Aug 9th 1969 she was murdered Tate married her director and The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) co-star, Roman Polanski, in 1968 in Los Angeles. Tate was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with the couples son when she was murdered in her home, along with four others, by a group known as the Manson Family on August 9, 1969. Tates last completed film, 12+1 (co-starring Orson Welles), was released posthumously in 1969 with the actress receiving top-billing. A decade after the murders, Tates mother, Doris, in response to the growing cult status of the killers and the possibility that any of them might be granted parole, organized a public campaign against what she considered shortcomings in the states corrections system. It resulted in amendments to the California criminal law in 1982 allowing crime victims and their families to make victim impact statements during sentencing and at parole hearings. Doris Tate was the first person to make such an impact statement under the new law when she spoke at the parole hearing of Charles Tex Watson, one of her daughters killers. She believed changes in the law had afforded her daughter dignity that had been denied her before and that she had been able to help transform Sharons legacy from murder victim to a symbol of victims rights.
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