Post by Angela on Apr 19, 2009 10:31:32 GMT -5
Another one of my favorite posts from the old forum was the one about the bloody hand print on the wall at the top of the stairs in the Lawson home. Here is the old post:
Q: I heard the director in the film say he saw the bloody hand print on the stairs – that couldn’t still be there after 50 years, right?
A: When my son re-counted in the documentary about a bloody hand print he had seen on the wall at the top of the stairs in the Lawson home when we toured it in 1979, it sent chills down my spine. I had heard a number of people talk about the blood all over the floor in the downstairs room and of course I had seen the picture of it, but never a bloody hand print. The only other time I've heard anyone mention that bloody hand print since then was last night while Hillary Hampton's daughter and I were talking. She told me how she remembered her mother talking about a bloody hand print at the top of the stairs in the Lawson home and how even though they had scrubbed and scrubbed the place some of the blood would not come up. It would get paler but not come up all together. She went on to say that she had never been able to get those words about a bloody hand print on the wall out of her mind all these years later. A five year old boy also saw that bloody hand print 28 years ago and never forgot it. That image is etched forever in his mind and in the mind of a little girl who heard about it 70 years ago. There are some things in this world that happen that I believe are meant to NEVER be forgotten. And the horror of the murders committed on 7 innocent people by Charlie Lawson on Christmas day in 1929 is one of those things. That bloody hand print should stand as a stark reminder for all time so that people never forget. At the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. which I visited 2 years ago there are 4 sayings that I saw in a lot of the rooms there regarding what happened and they are: "NEVER FORGET". "REMEMBER THE CHILDREN". "WE MUST BEAR WITNESS". And "THE WORLD MUST KNOW." For me that applies to the Lawson murders as well. And that bloody hand print is a vital reminder. – Maria
A: I've had many doubts expressed to me about whether I really saw it (was I just young and open to the power of suggestion, that sort of thing), so to hear from someone who'd be in a position to know is very gratifying. I know what I saw, but one voice does not a chorus make, and I've always felt like the blood's stubborn refusal to fade away was indicative of the story itself, so the more we can 'show' it to people (and by show, I mean describe with confirmations), the more they'll be unlikely to forget what happened there so long ago. – Matt
Q: I heard the director in the film say he saw the bloody hand print on the stairs – that couldn’t still be there after 50 years, right?
A: When my son re-counted in the documentary about a bloody hand print he had seen on the wall at the top of the stairs in the Lawson home when we toured it in 1979, it sent chills down my spine. I had heard a number of people talk about the blood all over the floor in the downstairs room and of course I had seen the picture of it, but never a bloody hand print. The only other time I've heard anyone mention that bloody hand print since then was last night while Hillary Hampton's daughter and I were talking. She told me how she remembered her mother talking about a bloody hand print at the top of the stairs in the Lawson home and how even though they had scrubbed and scrubbed the place some of the blood would not come up. It would get paler but not come up all together. She went on to say that she had never been able to get those words about a bloody hand print on the wall out of her mind all these years later. A five year old boy also saw that bloody hand print 28 years ago and never forgot it. That image is etched forever in his mind and in the mind of a little girl who heard about it 70 years ago. There are some things in this world that happen that I believe are meant to NEVER be forgotten. And the horror of the murders committed on 7 innocent people by Charlie Lawson on Christmas day in 1929 is one of those things. That bloody hand print should stand as a stark reminder for all time so that people never forget. At the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. which I visited 2 years ago there are 4 sayings that I saw in a lot of the rooms there regarding what happened and they are: "NEVER FORGET". "REMEMBER THE CHILDREN". "WE MUST BEAR WITNESS". And "THE WORLD MUST KNOW." For me that applies to the Lawson murders as well. And that bloody hand print is a vital reminder. – Maria
A: I've had many doubts expressed to me about whether I really saw it (was I just young and open to the power of suggestion, that sort of thing), so to hear from someone who'd be in a position to know is very gratifying. I know what I saw, but one voice does not a chorus make, and I've always felt like the blood's stubborn refusal to fade away was indicative of the story itself, so the more we can 'show' it to people (and by show, I mean describe with confirmations), the more they'll be unlikely to forget what happened there so long ago. – Matt