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By way of background, I am an American by choice; I came to this country when I was ten years old. My father suffered in a German concentration camp; and my mother was in a German prisoners of war camp in Europe. By profession, I am an attorney.
This afternoon (October 22, 2006), while photographing buildings in Newark, New Jersey, I took pictures of the Essex County Hall of Records (see Photo1 and Photo2; similar photos by a different photographer are available HERE and HERE). Before I finished taking my pictures, I was approached by an Essex County Sheriff’s Officer. In response to his inquiries, I told him that I was a photographer taking pictures for my personal enjoyment, and that I was also an attorney. When I told the Officer that when I finished photographing the Hall of Records, I also intended to photograph the Old Court House that is across the street, the Officer radioed his superior officer.
I was then asked to produce proof that I was an attorney – when I produced my Attorney Identification Card, I was told that the Officer will need to photocopy it; and that I must also give him my Driver’s License because he needs additional information about my address. I was told to accompany the Officer into the Old Court House, so that he could photocopy my documents. When he finished, I was told that I was not allowed to take any additional photographs of the Essex County Hall of Records or the Old Court House.
I did not see any signs warning the public not to take photographs of the buildings. When I inquired as to the rule or regulation prohibiting the taking pictures of public buildings, the Officer told me that after 9/11, such activity was no longer permitted; however, he could not site any supporting rule or regulation. In response to my request, he did give me his name and the name of his superior officer that instructed him on how to deal with me — the note attached to this story.
I had no problem being asked who I was and why I was there; however, when government officials are unable to cite any law or regulation for their actions, and simply based on their personal whim decide to detain citizens and photocopy their credentials for unspecified purposes, we begin to live in a world that has gone wrong – our own government officials become the oppressors of our liberties.
What terrorists are unable to do with bombs and weapons, our own government officials accomplish with unjustified detention and suppression of our liberty – I left Newark as quickly as I could, and I wonder who will come knocking on my door next.
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[Leo Frank Case Museum and Gallery Curator Commentary:
'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume Three, The Leo Frank Case, The Lynching of a Guilty Man', was published on April 26, 2016), in book format by the Nation of Islam Research group (www.NOIRG.org) and in audiobook form by The American Mercury (www.TheAmericanMercury.org). This monograph is a unique part of the larger 3-part encyclopedic series, and it represents the best old fashioned scholarly research on the Leo Frank criminal case, ever produced, at the time. The book was published 103 years exactly--on the anniversary of Little Mary Phagan's slaughter, having occurred long ago on April 26, 1913. The audiobook was published two years later in 2018 in a weekly series of 29-parts.
The book is now more relevant than ever in this age of #MeToo where sexual abuse is becoming less taboo to talk about or victims are openly speaking out to the public and authorities. Many high profile and powerful men are serving lengthy sentences for their habitual sexual molestation of women; some of the more well-known modern names of serial rapists are Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, and too many others to name... Despite Jeffrey Epstein being either killed or committing suicide in jail (how he died is hotly contested by medical examiners), the issue of prominent men forcibly defiling their victims is at the exposé forefront in the popular culture these days. The issue has not lost momentum.
Statutory rape and other forms of sex crime accusations against Alan Dershowitz (two of Jeffrey Epstein's victims Virginia Giuffre and Sarah Ransome are speaking out against him), Bill Clinton, Tinsel Town actors, professional athletes, politicians, royals, and men of generally high-up stature, are being brought out into the public-eye with greater frequency. The #MeToo movement continues to expose the indecent molestation-assaults and sexual harassment women and boys face at the hands of Hollywood producers, and Broadway milieu. The #MeToo revelation is even more prevalent within and outside these vertical industries than previously thought.
Widespread Jewish pedophilia is hopefully becoming the last taboo. Growing up in the Jewish community with two faithful parents, I was lucky, they kept a watchful eye on me. However, I discovered there was a long-standing endemic culture of sexual molestation occurring against my Jewish peers, and the same goes for their parents when they were young and it goes even further back than their grandparents, when they too were teens. Jewish pedophilia is a trans-generational and international peculiarity that Jewish leaders go out of their way to suppress awareness of the problem. Pedophile denialism is the reason why this incestuous tribal paradigm continues to persist in the parochial Jewish community.
How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
At least 22.5% of my Jewish friends (1/5th of boys and 1/4th of girls alike) reported they had been sexually exploited as adolescents by adults in their families, siblings, or by individuals in prominent positions of the traditionally insular heritage, we share in the vast Diaspora. The Rabbis and their minions were often the worst offenders. When the Rabbis weren't sleeping with congregants wives, they were molesting children, boys, and girls, alike. There can be no doubt that in generations past there were some unknowing Jewish husbands raising the children of their wife's paramours.
The Largest Pedophilia Case in Israel's History (15-Minute Video) youtu.be/vcRUZ9ARp5g
The biggest barrier to stopping this unspeakable Judaic cultural phenomenon was its enablers and dismissers. There were too many child molester dismissers and blind-eye enablers, who would become incensed when reports of inappropriate contact were levied. These sentinels worked to stymie such reports from ever reaching the appropriate authorities outside our secular and spiritual community. "Keep it in the family" was the attitude Rabbis and others in similar top positions of power maintained. Given this most likely ancient tradition of cultural incest and buggery, it makes total sense there would be an overwhelming number of Jewish influencers who built a multi-tier transgenerational, aggressive movement of prejudice, to convince everyone Leo Frank wasn't allegedly a scopophiliac and prolific pervert with a penchant for tweens or teens. It's an international Jewish problem, not just a problem in Israel and North America.
Ultra-Orthodox Woman Faces 74 Charges of Sexual Abuse (Australia)
While we saw the MSM-press outlets deluged with sexual abuse scandals appertaining to Catholic priests, coaches, Boy Scout troop leaders, teachers, Hollywood producers, A-List actors, and mainstream secular folks in positions of the limelight to greater and lesser degrees, the pervasive problem of pedophilia remains the last taboo today in the Jewish community. The problem still persists at secretive epidemic levels today and the Western media refuses to report on it, out of fear of being labeled the infamous scare-slur "anti-Semitic." The accusation of anti-Semitism has become a trick ("Anti Semitism Is A Trick We Always Use", Shulamit Aloni) used to frighten people into avoiding criticism of Jews. It is for this and many other reasons child molestation remains a last forbidden to talk about open-secret.
The fact that academic pedigreed university profs, famous journalists, pundits, and defense attorneys are willing to make false statements defending pedophiles--even at the risk of destroying their reputation--is so common today, it almost seems impossible to believe. But the Internet provides many examples.
You can thank the multitudes of academic pseudo-scholars like Leonard Dinnerstein (Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish community, 1968 and The Leo Frank Case, 1968); children's book writer, Elaine Marie Alphin (The prosecution and persecution of Leo Frank, 2010); Law professor Donald Wilkes (Flagpole Magazine) and the Samuels' (Night Fell on Georgia, 1956) for using chicanery and tainted evidence to defend the indefensible, putting religion over justice, to sway public opinion. There will be long-winded papers on their chicanery forthcoming, now that we have used computers to scan all of their written works and A.I. algorithms to evaluate them. With semantic computer technology, we have busted wide open the 100-year conspiracy of academic fraud by Frank's defenders.
I fully support people having the freedom to believe Leo Frank is innocent, guilty, or part of connivance, but what I donot condone are my coreligionists misleading people, while simultaneously suppressing the trial testimony, repeating the falsehoods of fellow-travelers without inquiring into their veracity, and consciously lying about the trial and appeals. Even worse is the tendency of my fellow Jews to call people anti-Semites or anti-Semitic for disagreeing with them. These mendacious charlatans who hide behind their academic credentials and ethnoreligious prejudice, have done irreparable harm to our understanding of history. It's one thing to believe Leo Frank is innocent, but to use well-known dupery to sustain that position is untenable.
It is an ultimate betrayal of collegiate integrity standards, for groups of academics, during their tenured careers, to create an ongoing legacy of conspiring to nefariously design the central orthodoxy of counterfeit history to self-serve Jewish ethnocentric interests at the expense of truth. My $15,000 computer scanning technology machinery that turns books into optical character recognition text and separate N-gram data mining algorithms have made it pretty clear which academic and journalist authors are part of this ugly conspiracy to give only one side of the case a voice.
We can now trace the semantic genealogy of the entire body of written treatments on the Leo Frank case, all with the help of the Library of Congress archives as a source. Hopefully, we can counter their lopsided team efforts, to bring in more balance and nuance for the future bearing who have a right to access all sides of the case. Leo Frank's transfiguration, beautification, and deification must be given a coat-hanger abortion if we are to return to sanity when reviewing the brief of evidence without any ethnocentric emotion, and without any Jewish or Gentile intersectional agendas. We must commit to letting the evidence determine the probable truth, not commit to his innocence or guilt through the fiat of tribalism, and then manipulate the facts of the case to retrofit our predetermined conclusions.
I am calling on for students to step forward with no ethnic or religious loyalties to review the Atlanta daily newspaper reports, the trial transcript of long-hand testimony, the evidence conferred before, during and after the trial, the exhibits, and the post-trial appeals, with no hidden motivations or preconceived ideas. Frank's guilt or innocence can no longer be the starting point, but only the final conclusion.
Although I personally find the occasional belligerent racism against Whites and anti-Semitism against Jews by the Nation of Islam to be truly detestable, they still produced one of the most erudite research volumes on the Leo Frank case. No one, including myself (I apologize for my anti-Gentilism and bigotry of low expectations), expected them to have the ability to dispassionately put-together the golden benchmark with respect to producing such a deeply insightful and far-reaching book on the Frank-Phagan affair. If the Secret Relationship series wasn't excellent, the ADL would never have written about it on their website, with inset images of the book's cover. If the Secret Relationship series wasn't excellent the ADL and SPLC would not have pressured Jeff Bezos to have it removed from Amazon books.
This 2016 tome sets the highest watermark of history books on the Leo Frank trial and its aftermath. Before hand, Steve Oney had been given the unofficial title of having written the definitive book on the Leo Frank case since 2003 for 13 years. Before Oney was given that title, academic con artist Leonard Dinnerstein held it since 1968 with his forgery called, "The Leo Frank Case."
Journalist-author Steve Oney's 2003 sophistry on the same hot topic is impressive by comparison to this 2016 treatment, but when it comes to the incriminating hard facts, he is severely lacking any integrity. But he sure knows how to turn a phrase! Most of Oney's claims about that sensational summer trial in 1913, while assertive and authoritative, can not be supported by the evidence.
The Nation of Islam's book, however, provides everything Oney left out of his treatment. I regret to say, Oney did not have the manhood or testicular fortitude to properly contextualize the Frank epic. Oney's book is a good money maker, ensuring him a lengthy backpacker's bus pass on the synagogue circuit, but it betrays dispassionate historiography. I agree with ADL's Charles Wittenstein (deceased) in this respect, that Oney's elephantine treatment can only be regarded as a more polished journalese version of the quasi-scholarship put out by Leonard Dinnerstein, Robert Seitz Frey, Elaine Marie Alphin, Matthew Bernstein, The Samuelses' and other authors who delved significantly into the Phagan-Frank saga.
The NOI's book debunks a plethora of Frankite charades which continue to persist today. I do not agree with their Black nationalist politics (I reject all nationalism, including Jim Crow Zionism), but it is undeniable their Volume 3 is the finest we have today on a subject which refuses to be forgotten. It represents the closest we have come today on contextualizing what really happened in the early 1910s and uncovers the lies that were invented to rehabilitate Leo Frank in a marching basis. Even after being exposed as hoaxes, they continue to be replayed for barratry. And the barratry continues at this very late date, in 2020, the Frankites are seeking to get the D.A. of Atlanta to recommend Leo Frank get a new trial. They even have an unnamed judge who will declare a mistrial for Leo Frank a century after he died.
August 2020:
The Leo Frank Museum and Gallery at Flickr founded in 2011, recently achieved 2.1 million views (TWO POINT ONE MILLION VIEWS). It took our team of Jewish and Gentile student scholars 8 years to reach that marvelous milestone in August 2020. We thank all of our visitors for making a stupendous dream possible. We thank Flickr for supporting freedom of speech and not caving in to the global censorship efforts of my coreligionists at Jewish organizations who attack peoples' human rights to freedom of speech. We are asking everyone to join Flickr pro in support this rare Tech Titan company committed to the first amendment.
As the curator of this immense aggregate of more than 5,000 images and 2+ million views, I am calling for open dialogue about the Leo Frank case inclusive among Blacks, Whites and my fellow homeboy or homegirl Hebrews, without all the bitter rhetoric coming from Jews and Gentiles against each other. Coming together for dialogue without manifesting hysterical passion, to talk and connect in understanding is the way forward. Challenging our belief systems on the case is the first step. I hope by sharing the email submissions by the millions of viewers and the intense emotions of people on all sides, who are students of this contentious case. Together we can eventually bridge the gap, between a calm national discussion on this enthralling court drama and uncover all of the misunderstandings, as too many historians have requested a university forum in hushed tones, time and again. What we have now is incongruency, let those hushed tones become loud voices for dialogue.
Even though I clearly support freedom of speech, I am now asking readers who are submitting images and articles to this collection, please consider keeping the inflammatory invective to a minimum, for changing course, and shifting focus on the facts of the case and jurisprudence methodologies. That includes myself.
Comments below were submitted by a Black Lives Matter #BLM activist leader, they were heavily edited for grammar and spelling. End of Curator Commentary.]
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Submitted by Elijah X and Jeremiah X (heavily edited for grammar, and spelling).
The 2016 Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, The Leo Frank Case, The Lynching of a Guilty Man by the Nation of Islam Research Group, along with Volumes 1 and 2, provides hard-hitting analysis at how we know some Jewish and Marxist professors are subverting the educational system by weaving a mainstreamized Jewish supremacist narrative of history. This fake history by White Supremacist Jews is to the detriment of black folks, two of whom almost swung for Leo Frank's nasty pedophilic sodomy-rape and his snuffing out a little girl so she couldn't endure to speak out and seek justice. Today a Black man James Conley is still falsely accussed of the Phagan rape-garroting by the Jewish community. This book is the beginning of the end to that wicked inequity by White Supremacist Jews at the ADL who promote the racial hoax that Frank paid a blood sacrifice for Conley's violation of God's commandment that thou shalt not kill.
The Atlanta B'nai B'rith sodomite, Leo M. Frank (1884-1915) almost got away with it back then, just like Canadian B'nai B'rith sodomite, Bill Surkis got a slap on the wrist for getting caught redhanded with 9 hours of violent pre-pubescent rape-pedophile films. Jeffrey Epstein is another example of a rich Jew getting a sweetheart deal when he was first convicted and defended by Alan Dershowitz. It seems there are two tiers of justice in America, one for the rich and one for the not so rich.
Academic Charlatan Leonard Dinnerstein
The Judaic agitator and pseudo-historian Leonard Dinnerstein (1934-2019) published several editions of his propaganda book The Leo Frank Case---during a lengthy career as an activist professor---beginning with the 1968 first edition by Columbia University Press, and the final kindle edition published in 2008 on Amazon books.
Alan Dershowitz, Former Harvard University Emeritus Professor
Jeffrey Epstein's long-time friend and former modern-day attorney, Alan Dershowitz, wrote The Forward for Dinnerstein's 1991 revised edition of The Leo Frank Case. His forward is a litany of lies. It speaks volumes about his integrity. Almost everything Dershowitz has said about Leo Frank's case has been a tissue of lies. He even made what appears to be a subtle attack against the family of the victim in his closing sentences in that Forward. Dershowitz is a dictionary photo of the stereotypical bottom-feeding attorney.
Evaluating Alan Dershowitz's Deceitful Forward in Leonard Dinnerstein's The Leo Frank Case, Revised Edition 1991.
In his intro to the case, the snake-charmer Dershowitz, unconvincingly and posthumously defends the serial raper and habitual sexual harasser Leo Frank, making serpentine dictims and utterances about the murder-molestation trial in an effort to trick the monograph's readers into thinking the pedophilic child-killer of young Miss Phagan was roguishly convicted in court. Dershowitz's grandmaster toxification of the 1913 Leo Frank court proceedings to defend that Gomorrahite Leo Frank is very telling about the latest salacious accusations against this enabler by Virginia Giuffre and Sarah Ransome, two victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Who else is going to step forward to expose this international pedophile ring which benefited powerful White Privileged men? #WhitePrivilege
Southern Knights: Scandal Then and Now.
Alan Dershowitz also appeared in a 1999 Canadian Antgentile propaganda documentary called 'Southern Knights' (documentary link provided below) where HE accused the trial jury who decided Leo Frank's fate, as being a mob. Likely because Dershowitz didn't like the outcome and Jews consider it safe to make racist accusation against non-Jewish Whites who they compete against for power. In his twisted mind, the jury's defamation is to be backdated based on their decision. Had they voted in Frank's favor they wouldn't have been backdated a "mob". The White Supremacist Jew has a binary view of the world, you're either with us or you're a terrorist.
Dershowitz in both cases, 1991, and 1999, made counter-factual comments about the jury and Leo Frank's trial hearing to deceive the common folk into thinking a Black man did the dirty deed. The calumniation utilized by Leo Frank's defenders, to mendaciously fool the public, and fabricate consensus that Frank got a raw deal in the courthouse--when there is no legitimate evidentiary basis for coming to those denouements--is a betrayal to justice. There can be no justice when the courts are filled with judges and attorneys who put their ethnoreligion, tribe and ancient mythology over justice.
We are calling on the American people to organize themselves into a movement to have Dershowitz disbarred for repeatedly propounding racial hoaxes, racist accusations and grossly false statements about the Leo Frank trial that are unbecoming of someone expected to uphold legal ethics. This disinformation war to control the narrative of history amounts to an ugly form of ethnic warfare against African American people. The NOI, marginalized People of Colour, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement is declaring war against the White supremacists Jews who have created an anti-Gentile dystopia in the academy and ironcurtain skynet, using Big-Tech behemoths to build a rats maze of apartheid walls permeating the Internet. #BLM strong. #Blacktwitter strong.
Jewish groups hiding behind the window dressing of "Civil Rights" have decried the NOI Secret Relationship Book series as being anti-Semitic, likely because it published the transcript of Mary Phagan murder trial evidence and examinations which has never been exhaustively published before by Jewish intellectuals. The suppressed trial testimony the NOI publishes tend to prove the verdict of guilt tendered against Frank was a deductive and common-sense consequence of that evidence, by not only the court's month-long proceedings, but it was also sustained by the Supreme Courts (state and federal) who both voted in their supra-majority decisions against there being technical errors at the trial.
No one is accusing the Georgia Supreme Court of being an Antisemitic mob, when they said Leo Frank's guilt was sustained by the trial transcript and exhibits. No one is accusing the Supreme Court of the United States of being an Antisemitic mob, when they demurred against Frank's frivolous appeals. There were NO technical errors at the trial. Leo Frank was duly convicted. He almost got away with putting the crime on two someones.
The docudrama Knights of Mary Phagan is a Jewish Supremacist Charade and Leonard Dinnerstein's book "The Leo Frank Case" is an academic monstrosity.
Dershowitz in his 1991 Dinnerstein Forward, QUOTE:
"The trial, conviction, death sentence and its commutation and eventual lynching of Leo Frank during the second decade of the twentieth century, constitute a major episode not only in American legal history, but also in the development of American political institutions. The Knights of Mary Phagan, formed to avenge the murder of the young factory worker for which Frank was convicted, became an important component of the twentieth century resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith was founded in reaction to the anti-Semitism generated – or at least disclosed – by the Frank case." END QUOTE.
Dershowitz lied in Dinnerstein's forward and so did Jewish groups every time they say "Knights of Mary Phagan". The second incarnation of the K.K.K. was founded in the aftermath of the B&W flick, "The Birth of a Nation", not because of Leo Frank. This self-aggrandizing lie about the Knights of Mary Phagan persists in Jewish supremacist circles today as a trick to fool Black people into thinking Jews are our allies against the Klan, when their alliship is performative only. Jews disproportionately owned Black slaves prior to 1865 (Secret Relationship, V. 1 & 2). Many Jews served in the K.K.K. and some were even Grand Dragons and Grand Wizards of that White Judeo-Christian Supremacist fraternity (Unz Report, Bibliography & References).
Jews are not our allies, no matter how much buck dancing and marching they do. They still owe us an apology behind slavery. The posse that lynched Frank called themselves the 'Vigilance Committee', not "The Knights of Mary Phagan" which the latter was a moniker conjured up in the fake news media in 1915. This fact is exposed inside Volume-3. Not once did the men who lynched the kiddy diddling Leo M. Frank ever call themselves "The Knights of Mary Phagan". Dershowitz lied or is conveniently misinformed. There is no documentation William Simmons ever said anything about the second resurrection of the KKK being founded because of Leo Frank or the so-called "Knights of Mary Phagan".
Dreyfus Wasn't Framed
Dershowitz in his Dinnerstein 1991 Forward, QUOTE:
"Sometimes characterized as the American “Dreyfus” case (a reference to the frame-up of a French Jew which fanned the flames of nineteenth century European anti-Semitism), the trial of Leo Frank in Atlanta, Georgia was conducted in a carnival atmosphere. Crowds outside the courthouse sang “The Ballad of Mary Phagan,”" END QUOTE.
Dreyfus wasn't railroaded, his indefatigable tribe just successfully engaged in the same kind of chicanery which was engaged in during the failed attempts for Frank's faux vindication. In each of the Dreyfus and the Frank affairs, they were duly convicted and a review of the evidence proves they were guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Frank didn't escape the gallows, the state got him in the end and trumped the grifter, Governor John Slaton. Governor John Slaton owned the law firm that represented Leo Frank at his child rape murder trial. There was no carnival atmosphere, the appeals courts ruled in their decisions he had a fair trial. The only carnival behavior was Leo Frank's mom jumping up in court making anti-Gentile slurs at prosecutor Hugh Dorsey, calling him a Christian Dog.
