10/13/2006 | 27m 45s | Video has closed captioning.
Since its doors opened in 1926 its been the site for L.A.’s “Famous and Felonious.” Bugsy Siegle, Charles Manson, Robert Mitchum and Sirhan Sirhan have all spent time behind bars here. Join us as we get a tour of this now empty Hall of Justice.
Aired: 10/13/06
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Huell: HELLO EVERYBODY I'M HUELL HOWSER, AND HERE WE ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY HALL.
THIS IS ONE OF OUR CITY'S CULTURAL HISTORIC POLITICAL LANDMARKS.
IT'S JUST BEEN RESTORED.
BUT THE L.A. CITY HALL IS NOT WHAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO DO A STORY ON.
WE'RE GETTING READY TO GO ACROSS THE STREET TO ANOTHER BUILDING OVER HERE THAT DOES NOT GET NEARLY AS MUCH ATTENTION AS THE CITY HALL BUT A HISTORIC BUILDING AS WELL.
AND HERE TO TELL US ABOUT IT IS LEE TAILOR.
I JOINED THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN 1941, AND I WAS ASSIGNED TO THE JAIL UPSTAIRS.
Huell: NOW THE HALL OF JUSTICE WAS BUILT -- OPENED BACK IN 1925.
AND WHEN IT OPENED UP WHAT WAS IT BUILT TO BE?
WELL IT HOUSED THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, THE COURTS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, AND SHERIFF'S CUSTODY WERE LOCATED THERE.
Huell: THIS WAS A BIG DEAL WHEN IT OPENED UP BACK IN 1925.
IT WAS A BIG DEAL.
Huell: AND IT SERVED AS THE HEAD OF THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT UP UNTIL THE 70s.
94.
Huell: ALL THE WAY UP TO '94.
YES.
Huell: AND THE JAIL IS IN THERE.
IT WAS CLOSED IN 1994 AND IT'S BEEN SITTING THERE EMPTY EVERY SINCE AND HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THESE TWO VERY GREAT LOOKING GENTLEMEN, WEARING TIES.
I'M JOHN WITH THE CHIEF OF JUSTICE.
Huell: FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES.
AND I'M JONES WITH THE CITY OF SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
Huell: WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WANTING TO DO SINCE THE BUILDING CLOSED IN 1994.
THEY HAVE ALLOWED US TO GO INSIDE THE HALL OF JUSTICE AND YOU CAN COME FROM OUT OF RETIREMENT TO LEAD US INTO THIS TOUR AND GIVE US TO SOME OF THE DUSTY BUT VERY INTERESTING NOOKS AND CRANNYS OF THIS HALL OF JUSTICE.
THERE ARE MANY.
Huell: I ALREADY SIGNED MY LIFE AWAY WITH LIABILITY, SAYING THAT IF I FALL I'M NOT GOING TO SUE THE COUNTY.
THAT'S RIGHT.
Huell: AND WE'RE GETTING INSIDE TO GO INSIDE THE HALL OF JUSTICE.
LET'S GET A NICE SHOT OF IT RIGHT HERE.
BECAUSE IT IS A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER PEOPLE NOTICE IT VERY MUCH OR NOT.
BUT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.
AND NOT ONLY IS IT INTERESTING ARCHITECTURALLY IT'S FULL OF HISTORY.
Huell: OKAY, WE'RE INSIDE THE HALL OF JUSTICE AND LEE THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR RIGHT HERE.
THIS IS THE GRAND ENTRANCE HALL.
NOW IF WE HAD BEEN HERE IN 1994, THIS PLACE WOULD HAVE BEEN BUSTLING.
YES.
Huell: WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN DOING?
WELL THE DETECTIVE DIVISIONS WERE ALL HERE.
AND THE SHERIFF'S HEADQUARTERS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICES WERE HERE.
ALL THE CHIEFS WERE HERE.
THE MAJORITY OF THE CHIEFS WERE HERE.
