13 Facts About Doris Tate

Doris Gwendolyn Tate was an American activist for the rights of crime victims, and the mother of actress Sharon Tate.

Doris Tate was influential in a court decision that amended California criminal laws relating to the rights of victims of violent crime.

For more than a decade after the murders, Doris Tate battled depression and was withdrawn and unable to discuss her daughter's death.

Doris Tate then appeared on various television talk shows, discussing her opinion of the corrections system and the impact her daughter's murder had had on her family.

Doris Tate joined the Los Angeles chapter of the "Parents of Murdered Children" organization, and while she drew support from the group, found that she was rewarded by assuming the role of counsellor.

Doris Tate later became an active member of the Victim Offender Reconciliation and Justice for Homicide Victims groups.

Doris Tate founded COVER, the Coalition on Victim's Equal Rights, and served on the California State Advisory Committee on Correctional Services as a victims' representative.

Doris Tate was part of a group that worked toward the passage of Proposition 8, the Victim's Rights Bill, which was passed in 1982.

Doris Tate became the first Californian to make such a statement after the law was passed, when she spoke at the parole hearing of one of her daughter's killers.

Doris Tate's health began to deteriorate after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Doris Tate's work was taken over by her younger daughters, Debra and Patricia.

In 1997, Debra Doris Tate was born on 6 November 1952 and attended the parole hearing of Patricia Krenwinkel and since then has attended the parole hearings of every member of the Manson family imprisoned for the Doris Tate-Labianca murders.

On 3 June 2000, Doris Tate' youngest daughter, Patricia was born on 30 October 1957 and died of breast cancer.