Hopefully, there will be a future volume in the Secret Relationship series on the Dreyfus Case. Dreyfus was not framed-up, he was just one of the lucky ones who escaped justice through subversion and big money. Just because Jewish intellectuals mobbed the Dreyfus case in his defense and later re-wrote history, doesn't make the man innocent, any more than Leo Frank. This is the problem we have about treason and criminal cases anent Jews, they crowd them out and make it impossible to get at the truth, but the Internet age has changed all that. They no longer have a monopoly on history.
No one sang the Ballad of Mary Phagan outside the Leo Frank trial, that's another hoax by Leo Frank's international Congregationalists to hoodwink the public into believing the fake news that Leo Frank didn't have a fair trial. You can't trust anything they say about these politically charged cases which deal with their people, they are uncontrollable liars.
Dershowitz in his 1991 Dinnerstein Forward, QUOTE: "Crowds inside the courtroom shouted anti-Jewish epithets, and demanded Frank’s death. The smell of the lynch mob was in the air." END QUOTE.
Dershowitz is promulgating a common ugly lie by the White Jewish supremacists. Hate crime racial hoaxer Leonard Dinnerstein asserted this similar lie in the American Jewish Archive Journal, November 1968 issue (Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish Community), claiming mobs were shouting into the court room windows during the trial's proceedings, "Crack the Jews Neck" and "Hang the Jew or We'll Hang You!" Abraham Foxman promoted the same racial hoax on the ADL website in 2005, and we hate the screen captures.
The Jewish racial hoaxers Charles and Louise Samuels in their 1956, "Night Fell on Georgia" (page 39) promoted the same lie. It's all the same tissue of lies to railroad innocent Black people for Leo Frank's child molestations and failed murder coverup. The whole racist goal of the Jew supremacists is to say Leo Frank didn't have a fair trial, and the "Black Guy DID IT!"
Dershowitz in his 1991 Dinnerstein Forward, QUOTE: "Unpredictably, the Governor of Georgia decided to commute Frank’s death sentence and leave him to serve out a term of life imprisonment. " End Quote.
When Dershowitz says it was "Unpredictably", you can bet your last silver dime it was predictable. Governor Slaton was a partner in the law company that represented Leo Frank at trial and in his 2 years of appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court. There's nothing unpredictable about an unscrupulous politician commuting his own rich client's capital punishment. Everyone now knows Leo Frank's lead defense attorney, Luther Rosser, was law partner of Governor John M. Slaton. That's not a fact Dershowitz would like any of his co-conspirators to highlight.
Black Lives Matter
The international Black Lives Matter movement will be taking up this case of Mary Phagan because one big suppressed fact of this true-crime is that Leo Frank during the last 2-years of his life, and his coreligionists in lockstep, all along, have tried to frame 2 black men for the rape-murder of the little Phagan child. This is a repugnant injustice and proves the systemic racism of White Supremacist Jewish civil wrongs NGOs like ADL, SPLC, and the whole heap of their alphabet stew of racketeering mafia families which harass NOI and black people. This is a declaration of war by the #BLM movement against Zionist supremacism in the Pax-West and apartheid Israel in the "near East".
Hashtags: #BlackLivesMatter #MeToo #BLM #Dershowitz #TrueCrime #LeoFrank #MaryPhagan #NOI #Nationofislam
Audiobook Sources of Part One in the Twenty-Nine Part Series
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcTUS0VZfE
Twitter:
twitter.com/MaryPhagan1913/status/1292865301902761987
GAB:
gab.com/murderoflittlemaryphagan/posts/104666114592255454
Bit Tube:
bittube.video/videos/watch/eefbc3bb-03d8-4780-a7a4-a4ac0b...
Minds:
www.minds.com/newsfeed/1139607824612036608?referrer=maryp...
Bitchute:
www.bitchute.com/video/np8ldSCeiMnu/
Facebook Censored by Mark Zuckerberg's platform. Like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg has declared war on Black people with censorship.
APPENDIX
Jewish-American Law Professor Alan Dershowitz during his tenure at Harvard University, wrote the forward for Leonard Dinnerstein's Leo Frank Case (1991 Hard Cover Edition, Green Leather, Gold-Leaf edges)
Introduction
By Alan M. Dershowitz
The trial, conviction, death sentence and its commutation and eventual lynching of Leo Frank during the second decade of the twentieth century, constitute a major episode not only in American legal history, but also in the development of American political institutions. The Knights of Mary Phagan, formed to avenge the murder of the young factory worker for which Frank was convicted, became an important component of the twentieth century resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith was founded in reaction to the anti-Semitism generated – or at least disclosed – by the Frank case.
Sometimes characterized as the American “Dreyfus” case (a reference to the frame-up of a French Jew which fanned the flames of nineteenth century European anti-Semitism), the trial of Leo Frank in Atlanta, Georgia was conducted in a carnival atmosphere. Crowds outside the courthouse sang “The Ballad of Mary Phagan,” which included the following lyrics:
Little Mary Phagan
She left her home one day;
She went to the pencil-factory
To see the big parade.
She left her home at eleven,
She kissed her mother good-by;
Not one time did the poor child think
That she was a-going to die.
Leo Frank he met her
With a brutish heart, we know;
He smiled, and said, “Little Mary,
You won’t go home no more.”
Sneaked along behind her
Till she reached the metal-room;
He laughed, and said, “Little Mary,
You have met your fatal doom.”
Down upon her knees
To Leo Frank she plead;
He taken a stick from the trash-pile
And struck her across the head.
Crowds inside the courtroom shouted anti-Jewish epithets, and demanded Frank’s death. The smell of the lynch mob was in the air.
The State’s star witness was a black maintenance worker at the factory which Frank managed and at which Mary Phagan worked. He testified that Frank killed the young girl and ordered him to dispose of the body. When the jury convicted Frank, it was the first time in memory that a white man had been convicted of murder on the basis of uncorroborated testimony of a black witness. This apparent advance in racial justice was explained away by a local observer who said: “That wasn’t a white man convicted by that N…’s testimony. It was a Jew.”
Predictably, Frank was convicted, sentenced to death and denied relief on appeal, despite some critical dissenting words from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Unpredictably, the Governor of Georgia decided to commute Frank’s death sentence and leave him to serve out a term of life imprisonment. That appeared to be a great victory for Frank and his many supporters around the country, since the evidentiary foundation underlying Frank’s conviction was beginning to crumble as a result of the discovery of new evidence strongly suggesting that it was the government’s star witness – and not Frank – who had killed the victim. It seemed only a matter of time before Frank would be freed from his imprisonment.
In order to prevent Frank’s freedom, several of the “best” citizens of Georgia – including a minister, two former Supreme Court Justices, and an ex-sheriff – decided to take the law into their own hands. They constituted themselves as a vigilante committee and let it be known that they intended to kidnap Frank from prison and lynch him. Despite some perfunctory efforts by prison authorities to protect Frank, the lynch mob had little difficulty breaking into the prison and kidnapping Frank. It was obvious that at least some of the prison authorities were in on the plan. Frank was taken to Marietta, where he was lynched. Everyone knew exactly who was involved in the lynching – indeed some members of the lynch mob boasted about their participation and gave interviews to the press. Photographs of the lynching and souvenir pieces of the rope were sold throughout Georgia. Nonetheless, the coroner’s jury investigating the murder of Leo Frank concluded that it was unable to identify any of the perpetrators. This was typical of lynchings in the South during that era. The only difference is that this victim was not black.
There is a fascinating and largely unknown ethical story behind the public legal story of the Frank case. I use it as a teaching vehicle in my course on legal ethics. It turns out that while Leo Frank was on death row, one of Atlanta’s most prominent lawyers learned that Frank was innocent and that another man – presumably the government’s star witness – was the killer. We do not know for certain whether the real killer confessed directly to the lawyer, or to another lawyer who then sought ethical advice from the pillar of the bar. This is the way the eminent lawyer described it in his own writings:
I am one of the few people who know that Leo Frank was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted and lynched. Subsequent to the trial, and after his conviction had been affirmed by the Supreme Court, I learned who killed Mary Phagan, but the information came to me in such a way that, though I wish I could do so, I can never reveal it so long as certain persons are alive. We lawyers, when we are admitted to the bar, take an oath never to reveal the communications made to us by our clients; and this includes facts revealed in an attempt to employ the though he refuses the employment….The Law on this subject may or may not be a wise law – there are some who think that it is not – but naturally since it is the law, we lawyers and the judges cannot honorably disobey it.
The eminent lawyer (and any other lawyer who may have received the real killer’s confession in confidence) was forced into the most excruciating legal, ethical and moral dilemma a professional can possibly confront. The ethical rules of the profession are fairly clear. There is no available exception to the rule mandating confidentiality of privileged communications about past crimes. It is not a future crime for a guilty client to remain silent while an innocent man goes to his death for the murder committed by a silent, guilty client. The issue is a bit more complicated if the confessing client was, in fact, the witness who testified against Frank, for the client would then be confessing to perjury. Some courts and commentators have suggested that allowing perjured testimony to remain unrecanted, while the victim of the perjury remains under a death or prison sentence, may constitute a continuing fraud on the court, and thus an exception to the lawyer-client privilege. But that line of authority is hazy at best, and the eminent lawyer did not apparently consider it. He saw the legal and professional ethics issue as simple and straightforward. That still left the moral and personal issue of whether any human being – regardless of his or her profession – can and should allow a preventable miscarriage of justice to be carried out, especially in a capital case. My students in legal ethics generally split down the middle over whether they would violate the rules of the profession – engage in an act of civil disobedience against their own client – in order to save an innocent non-client.
In a typically lawyer-like way, the eminent lawyer in the real case apparently saw to it that the governor learned the information known to him, but without his own “fingerprints” being on the communication. This is how he put it: “Without ever having discussed with Governor Slaton the facts which were revealed to me, I have reason to believe, from a thing contained in the statement he made in connection with the grant of the commutation, that, in some way, these facts came to him and influenced his action.” But the eminent lawyer’s compromise did not work. Although the governor did commute Leo Frank’s sentence, he was not able to persuade a vengeful public of Frank’s innocence. I doubt that Frank would have been lynched had the eminent lawyer come forward and disclosed his information. Instead, his client would almost certainly have been lynched. The complexity of ethical and moral issues in the law can rarely be resolved by simple compromise solutions of the kind attempted by the lawyer in the Frank case. Indeed some such issues have no entirely satisfactory solutions.
Nearly seventy years after Leo Frank’s murder, new evidence of his innocence emerged. An eighty-two-year old man [Alonzo Mann], who had been a youthful eyewitness to events surrounding the killing of Mary Phagan, finally came forward and told what he had seen back in 1913. His evidence contradicted the State’s star witness and strongly suggested that the murder was committed by that same witness, the black maintenance man. The murderer threatened the young witness with death if he ever mentioned what he had observed, and he did not come forward for all those years. Now, he has told his story and it seems to have persuaded most objective people that Leo Frank was lynched for a crime committed by someone else.
Finally, in 1986 Frank was posthumously pardoned with following official apology: “The lynching aborted the legal process, thus foreclosing further effort to prove Frank’s innocence. It resulted from the State of Georgia’s failure to protect Frank. Compounding the injustice, the State then failed to prosecute any of the lynchers.” Remarkably, some Georgians continued to resist the pardon.
Alan Dershowitz
Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 11, 1991
High Production Value Source: Dinnerstein, Leonard. The Leo Frank Case. Notable Trials Library edition, Hardcover, Green Leather, Gold Leaf, 1991. This revised edition contains information about the dubious Alonzo Mann affair.
Bibliography, References and Further Required Reading:
'The Leo Frank Case' (1968 First Edition, Revised Editions) by Leonard Dinnerstein @ Amazon.
www.amazon.com/Frank-Case-Brown-Thrasher-Books/product-re...
Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish Community by Leonard Dinnerstein, American Jewish Archive Journal, 1968, November, Volume 20, Number 2, by Leonard Dinnerstein. Source: www.LeoFrank.org
'The Fate of Leo Frank' by Leonard Dinnerstein, page 98, and 'Framed' by Stephen J. Goldfarb, page 108. American Heritage Magazine, October, 1996. archive.org/details/leo-frank-american-heritage-article-o...
The Leo Frank Case: Leonard Dinnerstein's Pseudo-History (2012) by Eliot Dashfield theamericanmercury.org/2012/10/the-leo-frank-case-a-pseudo-history/.
The People versus Leo Frank (2009) by Jewish-American director Ben Loeterman and his chief consultant Steve Oney, Dinnerstein is interviewed throughout the early segments of the docudrama, making false statements about the Leo Frank case. Watch Dinnerstein's eyes dart to the left when he is lying about who informed the police about Jim Conley being able to read and write. archive.org/details/the-people-vs-leo-frank
To Number Our Days, by Pierre van Paassen, 1964. Origin of the Anti-Gentile 'Mary Phagan Bite Wound Hoax.' that Dinnerstein promotes as a fact. Source: archive.org/details/ToNumberOurDaysByPierreVanPaassen
Academic Resume of Leonard Dinnerstein:
Source: history.arizona.edu/user/leonard-dinnerstein
Video 1999: Scandal Then and Now, Canadian Broadcasting Service, "Southern Knights". A Pro-Leo-Frank documentary featuring Mary Phagan-Kean, Alan Dershowitz, Leonard Dinnerstein, Steve Oney, Robert Seitz Frey, and many others.
Source: archive.org/details/scandal-then-and-now-southern-knights...
The Seeking Justice For Little Mary Phagan Website by the Phagan Family
Source (highly recommended): www.LittleMaryPhagan.com
NOI Research Group www.NOIRG.org
White Supremacist Jews & the Ku Klux Klan
NOI RESEARCH GROUP • AUGUST 13, 2020
www.unz.com/article/white-supremacist-jews-the-ku-klux-klan/
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[Leo Frank Flickr Curator Commentary:
Paul Howard's DA website issued a press release on April 26, 1913, announcing the formation of "The Conviction Integrity Unit" to review the Leo Frank trial and other contentious criminal cases, mainly of convictions with respect to people who are presently incarcerated.
Regrettably, old emotional wounds are seemingly being torn asunder, now, with the launch of this "Conviction Integrity Unit", Atlanta-CIU hereafter, because news reports are saying its initial formation was inspired by the Leo Frank Case and because it is reviewing a trial where all those participants who were alive as teens and adults during the 1913 episode, are now long deceased in 2019. Multitudes of Georgians, especially Atlantans, see the Atlanta-CIU as a corrupt ruse to exonerate Leo Frank.
Many people in Georgia quietly believe "THE FIX IS IN" suggesting in slang the Atlanta-CIU is some kind of "Kangaroo Court Committee" as one local African-American resident, put it, one who wished to remain anonymous. Many Georgians of all racial backgrounds are saying they have no doubts the Atlanta-CIU will maliciously exonerate Leo Frank at the behest of 2.5% of the population and their allies (I believe this percentage might be an anti-Semitic allusion to Jews and their sychophants or psychophants if you will).
The following bracketed commentary below was submitted by a student of the Leo Frank case who gives the impression the Atlanta-CIU will be fraught with pro-Leo bias, ADL machinations, SPLC trickery, political bullying, Jewish-Gentile relational challenges, and "political correctness" to the extreme.]
[Email contribution and recommended reading: Steve Oney has a history of being sloppy with the facts of the Frank-Phagan case. Just fact check what he has said orally or penned about the epic-saga. The 'Conviction Integrity Unit' (C.I.U.) wasn't formed in early May 2019 as Oney claims, it was created April 26, 2019, on the 106th anniversary Mary Phagan was sodomized and strangled to death by Leo Frank.
I think Oney might be intentionally obscuring the real date of the founding of this Kangaroo Leo Frank exoneration tribunal (C_I_U), due to the hideous optics of it enabling the unconstitutional exonerating process of a guilty rapist-pedophile sex killer and the group being responsible for its enablement, being founded on the anniversary of Mary Phagan's slaying. This is more than a double injustice for Mary Phagan and her familial descendants, this is an injustice to the Implicit SPIRIT of the Georgia and U.S. Constitution.
The Fulton County DA, Paul Howard, announced the formation of C.I.U. for investigation into controversial cases on April 26, 2019, just see the press releases and news articles in the bibliography-appendix section for proof.
Amazon: If you read the one star reviews of Steve Oney's 2003 book "And the Dead Shall Rise", on Amazon, you get a clear picture that Steve Oney fails to articulate the significance of Monteen Stover's trial testimony in late July of 1913 and State Exhibit B, Leo Frank's unsworn deposition to Atlanta Police recorded on Monday, April 28, 1913, in the presence of his attorneys Luther Rosser and Herbert Haas. Like this and more, Steve Oney lies by omission concerning 99% of Leo Frank's Georgia Supreme Court legal paperwork which are just a couple hundred shy of being 2,000 pages long.
1964 Mary Phagan Bite Wound Hoax
Steve Oney not only lies by omission in his 2003 book, but he falsifies evidence like his pushing of the Mary Phagan Bitemark Hoax. None of the autopsy reports about Mary Phagan mention anything about bitemarks all over her body. This was a manufactured hoax by Pierre van Paassen in 1964 (his book 'to number our days' 64') and Oney promotes it as fact. Oney can not be trusted. Oney has made it clear he is essentially a Leo Frank partisan activist.
The American Mercury: Required reading is a short and concise review of Steve Oney's book at The American Mercury, titled "Who Really Solved the Mary Phagan Murder Case?". People should also listen the audiobook series by The American Mercury on the Leo Frank Trial and a podcast serial, which is 29 weekly half-hour episodes of 'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, V3, The Leo Frank Case, The Lynching of a Guilty Man.]
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Leo Frank on trial in August 1913
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Atlanta Magazine, "Did Leo Frank kill Mary Phagan? 106 years later, we might finally find out for sure." A review of the Leo Frank case could reopen old wounds—and exonerate an innocent man, By STEVE ONEY - MAY 31, 2019
In early May, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that he will reopen one of the most notorious criminal proceedings in American history: the trial of National Pencil Company superintendent Leo M. Frank for the murder of child laborer Mary Phagan. The review will be supervised by the newly formed Conviction Integrity Unit, a panel created to look into cold cases. Former governor Roy Barnes will serve as a consultant. Standing at Howard’s side during a news conference, Barnes said, “There is no doubt in my mind that we’ll prove that Leo Frank is not guilty.”
If the judgment of time is the deciding factor, the unit will indeed find Frank innocent. In the years since the April 26, 1913 murder, a consensus has emerged about what happened in Frank’s downtown Atlanta factory that day: The killer was Jim Conley, a black janitor who was the state’s star witness against Frank. While researching And the Dead Shall Rise, my 2003 book on the case, I too reached the same conclusion. This is not, of course, how Georgians first saw it. An all-white jury accepted Conley’s word over that of Frank, his Jewish boss, and the judge sentenced Frank to die by hanging.
The spectacle of a Jim Crow–era court relying on a black man’s testimony to convict a white man of murder was remarkable, but the nation remembers the case because of what happened next. Following extensive coverage in the press and appeals that ran all the way to the United States Supreme Court, Governor John Slaton commuted Frank’s death sentence in June 1915. Shortly thereafter, a group of men from Marietta, Phagan’s hometown, abducted Frank from the Georgia prison farm in Milledgeville, drove him to Marietta, and lynched him. Several months later, the Ku Klux Klan, which had disbanded following Reconstruction, reestablished itself at a cross-burning atop Stone Mountain.
The Frank case opened a deep vein of anti-Semitism in America, unleashing furies that remain part of the national psyche. (The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to combat those furies.) As a result, any discussion of the subject is difficult. Emotions about it run strong, and, while a majority now believes the factory superintendent was guiltless, others resent what they regard as a knee-jerk acceptance of that fact. Howard’s investigators will need to keep this in mind if they are to vindicate Frank. The affair pitted Jew against Gentile, white against black, rural against urban. Regardless of the outcome, not everyone will be happy.
Attempts to clear Frank’s name are nothing new. In 1982, Atlanta lawyers Charles Wittenstein and Dale Schwartz sought a posthumous pardon for him. The application was based on the revelations of 83-year-old Alonzo Mann, who as a 14-year-old was Frank’s office assistant. In a deposition, Mann swore that on the day of the murder, he entered the factory lobby and saw Conley carrying Phagan’s body. Conley, Mann said, threatened that if he mentioned this to anyone, he’d kill him.
Mann’s story was not only dramatic, but it seemed to give the lie to a central part of Conley’s testimony. Conley asserted that Frank murdered Phagan, who worked for pennies an hour on the factory building’s second floor, after she resisted his sexual advances. He said that Frank then recruited him to cover up the crime and that he transported the body by elevator directly to the factory basement, where the police discovered it the next day. According to Conley, he was never in the lobby with the body. Mann’s statement refuted that.
Powerful as this was, the application for a posthumous pardon—which was opposed by the Phagan family and relatives of Hugh Dorsey, Frank’s prosecutor—failed. The Georgia Pardon and Paroles board announced, “After exhaustive review and many hours of deliberation, it is impossible to decide conclusively the guilt or innocence of Leo M. Frank. For the board to grant a pardon, the innocence of the subject must be shown conclusively.” The board felt Conley may simply have lied about the route he took to get the body to the basement and that Frank could still have committed the murder.
In 1986, Wittenstein and Schwartz reapplied to the board. This time, they sought an apology from Georgia for its failure to protect Frank from the lynch party. The board agreed, but the factory superintendent’s conviction remained intact.
Other efforts to vindicate Frank have proven just as futile. The first came in 1922 when Pierre Van Paassen, a young Dutch journalist working at the Atlanta Constitution, became obsessed with the story. While going through Dorsey’s files, he discovered what he determined to be a telling discrepancy between photos of bite wounds on Phagan’s body and Frank’s dental x-rays. The girl’s murderer, he determined, could not have been the factory superintendent: The photos and the x-rays did not match.
