younger than his brother Marshall. Although Bekins went to good schools, he rebelled against his family at an early age, committing petty crimes and using heroin at the age of 17. Unfortunately his mother had died of cancer when he was 9 years old so she was no longer able to mediate. His father then married her nurse. Due to the constant conflicts, his father first put him in homes, where he learned what hate meant and met the later killer Gary Gilmore (!) and then in the army. From this he was dishonorably released at the age of 18 for stealing a car. Eventually, Bekins was expelled from the family and disinherited because of his continued defiance. But he remained stubborn and embarked on the "career" of a professional criminal, which he promoted with family perfection. From then on, Bekins wanted to live the life of an outcast and follow criminal ideals, but over time realized that these were fallacious ideals. While in prison, he also made contact with the Aryan Brotherhood. In the early 1970s, while he was in prison, he learned about the crimes of the Manson Family through the media and acquaintances. When Ronald Reagan released many inmates in 1972 to ease the burden on the state budget in California, Bekins took the opportunity to meet Charles Manson's supporters. He had just served 6 years for armed robbery, was looking for something new and had heard about the women from a friend. Bekins became enthusiastic about the Family philosophy and began dating Sandra Good. He also seemed more educated than the other AB criminals the Manson Family was dealing with at the time, and seemed quite athletic. However, since he continued to finance himself with burglaries and other criminal activities, the police soon became aware of him again and arrested him. Before the trial, he tried one more time to flee with Good, but was caught again. In prison, Bekin's situation worsened. When accomplice Randall Darrien testified against him, he wanted revenge on him in October 1973 and stabbed him with an accomplice (Paul Akins) in Darrien's cell. The prisoner was presumed dead but narrowly survived the attack. This led to a significant extension of his imprisonment. Sandra Good visited Bekins several times in detention but found that he was mentally hardened by the infighting within the prison. His brother Marshall also visited him in prison. Bekins remained incarcerated into the late 1980s. Journalists wrote that he witnessed the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall from behind bars. After he was released, he went silly again and robbed a bank in December 1990. The escape in a Plymouth was soon stopped when Bekins crashed into a motorcycle (the driver survived) and revealed he had forgotten how to drive getaway vehicles in prison. Since the perpetrator wore a mask, it was not entirely clear whether it was Bekins himself or an accomplice. However, the judge and jury found Bekin's guilt to be proven. He has now been sentenced to imprisonment until 2018. He himself admitted in an interview that he misjudged his belief in the honor of crooks and that although he initially blamed his father for his drifting away, decades later he could no longer do it. But even in prison, Bekins was considered a special criminal who was articulate and "principled" and did not betray any accomplices. Bekin's further whereabouts are then no longer precisely documented. It's not even clear if he's still alive. Some people who write letters to prisoners in custody have confirmed contact with him. Claims have been circulating online that he will be released in 2015 (www.mansonblog.com).
The activists in Sacramento
During the above events, the Manson followers changed their ideological orientation. That applied to a. for the good and the pious. Manson founded the "Order of the Rainbow", which now became more ecologically focused and moved from a polygamous to an almost ascetic lifestyle. Some women named themselves after rainbow colors and wore brightly colored nun's robes. The German tabloid "Neue Revue" was once present at such actions and processions in nun's robes, where the women also visited historical graves.
The problem, however, was that members kept falling away from the group or the group split up. Public attention also waned. In addition to the "Order of the Rainbow", the "International People's Court of Retribution" was founded at that time, probably inspired by political groups of the time such as the Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization) or the Symbionese Liberation Army. By its own definition, the IPCR was a combat organization with many supporters directed against polluters. At its core, however, only Sandra Good, Lynette Fromme, their closest circle and a few AB supporters belonged to this combat group. In 1974, Manson then initiated the "Ecokill" campaign. The active core of the group still consisted of Sandra "Blue" Good and Lynette "Red" Fromme. Sometimes Nancy Pitman joined the group. Some women, notably Mary Brunner and Catherine Share, now sympathized more with Kenneth Como than with Charles Manson. Fromme and Good walked through Sacramento in hooded robes to announce "ecokill." At the same time, they visited industrial sites and threatened violence if the pollution was not stopped. The threatening letters they sent to executives and the threatening phone calls they made were particularly problematic from a legal point of view. They disguised their voices and spoke e.g. B. with a German accent. They were assisted in this by some women newly recruited into the Family and possibly by some AB supporters. The Nixon administration also received a threatening letter, mentioning a cleaver attack and drawing comparisons to the Tate LaBianca attacks and My Lai. The media echo was still low. Observers suspect that this prompted Lynette Fromme to assassinate President Ford. She charged the President in September 1975 with a partially loaded gun, but was overpowered. Allegedly, she just wanted to talk to the President about the redwood trees. The police then investigated in Fromme's environment and searched her apartment. Sandra Good was also targeted, but her complicity could not be proven. For the security services, the attack on Ford was a disaster because several left and right-wing groups were targeted beforehand, but not the IPCR. Good gave a famous CBC radio interview after the assassination and had a heated argument with host Barbara Frum. She announced a "wave of assassins" against environmental polluters. She did not remain passive for long and in the same month sent letters to a list of managers from business and politics. However, she made the mistake of handing it over to a friend, who then informed the FBI.
