In Memory of Susan Denise Atkins-Whitehouse
Susan's 1967
In her works,
Susan tells us
how 1967 began for her;
"It was shortly after the first of the year in 1967.
The country was churning with discontent.
Race riots and antiwar protests were rampant.
In my discontent,
I was moving more and more away from liquor
and into drugs..."
In her works,
Susan tells us
how 1967 began for her;
"It was shortly after the first of the year in 1967.
The country was churning with discontent.
Race riots and antiwar protests were rampant.
In my discontent,
I was moving more and more away from liquor
and into drugs..."
Later, Susan tells us;
"My job was gone, but I was glad.
The plastic world was not for me.
The only people I'd found who seemed to
understand and welcome me, as me,
were those in Haight-Ashbury,
those of the new culture, the counter-culture.
They had found the world crooked and perverted
and had dropped out of it except for their protests
against the Vietnam War and pollution.
'Make love, not war', they shouted.
That sounded good to me and I found myself
more and more into the Haight,
more and more into the new culture,
the drug culture;
more and more into the new morality..."
"My job was gone, but I was glad.
The plastic world was not for me.
The only people I'd found who seemed to
understand and welcome me, as me,
were those in Haight-Ashbury,
those of the new culture, the counter-culture.
They had found the world crooked and perverted
and had dropped out of it except for their protests
against the Vietnam War and pollution.
'Make love, not war', they shouted.
That sounded good to me and I found myself
more and more into the Haight,
more and more into the new culture,
the drug culture;
more and more into the new morality..."
Susan was 19 in the Summer of 1967.
(All quotes are from
Child of Satan Child of God
by Susan Atkins
with Bob Slosser)
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