The Constitution, capitulating to pressure from Atlanta Jews fearful of stirring up anti-Semitic sentiments, refused to print Van Paassen’s findings. Not until the 1964 publication of his memoir, To Number Our Days, was the evidence that Van Paassen thought absolved Frank made public. But still no action was taken.
In 1943, Atlanta lawyer Arthur Powell, in a book entitled I Can Go Home Again, asserted that he possessed material exonerating Frank, yet once more Georgia’s Jewish community argued against revealing the information, which was said to implicate Conley. “I accept full responsibility for advising Judge Powell to destroy the memorandum,” wrote fellow Atlanta lawyer Max Goldstein. “It would have merely resulted in renewing the agitation.”
Again and again, in other words, those hoping to prove Frank’s innocence have hit a wall, which leads to the question hovering over the latest attempt: Why is this time different from others?
The involvement of Roy Barnes could provide that difference. The former governor is a native of the Marietta area, and his wife is a granddaughter of a Frank lynch party member. Barnes has a deep understanding of the stain the affair has left on Georgia. He wants to confront the troubled past and bring the truth into the open.
The question is how. Conley disappeared from the public record after a 1941 gambling arrest. There is no death certificate for him. Dorsey’s dossiers on the case, which included the dental x-rays that intrigued Van Paassen, were lost or destroyed sometime during the 1960s following the suicide of his son, James, the family archivist. Even the trial transcript is missing.
There is, however, one promising source: a study conducted by Conley’s lawyer, William M. Smith. The morning after Phagan’s murder, the police found two strange notes by her body. Conley swore that Frank dictated the notes to him in hopes of directing suspicion at another black factory worker. The story was improbable, but in the heat of the moment, the jury and most Georgians believed it. Following the trial, Smith examined the notes, comparing them to other written and spoken remarks by Conley. He determined that the notes, contrary to Conley’s testimony, were not dictated by Frank. They feature Conley’s syntax, misspellings, and slang. According to Smith, they are Conley’s compositions.
Smith’s study of the notes is on file at the Georgia Archives. It persuasively points the finger at Conley, it played a role in Slaton’s commutation decision, and it convinced me. Dusted off and presented anew, the study could establish Frank’s innocence as not just a matter of opinion but of fact. Howard and Barnes should start there.
This article appears in our July 2019 issue of Atlanta Magazine.
Source:
Atlanta Magazine, "Did Leo Frank kill Mary Phagan? 106 years later, we might finally find out for sure." A review of the Leo Frank case could reopen old wounds—and exonerate an innocent man
BY STEVE ONEY - MAY 31, 2019
www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/did-leo-fra...
end of article.
Required Reading:
District Attorney Paul Howard, Atlanta, Ga (retrieved June, 2019)
www.atlantafultoncountyda.org/paul-l-howard-jr/
Paul L. Howard, Jr.
Fulton County District Attorney
Currently serving his sixth term as Fulton County District Attorney, Paul L. Howard, Jr. is a visionary and trailblazer whose innovative ideas have left an indelible mark on the local justice system and the community at large.
Mr. Howard first assumed the Office of Fulton County District Attorney in January 1997—becoming the first African-American to be elected District Attorney in the State of Georgia. He succeeded Lewis Slaton, who held this position for 31 years. Prior to being elected District Attorney, Mr. Howard had served as Fulton County’s Solicitor General for four years.
During his tenure as District Attorney, Mr. Howard has achieved a wide range of ambitious goals, transforming the DA’s Office and revolutionizing the county criminal justice system in the process. Some highlights include the top-to-bottom administrative restructuring of an antiquated office, featuring the installation of Deputy District Attorneys who provide day-to-day supervision of the Office’s divisions; the creation of specialized prosecution units, including Major Felony, Crimes Against Women & Children, White Collar Crime, the Multi-Agency Cold Case Squad, Public Integrity and the Trial Division. Additionally, Mr. Howard has established the Fulton County “Complaint Room” and, with it, has implemented a front-end case screening operation that has streamlined and expedited the felony charging process- a change that is saving the county millions of dollars in jail housing costs annually.
Mr. Howard’s innovative ideas extended beyond the courthouse to the community with the advent of “Community Prosecution,” a concept that strategically places Assistant District Attorneys in satellite offices throughout the County. Under the Community Prosecution umbrella, Mr. Howard has implemented several successful initiatives over the years, including the widely popular Citizens’ CourtWatch program. Implemented in 2004, the grass-roots program serves as a vehicle for community engagement in the criminal justice system. As Community Prosecutors track repeat offenders and cases of interest in their respective communities, citizens are kept abreast of pending cases and are invited to observe and participate (at the Court’s discretion) in judicial proceedings. Neighborhood Fresh Start and the Multi-Jurisdictional Burglary Task Force are other notable Community Prosecution efforts.
District Attorney Howard also has a passion for youth and creating programs that address their needs in unique and positive ways. Among his collection of youth initiatives are the Junior District Attorney and Project Legal Lives programs. Each offers elementary and middle school students hands-on lessons in civics and law. The Perkerson Reading Program, Partnership for Perfect Attendance, Project Turn Around and Teen Court round out the list of other key youth programs implemented during Mr. Howard’s tenure.
Mr. Howard’s law career began in 1976 with the City of Atlanta as an Assistant Solicitor. A year later, he became the City’s Deputy Solicitor. He remained in this position until 1980 when he joined Fulton County as an Assistant District Attorney in Mr. Slaton’s office where he served eight years. Upon leaving the District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Howard worked for three years as an attorney for the Atlanta law firm of Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson, Edward & Patterson, before becoming Fulton County’s Solicitor General.
Active in professional and community activities, Mr. Howard is a Director-at-Large of the National Association of District Attorneys (NDAA). He is also a member of the National Black Prosecutors Association, the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials and 100 Black Men of Atlanta. Mr. Howard has also served as chairperson of the Gate City Bar Association’s Government Law Section and the Atlanta University Criminal Justice Public Service Institute Courts Committee. During his administration, former Governor Roy Barnes appointed District Attorney Howard to his Commission on Certainty in Sentencing, a perfect complement to Howard’s previous service as co-chair of the Senate Structured Sentencing Commission.
Mr. Howard has received numerous awards and recognition for his service to the citizens of Fulton County. Among his recent accolades is the “Zenith Award for Service to the Community” given by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA). Mr. Howard has also been recognized by Atlanta Victim Assistance, Inc. with the Paula Bevington “Helping Hand Award” and by the renowned Butler Street YMCA with its “Legacy of Firsts” award. In 2008, Mr. Howard was inducted into the Gate City Bar Association’s Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of other legal notables such as former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, former Governor Roy Barnes and famed attorney Donald Lee Hollowell. Mr. Howard is also a past recipient of the prestigious “Trumpet Award” and has received other national acknowledgements including the “Humane Law Enforcement Award” given by The Humane Society of the United States. He was also honored with the “Good Guy” award from the Georgia Womens’ Political Caucus, the Atlanta Community Prevention Coalition’s “Outstanding Effort to Stop the Violence” award and the Gammon Theological Seminary’s “Outstanding Community Service” award. The Atlanta Business Chronicle has also recognized Mr. Howard numerous times by in its annual “Who’s Who in Law & Accounting” issue. He was also named one of the “50 Most Influential Georgians” by Georgia Informer magazine.
A cum laude graduate of Morehouse College in political science, Mr. Howard received the school’s Marvin C. Magnum Legal Achievement Award. His exemplary undergraduate performance also earned him an academic scholarship to Emory University’s School of Law. While completing his graduate work at Emory, Mr. Howard was elected president of the Black American Law Students’ Association and later vice president of the Student Bar Association.
Paul Howard is a native of Midville, Georgia. He is married to the former Petrina Moody and has three children.
www.atlantafultoncountyda.org/paul-l-howard-jr/
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Critical Commentary:
The American Mercury Review of Steve Oney's Monograph on the Leo Frank Case:
Who Really Solved the Mary Phagan Murder Case?
theamericanmercury.org/2012/10/who-really-solved-the-mary...
Amazon Books
Reviews on Amazon about Steve Oney's book
www.amazon.com/Dead-Shall-Rise-Murder-Lynching/product-re...
Further Reading
Georgia's First Ever Conviction Integrity Unit (April 26, 2019)
patch.com/georgia/atlanta/georgias-first-ever-conviction-...
Harvard Nieman Scholar, Steve Oney, Class of 1982
nieman.harvard.edu/stories/featured-fellow-steve-oney/
The Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney, Esquire Magazine September 1985, pages 90 to 104.
archive.org/details/steveOneyTheLynchingOfLeoFrankEsquire...
The scholarly mainstream origin of the "Hang the Jew Death Chanting Hoax": Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish Community by Leonard Dinnerstein, 1968, Jewish American Archive Journal, V. 20, N.2.
archive.org/details/LeoFrankAndTheAmericanJewishCommunity
The American Mercury: www.theamericanmercury.org
The Leo Frank Research Library www.leofrank.info
Social Media
Steve Oney on Twitter twitter.com/steveoneywriter
Associated Press (AP) April 26, 2019
Fulton district attorney creates conviction integrity unit, April 26, 1913
ATLANTA (AP) — The top prosecutor in Fulton County says his office is creating a unit to reexamine questionable convictions, which he says is the first of its kind in the state.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard on Friday issued a news release announcing the establishment of a conviction integrity unit. He says the purpose of such units is to investigate and fix wrongful convictions and to establish policies and procedures to learn from any errors that are identified.
Howard says the unit will investigate claims of innocence to see whether new evidence or facts indicate a substantial probability that someone convicted of a crime is not guilty.
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Georgia Governmental PRESS RELEASE April 26, 2019:
www.atlantafultoncountyda.org/fulton-county-district-atto...
April 26, 2019 Office of Public Affairs
The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office is in search of a
Director to lead the department
Atlanta—Today, Fulton County District Attorney, Paul L. Howard, Jr., is pleased to announce the creation of a CONVICTION INTEGRITY UNIT. Currently, the District Attorney’s Office is searching for a qualified candidate to serve as the Director of this critical unit which will be the first of its kind in the State of Georgia.
DESCRIPTION OF CIU:
Across the country, District Attorney’s Offices are increasingly creating Conviction Integrity Units (CIUs) to re-examine questionable convictions and to guard against future conviction error. We believe prosecutors can and should be leading the charge to ensure the public has confidence in criminal convictions. The many proven cases of wrongful convictions and their known causes demonstrate that more needs to be done to guard against such errors. Conviction Integrity Units must investigate and remedy wrongful convictions, and they must also establish policies and procedures to learn from the errors identified, so the criminal justice system is strengthened.
As such, the Fulton County CONVICTION INTEGRITY UNIT will investigate claims of actual innocence to determine whether new evidence or facts give rise to a substantial probability that the convicted defendant was not the person who committed the offense for which they were convicted. The CIU will investigate claims of actual innocence or wrongful convictions by convicted defendants who have already been through their trial and appellate processes. The CIU will review cases in which there is new factual, physical, or forensic evidence. The unit will also review cases in which there is relevant evidence that went untested at the time of trial or some other new evidence that a person was convicted wrongfully. Cases must fall into at least one of these four categories to be considered for re-investigation.
Alleged Misconduct on Part of Prosecutor/Law Enforcement Officer
Forensic Testing of Relevant Evidence
Sentence Modifications Due to Nature of
Offense/Defendant’s Lack of Criminal History
Cases Determined to Warrant Review in “Interest of Justice”
CASE EXAMPLE:
It is imperative that the integrity of the convictions in Fulton County is maintained and that innocent individuals are not imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. There are specific examples of the value of a well-run, independent Conviction Integrity Unit including the case of Frederick Gant. Gant was convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison for the November 27, 2002 murders of Jonathan Wilder and Zerious Jordan based upon false witness testimony.
At the time of the murders, no one came forward to police and the case went cold for 11 years. In 2013, a man from the neighborhood, Major Smith, called police and said he witnessed the crime. Smith identified Gant as the shooter and the case was indicted. Smith testified at trial and Gant was convicted of both murders. It was later discovered that Smith was in jail at the time of the shooting. The defense lawyer contacted the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and DA Paul Howard consented to a new trial and implemented safeguards to vet future informants. The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office re-tried the case without Major Smith and Gant was acquitted.
The DA’s Office indicted Smith, and he eventually agreed to a plea. Smith was sentenced to 10 years to serve 5 in prison. Following his plea, Smith said everyone knew Gant killed the two victims, but they were too afraid to come forward.
HOW IT WORKS:
Submissions will be analyzed by the Conviction Integrity Unit and must meet the following criteria before the unit conducts an in-depth review.
The conviction must have been in the Fulton County Superior Court
There must be a claim of actual innocence or wrongful conviction, and the claim of actual innocence must be predicated on a factual matter, not a purely legal issue.
The claimant must provide new evidence of actual innocence capable of being investigated and potentially substantiated, not a legal argument.
Case records needed for re-investigation of the claim must exist and be available for review.
The claim must not be frivolous.
The claimant must agree to fully cooperate with the unit, including being interviewed by members of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, and providing the State with any and all necessary documents or evidence that the claimant considers relevant and material.
Decisions as to whether the CIU will re-open the case investigation, how the claim will be investigated, and how the claim will be resolved are made at the discretion of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and are not reviewable by any court. There is no timeframe by which claims presented to the CIU will be resolved, but the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office will make every effort to expedite the resolution of each claim. The State will not consent to the vacation of a conviction on grounds of actual innocence unless the reinvestigation of the case clearly and convincingly establishes the claimant’s actual innocence based on the existence of credible evidence.
A panel made up of eight members including (3) Assistant District Attorneys from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, who are solely assigned to the unit (1) outside defense attorney, (1) attorney from the Georgia Innocence Project, (1) Fulton County Minister, (1) attorney/administrator from a local college and/or law school, and (1) attorney from the Georgia Chapter of the NAACP will review cases received by the office to determine whether or not they warrant re-investigation.
The panel will submit its recommendation to the Director of the Conviction Integrity Unit who will report directly to Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. for a final decision. The Director of the CIU will also work directly with the District Attorney’s Office to proactively prevent convictions that could potentially require a later review by the unit.
OTHER CIUs:
According to a study by the University of Michigan Law School, University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science and Society, and the Michigan State University College of Law, there were 33 Conviction Integrity Units in 2017. The study shows rapid growth in the number of CIUs and CIU exonerations since 2007. CIUs were involved in a total of 42 exonerations in 2017, but in 2016, there was a record of 72, due to a series of guilty-plea drug exonerations in Harris County, Texas. Conviction Integrity Units have been involved in 269 exonerations through 2017, according to the study.
FIRST CASE AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT:
Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. has already announced that the Wayne Williams/Atlanta Child Murders case will be the first to undergo an in-depth review by the newly formed Conviction Integrity Unit.
“Some within the criminal justice system here in Fulton County have said that my office is taking a significant risk by creating and forming a Conviction Integrity Unit. Some believe we are exposing ourselves to greater scrutiny and criticism by sanctioning an independent review of our cases. However, it is my belief that a conviction based upon truth and justice will withstand any scrutiny. It is my belief that the greatest risk is not allowing truth and justice to direct your decisions.”
Paul L. Howard, Jr.
Fulton County District Attorney
JOB POSTING/DESCRIPTION:
The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office is currently searching for a Director to serve as the leader of the Conviction Integrity Unit. Anyone interested in applying for this position is asked to do so through the Careers section of the Fulton County District Attorney’s website. The job description for the Director of the Conviction Integrity Unit is listed below:
www.atlantafultoncountyda.org/careers/
Quotes Regarding the Creation of the Conviction Integrity Unit:
“I am pleased to see that Georgia stands for justice. Justice is putting those who commit crimes behind bars and making sure the innocent remain free. Justice is not blind, and the creation of the Conviction Integrity Unit will make sure that any errors that cost an innocent person their freedom are remedied. I speak as not just a lawyer but as a board member of the Southern Center for Human Rights.”
Attorney L. Chris Stewart
“As representatives of ‘the people,’ prosecutors have a responsibility to ensure that the guilty, and only the guilty, are convicted. Included in that citizenry are both the victims of crime and those accused. As every prosecutor is (or should be) taught, her primary responsibility is to seek justice.
Without an honest and ethical search for the truth, she cannot fulfill that obligation. This search for justice is nothing new to Mr. Howard, as he has been a leader in the efforts to increase transparency and confidence in the criminal justice system as far back as his formation of the first Public Integrity Unit in the state which was implemented just a few years after being first elected to office.
During my time as a prosecutor under his leadership, the phrase often heard in staff meetings was that we must “do the right thing.” The formation of the first Conviction Integrity Unit in the State is perfectly aligned with that mantra, and I am looking forward to working with its Director in taking this important step in safeguarding public trust in the work of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.”
Melissa D. Redmon
Director, Prosecutorial Justice Program/UGA School of Law
Ms. Redmon will serve as the principal consultant for the FCDA in the formation of the Conviction Integrity Unit
“It is of foremost importance to ensure that each case is handled with its proper due diligence. The people of Fulton County must have confidence in the just outcome of each case; therefore, we applaud this step by Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard to review previous cases for possible wrongful convictions. Hopefully, this innovative measure will ensure the public’s belief that the Criminal Justice System can be fair for all citizens.”
Attorney Gerald Griggs
First Vice-President, Atlanta NAACP
More research:
Leo Frank Research Library www.leofrank.org
Further Information about Mary Phagan:
Little Mary Phagan Memorial and Research Website
Phagan Family Facebook Group on Mary Phagan
[Leo Frank Museum and Gallery Curator Commentary-
Question: Are the matriculated students at Mercer Law School and practicing attorneys (who have graduated from other law colleges), being proselytized as some audience members have claimed?
I spoke in person with some audience members after the historian Roy Barnes' event concluded, to get their feedback and asked others to email correspond with me about their thoughts on the November 12, 2019, Mercer Law School talk on the Leo Frank Case.
Unfortunately, due to politeness standards, some of the cuss words I had to star out. Regrettably, going against my monolithic freedom of speech policy, I also had to edit out some of the more inflammatory comments which went far beyond "all the words fit to print." I apologize for that, but practically, I don't want Flickr to shut down this account, due to publishing all the angry words of those attendees.
Due to long-standing "smear-fear" threats of being "dossiered" or "doxxed" on ADL, SPLC, and other Jewish civil rights websites with the "race-prejudice" charge, interviewing Mercer Law Students had to be conducted anonymously for them to agree to communicate in private, face-to-face, or through e-mail correspondence.
Since I started the Leo Frank Museum Gallery in 2011/2012, I have been deluged with requests, heated debate, and hate mail, including anti-Semitism toward myself and racist accusations that I am a self-hating Jew.
My goal in creating this public gallery-space on Flickr is not to stoke the burning embers of this contentious Jewish-Gentile ethno culture war, but to allow people to express their pain and frustration caused in the aftermath of this event; and to promote calm dialogue and get even-handed consensus, after people get their emotions and personal feelings off their chests.
The biggest problem that exists right now is that there are two diametrically polarized camps over this criminal affair, with little to no cross-communication between them. I hope to use this Flickr space to bridge that gap by promoting more dialogue, study, research, inquiry, and expression of thoughts, not less.
It's ironic and shameful that Jeff Bezos said, "Democracy Dies in Darkness", but then regularly uses his Amazon.com platform to engage in book burning, censoring thousands of books which are deemed unorthodox by Jewish Civil Wrongs organizations.
As a Jew, I am ashamed that Jewish ethnic-religious activist groups are at the vanguard of promoting Internet censorship. I hope to fight back against their nefarious destructions of our civil liberties and their grotesque inhumanity of silencing critics. Indeed, "Democracy Dies in Darkness!" ADL-sponsored Big-tech censorship by oligopolies such as Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Facebook, is not the way forward to building understanding between people with different views. I hope to make this gallery space a place where people can let their unheard voices be heard.
I'm not alone in these sentiments, but I think it's time for there to be a national inquiry into the official legal records of this case, by all the American attorneys and American law professors of the land, so we can bring it to some kind of closure as to whether or not Leo Frank should be fully granted his vindication or allow his presently recognized verdict of guilt remain a kind of black-letter artifact of history. We also should review the validity of his posthumous pardon which was without exoneration--as to whether or not it was legal. If it wasn't legal, it should be nullified. A retired Georgia judge said for a pardon to be valid it must be agreed to by the living convict, dead people can not make that choice for themselves.
Not in any order, we published here some of the attendees' edited commentaries, dispositions that are shared by many Americans, not just Georgians. There is a growing rage brewing amongst Georgians over the centenary Leo Frank case due to the new 2019 efforts by Paul Howard, Roy Barnes, and Dale Schwartz, with Jewish committees in the background, seeking to get a long-dead Leo Frank a new trial. A new trial where neither he, nor any of the originally subpoenaed testifiers are alive, or able to be present for Leo Frank's coming second trial.
Multitudes of Georgians and Americans alike, are asking: Is that Justice or injustice? Is that constitutional or unconstitutional? Since I am not an attorney or constitutional scholar, I can not answer those questions.
One Jewish law student named "David" to protect his identity, informally stated, "There is too much danger these days of stepping out of ideological lines at law school, and undergraduate colleges/universities."
Controversy ruptured in the Fall semester of 2019 at Mercer Law School. Students have reached the edge of their patience after this November 12, 2019, lecture by Roy Barnes was hosted by Mercer Historians of Jurisprudence (I don't know if I got that name right).
This background information was released and re-written to alter the "gait" and protect the identity of the Mercer Law Students who were present. They wished to namelessly give their opinions without the consequences of voicing rival assessments. The information below was submitted by email, and also captured in person immediately after the lecture concluded, these impressions were afterward edited so Law professors couldn't identify the syntactical formulation of their students and out them.]
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ROY BARNES AT MERCER COLLEGE LECTURING ON THE LEO FRANK CASE, 11-12-2019 (Barnes was Gov. of GA, 20-odd years ago).