AND THE JAIL WAS CLOSED IN 1994 BUT EVERYTHING ELSE.
Huell: SO IT WAS A FULL FUNCTIONING BUILDING.
YES.
Huell: AND WE'VE GOT THESE WONDERFUL PLAQUES, LOS ANGELES COUNTY EMPLOYEES WHO LEFT THEIR POST TO SERVE THEIR NATION TO WORLD WAR, MEANING WORLDWI AND YOU WERE TELLING ME SOMETHING ABOUT THESE HAND RAILS RIGHT HERE.
THE INMATES USED TO POLISH THESE DAILY.
Huell: SO SHE'S ARE SOLID BRASS RAILS, THAT COULD BE SHINY AGAIN?
ABSOLUTELY.
Huell: AND THESE ARE CHANDELIERS FROM 1925.
YES, THEY HAVE BEEN FOREVER.
THERE USED TO BE MATCHING LIGHTS.
Huell: BUT THESE WERE LEFT BEHIND AND LOOK AT THE WONDERFUL -- IS THIS MARBLE IN HERE?
YES, THIS IS ALL MARBLE.
Huell: WAIT A MINUTE I'M LOOKING IN THIS LITTLE ROOM.
ARE WE FREE TO WALK AROUND?
ANYWHERE YOU WANT.
Huell: OKAY, LOOK IN HERE CAMERON, THERE ARE TROPHIES STILL IN HERE.
THE WHOLE ROOM.
LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN HERE.
THE DESKS ARE STILL HERE.
THE PHONES ARE STILL HERE.
ALL THIS PAPERWORK, WHAT HAPPENED?
DID THE SERVE'S DEPARTMENT LITERALLY JUST WALK OUT IN 1994.
PRETTY MUCH.
THIS WAS INFORMATION BUREAU IN 1994.
THESE TROPHIES WERE ON DISPLAY HAVING BEEN WON.
Huell: WHY WOULDN'T THEY TAKE THEM WITH THEM?
SOMEBODY WON THESE.
THEY SHOULD BE IN A TROPHY CASE.
Huell: THEY HAD TO GET OUT AFTER THE NORTHRIDGE AEGT QUAKE, -- EARTHQUAKE SO THEY LEFT.
Huell: SO RIGHT AFTER THAT THEY WERE ORDERED OUT JUST IMMEDIATELY.
THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS.
Huell: BUT THEY COULD HAVE TAKEN SOME OF THEIR IMPORTANT.
THEY DID, THEY TOOK WHAT THEY FELT THEY HAD TO TAKE.
Huell: BUT THEY LEFT A LOT OF BEHIND.
LOOK AT THIS ROOM.
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL ROOM.
I WONDER WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE ALL CLEANED UP, IT WOULD LOOK GOOD?
WE HOPE SO.
Huell: YEAH, BECAUSE THAT'S ANOTHER PART OF THE STORY, THEREISGOINGTOBE A LIFE ONCE AGAIN, BUT WE'RE NOT READY TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US NEXT?
WE'RE GOING TO THE MORGUE AND SEE WHERE THAT IT ACTIVITY OCCURRED.
Huell: THE MORGUE WAS HERE?
YES, DOWNSTAIRS IN THE BASEMENT.
OH MY GOSH.
WAIT A MINUTE WHAT'S BACK IN HERE?
THAT'S WHERE THE UNDER SHERIFF WAS.
Huell: THE UNDER SHERIFF?
OUR DEPUTY CONFESSED TO CLAIM THIS LATER.
Huell: WHAT WAS IN HERE.
THE EXECUTIVE OFFICES FOR THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
Huell: 'n.
OH MY GOSH!
LOOK -- LOOK IN HERE.
Huell: THIS IS KIND OF EERIE AND STRANGE -- THERE IS A PHONE LINE ON HERE.
THERE IS AN ACTUALLY PHONE LIT.
HELLO!
