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
Manson Family Charles Watson soon joined the group at Spahn's ranch. Watson, a small-town Texan who had quit college and moved to California, met Manson at Dennis Wilson's house. Watson gave Wilson a ride while Wilson was hitchhiking after his car was wrecked. Spahn nicknamed Watson "Tex" because of his pronounced Texan drawl. In the first days of November 1968, Manson established the Family at alternative headquarters in Death Valley's environs, where they occupied two unused or little-used ranches, Myers and Barker. The former, to which the group had initially headed, was owned by the grandmother of a new woman (Catherine Gillies)