Students were reticent to speak out about their real feelings in the hallways (except if their names were promised not to be mentioned), out of fear of retaliation or ostracization by Mercer law school professors, so they cautiously wished to remain unnamed. There is a real culture of dread at universities for being singled out and smeared with the "race prejudice card" of "Antisemitism", when it can forever ruin your future prospects of a successful law career. Mercer Law School is no different in these viewpoints of students.
"Daniel," said, "It sucks". "Even mentioning the climate of reticence is dangerous because it could imply you might be awakened to the limited and narrow footpath of legal opinions you're allowed to hold in law school. Even saying the term "free speech" these days can get you labeled as using the "alt-right" codeword of "White Supremacists". Law school might as well be called P.C. University (Politically Correct University), where you get indoctrinated in modern orthodox "safe-think" and 'safe-speak'.... he opined."
The General Consensus of Attendees:
Mercer students, historians, attorneys, and others who were obligatorily required to attend these educational meetings for "continuing credits" are asking why they are being pre-required to silently watch demagogues speak who are "twistorians" not historians, intentionally falsifying the chronicles of the trial to proselytize people into the tiresome cult of rehabilitating Leo Frank, a lethal child-molester.
Students often sit through these new-think forums calmly and quietly, but the idea that no one knows about the Leo Frank trial in this the disinformation age, no longer stands. The lack of truthful knowledge about L.M.F. ended a decade ago (circa 2010), when after 97 years since 1913, the brief of evidence was finally put online by the Leo Frank research library @ www.LeoFrank.org and that ended a hundred years of single-dimension hype that he was some kind of tragic civil rights hero ensnared in a Salem witch trial. When people read his appeals records they realize this was no American Dreyfus affair.
Mercer students want to know why they only get the defense or Frank-Partisan version of the double murder and never the prosecution side or then-prosecutor opinions of the events?
Mercer Law Students are tired of the older generations, from its old crusty pedagogues, new ideological adherent teachers, to fake-news journalists, trying to inculcate them with politically correct activist goals of turning the contemporary events of that legal drama on its head.
Mercer Law Students want their professors to know they can see right through the ruse.
Mercer Law Students want to learn how to read between the lines, and Mercer students want to learn how to read between the lies, not just be told what to think by dusty old farts who lived their entire academic tenure or worked through lengthy law careers promoting lies about the Leo Frank trial.
Mercer Law Students are beginning to think the law school academy in its totality is nothing more than a brainwashing indoctrination mill for powerful forces with certain social manipulation goals.
Mercer Law School Millennials would like to say F* you to all the boomers and apparatchik teachers, who are trying to draft us into their racist evangelism of hating on White Southerners and Christians of all colors, and stirring up old blood feuds about over-the-top claims of anti-Semitism.
Mercer Law Students don't want to dig up old ghosts for the prior generations who have turned the centenary scandal into a Twilight Zone episode or science-fiction horror film, where the pedophilic monster Leo M. Frank is the "real victim", and the child who refused to yield her virtue to him is an after-thought or an excuse to rationalize attributing wrongful guilt on two American black men (#BlackLivesMatter) for the slaying of the little White girl.
Mercer Law Students in unison would like to acknowledge they refuse to be brainwashed by Leo Frank's revolting admirers and want to let you baby boomers know, "F* you BOOMERS, you are like colon cancer."
Mercer Law students want their "law college" administrators to know that they can make their own decisions about the evidence of this case. They don't want to be force-fed biased fairylands about poor little innocent child sex predator, Leo M. Frank, unless the trial brief of evidence doesn't actually sustain his guilt--which it most certainly does sustain his guilt. Even the Georgia Supreme Court AGREES. But we don't get to learn that at Mercer Law School because it's run by PC cowards. said "Walt", a second-year law student.
"Mercer Law Students want their professors to know that this is exasperating, after 106 years of this nonsense, we now have to inherit this vomit waterfall coming from hobbled, ancient, groveling White cuck, coming out to yakety-yak on us with the supposition we must take on the hereditary mantle of their anti-Gentile blood libel. The Jew trope blames White Southerners of anti-Semitic framing and falsely accuses the black graveyard-shift security guard-on fire watch-for the little girl being sodomized and suffocated with a packing-twine garrot by the Jewish maniac who took her young life away. Nice try, it's not gonna happen," said "Mitch" a first-year student."
Leo Frank's Army of Pedophile-Denialists
"It's almost like the pedophile-denialists are worse than the killer pedophile himself, Frank. The people who enabled Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and other sexual predatory degenerates are worse than the predator freaks themselves. Without these enablers, the fiendish perverts could have never been serial rapists. F* you pedophile-denialists, we are #MeToo STRONG," said "Deb" one of the few female attorneys at the event.
"Leo Frank was a serial rapist pedophile, Mary Phagan wasn't the only girl he defiled. Leo Frank also defiled former factory girl Dewey Howell, who told police that after Leo Frank had seduced her in the 1911-1912 time frame, he slithered down backward between her legs and bit her on the crease area adjoining laterally to the vagina. He bit her so hard he left permanent scars on the side of her private parts. This is the man they are defending. This is the man they want a street named after. This is the man they named a memorial park after in Marietta. May the Goddess of Karma put on her steel-toed high heels and kick them in their asses for all eternity, and punish them in Milton's inner hell. #MeToo," said one transgender LGBTQ+ correspondent, who asked to be described as "Rhonda".
"Mercer Law Students are incensed they are being told righteously indignant morality tales about a crookedly rehabilitated libertine. The counter showing affidavits in Leo Frank's appeals records, exhibit the culture and climate he created at the National Pencil Company. We're gonna transcribe the 240-something page docs in the GASC files and publish them online. We're not going to take it anymore or allow these faggily pedophile-denialists shovel their horse manure down our throats anymore. We're sick and tired of this crap. We see your four-flusher disinfo campaign, and we raise you an info war with an Ace-high royal flush.", said "Brad".
Others not wanting any names mentioned:
Mercer Law Students can figure things out for ourselves, and we believe the evidence proved Frank's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. He had a fair trial and was duly convicted. Capital punishment was fitting.
Mercer Law Students are no longer allowing curmudgeon boomers and other waddling decrepit old slicksters to trick us into taking one side or the other. We have reviewed the brief of evidence in the GASC appeals, and believe the jury made the right decision. So F* you lying boomers. We can't wait until you're gone, so the little girl and her family can finally have some peace. And if you want to go on for 100 years more, BRING IT ON BITCHES. To those who use phantasmagorical fables to convince us Leo Frank is innocent, when you die, may the devil sodomize you for all eternity.
Mercer Law Students are sick and tired of the pro-Frank propaganda being forced down their throats with these mandatory brain reprogramming sessions, where indoctrination and proselytizing is being conducted by agitators with a cynical vengeance for a lost cause. We know it would be the crowning injustice if Leo M. Frank was made officially innocent in 2021 or 2022 by a committee of pro-Frank agitators. They are force-feeding racist and ethnic lies down the students' mouths about non-existent mobs supposedly tampering and bullying the jury every morning as the talesmen walked to the courthouse. WE CALL BULLSHIT ON YOU NASTY LYING STEAMING COILS OF SHIT.
Mercer Students reviewing this true-crime or "cold-case" depending on which side you come from want SOUTHERN inquiry into this full thing because the anti-Gentile blood libel, the infoswindles, and the compulsive falsehoods coming out of it are so thick you can eat them with a spoon.
APPENDIX
Infamous Leo Frank trial, lynching to be reexamined by new Fulton County task force
The case will join the Atlanta Child Murders and other infamous Fulton County cases getting a second look
Author: Christopher Buchanan, Ryan Kruger
TEXT ARTICLE: www.11alive.com/article/news/1915-lynching-of-leo-frank-t...
Published: May 7, 2019
ATLANTA — A now-infamous case involving the lynching of a Jewish man in Marietta after his sentence was commuted in Fulton County will be one of a growing number of cases getting a new look by a specialized team.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that former Governor Roy Barnes had brought the case of Leo Frank to his attention years ago. Now, that same case is being reexamined by the newly formed Conviction Integrity Unit - and Barnes is acting as an advisor.
"After he was convicted, he was sentenced to hang," Howard said. "His sentence was commuted [by the Governor who was part owner of the law firm who represented Leo Frank at his trial. That law firm was called "Rosser, Brandon, Slaton and Phillips"] and he was placed in a prison in Milledgeville, but he was removed from the prison in Milledgeville, he was brought to Marietta and he was lynched."
Frank had been accused [He wasn't just accused, a Coroner's jury voted unanimously 6 to 0 to have him bound over for suspicion of murder, a grand jury voted 21 to 0 to indict him, a trial jury and judge voted 13 to 0 to convict him and sentence him to death], in 1913 of murdering Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta. Her body was found in the cellar of a pencil company Frank managed. Being the last known person to see her alive - picking up her wages - Frank was accused of her rape and murder. [Convicted not just and only accused, and his guilty verdict was never disturbed by the Georgia Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court.]
A jury convicted Frank based mainly on the testimony of a janitor [It wasn't just the Janitor Jim Conley who helped convict Leo Frank, it was also Monteen Stover who said Leo Frank's office was empty at the time Leo Frank said he was there alone with Mary Phagan, and Leo Frank responded to Monteen Stover's testimony that his office was empty because he went to the toilets in the machine department where Phagan was murdered at the same time she was theorized to have been murdered by the police and prosecution team.]. The conviction was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the appeal was denied on procedural grounds - though two justices dissented based on allegations of mob law.
Barnes recounted what jurors allegedly faced as they were moved from a nearby location to the courthouse during the trial. [Roy Barnes is making false statements and lying for the Jewish Supremacist civil rights groups who are covertly behind the Atlanta DA's CIU. There were teams of photographers and reporters outside the Fulton County courthouse in July and August of 1913, when the trial was taking place, they never reported crowds shouting anti-Semitic death threats at the jury, every single morning as Roy Barnes claimed on numerous occasions (2 of those occasions caught on film). Leo Frank in his appeals to State and Federal courts, never said he didn't have a fair trial, specifically, because mobs were screaming anti-Semitic death threats at the jury every morning or at all. Roy Barnes is promoting an anti-White hate crime and race-prejudice fraud, he is a disgusting man, lying to get a serial Jewish pedophile exonerated of a crime he committed.].
Roy Barnes LIES:
"As they would march up the jurors every day to go to the Fulton County courthouse, the crowd would chant, 'Hang the Jew or we'll hang you'," he said.
[Everyday?!?! Not even one day.]
[Roy Barnes is a habitual liar who is intentionally poisoning the CIU with his anti-Gentile jury tampering calumny, he keeps repeating this Jewish supremacist lie at other open meetings, such as Mercer Law School (caught on film, we have the tape).]
Eventually, then-Governor John Slaton commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment based on his own investigation - assuming he would be set free once his innocence was officially established. [Not true, then-Governor Slaton state officially in his 29-page commutation (available online) of Leo Frank that he was sustaining the jury's verdict of guilt, only changing the death penalty with life in prison, which was an equal punishment.].
Many in the state, however, were enraged having followed media reports damning Frank. His throat was slashed [July 17, 1915]in a Milledgeville prison camp months after arriving. He survived only to be hanged by Marietta [and Atlanta] residents who took him from his cell and took him back to their city. They called themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan [They didn't call themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan, that's a Jewish supremacist hoax] - a group later tied to the revival of the Ku Klux Klan [The Klan was revived due to the 1915 film 'Birth of a Nation'].
"There is no doubt in my mind - and we'll prove it at the appropriate time - that Leo Frank was not guilty," Barnes said. [At the appropriate time? He's been going around giving speeches that crowds of people outside the courtroom where screaming anti-Semitic terrorist threats at the jury, thereby tamping with the jury, "scaring" them into convicting Leo Frank and therefore voting guilty out of fear not facts. He is pure evil, he will say anything to rehabilitate the deadly child molester Leo Frank.]
While among the oldest, and perhaps the case that inspired the unit's founding [Not "perhaps", The unit admitted the Leo Frank case inspired its founding, with that date being April 26, 2019, the anniversary of Mary Phagan's murder. Proof is on the district attorney's website], the case of Leo Frank is far from the only one being reviewed by the new task force - and not the only one now infamous in the state.
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Credit: 11Alive
www.11alive.com/article/news/1915-lynching-of-leo-frank-t...
Watch the video of Roy Barnes making false statements on TV about terrorist jury tampering efforts on a morningly basis, for a trial that was 25 days of actual in courtroom proceedings.
Transcription of the Tuesday, November 12, 2019, Mercer Law School Monologue by Roy Barnes on Leo Frank is available below:
Video of the Mercer Monologue on the Leo Frank case and the efforts to exonerate him:
TRANSCRIPTION BEGINS
[Jack Saw Speaks] Alright, good afternoon!
Thank you, everybody, for joining us despite the rain and the cold. I'm Jack Saw, I'm the president of Historians in Law School, it's a student organization here at school, and we're excited, together with the school, and with the help of our Dean Kathy Cox, to be sponsoring this event. And we're excited to see such a good turnout, including my fellow students and alumni. Welcome back, and welcome home. And current attorneys here in town. So I'll turn it over to Dean Kathy Cox to introduce our speaker.
[Dean Kathy Cox Speaks] Thank you, Jack, and good afternoon to all of you. I want to say a special word of welcome to Judge Hugh Lawson. We are always glad to have you here judge and to my friend, and fellow public servant former state representative, Larry Walker, from Perry, who served in the Georgia legislature with Governor Barnes and me, we're glad that both of you could be here along with so many other friends, alumni, and students today. It's a real pleasure to introduce you to former governor Roy Barnes.
Governor Barnes is a lifelong resident of Cobb County, Georgia. He is a “double-dog,” having earned his history degree and his law degree from the University of Georgia and the Georgia law school. He first went to work as a prosecutor in the Cobb County District Attorney's office after graduating from law school, before opening his own law firm in Marietta, where he continues to practice today.
The political bug bit him really early. He was elected to the Georgia Senate at age 26, becoming the youngest member of the state senate at the time. He served eight terms in the Georgia State Senate, rising into numerous leadership positions, and also being appointed as chairman of the Select Commission on Constitutional Revision, which rewrote the Georgia Constitution in 1983. So if any of you students want to know any interpretation about the Georgia Constitution, he's your guy! (At least my view! – Roy Barnes interjects) He and Larry Walker, both, wrote the Georgia Constitution that exists today.
He made his first bid for the governorship in 1990 and was unsuccessful in a primary Zell Miller who went on to win. But Roy Barnes came back two years later and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives where I got the chance to serve with him in the House and as a member of the House Judiciary Committee along with state representative, Walker.
In 1998 Governor Barnes was elected as the 80th governor of Georgia. He made education reform and improvements to education, public education, in Georgia a hallmark of his administration with efforts to reduce class sizes all over the state, raise accountability standards, require more discipline in classrooms, and other reforms.
He also concentrated on health care reform and remedies for urban growth and sprawl. He took on the very controversial issue of removing the Confederate Battle Flag from the Georgia state flag and he won that battle, changing the Georgia flag, but many believe that battle played a big role in his defeat for reelection in 2002. Nevertheless, he was awarded in 2003 the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage award, for his leadership in that effort.
Upon his defeat in 2002, Governor Barnes did something that really surprised the legal community, he did not go back to Marietta to start making money. He instead went to work for the Atlanta Legal Aid office as a full-time volunteer, for the next 6 months, committing his efforts and providing one of the strongest signals possible about what lawyers really owe their profession and the community.
He did eventually return to private practice of law, where he has continued to work as one of the most successful trial lawyers in Georgia and the southeast. He's known for successfully handling personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases, along with mass tort cases, and complex business disputes.
There's a pretty well-known saying in Georgia that if you're in trouble, you want Roy Barnes on your side and you don't want to have to fight against him.
Governor Barnes, in my opinion, is one of the wisest and most astute political leaders Georgia has ever known, along with being one of the smartest trial lawyers ever to see a Georgia courtroom. It has been my honor to serve with him, and Georgia government. and a special privilege to have him here as our guest today to talk about one of his most recent endeavors in the historic Leo Frank case. Please join me in welcoming former governor, Roy Barnes.
[Roy Barnes Speaks] Kathy read that just like I wrote it, so, I've got to tell you just one little side note. We had a lot of controversy is the judges know about Georgia's voting machines and I had this lady that came out to interview me. She says, “did you know they stole the election from you in 2002, with those voting machines?” I said, “No ma'am. I think I lost that all on my own.” so...
Van Pearlberg, who's here, used to be an assistant district attorney and is now in the Attorney General's office. Van and I are longtime friends. He's probably a better expert on Leo Frank than I am. So we're glad to have him. Now you're one of the Phagan's descendants. “I am, I'm Mary Phagan-Kean, the great niece.” [Mary Phagan Kean comments, Barnes continues] The great niece – this is Mary Phagan-Kean, who's the great niece of Mary Phagan.
I want to turn you back for over a hundred years in Georgia.
Really back to the time of 1913. Georgia was a lot different. It had just come out, about 25 or 30 years before, out of the Civil War and a good part of the state was still recovering. In fact, if you look at the tax digest in 1860, it was 1960 until the tax digest recovered at the same amount that it was in 1860.
Georgia was also torn. It was torn between the Henry Grady, New South and the Old South, that had been brought down in the Civil War. Grady and governors, were trying to attract to Georgia any industry they could because most of the people we're desperately poor.
Now, into all of that comes Leo Frank. Leo Frank, was born in Texas, but he grew up in Brooklyn and he went to Cornell where he studied mechanical engineering. He married Lucille Selig. The Selig family is still one of the greatest and most well-known families in Atlanta – Selig properties, Steve Selig, Slick Selig as his father was known.
Well, the Frank's uncle [Moses Frank] owned a majority of what was the National Pencil Factory which was on Whitehall but now is called Peachtree and they divided it up.
He was a member of the temple [Formerly the Hebrew Benevolent Society] which is now on Peachtree. And they were mostly reform – the temple was reform Jewish faith and it was led by a fellow that was considered a radical in many aspects and that is Rabbi David Marx.
They were mostly German Jews that were members of that community and they were assimilationist and not isolationist.
The Orthodox, and some conservative but mostly Orthodox, believe in living in communities separated from other Jewish or Gentile communities, but the reform, and particularly at this time, with a German influence were assimilationists.
Those of you who have seen Driving Miss Daisy – Miss Daisy, her son was a member of the temple. The temple was bombed, by the way, in the 1950s [circa 1958] because they were very pro-civil rights [that was never proved] and another lawyer the time, Ada Garland's father, Reuben Garland, defended the fellow that was charged. Who, by the way, was acquitted and this was in the 1950s.
Mary Phagan was a teenage girl. She was raised in Marietta, she was buried in Marietta, where I'm from. And child labor was very common at the time. The first industry was really the manual type industry in textile mills, and children were the ones that generally worked there. It was accepted in society, at the time. She was owed a dollar and twenty cents for past wages. Now back then we had the first rapid transit, even though Cobb has none today, but we had the first rapid transit in Cobb County. It was called the trolley line and it was run by the Atlanta Northern Line. So there was a line, a street car that ran every hour going to Atlanta and another one that was returning to Atlanta. She rode the street line, the streetcar down to Atlanta, because the plant was closed, because we were having Memorial Day. Not Yankee Memorial Day as they called it at the time – Confederate Memorial Day, April 26th, [1913].
And she knew the plant was closed, but she also knew that Mr. Frank worked there and she wanted to get her dollar and twenty cents because her family needed it.
So the plant was closed and she went. There's no question she went there. No question she saw Leo Frank, in my view, but her body was found the next morning in the basement where the incinerator was. Now this is going to become important a little bit later.
There was two ways to get downstairs: one was with an elevator, but it was a very rudimentary elevator. It didn't have any brakes on it [False it did have breaks, by a hand cord]. It stopped when it hit the ground and you would jump and ran, then have a break. It just went up a couple of floors.
And then there was a ladder that went into the basement. Mary Phagan was found in the basement and there was soot all over her face. Her dress was hiked up and she was found early the next morning by a fella named Newt Lee who worked there. He was a janitor [He was the nightwatchman not the janitor], or you know, worked around the plant.
Of course, Frank and the police were called and all of that and Newt Lee was the first suspect. Now remember this was before the time of Miranda. It was before the time of anything that had any essence of being a due process, particularly if you were an African-American in the South.
And in fact, both as to Newt Lee and to Conley, Jim Conley, who we'll talk about it in just a moment, who became the star witness. The newspapers would have stories that I've read “Conley, & Lee, Being Sweated by the Police.” Now we can only imagine what “being sweated” was, but it was not uncommon even when I started practicing law. I hate to say this, for police officers to get carried away with rubber hoses and everything else.
The police pretty well ruled Newt Lee out and then the idea, the focus turned to Jim Conley. Now Conley was a janitor, a gopher, or whatever ,in the office. He gave three different statements, three different affidavits, which all changed through time. He became the star witness, and what he said was that Frank wanted to have sex with Mary [Phagan], and that he had taken her into the ladies room.
His office was on the same floor as the manufacturing and a wood lathe was there [in the machine department aka metal room[. And that he had hit her too hard. This was his final story. And that he called Conley up to take her down to the elevator. She was dead.
Now this is going to become critical later. Conley also said that they had mattress tick, which is that striped cloth that was around mattresses and then wrapped her in it to take her down there [to the basement of the national pencil company].
Conley also said that he took he and Frank together – took her down the elevator, you know the one that bump! [Roy Barnes is falsifying the story, Leo Frank controlled the elevator with a hand cord] And this became critical later, particularly to Governor [John] Slaton.
Frank was indicted based on that testimony and put on trial pretty well. The trial took about a month. Frank was represented by what probably was the best lawyer in Georgia at the time. His name was Luther Rosser.
The prosecution was represented by, up to that time, a lackluster prosecutor by the name of Hugh Dorsey. By the way, just as a footnote Hugh Dorsey and his wife's daughter would later marry Luther Rosser's son. Everything is connected. You know there's only seven degrees of separation.