IT'S FOR YOU.
[LAUGHTER] F. I'VE BEEN GONE A WHILE.
WE'RE GOING INSIDE .
OH ANY GOSH!
LOOK AT THIS.
NOW THIS LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY JUST WALKED OUT OF HERE.
YES.
Huell: WHO'S OFFICE WAS THIS?
THIS WAS JERRY HARPER'S OFFICE, ASSISTANT SHERIFF.
Huell: SO HE JUST WALKED OUT, LEFT ALL OF THESE BOOKS.
LEFT HIS DESK FULL OF HIS STUFF, LEFT HIS CHAIR.
THERE IS THE CALENDAR LOOK UP ON THE WALL.
DECEMBER 1993, JANUARY 1994 STILL ON THE CALENDAR.
YOU REMEMBER THE EARTHQUAKE WAS JANUARY 17th 1994, SO THAT'S WHY IT'S STILL THERE.
NOW YOU'RE TAKING US.
THIS IS WHERE THEY DID THEIR GRAPHIC ARTS.
Huell: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
THEY HAVE PICTURES, CERTIFICATES AND THE DIFFERENT PROE, -- APPRECIATIONS THING THEY WOULD DO.
Huell: THIS IS AN AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE OF DON JOHNSON.
THERE IS THE PHONE LINE STILL OPEN.
ART STAFF OPEN.
AND WHAT'S BACK IN HERE.
THIS IS WHERE THEY KEPT THEIR PAPERS.
IT GOES BACK THEN.
Huell: SO WE HAVE A WHOLE STACK OF CERTIFICATES JUST NOT FILLED IN.
YES.
Huell: AND PICTURES OF -- WOULD THIS HAVE BEEN LEE JUST SOMEBODY ONE OF THE UNDER SHERIFFS.
HE WAS AN AID TO THE CHIEF AT THE TIME.
Huell: YOU KNOW ALL OF THESE.
YES, BUT I CAN'T RECALL HIS NAME.
Huell: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
OH GOSH, WELL THAT'S VIRL, THAT'S JOHN KNOX.
IT MIGHT BE AL LA BOSS AND THAT'S SHERMAN BLOCK.
Huell: HE WAS SHERIFF FOR HOW MANY YEARS?
FROM 1982 UNTIL HE DIED IN 2000 -- 1999 OR 2000 I CAN'T RECALL.
Huell: THIS IS AMAZING THAT ALL OF THIS STUFF IS STILL HERE.
ISN'T THIS STUFF VALUABLE.
I GUESS IF THEY HAVE GOTTEN WITHOUT IT BY NOW, THEY DON'T NEED IT.
THERE IS A GAS MASK ON THE FLOOR.
Huell: THIS IS LIKE AN ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG WE'RE GOING ON.
YES IT IS.
Huell: DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS THIS STUFF HERE.
NO I DID.
Huell: NOW WE'RE WALKING THROUGH THIS BIG HUGE UNDER TUNNEL HERE, AND WE'VE COME HERE TO TALK ABOUT PRISONERS AND DEAD BODIES.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PRISONERS FIRST.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN HERE WITH THE PRISONERS.
WELL THE SHERIFF'S BUSES WOULD BE PARKED HERE AND WE WOULD LOAD THE PRISONERS TO GO TO THE OUTLINE COURTS.
Huell: SO THERE WOULD BE FULL SIZED BUS WITH THE ENGINES RUNNING TO LOAD PRISONERS TO TAKE THEM TO THE VARIOUS COURTS AROUND THE COUNTY.
YES.
Huell: AND THE PRISONERS THAT WOULD NOT GO BY BUS, WOULD GO WHAT WAY.
THERE IS A TUNNEL THAT GOES FROM HERE OVER TO THE CRIMINAL COURT'S BUILDING THROUGH HERE.
Huell: THIS IS A TUNNEL THAT GOES FROM THE HALL OF JUSTICE OVER TO THE CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING AND THEY WOULD WALK THROUGH THAT TO COURT.