In December 1975, Sandra Good was indicted with new Manson supporter Susan Murphy for the threatening letters in Sacramento, found guilty in March 1976 and sentenced in April. She received a prison sentence of 15 years, of which she then had to serve almost 10.
Sandra Good made another acquaintance in the 1970s - in addition to those with Manson and AB members, who were to become influential: the one with James Mason. James Mason (not the actor!) was an American Nazi who, in addition to Hitler, also sympathized with Lincoln Rockwell. When he heard about the Tate LaBiance murders, he became curious and wanted to see the family. As a right-wing extremist, he had little or nothing to do with hippies (i.e. "leftists"), but admired their decisive action against Hollywood, which he hated. Mason can also be seen as Sandra Good's companion in some photos. He also discussed his further political actions with Manson. Mason had previously founded several right-wing extremist groups and now conceived the Universal Order under Manson's influence. Although this organization was right-wing extremist, it was more revolutionary than conservative and had spiritual elements in its ideology. Her symbol, designed by Manson, included a swastika with a pair of scales (cf. Lady Justice symbol). These developments led from the 70s to the 80s and found e.g. T. during Sandy Good's incarceration.
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| Sandra Good and James Mason (a Nazi still active today, cf. Atomic Weapons/Atomwaffen Division) |
In December 1985, Good was released on parole. She herself was reluctant to leave prison. She was not allowed to reside in California during the probation period. However, immediately after the deadline, she moved to near the Corcoran State Prison.
Sandra Good, presumably after her release, with dedication (in blue!)
After her release, Sandra Good continued to work for environmental protection and worked with activist George Stimson for many years. She has also had many famous talk show appearances, including on the President's son, Ron Reagan. She also had some talk show appearances with Stimson. Both also supported Manson's group ATWA (Air Tree Water Animals). In January 1996 ATWA put online a homepage about their intentions. This went offline again a few years later. For a certain time, however, the ATWA site was later present again on the Internet. ATWA also has other virtual representative offices.
Sandra Good on The Ron Reagan Show
(the son of Ronald Reagan)
(the son of Ronald Reagan)
Sandra Good on The Bertice Berry Show
After the early '90s, Sandra Good stopped appearing on television. And the aforementioned website of hers contains hardly any new material. Occasionally, though, digital footage of her leaked out, giving us a rough idea of what she looked like afterwards. The recordings came to the public via the homepage of her friend George Stimson (www.gpsjr.com) and via various Manson blogs (e.g. www.eviliz.com/later: www.mansonblog.com and www.lsb3.com).
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| Sandra Good and George P. Stimson gardening |
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| Sandra Good doing housework around 2010 |
Sandra Good on a horseback ride in spring 2013 (source: www.gpsjr.com)
Source material on Sandra Good is plentiful but scattered due to the lack of large monographs. In addition to the relevant reports from the daily press, the press products include many reports from News magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel and others. before. Also of interest is an article by Paul Krassner about a visit he made to Sandra Good, Lynette Fromme and Nancy Pitman in the early 1970s, which is also mentioned by the author Jess Bravin. There are also many television and radio reports about Sandra Good, in which she often appeared herself. They either deal with her alone or in connection with the Manson Family. Since the spread of the WWW, there have also been many homepages (blogs, etc.) about the family, which also deal with them personally. Blogs that deal with the Manson Family then and now such. B. www.eviliz.com have also published photos of Sandra Good. Also an interesting resource is www.gpsjr.com by George Stimson, who she dated for some time. There are, of course, many other sites as well. In the book market, on the other hand, the search is more difficult. Unlike her friend Lynette Fromme, there are no biographies of Sandra Good that only deal with her. A lot of biographical information about Sandra Good is also preserved in Jess Bravin's Fromme biography "Squeaky". Bravin also mentions in this book the visit of Paul Krassner, known for his articles on Manson and his followers. More information about her and her family can be found in Gerard Jones' "Ginny Good," a biography of her sister, who was also active in the protest movements of the 1960s. Some information about them can also be found in monographs about Manson and about his family. You can also get a lot of information about Good from Paul Krassner, who used to visit her Other information is mostly collected from the Internet.
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