Judge [Leonard] Roan was the [presiding] judge and was considered a very good judge and was. The difference in the trials were greatly different [then] than they are today. The Fulton County Courthouse was on Marietta Street at the time. There was no air conditioning, as you might imagine, so the windows were open during the day, and this is one of the things that Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Evans Hughes wrote about in the sense, in the case, was the mob outside. And somebody would sit in the window [not true], so is reported in the case, and holler out what the testimony was [not true], and there would be a roar of approval or a boo of disapproval [fake news, this was not the case].
There are some that say, and I've read some of these reports, that the jury was sequestered and was kept at the old Kimball house. And I have read some reports of, as the jury would come up from the Kimball house to go to the courthouse every day, parts of the mob would say, “hang the Jew or we'll hang you,” [This is the jury tampering hoax, Leo Frank's defenders promote to trick the public into thinking Leo Frank didn't have a fair trial] whatever it was, and all of them and I don't think there's a lot of dispute about this, there was a mob presence there [There was no misbehaving mob outside the courthouse, Barnes is misrepresenting the case]. The effect they had is open to dispute.
Well, to make a long story short, because I only have a little time and I want to get to John Slaton and the lynching. To make a long story short, Frank was convicted and sentenced to hang. Georgia let every sheriff hang his own folks at the time. Fulton County had what was called the Tower and he was to be hung there.
The case went to the Supreme Court of the United States, twice. There were two dissents -- Charles Evan Hughes and Oliver Wendell Holmes. And Hughes wrote, and I won't get into it, I read it last night again, about the influence of the mob.
John Slaton was governor of Georgia. He was called Jack. He was a rising star in Georgia politics and everybody said that he was going to be the next United States Senator. He was married to the wealthiest woman in Georgia. Her name was Grant, Sarah Frances Grant. She was called Sally. In fact, John Slaton is buried in the Grant Mausoleum at Oakland Cemetery, not his own. He was buried in his wife's mausoleum.
The case finally came up to him in June of 2015 [actually 1915]. Now, he had been watching the case and he had started his own investigation in the case.
We had crazy times of governors taking office back then. He was going out of office and Governor Nat Harris was coming in and Nat Harris was the governor who signed a bill allowing women to practice law in Georgia. And Nat Harris was the governor coming in and I'm sure, like every other governor, he'd say, “maybe it won't get there before I leave.” But he had been governor twice. We didn't have a lieutenant governor then. He'd been president of the Senate in 1911 when Hoke Smith died and he became acting governor for about 18 months and then Joseph Mackey Brown, the son of Joseph E. Brown, the Civil War governor, served one term in between and then Slaton came back and served the second term – when he caught the Leo Frank case.
He [Governor Slaton] read the entire month-long transcript. He did his own investigation. He took detectives and Hugh Dorsey to the scene and he came to the conclusion that there was not certainty as to the death penalty. He middled around as to whether he was actually guilty. He said there was not certainty. He wrote – and I'll leave it here with Kathy in case anyone wants to see it they can – he wrote a commutation order; Twenty-nine pages where he set out the evidence in detail.
He talked about all of the witnesses and things that had arisen since that time.
One of the things that he depended on was – remember Conley said that he and Frank had taken Mary Phagan down the elevator – and so the police, when they came down – and remember that elevator hit the bottom [not true, it had a hand cord break, Conley reported Frank controlled the cord and stopped it too soon] -- the police reports coming the next morning to investigate said that they found (I know this is indelicate) human excrement when someone had had a bowel movement under the elevator.
Well now, that is when they came to investigate and that was a turning point, as you'll see with him, one of the turning points, because he said, that if they had gone down on the elevator, it would have smooshed the excrement and they would have been smelling it. In fact, it was not until the next day that it occurred.
Another thing that he relied upon was this: Judge Roan, who had presided over the trial, had talked with Slaton and had written him a letter [It was a forgery], in which Judge Roan said, I have doubt, I have doubt. And if I had the power, he didn't think he had the power at the time, he was wrong and Governor Slaton tells him, yeah, he could have done it, I probably would have granted a new trial [Judge Roan did have the power].
There's a lot of litigation that's going on right now for a Georgia Supreme Court on the power of a trial judge sitting as a 13th juror. That is, the right to set aside and put their own judgment in.
And so, based upon that and the other facts – there was some hair on the lathe – and somebody testified (remember we didn't have scientific things like we do now), well, that looks like Mary Phagan's hair. After the trial there was somebody that found a microscope and looked at it and a doctor gave an opinion, “this is not the same hair.” That happened after the trial [The examining scientist was likely bribed according to other people stating they were bribed in the Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Records].
At the trial there had been women that had been brought up, “well, Frank tried to sexually harass me” and another group that says, “Oh, I've worked with him for years and had no problem whatsoever.”
Well, and in fact, Slaton received over a hundred thousand letters. He talks about it in his commutation order. He decided he was going to commute the sentence. And he wrote this order.
He went home and told his wife, Sally, and she said, “I would” and he said, “I don't know what's going to happen here to us.” And she said “I would rather be the widow of a brave man than the wife of a coward.” And he signed the commutation.
Let me read to you part of it:
“The performance of my duty under the Constitution is a matter of my conscience. The responsibility rests where the power is reposed. Judge Roan, with that awful sense of responsibility, which probably came over him as he thought of that judge before he would shortly appear..” Judge Roan had died in the interim. “...calls to me from another world to request that I do that which he should have done.
I can endure misconstruction, abuse and condemnation, but I cannot stand the constant companionship of an accusing conscience. Which would remind me in every thought that I, as governor of Georgia, failed to do what I thought to be right.
There is a territory between a reasonable doubt and an absolute certainty for which the law provides and allowing life imprisonment instead of execution. This case has been marked by such doubt.”
He was interviewed a little bit later after that and this is what he said:
“Two thousand years ago, another governor washed his hands and turned over a Jew to a mob. For 2,000 years that governor's name has been cursed. If today another Jew” [Leo Frank] “were lying in his grave because I had failed to do my duty, I would all through life find his blood on my hands, and would consider myself an assassin through cowardice.”
Now, he went out of office within four or five days, Slaton did.
What was the reaction?
Well, he had to have the state militia escort him to the train station to leave. He slipped back in from time to time but he stayed gone ten years, before he came back to start back practicing law. He was successful. He went on and was one of the, before a unified bar, he was president of the State Bar.
But he never, of course, held political office again.
What happened to Leo Frank?
Well, Leo Frank was in the Tower, the Fulton Tower, ready to be hung by the sheriff. And so Governor Slaton, before he released the commutation, had the sheriff take him to the state prison, which was not at Reidsville at the time. It was in Milledgeville, because Milledgeville had been the capitol of Georgia until 1868, when it was moved to Atlanta.
He was not there for long, until his neck was slit [July 17th, 1915] and he had a big gash in it by an attempt on his life. And then, remember the commutation was on June 21st, 1915.
By the way, Frank was scheduled to be hung the next morning [June 22nd, 1915]. So it was right upon...Slaton put it off as long as he could.
Well on August the 17th of 1915 [Actually it was the 16th] a group from Marietta got into the state prison in Milledgeville, brought Frank to Frey's Gin road, which is right off 75 and Roswell road in Marietta, and hung him.
This was not the first great stain on all of us, in the South. Is that is estimated there were more than 4,000 African-Americans lynched after the Civil War until the 1960s [60% of that number were African Americans, the other 40% were Whites and a small percentage were other]. The last one in Georgia was in the late 1940s at [name unintelligible] bridge, Walton county.
But this was the first case of a Jew being lynched. But remember this was a tough time in Georgia. The Ku Klux was not risen yet. But it soon did after this with some of the same folks that were lynchers. And they hated three folks: Jews, Blacks and Catholics, and in fact that's one of the reasons, even as a kid I can remember, prejudice against Catholics.
There's a great story that says Richard Russell, he was a great United States senator from Georgia, and his daddy was the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. There's a story that Dick Russell fell in love with a Catholic girl and was going to marry her and he went to his daddy and told him that he was going to marry her and he said, “Well, son.” He said, “You could marry her but your days in politics are over in Georgia.” And he never married. That's a whole 'nother story. Because there's a provision in his will that says he wants a gift to go to a certain person that is exactly [unintelligible] things like that.
But these were the leaders of the community.
There's a famous photograph of the lynching with Frank hanging there and to the right is the superior court judge, standing there. His name was Newt Morris.
If you get interested in this case, this case will drive you crazy, but if you get interested, the book you should read is 'The Dead Shall Rise' [2003] by Steve Oney.
Steve Oney came to see us in the eighties. I was always enthralled with the case and Tom Watson – one of the things I hadn't mentioned – Tom Watson, who was one of the great political leaders – Hugh Dorsey went on to become governor from this. Tom Watson went on to become a United States Senator.
Tom Watson had a newspaper called The Jeffersonian and he printed headlines in red [Not true, we have all the copies of his newspapers and magazines]. And it was scandalous, the reporting on the trial that occurred every day. “Jew pervert,” he used words like that in the headlines instead of being factual. [Barnes is wrong, Tom Watson did not comment on the 1913 Leo Frank Trial, until 1914. "Jew Pervert" wasn't published until the late summer of 1915 in Watson's Magazine.]
Here's some of the ones that were involved – Steve Oney has devised it up:
Joseph M. Brown. Well, he was governor from 1909 to 1911, 1912 to 1913, right before Jack Slaton. He was from Marietta. Charlie Brown, his grandson, just died last year. These folks are still around.
Newton Augustus Morris. He was the superior court judge and his great nephew is on the city council of Marietta. I once said, I said, “You can't be an old Mariettan unless you had an ancestor that was at the lynching of Leo Frank and it's just about the truth.
Eugene Herbert Clay. He was the son of the United States Senator. He was mayor of Marietta, but at the time that this occurred he was, what we called him then, the solicitor-general, the district attorney today. I always loved the old name, solicitor-general. I wish they hadn't changed it. They still call him solicitor today.
He is the one that presided and called the grand jury in to listen to evidence about who had taken Leo Frank and lynched him. Surprise, surprise, the grand jury returned a finding that it was “persons unknown” in the community.
John Tucker Dorsey. His son later, Jasper Dorsey, would be president of Bell South or Southern Belle as we called it back then. John Tucker Dorsey, he was one of the best trial lawyers there was. He was a member of the general assembly. He was chairman of the prison committee and that's probably how they got in so easily down in Milledgeville.
He served as district attorney for two years, John Tucker did. He had been twice convicted of manslaughter. I mean, folks were a little bit different back then, you know. And had served in imprisonment on the chain-gang and then was later pardoned by the governor so he could go to law school and become district attorney. He was a distant cousin of Hugh Dorsey, who was the prosecutor.
Fred Morris, he was a Marietta lawyer. He served his first term in the general assembly. He organized the Boy Scouts in Marietta and then went off to the lynching of Leo Frank.
Bowlin Glovitt Glover Brumby. Like I said, had every prominent family in Marietta. He owned the Marietta Chair Company, you know, the Brumby Rocker? This is where it comes from. Oney describes Brumby as the very image of an arrogant Southern Aristocrat and that nothing angered him more than Yankees.
The field commanders, those were kind of the planners, the field commanders was a fella named George Daniels. He ran a jewelry shop on the Marietta Square and was one of the founding members of the Rotary Club.
These folks were not riff-raff.
Gordon Baxter Gann. He was from Mableton, by the way, but he was ordinary and was former mayor of Marietta.
Newt Mays Morris. They called him “Black Newt.” Now Black Newt would whip 'ya. He ran the chain gang in Cobb County and they called him “Whippin' Newt” or “Black Newt.”
William J. Frey. He had been the sheriff of Cobb County from 1903 to 1909. He prepared the noose used to hang Frank and may have actually looped it around Frank's neck. Frey's Gin, Frey's Gin road, the location of where they hung him, was his property.
E.P. Dick Dobbs. He later became very prominent. His family moved north and he was the mayor of Marietta at the time.
L. B. Robeson was a railroad freight agent. He lent his car to the lynch party.
Jim Brumby, Grover Glovitt Brumby's brother – he owned a garage and serviced the automobiles before they went. It was a big affair to go from Marietta to Milledgeville at the time.
Robert A. Hill was a banker. He helped fund the lynching – made sure they had money for gas and other things.
George Swanson, who was the current Sheriff of Cobb County in 1915, and two of his deputies, William McKinney and George Hicks.
Cicero Holton Dobbs. He was a taxi driver and operated a grocery store. He was also my wife's grandfather, who knew nothing about this before Steve Oney wrote the book and was very upset about it.
This case had been whispered about for years and years and years and even among the Jewish community, Steve Selig, told me, he says, “We never mentioned the case, never mentioned it in the Jewish community.”
D. R. Benton was a farmer and an uncle of Mary Phagan's.
Horace Handy was a farmer.
Kuhn Shaw, that's J. F. Shaw's, who died about five years ago, father. He was a mule trader.
Emmett and Luther Burton. We had an Emmett Burton serve, this was the great uncle and grandfather of Emmett Burton who was on our county commission for several years. These were two brothers who were believed to have sat on either side of Leo Frank in the automobile that took him from prison to death. Emmett is said to have been a police officer and Luther, a coal-yard operator.
Yellow Jacket Brown. You know, everyone had a nickname. An electrician who rode his motorcycle to Milledgeville and cut the telephone lines before they got there, so that nobody could call out.
Lawrence Hainey, a farmer.
What has amazed me about this case was: how could the best folks in town, the best and leading citizens of the county and of the city – how could they have gone crazy? I ask myself that in our national politics every once in awhile now. How could everybody have gone crazy?
What happened to Rudy Juliani?
I don't know. We could always have a discussion of that.
But what was it?
Now I know there's two or three things on the other side that everybody tries to bring up. One is, well, they just felt that they were carrying out the lawful sentence that was handed down to Leo Frank. That is what Newt Morris is reported to have said later.
And then, the other thing is, Luther Rosser and Jack Slaton had practiced law before [not before they were law partners during Leo Frank's trial and his appeals], and that Luther Rosser paid Jack Slaton off to commute the sentence.
Now let me tell you something. Jack Slaton had the wealthiest wife in Georgia and at that time, husbands, as you all know from studying law, managed the affairs of the wife. Why in the world, to destroy his political career which was very bright, would he have taken any money? And you cannot read this commutation order without seeing that it is a man that was greatly troubled about it.
So the last thing I'll talk about a little bit: was Leo Frank guilty?
I don't think there's any doubt, and there are few that I think that argue with this today is, he did not get a fair trial [False, the Supreme Court in their majority decisions ruled he had a fair trial]. Not under the circumstances that we would consider today – coerced statements, no scientific, all circumstantial [False, the witnesses later provided affidavits that Leo Frank's defense team tried to bribe them to retract their trial testimony].
The testimony of an accomplice.
There is a reason the common law and the law of Georgia says that, the testimony of an accomplice must be corroborated and a confession must be corroborated and the reason is because of how both of them might have been obtained.
I don't think he was guilty. I think Conley killed her. There's not any doubt in my mind that Conley killed her [Barnes opinion defies the evidence and testimony, and majority decisions of the judges at the time]. But at least there is substantial reasonable doubt as to whether Frank killed her [false statements]. There's two little things and then I'll try to answer some questions. I know we got started late and I know ya'll got other places to go.
There's two things that are happening. One is, the district attorney Paul Howard of Fulton County has created a commission to look into several cases.
One of them is this case [Leo Frank case] and another one is the Child Murders case. And they've got about a dozen, half a dozen to a dozen cases they're looking into to see, to make sure, that there's guilt. Now Wayne Williams is still alive and in the prison.
The other thing that has happened in all of these matters and I think is the import: what is the role of lawyers and judges?
Listen, we are trained to look at facts. There is only a little thin line that separates us from lynchers and a mob and it is lawyers and judges that are trained to not let passion and prejudice overcome us all.
And it is difficult. It is very, very difficult. And it is not an easy path. It is a tough path.
You know, we believe as lawyers, that everybody is entitled to representation. That was our theory all along, but not our practice. Read about the Scottsboro boys, read about through the history and the cases that you stay.
But it is required even more now than ever. That even though everybody cusses us as lawyers, and they do, you know, all the time. Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be lawyers. You know, it's the story instead of cowboys.
But it is the lawyers that have to protect the rights of the individual. And if we ever lose that, that we're not willing to sacrifice ourselves and our reputation and our prosperity, for the rights of those that we represent or what we know is right, then I want to tell you, we're lost, we're lost. It's a very thin line.
Always be the guardians against prejudice, hatred and passion. Sit back and use the skills that you're being trained in and they will be honed much more as you start to practice, to analyze critically, everything that you're presented with.
Thank you, and God bless you and I'll be glad to answer a few questions.
I know we don't have much time but I'd be glad to answer any questions. Yes, ma'am.
Audience Member Question: Was anyone from that long list of lynchers ever prosecuted?
No, nobody was ever tried. And what happened was, Luther Haines, who was [?] judge, good friend of Hugh, Luther Haines practiced law with John Tucker Dorsey, when he was a young lawyer.
And, of course, I was assigned to Luther's courtroom when I was a prosecutor and he and I were great friends until the day he died.
But he knew I was interested in the case and he showed me, one time, a file that John Tucker Dorsey had in his office and had a list of the names of those who were involved and that's the way Oney finally broke it. He broke it through two people. Through Luther Haines and through Bill Kent.
Now, as they began to die, you know, in the 30s, 40s, 50s, several of them confessed on deathbed. But nobody was ever prosecuted.
I will tell you a footnote about Herbert Clay. I don't know if it's true or not, but Luther told me this. I said, “how did Herbert Clay, how did he die?”
He said he was holed up with a prostitute she hit him over the head with a liquor bottle and killed him.
Anybody else?
What we did in the 80s, and what we are trying to do now and how they differ, this was addressed in the 80s...?
In the 80s, when Governor Harris, he got involved in the case, and Frank was issued a posthumous pardon based on the fact he did not receive due process [not true, he was pardoned on a technicality that the State failed to protect him while he was in prison, Leo Frank had exhausted all his appeals].
What we're trying to do now, a group of us, that has been helpful, Dale Schwartz and several others, is to pardon him on the basis of anti-Semitism and have an extraordinary motion new trial. It's not going to do Leo Frank any good. See, the people say, “Well, why are you digging up all this?” The reason we're digging up all this is because it should be a testament and a monument that this should never happen again. It's the reason we continue to teach that Auschwitz, in fact, did exist and that six million Jews were killed. And so, that's what we do it for [It's disgusting Roy Barnes is manipulating the great European War, which was won by the United States, and has nothing to do with the rape-murder of Mary Phagan to argue a homicidal pedophile should be exonerated.]
We right the wrongs.
And hopefully we're not involved in making them. Even though there were several lawyers that were involved in the making of this wrong. And that's the reason it is so important for you to understand that difference. Thank you!
[End of Transcription]
Information on Van Pearlberg law.georgia.gov/van-pearlberg
Several sections of his monologue stand out
Roy Barnes during his speech at Mercer Law School on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019, in his monologue acts as if it's axiomatically a hard-fact that the primitive freight elevator in Atlanta's National Pencil Company of 1913, could NOT have been used during the noontime hour of Saturday, April 26, 1913, to transport Mary Phagan's dead and defiled body, down from the second floor of the factory, down two flights to the factory's cellar. The supposition of his reason why it didn't happen that way, is because the police took the freight elevator down to the said basement on Sunday morning, April 27th, 1913, it crushed some feces in the ground tray of the elevator shaft. At face value, and with limited information about the incident, it could easily be believable for those unfamiliar with the reports provided by investigators.
To summarize, Barnes touches briefly upon The elevator's maneuverability with dramatics, "Boom", referring to the "the shit in the shaft" (as journalist-author Steve Oney labeled it), and the smooshing of Conley's feces at the said base tray at the hard dirt floor ground in the elevator shaft at the front section of the basement, below the street entry of the National Pencil Company. Roy Barnes hints at this as something which tends to impeach Conley's testimony about how he and Leo Frank moved the cadaver of Mary Phagan and his series of evolving affidavits eludes to how the events took place. The undercurrent of Barnes' statements are this provides more exonerating evidence for Leo Frank, as part of a larger suite of perceived opinions on evidence absolving Frank of the rape-murder for which he was duly convicted.
Roy Barnes, presenting limited information, tries to make it out like the elevator was automated and that it would go all the way to the bottom on its own, after presumably pushing a button? But that's not how the elevator worked based on the descriptions of it. There was actually a rudimentary pull cord to pause the elevator's descent or ascent (not modern computerized numeric floor buttons like we have today), it wasn't just that the elevator cut off on its own presumably flipping a power switch when it reached the basement, the driver of the vertical elevator car had control.
Jim Conley in his testimony at the Leo Frank trial and his affidavits, finally talks about how Leo Frank was so nervous with the elevator control cord that he hints it might have stopped the elevator before it hit the bottom on their descent, and again too soon before they ascended to the above floors, going back up toward the second floor. Leo Frank was said in Conley's testimony to have stopped the freight elevator too short, and upon exiting it, he tripped inside the elevator car catching the floor as he was trying to get out of it and thus fell backward right onto Jim Conley.
Surprise, Surprise, Roy Barnes never mentions these above-detailed descriptions in his 2019 monologue on that particular incident, of using the elevator to move Mary Phagan's body away from the metal room, located opposite Leo Frank's business office, to the rear corner of the basement where it was intended to be burned in a furnace--which Barnes essentially cites as a reason among others, why Leo Frank is innocent, and supposedly proof that in the noon hour of Saturday, April 26, 1913, they didn't use the elevator as the means to transport the battered and bruised corpse of the 13-year-old girl to the basement. Therefore the only other way down was for Jim Conley to carry Phagan down from the second floor from the staircase to the factory lobby, the most high traffic place in the factory, with big palatial full glass window doors, with the streets filled with people, looking all around at the bunting and without locking the front door while transporting a dead body so Alonzo Mann could walk in on the scene. We're supposed to believe it was Jim Conley on the second floor is who did the murder, and Leo Frank knew nothing about it, even though it happened in his vicinity.