YES.
Huell: NOW IT'S LOCKED UP NOW, AND WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE KEY THE THING IS STILL LOCKED UP.
IT ABSOLUTELY IS.
AND THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS THE KEYS.
Huell: BUT THE TUNNEL STILL RUNS.
YES, NOBODY USED THAT TUNNEL BECAUSE IT'S BLOCKED OFF ON BOTH SIDES, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER SERIES OF TUNNELS THAT THE PEDESTRIANS USE.
Huell: ARE THERE TUNNEL THAT GO FROM THESE BUILDINGS.
YES.
Huell: AND ARE THEY STILL USED.
EVERY DAY.
Huell: EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE.
EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE.
Huell: NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT BODIES NEXT.
BECAUSE THIS TUNNEL RIGHT HERE IS WHERE THE WAGONS WOULD COME WITH THE DEAD BODIES AND THEY WOULD DRIVE RIGHT IN HERE.
AND WE HAVE BEEN WALKING AROUND, THIS IS AN INSIDE STORY WE'VE BEEN TALKING AROUND FOR 30 MINUTES, AND TELL US ABOUT THE TABLE WE WERE LOOKING AT BUT WE COULDN'T FIND IT.
THERE WAS A HUGE TABLE THAT WAS MOUNDED ON THE CEMENT AND IT HAD A SCALE ON THE CEMENT, AND THEY WOULD TAKE THE BODIES OUT OF THE AMBULANCE OR CORONER'S VEHICLES AND PUT IT ON THE TABLE AND WEIGH THE BODY RIGHT AWAY.
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE CORONER.
THERE WERE BODIES COMING HERE ALL THE TIME.
YES.
Huell: AND WE KNOW -- WHEN DID THE CORONER'S OFFICE LEAVE.
I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 84 AND THEY WERE NOT HERE.
THEY LEFT IN THE EARLY 70s.
Huell: ALL RIGHT, HERE'S THE ROOM, ROOM 100.
AND THERE IS NOT MUCH LEFT HERE ANYMORE.
BUT WE DETERMINED BECAUSE OF ALL THE TILE THAT'S ON THE WALL AND ALL OF THE PIPES THAT ARE ALONGSIDE HERE, THIS IS KINDA WHERE THE MORGUE WAS.
YES IT WAS.
Huell: AND NOW IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO WERE BROUGHT TO THIS MORGUE.
BECAUSE ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST STARS.
YES IN 1962 MARILYN MONROE WAS BROUGHT HEREAFTER HER DEATH.
AND LEGEND HAD IT IN THE JAIL WHEN I CAME HERE IN 1971 THAT SHE HAD A QUITE A BIT OF VISITS AFTER HER DEATH THAT PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SEE HER.
Huell: YOU MEAN PEOPLE WOULD SEE HER IN THE MORGUE BEFORE SHE WENT TO THE FUNERAL.
YES.
Huell: ARE THERE LEGENDS ABOUT THE BODIES BROUGHT HERE.
OR WAS MARILYN MONROE THE BIGGEST.
I'M SURE THERE ARE MORE.
BUT I'M SURE THERE ARE SOME THAT I DIDN'T KNOW OF.
Huell: IT'S EMPTY NOW BUT IT'S GOT THE ECHOY SOUND TO IT AND BOY IF THESE WALLS WOULD TALK.
[LAUGHTER].
Huell: THEY WOULD TELL SOME STORIES.
THEY WOULD IN DEED.
Huell: LEE, FOUND A HUGE SAFE -- IS IT OPEN.
I THINK IT IS.
Huell: THIS IS NOT AL CAPONE'S VAULT.
NO HE WAS NOT IN HERE.
Huell: WHAT IS IN HERE.
THIS WAS A NARCOTICS AREA.
Huell: YOU'RE RIGHT, THIS IS A NARCOTIC LEDGER.
