An incumbent senator dismisses Kai 's campaign on television and Kai resolves to orchestrate a “ night of a thousand Tates ” , referring to the infamous Tate murders . He tells the militiamen that on August 9 , 1969 , Charles Manson 's " family " , including Tex Watson , Susan Atkins , Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian , killed Sharon Tate and four of her friends at her home in Beverly Hills . Atkins stabbed Tate , who was eight months pregnant , multiple times and wrote the word “ pig ” in blood on the door to the house
Tate murders
Tate murders
Charles (Manson) in Charge