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Do research -- she was guilty!


The movie was just a melodramatic appeal against the death penalty. The most compelling point in the movie was that she was supposedly left-handed and therefore couldn't have pistol-whipped the poor old woman holding her with her left hand and beating her with her right. A left-handed person would have naturally used her left hand. Thing is, Babs was right-handed.

As usual, Hollywood had their own agenda and they weren't about to let the facts get in the way of a good story. It's like "Birdman of Alcatraz" -- that man was a vicious killer who manipulated the system while in prison. But that wouldn't make him as sympathetic as a sweet old bird lover.

Here's a nice place to get started on info about Babs. Turns out she was even prettier than Susan Hayward in some of these pictures: http://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/graham-barbara-photos-6.htm

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