THEY WOULD KEEP THE XON PHYSICAL-- CONFISCATED NARCOTICS IN HERE.
YES.
Huell: LOOK AT ALL THESE -- MASTER NARCOTICS HOMICIDE.
OH THERE IS SOME MORE SAVES HERE.
LOOK AT THESE.
NOW THESE ARE OLD!
VERY OLD SAVES.
THAT ONE LOOKS LIKE IT'S MADE OUT OF CONCRETE.
Huell: LOOK AT THAT AND IT'S LOCKED.
CAN'T GET IN THERE.
THIS ONE IS OPEN, NOTHING IN THERE.
LOOK AT THE STAIRCASES, THE WORK THE METAL WORK.
THESE ARE ORIGINAL BACK TO 1925.
YES IT GOES BACK TO THE ORANGE BUILDING.
THIS IS ALL HARDWOOD AND EVERYTHING WAS JUST PERFECT.
EVERYTHING WAS NICE.
Huell: WELL IT WOULD BE AGAIN.
ABSOLUTELY.
Huell: AND THIS?
THIS IS ALL DONE BY THE EARTHQUAKE.
Huell: OH LOOK.
THIS IS WHY YOU HAD GOT OUT OF THE BUILDING.
YES, THAT'S ALL REI AM FORCED.
Huell: THERE IS A LOT OF STEEL IN THIS BUILDING.
THE BUILDING IS SOUND.
Huell: SO WHY DID THEY HAVE TO EVACUATE.
I GUESS WE HAD A LITTLE PANIC AT THE TIME.
Huell: SO THIS IS ALL COS MEDICS THAT CAN BE REDONE.
Huell: WE HAVE TO REMOVE THESE AND AFTER THAT THE BUILDING IS PRETTY SOUND.
Huell: THEY GOT AHEAD OF US, AND THEY FOUND THEM ON THE WHAT FLOOR THIS?
Huell: 7th FLOOR.
AND WHAT WAS THIS?
THIS WAS A COURTROOM.
Huell: SO WHERE WOULD THE JUDGE --.
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT THERE.
Huell: OH THESE ARE THE JUDGES CHAMBERS.
HOW MANY COOMZ -- COURT ROOMS WERE IN THIS BUILDING?
OH I DON'T KNOW.
Huell: AND THESE WERE MUNICIPAL.
SUPERIOR.
Huell: SUPERIOR JUDGES.
WELL THE JUDGE IS NOT IN TODAY BUT THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS OFFICE AND BOY I'M TELLING YOU, IT PEELS RIGHT OFF.
HOW HARD IS IT TO MAINTAIN AN EMPTY BUILDING.
WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO COME IN HERE.
Huell: SO IT'S LITERALLY JUST SAT HERE LIKE THIS SINCE 1994.
YES.
Huell: YOU JUST TOLD ME WHY WE SAW DON JOHNSON'S PHOTOGRAPH.
YES, HE MADE A COUPLE OF MOVIES IN THE BUILDING.
Huell: SO THEY USED THIS BUILDING FOR WHAT?
COMMERCIALS TV SHOWS?
KAGNEY AND LACY WAS FILM HERE.
Huell: WHY WERE THEY FILMED HERE?
THEY WOULD USE THE LOBBY WHERE WE FIRST CAME IN AND SOME OF THE HALLWAY BECAUSE IT WOULD MATCH THE MOVIE.
Huell: THIS WHERE PEOPLE WOULD COME TO GET BOOKED IN -- TO GET THEIR COURT DATES?
NO AFTER THIS WAS USED, LATER IT WAS HOMICIDE BUREAU AND THIS WAS THE FRONT DESK FOR CITIZENS TO COME TO TALK TO HOMICIDE PEOPLE.
AND THE DETECTIVES WERE ALL BEHIND THE AREA.
Huell: IT'S INTERESTING HERE BECAUSE IT'S SO DEAD.
BUT IF IT WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO --.
