Tom O'Neill

Published: May 22, 2024, 7 a.m.

Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, is the culmination of a 20-year investigation, which unearthed information about the murders, the murderers, the prosecutors who tried them, and the complex web of connections between Charles Manson, the CIA's MKUltra program, the counterculture movement, and other powerful individuals during the 1960s. His investigative stories, such as the cut-throat battles among daytime talk-show producers (\u201cWelcome to the Jungle\u201d), the stalking and murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer (\u201cDangerous Minds\u201d), and the unsolved slaying of a Hollywood starlet (\u201cThe Life and Death of Miss Hollywood\u201d) have appeared in national publications like Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice, and Details. His expos\xe9 on sexism at Saturday Night Live (\u201cThe Incredible Shrinking Women of Saturday Night Live\u201d) earned him an Exceptional Merit Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College in 1995. \n------\nThank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team:\n\nLMNT Electrolytes\nhttps://drinklmnt.com/tetra\n------\nSquarespace\nhttps://squarespace.com/tetra\n------\nLucy\nhttps://lucy.co/tetra\n------\nHouse of Macadamias\nhttps://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra