e into their minds bad thoughts and call it joking. Some lie and call it funny. I don't lie." Shades of Trump. In pursuit of information, I visited Warren Hinckle. He was my editor at Ramparts, and after that folded, at Scanlan's, which also folded, but he had been planning to publish an article on the Manson

magazine-writng class, Marilee Strong. The three of us circulated through the crowd. Standing in the middle of the intersection, Chronicle columnist Warren Hinckle was talking with a police official, and he beckoned me to join them. | gathered from their conversation that the cops were about to be released from