James "Jim" Conley's meticulous details in several evolving affidavits and his trial testimony no August 4, 5, and 6th, 1913, at the Mary Phagan murder trial, about these said events, tend to show Leo Frank's nervous-erratic demeanor immediately post-murder and his mishandling of the elevator brake cord.
The freight elevator likely would not go all the way down to the cellar tray by a matter of some inches, because police initially described during their initial investigation at 3:40 o'clock a.m. that there was lots of trash in that bottom-most tray, and also found Mary Phagan's parasol right smack in the middle of it (there is even a contemporary diagram sketch of it). The police described the contents of the tray and moved that trash around, in search of clews, they might have moved the trash enough or removed some of it, so that later when they took the elevator down, it could actually go down all the way completely to the bottom. Later that morning in the presence of Leo Frank, they took the freight elevator down on April 27, 1913, in the daytime morning, when they had done so, it smooshed Conley's natural deposit he left there in the said tray.
What Roy Barnes also fails to also mention is those first-responder police officers who investigated the crime scene that morning on April 27, 1913, specifically reported they saw drag marks from the elevator shaft entryway, 140 feet across the hard dirt floor to the rear of the basement where garbage was normally staged before being burned in the oversized furnace. The furnace provided heat and hot water to the factory. He uses the excuse that he has limited time, to give the audience the information they need to make an informed decision, to instead focus on the then-present and then-former government officials and prominent citizenry who organized to hang Leo Frank on August 17th, 1915, in fulfillment of the Mary Phagan murder trial jury's unanimous decision to recommend "no mercy" for Leo Frank on August 25th, 1913, to therefore have the defendant be sentenced to capital punishment, and Judge Roan's ratification the next day of that verdict and sentencing decision on August 26, 1913.
[End of Commentary on the Leo Frank Exoneration Via the Shit in the Shaft Hoax]
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The Leo Frank Case With Former GA Governor Roy Barnes, Tuesday, November 12, 2019, Noon to 1:00 o'clock P.M. in Bell-Jones Courtroom "Hear from one of Georgia's best trial lawyers about one of the State's most notorious lynchings and the renewed investigation into the evidence from the controversial trial."
Lunch Provided.
Location:
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Mercer Law School
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Time:
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, Noon-1 P.M.
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[Editor note: Apologies for this politically incorrect post, but it is presented here on Flickr to highlight the tireless conflict between Leo Frank's detractors and defenders, even more than a century after the case began. First Trigger Warning: Insensitive language is used in the below published retort to Professor Randy Blazak, Criminologist at Portland State University. Permission granted to republish this critique by the retorting author. This post is for informational purposes only. Second Trigger Warning: The following open letter was originally published on YouTube in the comments section and has been updated, it has some very impolite language, viewer discretion is advised. Sensitive people should not read forward. Apologies to anyone offended by the republishing of this updated (version 2.0) open letter retort to RB about the Frank case, but it is presented here to highlight the contentious and controversial battle over the facts of the Frank-Phagan affair. -- Leo Frank Case Flickr Curator]
An Open Letter to Criminology Professor Randy Blazak of Portland State University (Washington State) about his Leo Frank lynching video published on Aug 21, 2009 at YouTube.com
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Dear Mr. Randy Blazak of Portland State University,
The Leo Frank case news report
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you promote-posted from the Washington Post authored by Jacob Bogage suggests www.LeoFrank.info 'The Leo Frank Research Library', and -- through Jewish Daily Forward derivative links -- 'The American Mercury' www.theamericanmercury.org are posting "fakenews" research analysis about the murder of Mary Phagan and trial of Leo Frank, but when I went to both of those alleged "disingenuous" websites, I learned a tremendous amount of factual information about the true crime from the primary source legal records and original 1913 newspaper account facsimiles (The Leo Frank Research Library offers almost all the Atlanta newspaper reports about the Frank-Phagan affair from April 1913 onward in PDF).
Many of the independent articles posted on these two websites give you direct links to the 1913 Leo Frank trial brief of evidence (300+ pages), 1914 Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court appeals records (1800+ pages) and the newspaper reports from the dailies (thousands of pages): Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution (1913-1915 is where the highest concentration of reports appear).
Thus anyone can fact check claims about this notorious case and see whether or not these websites provide an accurate portrait of what was reported to have occurred, long ago. I was quite impressed by the scholarly Leo Frank case articles published on www.LeoFrank.org and www.LeoFrank.info and www.theamericanmercury.org since I have read every monograph on the criminal case available, and there is not a single book that even comes close to the breadth and accuracy of the information provided by the above said websites.
So my question to you is this: How do we reconcile the very well written, researched and scholarly articles published on The American Mercury, with people like you, Jacob Bogage, The Jewish Daily Forward, Abraham Foxman (ADL), Mark Potok (SPLC) and others who are suggesting these "disingenuous" websites promote false narratives?
I don't consider personal attacks or ad hominem arguments against the alleged authors of these websites as a legitimate reason as to why we shouldn't fact check and explore ideas or positions that we agree or disagree with. There are no opinions or consensuses above scrutiny, including mine and yours or clusters of pseudo-scholars and fakenews journalists.
Let me break it down for you Randy: no ideas, public statements, ideologies or arguments are above scrutiny, no matter the source. And absolutely all claims made about the Leo Frank case should inspire inquiry because of the contentious nature of the affair. No history is dogma above revisionism or factchecking for that matter.
I'm actually surprised you're a criminologist by training and a professor by trade, because most of the things you said in your Leo Frank Lynching video published on YouTube, do not stand up to minimum fact checking and I wrote the specific reasons why in a separate post in the comments area of your video. I'm now going to outline them here with more details, because my response on YouTube was shadow banned by either you, or the new ADL censors on YouTube. So get ready for the Barbara Streisand Effect.
Please try to be open minded about this case and actually learn the facts from the primary sources. Don't presume that just because some activist hack journalist or activist academics make agenda based claims that they are true. Be skeptical about everything you read from all sides of the case, prosecution or defense, and try doing some original research by looking into the sources of every claim that is made about the Frank-Phagan affair you hear, see or learn.
I fact checked everything you said in your video and you are patently incorrect on numerous fronts and I provide the evidence as to why I believe you are wrong. You got a lot of homework to do, because it's obvious you don't really understand what transpired in this criminal case at even a basic introductory level. Shame on you Professor Blazak for pushing obvious false history and fake news.
Things you should know, but don't #1:
Leo Frank was never officially absolved or exonerated regarding his August 25, 1913 conviction for the murder of Mary Phagan when he was given a posthumous pardon on March 11th, 1986. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles officially stated that they were not going to address Leo Frank's guilt or innocence when they gave him back his right to vote (Felons can't legally vote during State political elections in Georgia) some 71 years after he was hanged on August 17, 1915 for the April 26, 1913, strangulation-murder of Mary Phagan. I learned this fact that Leo Frank was not officially absolved or exonerated of the Mary Phagan murder from pro-Frank biased sources like Wikipedia, Steve Oney and also the Ben Loeterman docudrama called People vs. Leo Frank (they state so at the very end if I'm not mistaken). You can see the biased docudrama on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9fRs2xd890
You should know this because you claim he was/is innocent in your video, but the evidence is overwhelming of his guilt and his conviction was never overturned to date and I doubt anyone exonerate him when they learn Leo Frank changed his alibi on the witness stand and placed himself at the scene of the murder.
Since you're a criminologist, you really should read the Leo Frank trial brief of evidence, and get your facts straight before spreading obvious falsehoods about his supposed "innocence".
Attempts for more than 100 years to have his conviction overturned have utterly failed between 1913 - 2017, maybe you should stop hiding behind racism and delve in a little deeper into why it would be an injustice to overturn his official status of guilty as charged. His coreligionists haven't given up and continue working behind the scenes even at this "late hour" a century later, still trying to subvert justice for Mary Phagan and get the Toilet-Strangler's conviction nullified.
Indisputable fact you should know #2:
Leo Frank's wife, Lucille Selig, refused to be buried next to her "Beloved Husband" (his inscription on his grave marker at Mount Carmel cemetery, Queens, NY). When she died April 23rd, 1957, her last will and testament (Registered in 1954 and present in the Georgia Archives) is evidence of this fact. I first learned the fact of this historical curiosity from Steve Oney that Lucille Selig wanted to be cremated and have her ashes spread in Atlanta (Oney, Georgia Magazine, March 2004). Oney learned about her post-passing aftermath in the early 1990s from Lucille Selig's nephew living on the West Coast of Florida. Oney talked about it in an article published in UGA's Georgia Magazine, March 2004, Features (the article is available online and you should consider reading it if you want the details). I contacted the Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens, NY, and verified that the grave left-adjacent to Leo Frank's grave is still empty. I think that empty grave sustains State Exhibit J, Magnolia "Mineola" McKnight's Affidavit, Signed and Notarized, June 3rd, 1913.
Indisputable fact you show know #3:
Leo Frank astoundingly changed his alibi on the witness stand during the final week of his trial, with an "unconscious" visit to the men's toilet in the metal room, and thus placed himself precisely at the prosecution's theory of where the scene of the crime had occurred and at the time when the prosecution proposed to the jury when the Phagan murder had likely happened. Leo Frank in soccer terminology shot an "own goal". Check out Leo Frank's "unconscious" visit to the men's toilet in his trial testimony (look in the leo frank trial brief of evidence, 1913) to explain why Monteen Stover found his office empty at the exact same time Frank formerly told police Mary Phagan was with him at his business office (See State Exhibit B and Atlanta Constitution, August 2nd 1913).
The Ugly Racist Anti-Black Anti-Gentile Framing:
The ugliest part of this famous 20th century criminal case is that the racist Leo Frank tried to frame two of his black employees, first Newt Lee the Nightwatchman and then Jim Conley (the accessory after the fact). And the ugliness of this racist framing, continues even today a century later and you're a permanent part of that ugly racist history now. Congratulations on always playing the race-card against White people, but actually being a politically racist and hypocrite yourself.
So the natural follow-up question is this: When is this ugly racist framing against Black people going to end? or is it going to drag on forever, since it's been going on already for 104 years strong and counting. Why do you pretend to be an anti-racist leftist in real life (yes I watched all your anti-White ramblings on YouTube), but have no problem framing innocent black people for a crime where there is no evidence for their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
Ponder this during your free time: Why do you feel comfortable framing a black man for the crime, one who actually helped the police learn the juicy details of what happened after the Toilet-Strangler raped and murdered his child laborer?
I want to get specific now because I went to the "disingenuous" Leo Frank Research Library at www.LeoFrank.info to fact check everything you said in your Leo Frank lynching video and you made a number of factually incorrect statements that need to be flushed out like the turd that won't flush.
1. At 14 seconds of your Leo Frank lynching video, you said Leo Frank was from Texas, but this statement is a little bit of a misrepresentation. Leo Frank was born in Cuero Texas April 17, 1884 and was moved from there when he was 3 months old (approximately July 1884) to Brooklyn, NY, and lived there, until he attended college at Cornell University during school terms in Ithaca, NY (September 1902- June 1906). So to say Leo Frank was from Texas, is a just a misnomer, he spent the first major part of his life in New York City from July 1884 to September 1902 and 4 years more upstate NY (Ithaca) during school terms. Leo Frank, living in Texas for 3 months during his 31 year long life span, does not make him from Texas. Brooklyn, NY was where he always called home and that was where he was raised and educated until he went off to college to study mechanical engineering in the same State. So from 1884 to 1906 he primarily lived in New York State, that's roughly 22 years of his 31 year life span. From 1908 to 1915 he lived in primarily Atlanta Georgia, or 7 years approximately. Other than some domestic vacations in the U.S., he made two transatlantic trips spending the summer of 1905 in Europe, and 9 months in Germany from late 1907 to August of 1908 apprenticing in pencil manufacturing. Compare that with 3 unmemorable goo-goo ga-ga baby months in Texas. So clearly to say he was from Texas shows a clear lack of understanding about his life and what geographic areas influenced him most significantly. Randy, do you remember anything from the first 3 months of your life on the outside from birth to 12 weeks later?!
2. At 19 seconds you suggest he was falsely accused of raping and strangling a 13-year-old girl in his employ. Leo Frank was only indicted for murder and tried for murder, not rape, but there was material medical forensic evidence testified about at the trial, indicating she had been "outraged" (raped) and Conley testified that Frank confessed to him that he wanted to be with her (have sex) and she refused (Conley's trial testimony, August 4, 1913).
You are entitled to believe whatever you want about his innocence or guilt, but who is more qualified to judge the merits of the trial, a regressive criminologist who literally doesn't even know the most elementary facts of the case and never read the trial brief of evidence, or some of the best legal minds in America at the time who could deliberate in their quiet and calm quarters? My point is this, you clearly didn't bother to learn anything even rudimentary about the affair, but act like an authoritative scholar.
In reality if he was falsely accused, why did the presiding judge Leonard Strickland Roan reject Leo Frank's appeal for a new trial on more than 100 grounds (100 is not a typo)! Why did the Georgia Supreme Court rule that the evidence presented at the trial of Leo Frank proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? Why did every State appeals court reject -- in their majority and unanimous decisions -- his petitions including -- after his state appeals exhausted -- the Supreme Court of the United States? Why did the Governor of Georgia at the time, John Slaton, not pardon him in 1915, but merely gave him an equal punishment for the crime of murder at the time which was life in prison? I guess you didn't read Governor Slaton's 29-page commutation order of June 21, 1915, he never gives any indication he thought Leo Frank's trial was a sham or Leo Frank was innocent and Conley was guilty, quite the contrary, Slaton said he was sustaining the judge, jury and appeals courts in his final decision (you might want to actually read page 29 of the order). Why did the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles refuse to exonerate and absolve Leo Frank of the murder when they pardoned him in 1986? Why did Nathan Deal and the Georgia state congress in 2015 refuse to say Leo Frank was innocent when Rabbi Steven Lebow organized the Jewish community and several leading activist judges to petition the governor and congress of Georgia? There is a good video about it on YouTube by Eli Goodstein, titled "Leo Frank Doc Final Cut", published March 16, 2016. Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIv8ZQ0MAc to see how the racist hate crime hoax of anti-Semitism is perpetuated about the trial for more than a century.
You're a criminologist by training and professor at Portland State University, so you might want to actually take a break from your echo chamber to look at the evidence from alternative points of view, like The American Mercury www.theamericanmercury.org and Leo Frank Research Library www.leofrank.info that actually publish with learned commentary info about the official Leo Frank trial brief of evidence, Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court records and original MSM newspaper reports from 1913 Atlanta.
Most of the modern books written today about this case, if they are pro-Frank, intentionally leave out 99% of the incriminating evidence presented against Leo Frank at his trial, forcing students of the case to go back to the official records from 1913-1915 to learn what really happened.
3. Circa 26 seconds you claim there was clear evidence the Black janitor (maintenance worker) Jim Conley was the real culprit, but this is absolutely not true. There is scant evidence of his guilt, in fact it was Jim Conley who partly helped the police solve the murder. Don't you think falsely accusing a black man of a crime he didn't commit is a bit racist? If there was evidence Jim Conley helped Leo Frank murder Mary Phagan he would have been tried. Read the article by the American Mercury debunking the Alonzo Mann Hoax, it puts things into perspective and context too about Jim Conley's roll as the accessory-after-the-fact.
4. You accuse the South of being Anti-Semitic, this is a racist Anti-Gentile blood libel, the South was never Anti-Semitic taken as a whole, in fact the south is the exact opposite, very philo-semitic and has always been, with only minor exceptions and exceptions are not the rule. The highest concentration of Christian and Gentile Zionists can be found in the South, and the census data from 20th century, pre-1940 shows many Jews and Gentiles married (Ancestry.com). So you're statement about the South being anti-Semitic at the time is racist, bigoted, prejudiced, anti-Southern, Anti-White, Anti-Christian, Anti-Gentile and just flat out blood libel. All of this excepting Tom Watson, who obvious wrote some anti-Semitic statements about Leo Frank's Northern media supporters in his Watson's Magazine, January, March, August, September and October of 1915 (you should read them or listen to the free audio books of them online at The American Mercury, you might learn a thing or two from a seasoned attorney vastly more intelligent than you and more knowledgeable about the Frank case than the average hack criminology professor). Those ad hominem statements by one man doesn't make the entire South anti-Semitic. You're totally stereotyping the people of the South from 100 years ago based on the statements of one populist politician and it's totally false and racist that you're doing so. The population of Jews in the South has steadily risen over the decades, proving the broad claims of Southern anti-Semitism are nothing but ugly blood libel against the Southern peoples. This however does not exonerate the South of generally treating Black people as far below second class citizens.
5. At 58 seconds, you say the Governor John Slaton was convinced of Leo Frank's innocence. If Governor John Slaton was convinced of Leo Frank's innocence why didn't he pardon him? I guess you never read any of John Slaton's papers, because he absolutely never said once in his life Leo Frank was innocent in any direct quotes documented. You either made that up or just regurgitated the claim from one of Leo Frank's activist defenders.
Where you aware that Governor John Slaton was the law partner of Luther Rosser who represented Leo Frank at trial? Are you aware that Governor Slaton was part-owner of the Law firm that represented Leo Frank at his trial? Do you not see that as an illegal conflict of interest and betrayal of the Georgia and U.S. Constitution for the Governor to pardon his own law client!?!?
6. Circa 135 seconds you said half of 3,000 Jews who lived in Georgia fled the state, this is categorically false, the census data from 1910 and 1920 is now in the public domain (Ancestry.com), and the Jewish population actually increased between this time in Georgia, not decreased by half, so you are stating fake news and false history, like you do throughout most of your entire video. Half the Jews of Georgia did not leave the state during the decade between 1910 to 1920, you are promoting an ugly racist anti-Gentile smear.
7. Circa 141 if I heard you correctly, you said the 1915 lynching led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, this is fake news and fake history if you stated so. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith was founded 2 years earlier in October of 1913, and some Jewish sources claim that it was the conviction and death sentence of Leo Frank the B'nai B'rith president of Atlanta, is what galvanized the founding of the ADL by B'nai B'rith in 1913, NOT 1915.
8. Leo Frank wasn't lynched right where you were standing in the video, he was actually lynched about 300 feet in front of where you are facing in the video -- just for your own edification. In other words, the lynching historical marker is not the exact location or even "near" where the lynching happened.
Should we presume your PhD dissertation is also filled with academic dishonesty? Does your PhD dissertation need to be publicly fact checked and the results published on the Internet? Because you seem to have a real problem with the truth when it comes to criminology and you're a university professor charged with the task of educating students to boot!
Most of the facts you present in your Leo Frank Lynching video at 1200 Roswell Road are objectively misrepresentations, fake news, false history and show that you never actually did any real original research into this case, but just repeat what you read from hack journalists and fakenews historians.
My challenge to you is this:
Listen to the free 2015 audio book at The American Mercury, 'The Murder of Little Mary Phagan' by Mary Phagan-Kean the great niece (1989), read by Vanessa Neubauer (the entire audio book is available FREE) and also listen to the 'Leo Frank Trial' (which is now in the process of being released, in weekly segments) at the same website and by the same orator.
The American Mercury and Leo Frank Research Library have produced the best researched and scholarly articles about the Leo Frank case anywhere on the Internet, and you should try reading alternative sources of information, instead of basing your entire world view on the words of politically correct ivory tower of ignorance pseudo-scholars or from information that you learned via fake news journalists and false news historians, which you parrot like a Muppet in your video. You clearly don't have even a basic understanding of the case and you are originally from Atlanta and a criminologist by training, WOW!
And please be my guest and censor or delete my response to your video on YouTube, suppress the truths I have presented here, and I promise you this will be revised, upgraded, enhanced and posted on major discussion forums as a gargantuan long winded open letter. So be a coward if you want and ignore me, and censor me or delete me, but you obviously only know made-up anti-Gentile version of this famous criminal case and you are very obviously a neo-Marxist anti-White self-loathing professor from the interviews I have watch of you online. You have the right to be whatever you want, but it's obvious your biases make it impossible for you to be a genuine criminologist who seeks the truth.
I don't claim to be the ultimate authority on this case, but I can easily fact check what people claim and I too have come to learn I don't know everything about this affair either, but when I discover something I stated was wrong, I at least try to correct myself. What I have stated above is not the last word on anything either. I'm open to discussion, improving my understanding and willing to revise any statements that can be improved or not accurate.
However that being said, you just GOT FACT CHECKED and POWNED for objectively being a bona fide pseudo-scholar.
Best Regards.
Vincent Tucci, Brooklyn, NY
PS: I don't claim that any research is the last word on this case, but it's definitely inspiration for discussion. Here's some reading material handy for you Randy:
Leo Frank: The Coroner’s Inquest Into The Mary Phagan’s Murder Mystery, May, 1913
theamericanmercury.org/2015/08/leo-frank-the-coroners-inq...
100 Years Ago Today: The Trial of Leo Frank Begins, July 28, 1913.
theamericanmercury.org/2013/07/100-years-ago-today-the-tr...
The Summer of 1913 Leo Frank Trial Week One
theamericanmercury.org/2013/08/the-leo-frank-trial-week-one/
The Summer of 1913 Leo Frank Trial Week Two
theamericanmercury.org/2013/08/the-leo-frank-trial-week-two/
The Summer of 1913 Leo Frank Trial Week Three
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One Hundred Years Ago Leo Frank Mounts the Witness Stand on August 18, 1913.
