Christopher Jones (actor) Winters, Hal Holbrook, and a young Richard Pryor. Later that same year, Jones appeared with Yvette Mimieux in the hit sex comedy "Three in the Attic". Jones also became friends with actress Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski. He later recounted that he had an affair with Tate while she was pregnant with Polanski's child, and that he had a premonition of her death (she was murdered by members of the Manson family). After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark ("The Looking Glass War" and "Brief Season", both 1969), Jones was cast by director David Lean in "Ryan's
Charles Manson a popular urban legend, Manson auditioned unsuccessfully for the Monkees in late 1965; this is refuted by the fact that Manson was still incarcerated at McNeil Island at that time. In June 1966, Manson was sent for the second time to Terminal Island in preparation for early release. By the time of his release day on March 21, 1967, he had spent more than half of his 32 years in prisons and other institutions. This was mainly because he had broken federal laws. Federal sentences were, and remain, much more severe than state sentences for many of the same offenses.