THEY USED TO HIDE THESE.
Huell: LOOK AT THIS.
THIS IS THE WAY THEY WOULD HEAT THE BUILDING IN THE WINTER TIME.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL.
AND NOW WOULD THIS HAVE COME FROM THE EARTHQUAKE?
NO THIS IS HOW THEY LOOK AT WHAT DAMAGE WAS DONE.
JUST TO CHECK IT OUT.
YES.
Huell: BOY, YOU CAN JUST WONDER AROUND THIS BUILDING.
HOW MANY FLOORS ON THIS BUILDING?
15 ALTOGETHER.
Huell: NOW JOHN BROUGHT US INTO THIS OTHER COURTROOM TO SHOW US WHAT?
WELL THEY'VE DONE A LITTLE INVESTIGATION HERE AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE ORIGINAL CEILINGS LOOKED LIKE.
GET A GLIMPSE OF IT HERE.
Huell: BEAUTIFUL WORK HERE.
RIGHT.
Huell: SO AT SOME POINT IN THE 60s OR 70s, THEY DROPPED THE CEILINGS IN THE COURTROOM AND HID ALL THIS BEAUTIFUL WORK IN ABOUT TEN FEET OF SPACE.
RIGHT.
Huell: WAIT A MINUTE, WHAT AM I LOOKING AT OVER HERE.
WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
THEY LEFT THAT BEHIND TOO.
I DON'T KNOW, UNLESS THAT'S A JUDGE'S WIFE.
Huell: WE'RE ON THE 10th FLOOR.
WE'RE IN THE JAIL.
AND THIS IS THE PLACE I'VE BEEN HERE ABOUT FOR YEARS.
THE MYTHS ABOUT THE COUNTY JAIL.
AND THE FIRST THING YOU WANTED TO SHOW US IS IN THIS BOX RIGHT HERE.
OH YEAH.
THESE ARE GREAT DOOR OPENERS HERE.
THIS ENTIRE CELLBLOCK IS OPERATED OF THIS BLOCK OF SWITCHOKÑ AND LEVERS.
THAT WILL CLOSE ALL THE GATES.
Huell: OH MY GOSH!
AND ALL OF THESE ARE INDIVIDUAL -- NOW YOU'RE OPENING THEM INDIVIDUALLY.
LET'S TALK DOWN HERE.
FELLOWS CAN YOU OPEN AND CLOSE THE MAIN LEVER SO WE CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
SO HERE ARE THE -- NOW CLOSE THEM FOR US -- OH MY GOSH!
NOW OPEN THEM FOR US.
LOOK INSIDE HERE.
HOW MANY CELLS WERE THERE.
THERE IS USUALLY ABOUT 15 OR 16 IN A ROW.
WE'RE IN A SECTION CALLED THE FREEWAY.
Huell: THE FREEWAY?
YES, THE FREEWAY WAS -- THE DEPUTIES WOULD NEVER COME IN HERE UNLESS ALL THE INMATES WERE LOCKED IN THEIR CELLS.
AND WHEN THERE WOULD BE SEARCHES OF CELLS ALL WOULD BE REQUIRED TO GO IN THEIR CELL AND THEY WOULD OPEN ONE CELL AT A TIME TO DO A SEARCH.
Huell: LOOK AT THESE, -- THESE ARE JUST -- AND ALL OF THIS WEIGHT IS ON TOP OF THE BUILDING.
YES IT IS.
Huell: SO THE TOP TWO FLOORS OF THIS BUILDING ARE ALL HEAVY METAL JAIL CELLS.
ç TOP FOUR FLOORS.
Huell: WE'RE GOING INTO THE 10-11 CELL BLOCK.
AND LEE OF ALL THE CRIMINALS WHO WERE IN THIS JAIL, YOU HAD CONTACT WITH PROBABLY THE MOST NOTORIOUS AND HE WAS RIGHT HERE IN THIS CELLBLOCK.