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The Summer of 1913 Leo Frank Trial Week Four
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Leo Frank Trial Closing Arguments, August, 1913: Luther Rosser, Reuben Arnold and Frank Hooper, 1913
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Closing Arguments of Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey at the Leo Frank Trial, August 22, 23, 25, 1913
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Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL): One Hundred Years of Jewish Hate, October 1913 – 2013
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An Empty Grave in NYC: The Amazing Story of Mrs. Leo Frank, Lucille Selig (1888 - 1957).
theamericanmercury.org/2015/09/the-amazing-story-of-mrs-l...
Leo Frank Pardon (1982 - 1986): The Astounding Alonzo Mann Hoax and ADL-led Posthumous Pardon of Leo Frank
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Leo Frank Case Analysis, Centennial of Mary Phagan Murder: One Hundred Arguments Why Leo Frank is Guilty
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Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies: Leonard Dinnerstein’s Pseudo-history About The Leo Frank Case
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Review of Tabloid Style Journalist Steve Oney’s, 'And The Dead Shall Rise': Who Really Solved the Mary Phagan Murder Case?
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New Audio Book: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1989), read by Vanessa Neubauer (2015)
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U.S. Senator From Georgia, Tom Watson, Five Part Series on The Leo Frank Case, 1915:
A Mercury Exclusive: Introduction to Tom Watson on the Leo Frank Case
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Tom Watson: The Leo Frank Case, January, 1915
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Tom Watson: A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case, March, 1915
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Tom Watson: The Celebrated Case of The State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank, August, 1915
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Tom Watson: The Official Record in the Case of Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert, September, 1915
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Tom Watson: The Rich Jews Indict a State, October, 1915
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New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Frank Takes the Stand
Published by Penelope Lee on August 16, 2017
Listen to the Audiobook of Leo Frank Takes the Stand:
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THIS WEEK our audio book of the American Mercury’s coverage of the 1913 trial and conviction of Jewish sex killer Leo Frank takes a particularly exciting turn. You can follow along with us by reading the original piece on which the new audio book is based.
(ILLUSTRATION: Diagram of Leo Frank’s outer and inner office: How likely is it that Monteen Stover could have missed Frank had he really been in the office as he claimed?)
As William Bradford Huie of the Mercury stated:
As the defense began its parade of witnesses, few suspected that the defendant himself, Leo Frank, would soon take the stand and make an admission so astonishing that it strained belief.
Strained belief indeed! — for Leo Frank’s testimony was so bizarre and so damning as to be shocking, even to those who suspected Frank’s guilt.
Leo Max Frank spent some three hours of his four-hour unsworn testimony painstakingly detailing his accounting work, something that was barely relevant to the charges against him.
(Evidently he sought to show that he simply didn’t have time to have a tryst with, or rape, or kill Mary Phagan. But common sense tells everyone that some people can do accounting work faster than others, so that was a rather unconvincing argument.)
Then Frank proceeded to break his own alibi. In what amounted almost to a confession of murder, he stated that he might have “unconsciously gone to the bathroom” — right next to where blood was found and where Jim Conley had testified he found the freshly-killed corpse of Mary Phagan — at exactly the same time that the child was killed.
Frank’s exact words were: “to the best of my recollection I didn’t stir out of the office, but it’s possible that, in order to answer a call of nature, I may have gone to the toilet, these are things that a man does unconsciously and can’t tell how many times nor when he does it.”
Leo Frank also testified that the reason 5’2″ tall Monteen Stover couldn’t see him [Leo Frank] in his inner office was that the door on his four-foot tall safe was opened and thus blocked off the view to in the inner office. When Leo Frank stated the four-foot tall safe door was “open all day,” why would Monteen Stover be the only person to not see Leo Frank or go into his inner office? — especially in light of the fact that she was there for her pay envelope.
Why didn’t the four-foot safe door block 4’11” Mary Phagan or all the other people that morning who came to see Mr. Leo Frank? We are supposed to believe the safe door only blocked Monteen Stover, a girl who was eager to collect her wages, one who specifically waited for Leo Frank in his office from 12:05 p.m. to 12:10 p.m. on April 26, 1913? That safe door stopped absolutely no one from finding Frank when coming to collect their pay that day.
Both the “unconscious” bathroom visit and safe door explanations were newfangled revelations on August 18, 1913, when Frank gave his unsworn testimony, uttered undoubtedly for the purpose of countering Monteen Stover’s testimony that broke Frank’s alibi. But Frank’s “countering” ended up breaking his alibi even more forcefully than Stover’s testimony — and, instead of countering it, confirmed and greatly strengthened what Stover had said!
Both of Leo Frank’s counter defenses, “the safe door” and the “unconsciously” going to the bathroom in the metal room were shocking revelations because one put him at the scene of the crime and the other was a complete fabrication.
Monteen Stover was motivated and wanted her pay, and the defense or prosecution never disputed this. Thus Stover checked both of Leo Frank’s inner and outer offices, watching the time on the clock in Leo Frank’s empty inner office from 12:05 p.m. to 12:10 p.m., on April 26, 1913.
Monteen Stover even said that she looked down the hallway and saw the door to the metal room shut. How could the jury draw any other reasonable conclusion but that Frank was on the other side of that shut door, finishing off Mary Phagan?
Click on the “play” button to listen to the audio book, read by Vanessa Neubauer.
Click here for a list of all the chapters we’ve published in audio form so far — keep checking back, they will be updated regularly!
Here is a description of the full series which will be posted as audio in future weeks; once all segments have been released, the Mercury will be offering for sale a complete, downloadable audio book of the full series.
1. Introduction
100 Years Ago Today: The Trial of Leo Frank Begins
2. WEEK 1
The Leo Frank Trial: Week One
3. WEEK 2
The Leo Frank Trial: Week Two
4. WEEK 3
The Leo Frank Trial: Week Three
5. Leo Frank mounts the witness stand by Ann Hendon
100 Years Ago Today: Leo Frank Takes the Stand
6. Week 4
The Leo Frank Trial: Week Four
7. Closing arguments of Rosser, Arnold and Hooper
The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments of Hooper, Arnold, and Rosser
8. Closing arguments of Hugh Dorsey
The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments, Solicitor Dorsey
Be sure to look for next week’s installment here at The American Mercury as we continue to follow the trial that changed the South — changed America — and changed the world.
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100 Years Ago Today: Leo Frank Takes the Stand
Published by Ann Hendon on August 18, 2013
Today, on the 100th anniversary of Leo Frank taking the stand in his own defense, we present a digest of opinion and contemporary sources on his statement.
AT THE CLIMAX of the Leo Frank trial, an admission was made by the defendant that amounted to a confession during trial. How many times in the annals of US legal history has this happened? Something very unusual happened during the month-long People v. Leo M. Frank murder trial, held within Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Courthouse in the Summer of 1913. I’m going to show you evidence that Mr. Leo Max Frank inadvertently revealed the solution to the Mary Phagan murder mystery.
Leo Frank
In addition to being an executive of Atlanta’s National Pencil Company, Leo Frank was also a B’nai B’rith official — president of the 500-member Gate City Lodge in 1912 — and even after his conviction and incarceration Frank was elected lodge president again in 1913. As a direct result of the Leo Frank conviction, the B’nai B’rith founded their well-known and politically powerful “Anti-Defamation League,” or ADL.
When Leo Frank mounted the witness stand on Monday afternoon, August 18, 1913, at 2:15 pm, he orally delivered an unsworn, four-hour, pre-written statement to the 250 people present.
The Leo Frank trial
Epic Trial of 20th Century Southern History
The audience sat in the grandstand seats of the most spectacular murder trial in the annals of Georgia history. Nestled deep within the pews of the Fulton County Superior Court were the luckiest of public spectators, defense and prosecution witnesses, journalists, officials, and courtroom staff.
Hugh M. Dorsey
Like gladiators in an arena, in the center of it all, with their backs to the audience, seated in ladder-back chairs, were the most important principals. They were the State of Georgia’s prosecution team, made up of three members, led by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and Frank Arthur Hooper. Arrayed against them were eight Leo Frank defense counselors, led by Luther Z. Rosser and Reuben Rose Arnold. The presiding judge, the Honorable Leonard Strickland Roan, sitting in a high-backed leather chair, was separated by the witness stand from the jury of 12 white men who were sworn to justly decide the fate of Leo Frank.
Crouched and sandwiched between the judge’s bench and the witness chair, sitting on the lip of the bench’s foot rail, was a stenographer capturing the examinations. Stenographers clicked away throughout the trial and were changed regularly in relays.
Reuben R. Arnold
Surrounding the four major defense and prosecution counselors were an entourage of uniformed police, plainclothes detectives, undercover armed security men, government staff, and magistrates.
The first day of the Leo Frank trial began on Monday morning, July 28, 1913, and led to many days of successively more horrifying revelations. But the most interesting day of the trial occurred three weeks later when Leo Frank sat down in the witness stand on Monday afternoon, August 18, 1913.
The Moment Everyone Was Waiting For
What Leo Frank had to say to the court became the spine-tingling climax of the most notorious criminal trial in US history, and it was the moment everyone in all of Georgia, especially Atlanta, had waited for.
Leo Frank posing for Collier’s Weekly. The photo would later become the front cover for the book The Truth About the Frank Case by C.P. Connolly.
Judge Roan explained to the jury the unique circumstances and rules concerning the unsworn statement Leo M. Frank was to make. Then, at 2:14 pm, Leo Frank was called to speak. When he mounted the stand, a hush fell as 250 spellbound people closed ranks and leaned forward expectantly. They were more than just speechless: They were literally breathless, transfixed, sitting on the edges of their seats, waiting with great anticipation for every sentence, every word, that came forth from the mouth of Leo Frank.
But listening to his long speech became challenging at times. He had a reputation as a “gas jet” from his college days (see his college yearbook entry), and he lived up to it now with dense, mind-numbing verbiage.
Three Out of Nearly Four Hours: Distractions and Endless Pencil Calculations
To bring his major points home during his almost four-hour speech, Leo Frank presented original pages of his accounting books to the jury. For three hours he went over, in detail, the accounting computations he had made on the afternoon of April 26, 1913. This was meant to show the court that he had been far too busy to have murdered Mary Phagan on that day nearly 15 weeks before.
Leo Frank’s reputation as a “hot air artist” — and service as a debating coach — shown in his college yearbook entry
One point emphasized by the defense was how long it took Frank to do the accounting books: Was it an hour and a half as some said, or three hours? Can either answer ever be definitive, though? No matter how quickly one accountant works, is it beyond belief that another could be twice as fast?
The Ultimate Question Waiting to be Answered
Monteen Stover
The most important unanswered question in the minds of everyone at the trial was this: Where had Leo Frank gone between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm on Saturday, April 26, 1913? This was the crucial question because Monteen Stover had testified she found Leo Frank’s office empty during this five-minute time segment – and Leo Frank had told police he never left his office during that time. And the evidence had already shown that Mary Phagan was murdered sometime between 12:05 and 12:15 pm in the Metal Room of the same factory where Leo Frank was present.
There weren’t a plethora of suspects in the building: April 26, 1913, was a state holiday in Georgia — Confederate Memorial Day — and the factory and offices were closed down, except for a few employees coming in to collect their pay and two men doing construction work on an upper floor.
Two investigators had testified that Leo Frank gave them the alibi that he had never left his office from noon until after 12:45. If Leo Frank’s alibi held up, then he couldn’t have killed Mary Phagan.
Everyone wanted to know how Leo Frank would respond to the contradictory testimony clashing with his alibi. And, after rambling about near-irrelevancies for hours, he did: Frank stated — in complete contradiction to his numerous earlier statements that he’d never left his office — that he might have “unconsciously” gone to the bathroom during that time — placing him in the only bathroom on that floor of the building, the Metal Room bathroom. The Metal Room is where Jim Conley stated he had first found the lifeless body of little Mary Phagan, where Mary Phagan’s blood was found, and where the prosecution had spent weeks proving that the murder had actually taken place.
Paul Donehoo
This was doubly amazing because weeks earlier Leo Frank had emphatically told the seven-man panel led by Coroner Paul Donehoo at the Coroners Inquest, that he (Leo Frank) did not use the bathroom all day long — not that he (Leo Frank) had forgotten, but that he had not gone to the bathroom at all.
The visually-blind but prodigious savant Coroner Paul Donehoo — with his highly-refined “B.S. detector” was incredulous as might be expected. Who doesn’t use the bathroom all day long? It was as if Leo Frank was mentally and physically, albeit crudely and unbelievably, trying to distance himself from the bathroom where Jim Conley said he found the body.
Furthermore, Leo Frank had told detective Harry Scott — witnessed by a police officer named Black — that he (Leo Frank) was in his office every minute from noon to half past noon, and in State’s Exhibit B (Frank’s stenographed statement to the police), Leo Frank never mentions a bathroom visit all day.
And now he had reversed himself!
Why would Leo Max Frank make such a startling admission, after spending months trying to distance himself from that part of the building at that precise time? That is a difficult question to answer, but there are clues.
1) The testimony of Monteen Stover (who liked Frank and who was actually a supportive character witness for him) that Frank was missing from his office for those crucial five minutes was convincing. Few could believe that Stover — looking to pick up her paycheck, and waiting five minutes in the office for an opportunity to do so — would have been satisfied with a cursory glance at the room and therefore somehow missed Frank behind the open safe door as he had alleged.
2) The evidence suggests that Frank did not always make rational decisions when under stress:
Under questioning from investigators, he repeatedly changed the time at which Mary Phagan supposedly came to see him in his office (and State’s Exhibit B shows that Frank, in the presence of his lawyers, told police that Mary Phagan was in his office with him alone between 12:05 and 12:10 pm); he reportedly confessed his guilt to his wife the day of the murder; he, if guilty, reacted out of all proportion and reason to being spurned by his teenage employee; and he maintained the utterly unbelievable position throughout the case that he did not know Mary Phagan by name, despite indisputably knowing her initials (he wrote them on the company books by hand some 52 times!) and interacting with her countless times.
Mary Phagan
Frank had also said (to paraphrase his statement) that to the best of his recollection when he was in his second floor office from 12:00 to 12:45 pm, and that aside from temporary visitors, the only other people continuously in the building he was aware of were Mr. White and Mr. Denham on the fourth floor, banging away and doing construction as they tore down a partition. That’s it, three people. One can understand investigators, after hearing Frank’s statement that there were only three people in the building, asking the question: If there are three people in the factory, and two of them didn’t do it, who is left?
Even if only one of these lapses is true as described, it is enough to show a pronounced lack of judgement on Frank’s part. A man with such impaired judgement may actually have been unable to see that by explaining away his previous untenable (and now exposed as false) position of “never leaving the office” with an “unconscious” bathroom visit, he was placing himself at the scene of the murder at the precise time of the murder.
Thus are men who tell tales undone, even as they fall back upon a partial truth.
Georgia: Right to Refuse Oaths and Examination
Under the Georgia Code, Section 1036, the accused has the right to make an unsworn statement and, furthermore, to refuse to be examined or cross-examined at his trial. Leo Frank made the decision to make an unsworn statement and not allow examination or cross examination.
The law also did not permit Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey or his legal team to orally interpret or comment on the fact that Leo Frank was not making a statement sworn under oath at his own murder trial. The prosecution respected this rule.
The jury knew that Leo Frank had had months to carefully prepare his statement. But what was perhaps most damaging to Leo Frank’s credibility was the fact that every witness at the trial, regardless of whether they were testifying for the defense or prosecution, had been sworn, and therefore spoke under oath, and had been subject to cross-examination by the other side — except for Leo Frank.
Thus it didn’t matter if the law prevented the prosecution from commenting on the fact Leo Frank had refused cross examination, opting instead to make an unsworn statement, because the jury could see that anyway. Making an unsworn statement and refusing to be examined does not prove that one is guilty, but it certainly raises eyebrows of doubt.
Leo Frank takes the stand
The South an “Honor Bound” Society
Could a sworn jury upholding its sacred duty question Leo Frank’s honor and integrity as a result of what Southerners likely perceived as his cowardly decision under Georgia Code, Section 1036? If so, greater weight would naturally be given to those witnesses who were sworn under oath and who contradicted Leo Frank’s unsworn alibis, allegations, and claims. It put the case under a new lens of the sworn versus the unsworn.
The average Southerner in 1913 was naturally asking the question: What white man would make an unsworn statement and not allow himself to be cross-examined at his own murder trial if he were truly innocent? Especially in light of the fact that the South was culturally white separatist — and two of the major material witnesses who spoke against Leo Frank were African-Americans, one claiming to be an accomplice after the fact turned accuser. In the Atlanta of 1913, African-Americans were perceived as second class citizens and less reliable than whites in terms of their capacity for telling the truth.
Today, we might ask: Why wouldn’t Leo Frank allow himself to be cross examined when he was trained in the art and science of debating during his high school senior year and all through his years in college, where he earned the rank of Cornell Congress Debate Team coach? (Pratt Institute Monthly, June, 1902; Cornellian, 1902 through 1906; Cornell Senior Class Book, 1906; Cornell University Alumni Dossier File on Leo Frank, retrieved 2012)
Odd Discrepancies
Newt Lee
Most Leo Frank partisan authors omit significant parts of the trial testimony of Newt Lee and Jim Conley from their retelling of the Leo Frank Case. Both of these black men, former National Pencil Company employees, made clearly damaging statements against Frank.
The evidence Newt Lee brought forward was circumstantial, but intriguing — and never quite adequately explained by Leo Frank then, or by his defenders now.
He stated that on Friday Evening, April 25, 1913, Frank made a request to him, Lee, that he report to work an hour early at 4:00 pm on Confederate Memorial Day, the next day. The stated reason was that Leo Frank had made a baseball game appointment with his brother-in-law, Mr. Ursenbach, a Gentile who was married to one of Frank’s wife Lucille’s older sisters. Leo Frank would eventually give two different reasons at different times as to why he canceled that appointment:
1) he had too much work to do, and
2) he was afraid of catching a cold.
Newt Lee’s normal expected time at the National Pencil Company factory on Saturdays was 5:00 pm sharp. Lee stated that when he arrived an hour early that fateful Saturday, Leo Frank had forgotten the change because he was in an excited state. Frank, he said, was unlike his normal calm, cool and collected “boss-man” self. Normally, if anything was out of order, Frank would command him, saying “Newt, step in here a minute” or the like. Instead, Frank burst out of his office, bustling frenetically towards Lee, who had arrived at the second floor lobby at 3:56 pm. Upon greeting each other, Frank requested that Lee go out on the town and “have a good time” for two hours and come back at 6:00 pm.
Because Leo Frank asked Newt Lee to come to work one hour early, Lee had lost that last nourishing hour of sleep one needs before waking up fully rejuvenated, so Lee requested of Frank that he allow him to take a nap in the Packing Room (adjacent to Leo Frank’s front office). But Frank re-asserted that Lee needed to go out and have a good time. Finally,
Newt Lee acquiesced and left for two hours.
At trial, Frank would state that he sent Newt Lee out for two hours because he had work to do. When Lee came back, the double doors halfway up the staircase were locked – very unusual, as they had never had been locked before on Saturday afternoons. When Newt Lee unlocked the doors and went into Leo Frank’s office he witnessed his boss bungling and nearly fumbling the time sheet when trying to put a new one in the punch clock for the night watchman – Lee – to register.
The National Pencil Company building around 1913
It came out before the trial that Newt Lee had earlier been told by Leo Frank that it was a National Pencil Company policy that once the night watchman arrived at the factory – as Lee had the day of the murder at 4:00 pm – he was not permitted to leave the building under any circumstances until he handed over the reigns of security to the day watchman. Company security necessitated being cautious – poverty, and therefore theft, was rife in the South; there were fire risk hazards; and the critical factory machinery was worth a small fortune.
Security was a matter of survival.
The two hour timetable rescheduling – the canceled ball game – the inexplicable sudden security rule waiver – the bumbling with a new time sheet – the locked double doors – and Frank’s suspiciously excited behavior: All were highlighted as suspicious by the prosecution, especially in light of the fact that the “murder notes” – found next to Mary Phagan’s head – physically described Newt Lee, even calling him “the night witch.” And, the prosecutor asked, why did Leo Frank later telephone Newt Lee, not once but two or more
times, that evening at the factory?
A “Racist” Subplot?
The substance of what happened between Newt Lee (and janitor James “Jim” Conley – see below) and Leo Frank from April 26, 1913 onward is most often downplayed, censored, or distorted by partisans of Leo Frank.
From the testimony of these two African-American witnesses, we learn of an almost diabolic intrigue calculated to entrap the innocent night watchman Newt Lee. It would have been easy to convict a black man in the white separatist South of that time, where the ultimate crime was a black man having interracial sex with a white woman — to say nothing of committing battery, rape, strangulation, and mutilation upon her in a scenario right out of Psychopathia Sexualis.
Luther Z. Rosser, for the defense
The plot was exquisitely formulated for its intended audience, the twelve white men who would decide Leo Frank’s fate. It created two layers of African-Americans between Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan. It wouldn’t take the police long to realize Newt Lee didn’t commit the murder, and, since the death notes were written in dialect, it would leave the police hunting for another black murderer. As long as Jim Conley kept his mouth shut, he wouldn’t hang. So the whole plot rested on Jim Conley – and it took the police three weeks to crack him.
The ugly racial element of this defense ploy is rarely mentioned today. The fact that it was Leo Frank, a Jew (and considered white in the racial separatist Old South), who first tried to pin the rape and murder of Mary Phagan on the elderly, balding, and married African-American Newt Lee (who had no criminal record to boot) is not something that Frank partisans want to highlight. The Leo Frank cheering section also downplays the racial considerations that made Frank, when his first racially-tinged defense move failed and was abandoned, change course for the last time and formulate a new subplot to pin the crime on Jim Conley, the “accomplice after the fact.”
If events had played out as intended, there would have likely been one or two dead black men in the wake of the defense team’s intrigue.
Jim Conley knew too much. He admitted he had helped the real murderer, Leo Frank, clean up after the fact. To prevent Conley, through extreme fear, from revealing any more about the real solution to the crime, and to discredit him no matter what he did, a new theory was needed. Jim Conley certainly was scared beyond comprehension, knowing what white society did to black men who beat, raped, and strangled white girls.
