Leo Frank: The Only Known Jew To Be Lynched On American Soil
Last night's PBS documentary, “The People vs. Leo Frank,” has revived the mysteries and public curiosity: The century-old “whodunit,” CNN notes in one of its most popular articles today, touched on "every hot-button issue of the time: North vs. South, black vs. white, Jew vs. Christian, industrial vs. agrarian."
PER WIKIPEDIA:
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) wa
More..s an American man who became the only known Jew to be lynched on American soil.[1][2][3] The manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia, Frank was convicted in the rape and murder of a pencil-factory worker, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. The case is widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice. It was the focus of many conflicting cultural pressures, and the jury's conclusion represented in part, class and regional resentment of educated Northern industrialists who were perceived to be wielding too much power in the South, threatening southern culture and morality. The trial was sensationalized by the media. The Georgia politician and publisher Tom Watson used the case to build personal political power and support for a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
Shortly after Frank's conviction, new evidence emerged that cast doubt on his guilt.[7] After the governor commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment, Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a group of prominent citizens who called themselves the "Knights of Mary Phagan".[8] The group is reported to have included the son of a senator, a former governor, lawyers, and a prosecutor..........
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Nearly 100 years later, the case and trial of Leo Frank is making headlines again. Doubts about the 1913 murder of Atlanta teen Mary Phagan and accused suspect Frank — said to be U.S. history’s only Jewish lynching victim — have long fueled conspiracy theories.
Leo Frank was raised in Brooklyn and later moved with his wife to Atlanta, Georgia, to manage his uncle’s pencil factory after graduating from Cornell University. Mary Phagan was one of Frank's employees, a white child laborer working to help support her family. On April 13, 1913, Phagan went to the factory to receive $1.20 in pay she was owed for the previous week. Frank gave her the check; Phagan was found dead at approximately 3am on April 14 by Newt Lee, the factory's night watchman.
Police initially arrested Lee and a young friend of Phagan's in connection with the crime, but soon focused their attention on Frank after his nervous demeanor and detailed answers to simple questions raised suspicions. Frank was later tried, convicted and sentenced to death based on what many people familiar with the case believe was the perjured testimony of the black man who actually killed Phagan, factory janitor Jim Conley. On the day Frank, 31, was to be executed by the state, then-Georgia Governor John Slaton, who doubted the strength of Frank's conviction after lengthy hearings introduced new evidence and a plea from the original trial's judge, commuted Frank's sentence to life in prison. For Slaton, the move was political suicide.
Predictably, the public reaction to Slaton's action was outrage. An angry mob screaming "kill the Jew" stormed the governor's mansion in protest and had to be fought off by armed militia men, while another mob calling themselves the "Knights of Mary Phagan" stormed the prison and kidnapped Frank. A former governor and the son of a U.S. senator were believed to be among the attackers. Frank was taken to Marietta, Georgia, the town where Mary Phagan was born, and hanged.
Frank's hanging helped inspire the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and provoked more than 3,000 Jews to flee the state. Leo Frank was posthumously pardoned for the murder of Mary Phagan by the state of Georgia in 1986.
“That my vindication will eventually come,” Frank is quoted as saying in the PBS documentary, “I feel certain.”
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wow there are still some good americans out there
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "ReligionistScheisse" (R)
So?
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "BLIKSIM" (R)
What do you mean?
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Travis1975" (R)
I hear tell white guys had their heads cut off by Islamic nuts recently, for no discernable reason. The USA has done its part for equality and more. The artifact has value but little merit in 2009, all things considered.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Fine_Just_Fine" (R)
Mosad did it.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Glasswire" (R)
1 jew < thousands of blacks
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "youtubesux" (R)
Its true, but you know while the tyranny of democracy is in play white people wont bother whining about such things. You see they want to pretend they care about minority groups and the tyranny of democracy is a myth....
Well anyway I would like to see the people who wanted war in Afghanistan after reading about women having acid thrown in thier faces by scum suggest they go to war against the man who did the very same sick action to a women in England, on English soil. Wonder if we'll see the pitch fork and torches (frag grenade totting M14 shooting)mob try to lynch him.
I wont see it because theyre all sheep in sheepdogs clothing.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Glasswire" (R)
So you mean to say this tired old rhetoric is of importance, still to this day?
Fantastic, when you done with the gravey train claims of "yooz bez ancestors an sheeit bein lynched by whitee" could you pay reperations to the Europeans and Japanise who were killed with US goverment conscent in WW2 by Blacks?
Whats that?
Did I hear your butt parp?
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Glasswire" (R)
Unbelievable that they actually posthumously pardoned that dirtbag....
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Snerple" (R)
Dirtbag alright. Making him a martyr for killing a 13 year old girl...
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "redmanti" (R)
the musical based on this tragedy entitled "Parade"
is amazing! you've got to check it out! written by Jason Robet Brown...its amazing
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "DieselPower666" (R)
you really dont know anything
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "DieselPower666" (R)
(looks at your flag)
sigh
some things never change...
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Awsomatic" (R)
elites lynching elites. should we care?
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Kolariah" (R)
i can think of another jewish bloke who should be hanged for raping a 13 year old girl and escaping justice...
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "matttheoz"