YES HE WAS.
Huell: WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT.
CHARLIE MANSON.
Huell: CHARLIE MANSON WAS WHERE?
WELL HE HAD THIS WHOLE BLOCK WAS HIS.
Huell: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
NO OTHER INMATES WITH HIM.
HE WAS IN HERE BY HIMSELF.
Huell: SO THEY PUT HIM BY HIMSELF.
YES.
Huell: WHY?
SHE WAS A HIGH SECURITY RISK.
HE'S THE GUY THAT USED TO GET HEX BLADES SENT TO HIM FROM GIRLS AT THE CORNER.
THAT HAPPENED WHILE HE WAS HERE.
Huell: AND THIS IS HIS -- YOU KNOW THIS IS KIND OF STRANGE.
YEAH.
Huell: I'VE DONE A LOT OF STRANGE THINGS BUT TO GO IN THE SPACE -- COME HERE WITH ME, I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE ALONE.
TO BE IN THE SPACE THAT CHARLES MANSON OCCUPIED.
EFLS HERE.
Huell: IT'S KIND OF WEIRD.
NOT VERY GOOD VIBES IN HERE.
YOU KNOW, REALLY.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS THIS IS TILL WEIRD.
DID YOU LOOK ON HIM EVERY DAY?
YES.
THE WAY THAT THE DEPUTY ASSIGNMENT WAS.
YOU DIDN'T GET TO HOME AROUND THE JAIL.
YOU GOT UP ON THIS AREA, AND WE WOULD HAVE TO MAINTAIN CHARLIE'S KEEP.
SO I WAS IN HERE 8 HOURS BUT I WAS ON THE OUTSIDE AND HE WAS IN THE INSIDE.
DID HE LOOK?
I THOUGHT HE WAS WEIRD.
I THOUGHT HE WAS SOMEWHAT OF A MISFIT.
Huell: BUT WHEN HE LOOKED AT YOU?
YOU HAD HIS STAIR THAT HE USED TO DO.
Huell: OOH.
AND THAT'S HOW HE CONTROLLED PEOPLE WITH HIS STARE.
Huell: AND THIS WAS HIS BUNK.
WHICH ONE UPPER LOWER.
I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE HE SLEPT ON.
Huell: THIS WHOLE THING IS VERY VERY WEIRD.
HERE IN CHARLIE' MANSON'S CELL.
CAN WE CLOSE IT UP?
ARE YOU SURE WE CAN GET THEM BACK OPEN AGAIN?
OH SURE.
Huell: HERE WE GO.
Huell: OH MY GOSH.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN GET OUT OF HERE NOW.
WE'LL BE BACK AFTER LUNCH.
Huell: WHAT DID YOU SAY?
WE'LL BE BACK AFTER LUNCH.
[LAUGHTER].
Huell: THIS IS VERY STRANGE AND NOTá NO.
Huell: LET US OUT OF HERE.
OPEN IT UP.
WHEW!
THANKS A LOT, BUDDY.
NOW THERE ARE OTHER FAMOUS NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS IN HERE.
YOU SAID BUGSEY SAEGLE.
YES AND ROBERT MICHUM.
Huell: ROBERT MICHUM.
YES, HE GOT BUSTED FOR MARIJUANA.
Huell: THERE WAS A HEAVY WEIGHT PRISONER.
SIR HANN SIR HANN WHO ASSASSINATED JFK.
YES, AFTER HE ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE FROM THIS CELL.
Huell: BOY THIS IS THE PLACE THAT IF THE WALLS COULD TALK.
OH YEAH, THIS OF THE HISTORI BUILDINGS.
RIGHT HERE IN DOWNTOWN L.A.
BUILT THEM INDIVIDUALLY.
LET'S TALK DOWN HERE.
FELLOWS CAN YOU OPEN AND CLOSE THE MAIN LEVER SO WE CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
SO HERE ARE THE -- NOWNDONED AF OF NO
