I have given a lot of thought to updating this website... Part of me would like to use my now-better HTML skills and make it look pretty before closing it down for good. I want to leave the information up because it is my tribute to Sharon's memory, I just no longer have the drive to continue updating, and yet I hate to leave the website looking like this. I clearly had absolutely no website design experience when I made this website. I think Sharon deserves better so hopefully I will be able to put something together within the next few weeks.
I hope everyone is doing alright.
My best,
Natalie
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Update on Greg's Book 6/7/00:
"The book 'Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders' shipped last week and should be in stores now--Amazon received their copies and should be shipping.
"Be forewarned, though, about the book: I included two crime scene
photos including one of Sharon. While I am sure that there will be
some people who will be revolted and accuse me of trying to exploit
her death, I did it for one very good reason.
"Although there is a note in the back of the book which essentially
says this same thing, I included the one picture of Sharon in death
because it is a very powerful statement. If I wanted to simply use
the pictures for exploitation purposes, I would have used many more--I
have hundreds of the crime scene pictures. Rather, though, I want people to understand--and especially Sharon's fans and those who admire and respect and revere her--that I included this one very disturbing photograph because, as many words as I might write about Sharon and her killers, or as many words as I might speak on TV or radio about what I think, I cannot make a more powerful argument about why none of the Manson killers should ever, ever be
released from prison than the sheer visceral impact of looking at the
savagery they inflicted. People forget how terrible their crimes
were--especially I was reminded of this today with Leslie Van Houten's
latest parole hearing, and her repeated claims that she had changed
and it had been so long ago. People need to be reminded, even if it
makes them terribly uncomfortable and keeps them awake the first night
after looking at them (as I was when I first saw them), just how
horrible these crimes were, and what these people did. I hope that
the majority of people will understand this, and agree that the
picture, however disturbing, is used to provide a powerful reminder of
the need for continued imprisonment, and not simply because I am
trying to sell books. This is very important to me, because I have
spent so much time in trying to evoke Sharon's life and memory and
focus so much attention on the good that her mother and sister did
with victims' rights work, and I don't want people to automatically
dismiss the book on the basis of one photo, or because Manson is
mentioned in the title. I want them to read the book and walk away
from it knowing Sharon in a way which was impossible until now, and
taking away with them not only a sense of resolution that some good,
through the work of her mother and sister, came from her death, but
also that none of us can afford to ignore the brutal reality of what
happened, because if we do, all of these killers are one step closer
to what they want--freedom."
To place your order of Greg's book click here to go directly to the ordering page on Amazon.
You can reach him via e mail here: madking@seanet.com
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