The Accuser Becomes the Accused
Jim Conley
The new murder theory posited by the Leo Frank defense was that Jim Conley assaulted Mary Phagan as she walked down the stairs from Leo Frank’s office. Once Phagan descended to the first floor lobby, they said, she was robbed, then thrown down 14 feet to the basement through the two-foot by two-foot scuttle hole at the side of the elevator.
Conley then supposedly went through the scuttle hole himself, climbing down the ladder, dragged the unconscious Mary Phagan to the garbage dumping ground in front of the cellar incinerator (known as the “furnace”), where he then raped and strangled her.
But this grotesque racially-tinged framing was to fail in the end — in part because physicians noticed that the scratch marks on Mary Phagan’s face — she had been dragged face down in the basement — did not bleed, strongly suggesting she was already quite dead when the dragging took place.
Investigators arranged for a conversation to take place between Leo Frank and Newt Lee, who were intentionally put alone together in a police interrogation room at the Atlanta Police Station. The experiment was to see how Frank would interact with Lee and determine if any new information could be obtained.
Once they thought they were alone, Leo Frank scolded Newt Lee for trying to talk about the murder of Mary Phagan, and said that if Lee kept up that kind of talk, they both would go straight to hell.
Leo Frank in the courtroom; his wife Lucille Frank behind him
Star Witnesses
The Jewish community has crystallized around the notion that Jim Conley was the star witness at the trial, and not 14-year-old Monteen Stover who defended Leo Frank’s character — and then inadvertently broke his alibi.
Leo Frank partisans downplay the significance of Monteen Stover’s trial testimony and Leo Frank’s attempted rebuttal of her testimony on August 18, 1913. Governor John M. Slaton also ignored the Stover-Frank incident in his 29-page commutation order of June 21, 1915.
Many Frank partisans have chosen to obscure the significance of Monteen Stover by putting all the focus on Jim Conley, and then claiming that without Jim Conley there would have been no conviction of Leo Frank.
Could they be right? Or could Leo Frank have been convicted on the testimony of Monteen Stover, without the testimony of Jim Conley?
It is a question left for speculation only, because no one ever anticipated the significance of Jim Conley telling the jury that he had found Mary Phagan dead in the Metal Room.
It was not until Leo Frank gave his response to Monteen Stover’s testimony – his explanation of why his second floor business office was empty on April 26, 1913 between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm – that everything came together tight and narrow.
Tom Watson resolved the “no conviction without Conley” controversy in the September 1915 number of his Watson’s Magazine, but perhaps it is time for a 21st century explanation to make it clear why even the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the evidence and testimony of the trial sustained Frank’s conviction.
August 18, 1913: You Are the Jury
The four-hour-long unsworn statement of Leo Frank was the crescendo of the trial. (Later, just before closing arguments, Frank himself was allowed the last word. He spoke once more on his own behalf, unsworn this time also, for five minutes, denying the testimony of others that he had known Mary Phagan by name and that he had gone into the dressing room for presumably immoral purposes with one of the company’s other employees.)
The jury that convicted Leo Frank
Frank would also reaffirm his “unconscious visit” admission in a newspaper interview published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on March 9th, 1914.
A Poignant Excerpt from Frank Hooper’s Final Arguments:
There was Mary. Then, there was another little girl, Monteen Stover. He never knew Monteen was there, and he said he stayed in his office from 12 until after 1 — never left. Monteen waited around for five minutes. Then she left. The result? There comes for the first time from the lips of Frank, the defendant, the admission that he might have gone to some other part of the building during this time — he didn’t remember clearly…
I will be fair ‘with Frank. When he followed the child back into the metal room, he didn’t know that it would necessitate force to accomplish his purpose. I don’t believe he originally had murder in his heart. There was a scream. Jim Conley heard it. Just for the sake of knowing how harrowing it was, I wish you jurymen could hear a similar scream. It was poorly described by the negro. He said it sounded as if a laugh was broken off into a shriek. He heard it break through the stillness of the hushed building.
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Appendix: Essential Reading
To gain a full understanding of the Leo Frank case, and the tissue-thin “anti-Semitic conspiracy” theories advanced by the media today, it is necessary to read the official record without censorship or selective editing by partisans. Here are the resources which will enable you to do just that.
• Leo M. Frank Brief of Evidence, Murder Trial Testimony and Affidavits, 1913
• Leo M. Frank unsworn trial statement (BOE, Leo Frank Trial Statement, August 18, 1913)
• Leo Frank trial, State’s Exhibit B
Original State’s Exhibit B:
Part 1 – www.leofrank.org/images/georgia-supreme-court-case-files/...
Part 2 – www.leofrank.org/images/georgia-supreme-court-case-files/...
Complete Analysis of State’s Exhibit B (required reading): The full review of State’s Exhibit B
• Leo Frank Case files from the Georgia Supreme Court, Adobe PDF format:
www.leofrank.org/library/georgia-archives/
• Atlanta Constitution issue of March 9, 1914 (Leo Frank Answers List of Questions Bearing on Points Made Against Him, March 9, 1914)
• Compare the analysis of the bathroom statement by reading: Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey, followed by Argument of Mr. Frank Hooper — also compare with Tom Watson’s version
• Minola McKnight statement (Minola Mcknight, State’s Exhibit J, June 3, 1913) and cremation request in the 1954 Notarized Last Will and Testament of Lucille Selig Frank
• 2D and 3D National Pencil Company floor diagrams
The National Pencil Company in 3 Dimensions
3-Dimensional Floor Plan of the National Pencil Company in 1913: www.leofrank.org/images/georgia-supreme-court-case-files/....
The Defendant Leo Frank’s Factory Diagrams Made on His Behalf:
2-Dimensional Floor Plan of the National Pencil Company in 1913. Defendants Exhibit 61, Ground Floor and Second Floor
2D Birds Eye View Maps of the National Pencil Company: www.leofrank.org/images/georgia-supreme-court-case-files/.... Plat of the First and Second Floor of the National Pencil Company.
1. State’s Exhibit A (Small Image) or State’s Exhibit A (Large Image).
2. Different Version: Side view of the factory diagram showing the front half of the factory
3. Bert Green Diagram of the National Pencil Company
• James “Jim” Conley’s testimony (James Conley, Brief of Evidence, August, 4, 5, 6, 1913)
• Staged late defense version of events
• The Jeffersonian Newspaper 1914-1917 and Watson’s Magazine (August and September, 1915) series on the case
• Defense and prosecution both ratify the original Brief of Evidence: Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term 1913. Brief of Evidence
• John Davison Lawson’s American State Trials 1918, Volume X
• Mary Phagan Kean’s analysis of the Leo Frank Case: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
• State’s Exhibit A
Source:
Audio book Version: Leo Frank Takes the Stand
theamericanmercury.org/2017/08/new-audio-book-the-america...
Text Version of Leo Frank Takes Stand:
theamericanmercury.org/2013/08/100-years-ago-today-leo-fr...
Leo Frank Research Library:
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Response from James Halliday to the audio and article:
Leonard Dinnerstein’s and Abraham Foxman’s ADL “anti-Semitism” allegation against the judge and jury in this case, and against the people of the South, is the biggest deception of the 20th century.
It is shocking that these Civil Right Activists — who are credentialed and so prominent — discredit and disgrace themselves by openly manufacturing an easily disproven hate crime hoax.
Dinnerstein and the ADL stand to ruin their good names by engaging in academic dishonesty, and falsifying history.
It’s a racist and disingenuous charge against the American people of the South, and the US legal system, to say that anti-Semitism was behind Leo Frank’s conviction. It’s a disgusting and vicious lie of the very worst type.
It seems unconscionable that Jewish groups, like the ADL, SPLC and other Jewish activist groups who claim to be fighting for civil rights, would so brazenly falsify history — when this claim does not stand up to even the most minimal academic inquiry and scholarly scrutiny.
In the thousands of pages of Leo Frank’s State and Federal appeals records there is not even a single hint that mobs of people were screaming anti-Semitic death threats at the judge and jury through the open windows at the trial.
Here’s the truth: The South was the exact opposite of anti-Semitic; they were actually philo-semitic. The United States Census for all the decades prior to 1940 have been made public domain, and they indicate there was a great degree of marriages between Jews and Gentiles in the South, more than in any other part of the country.
The claim by some politically-motivated writers that half of Georgia’s 3,000 Jewish families left the state in response to the Leo Frank case is categorically false — in fact the exact opposite happened. The population of Jews grew in the South; it did not decline.
Today the Jewish population in Georgia is higher than it has ever been, by leaps and bounds!
Why are men and women of sterling credentials so eager and willing to invert the reality of this case, and besmirch their reputations for honesty and integrity, by making up falsehoods about the Leo Frank trial that can be so easily disproven? Why?
Here’s Leonard Dinnerstein’s wildly inaccurate account: archive.org/details/LeoFrankAndTheAmericanJewishCommunity
Here’s the ADL anti-Semitism hoax from Mr. Foxman: (see screen capture of ADL.org website claiming anti-Semites were screaming anti-Semitic death threats into the courtroom during the Leo Frank trial). Thanks SO MUCH to the American Mercury for bringing us the facts in detail.
It's time to stop with the petty name-calling.
Objectively speaking who is closer to the truth? The so-called Jewish supremacists or the so-called Gentile supremacists?
The Gentile supremacists call the Jews who claim Leo Frank was innocent the pejorative "Jewish supremacists" and the Jewish activists who claim the Gentiles who think Leo Frank was guilty the pejorative, "White SUpremacists and Neonazis".
So we have two sides calling each other supremacists. Let us remove these "extremist" boogyman-titles and just look at the case they present, which one is more convincing when we take away the personal and group ad hominems.
The Leo Frank Archive, The Leo Frank Research Library, and The American Mercury versus the Anti-Gentile Biased Wikipedia's Leo Frank Article.
1. www.leofrank.org & www.leofrank.info
1 and 2 versus 3
3. www.wikipedia.org (The Leo Frank Article)
Which ones bring you closer to the truth?
Which of the choices has more than 5,000 images?
Which of the choices has all the daily newspaper reports of the Leo Frank trial?
Which of the choices has the Leo Frank state trial and appeals records?
Further Information about Mary Phagan:
Little Mary Phagan Memorial and Research Website
Phagan Family Facebook Group on Mary Phagan
www.facebook.com/leofrankandlittlemaryphagan
Alterative Sources
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3, The Leo Frank Case, The Lynching of a Guilty Man.
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LOOK AT THE headline and lead article in the Atlanta Georgian newspaper of April 29, 1913, we have illustrated above. Click on this link to see a large and easy-to-read version. “LEE’S GUILT PROVED, Detectives Assert” — “SUSPICION LIFTS FROM FRANK” — “We Have Sufficient Evidence Now to Convict Negro Nightwatchman of Killing Mary Phagan” — “Additional clews furnished by the head of the pencil factory [Leo Frank] were responsible for the closing net around the negro watchman” — “what suspicion had rested on Frank was being rapidly swept away by the damaging evidence against the black man.”
Newt Lee, the nightwatchman of the National Pencil Company was being framed for the murder of Mary Phagan. We know now without the slightest doubt that Lee was innocent. But the pro-Frank forces, even at this early date in the case, were already engaging in the planting of evidence, impersonation of detectives, and other skulduggery in order to pin the crime on an innocent man — and this would not be the last time they would do this.
Just as there is no doubt today that Newt Lee was innocent, there should just as little doubt today that the principal behind this framing attempt was not innocent. The framing of a man who had nothing to do with the murder is not the act of an innocent man.
This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today.
To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link.
We at The American Mercury are now proud to present part 2 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer.
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THE JEWISH Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) — back in the days when they and their allies had a near-monopoly on public discussion of the Leo Frank case — once made the claim that Leo Frank was arrested and indicted and convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan “without evidence.” Listen to this audio book and learn of the vast amount of evidence amassed during four separate investigations into the case — evidence that strongly indicates Frank’s guilt — evidence that convinced the coroner’s jury, the grand jury, the trial jury — and evidence that on appeal was reviewed and found unexceptionable by every possible level of the judicial system, up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States. (ILLUSTRATION: Leo M. Frank on his way to the coroner’s inquest)
In this, the third audio segment of this excellent book originally published by the Nation of Islam — the best we have seen on this subject — we also learn of the very strange behavior of the pro-Frank forces when it came to the factory sweeper, James Conley, who said he was hired by Frank to act as a lookout during Frank’s hoped-for tryst with Mary Phagan — an encounter that ultimately led to her death.
After hearing the evidence, you will never again be able to take seriously the “received narrative” of an innocent Leo Frank, persecuted by vicious “anti-Semites,” which the major media continue to vend to the public.
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WHEN LEO FRANK was first arrested for the murder of Mary Phagan, his and his defense team’s major focus was placing the blame on Newt Lee, the Black night watchman who discovered the murdered girl’s body. They were so eager to avoid any attention being given to another Black man, Jim Conley, the factory sweeper who later was shown to be Frank’s accessory after the fact — that they totally ignored the sighting of Conley by a witness on the day of the murder. This was a most unusual and revealing omission, since the sighting could have been used by the defense early on to place suspicion on Conley, but they deliberately decided not to do that. This lends considerable credence to the prosecution theory, backed up by Conley’s own testimony, that Conley helped Frank move the body. (ILLUSTRATION: Jim Conley, center, being led away in custody)
In this, the fourth audio segment of this excellent book originally published by the Nation of Islam — the best book we have seen on this subject — we also learn how the Frank team, having failed to fix the murder on the watchman, suddenly “discovered” Jim Conley and tried to blame him for the crime.
Leo Frank even attempted to take credit for alerting investigators to the fact that Jim Conley could write (he had been feigning illiteracy to avoid any connection with the “death notes” found by Mary Phagan’s body), though the testimony of all the detectives, even the detectives hired by Frank, was that Frank had nothing to do with that discovery.
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JIM Conley’s testimony in the Leo Frank case riveted the attention of not only all those present in the courtroom, but the entire state of Georgia and beyond hung on his words as they were reported. Despite being a member of a disparaged minority, Conley’s word was given respectful attention — and ultimately was even believed over the word of Leo Frank, an elite Jewish man considered white by the standards of the American South. This was unprecedented, but it was also inevitable given the detail, plausibility, and unshakable nature of Conley’s evidence. Even the best legal minds in the state, led by Luther Rosser, widely acknowledged to be the toughest cross-examiner in the business, could not discredit the “ignorant” Black man, no matter how hard they tried. (ILLUSTRATION: Jim Conley, who gave history-making testimony in the Leo Frank case)
In this, the fifth audio segment of this truly indispensable work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we hear the words of James Conley as he actually spoke them on the stand as that all-White 1913 jury leaned forward and strained to hear.
And that Black man — a man who admitted helping Leo Frank move Mary Phagan’s body, but who ultimately failed to return and destroy it as Leo Frank wished — set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the solution of the mystery and a verdict of guilty in the case. The detectives, the police, the prosecution, the jury, and the vast majority of the people believed that the well-connected businessman — Leo Frank — was a liar and a murderer; and they believed that the lowly factory sweeper, Jim Conley, was telling the truth.
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PARTISANS OF Leo Frank have often tried to discredit Jim Conley’s testimony by pointing out that his account of the visit of Corinthia Hall and Emma Clark to the pencil factory where the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan took place was off by more than an hour. But these Frank partisans fail to note that Conley never stated that he saw the two young woman at all — he was merely told that they were there by Leo Frank, who had hustled him into a dark, locked closet after Frank announced the two were coming. Could it be that Frank was making preparations for murdering Conley — the only man on Earth, besides himself, who knew about Mary Phagan’s murder? (ILLUSTRATION: Testimony indicated that Leo M. Frank, shown, led a secret sexual life at the factory where he supervised dozens of teenage girls.)
In this, the sixth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we hear the words of James Conley, and also the testimony of the many girls and women who were witnesses to Frank’s sexual behavior.
Leo Frank’s lead attorney, the famous Luther Z. Rosser, known for his ferocious cross-examinations, could not break James Conley and his story of a panicked Leo Frank employing him to move Mary Phagan’s body and write the deceptive “death notes” — and, in attempting to break him, actually succeeded in eliciting far more information injurious to Frank, such as details about his illicit sexual escapades with young girls — than even the police and the Pinkertons had uncovered.
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WE HEAR A LOT today about people “playing the race card” — using race unjustly in a dispute, or as a moral bludgeon to obscure the facts. In 1913 Atlanta, the Leo Frank defense team played the race card — and in a very big way. Interestingly, the pro-Frank forces used race in a way that most people would find grossly unacceptable today: crudely attacking prosecution witness James Conley, a black man, in open court and on the record as a “dirty,” “lying,” “thieving” “nigger” — and characterizing the sex killing of Mary Phagan as a “Negro crime” of which “white man” Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta B’nai B’rith, would be — they insinuated — “incapable.” (ILLUSTRATION: Leo Frank’s lead attorney, Luther Z. Rosser, who, along with Reuben Arnold and other members of the Frank defense team, played the 1913 version of the “race card” with vigor, attacking James Conley in particular and, in his words, “niggers” in general.)
In this, the seventh audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we also learn that the Frank defense promoted the idea that there was a separate category of testimony — “Negro testimony” — which wise jurors ought to ignore or regard as false. Nevertheless, the race-baiting strategy failed and the all-white jury believed the black man.
We also hear about Leo Frank’s own statement to the court. We can’t really call it testimony, because under Georgia law at the time, the defendant had the right to make an unsworn statement and deny the prosecution the right to cross-examine him on it — which is exactly what Leo Frank did. Frank spoke for hours on end, and almost all of that time was spent telling the jury about the intricacies of managing the accounts of the pencil factory where he was superintendent — presumably to give the impression that he would have been so busy with his books on that fatal day that he simply wouldn’t have had time to commit the murder and move the body to the basement. It was ultimately unconvincing.
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THE PROSECUTION in the Leo Frank case never mentioned the word “Jew” until it was brought up by the defense — and lead prosecutor Hugh Dorsey had a long history of friendly relations and close collaboration with Jews throughout his life and career. So the accusation, common today among pro-Frank partisans, that the indictment and prosecution of Leo Max Frank was motivated by “anti-Semitism” simply doesn’t stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
In this, the eighth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we also learn that Frank himself denied that anti-Jewish feelings played any part in his arrest and trial.
In this section of the book, we also learn of the amazing, blustering, and mysterious entry into the case of prominent Atlanta lawyer — shyster, really — “Colonel” Thomas B. Felder. Felder tried to present himself as a merely a public-spirited attorney, working for the Phagan family to “get to the bottom” of the mystery of Mary Phagan’s death. But when he was caught trying to bribe police officials to illegally obtain original documents related to the case — and when the Phagan family denied any connection with him — he beat a hasty retreat while loudly proclaiming his belief in Leo Frank’s guilt and claiming that “Jew money” was causing the authorities to “shield Frank.” Despite his strident attacks on Frank after he was discredited, the evidence is very strong that Felder was actually in Frank’s employ.
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JEWISH WRITERS on the Leo Frank case have made some astounding claims about the “atmosphere of anti-Semitism” during the trial of B’nai B’rith official Leo Frank for the strangulation sex murder of his 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in 1913 Atlanta. There were, we are told, “anti-Semitic” mobs (yes, plural) on the streets, some right outside the open courtroom windows, openly threatening the judge and the jury, screaming “crack the Jew’s neck!” and “hang the Jew or we’ll hang you!” and the like.
It is even claimed that Jew-haters with rifles stood almost on the window sills during the trial, aiming at the trial participants just a few feet away. This doesn’t comport well with the contemporary accounts of the trial from Atlanta’s three daily newspapers of the time, the Constitution, the Journal, and the Georgian — none of which reported any such outrages, despite the fact that they took a generally pro-Frank tone throughout the trial — despite the fact that all three employed Jewish editors — and despite the fact that Leo Frank and his defense team praised the newspaper coverage they received. All contemporary accounts show that the trial proceeded with dignity, fairness, proper procedure, and decent composure throughout. The judge wouldn’t even tolerate applause when court was in session.
(ILLUSTRATION: click here for a large version, showing detail; This view and diagram of the courthouse and the crowd outside, published in the August 3, 1913 issue of the Atlanta Journal, gives the lie to the claims of pro-Frank writers. The crowd is described as patiently waiting for spectators to depart so they, too, could get a seat in the courtroom, and they are lined up at the court’s entrance, nowhere near the windows. The caption reads: “Photo diagram of court room in old city hall building, where Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil factory, is on trial for his life charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. Although the available seats are taken soon after court convenes, the crowd waits without all day for some weary spectator to give up a seat. On the second floor the many witnesses await their turn for a gruelling examination by attorneys on either side.”)
In this, the ninth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn that large Jewish advertisers — even the major shareholders in Leo Frank’s place of business, the National Pencil Company, in whose factory the murder took place — were also satisfied with the trial coverage given by the Atlanta dailies, and maintained their significant spending on ad space before, during, and after the trial.
The two versions of the trial — the calm and serious one reported by every reporter who was there, and the one featuring near-rabid anti-Jewish mobs making violent threats — are very different. They are mutually contradictory. They can’t both be true. Perhaps it is telling that, in very recent years, some Jewish writers (not including the ADL) have quietly dropped the lurid tales of “anti-Semitic” mobs from their version of events.
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THE “Hang the Jew” hoax — the claim that “anti-Semitic mobs” stood outside the courtroom during the 1913 Atlanta murder trial of Leo Frank, shouting “hang the Jew or we’ll hang you” or the like and thereby intimidating the jury — was demolished during our audio book segment last week, and shown to be an invention totally unsupported by the facts. This week we hear in detail how that hoax has been cut and pasted, repeated, amplified, mangled, and embellished by lazy, sloppy, and partisan academics, writers, and journalists over the years. One source even claimed that the “anti-Semitic mobs” that surrounded the courtroom were “inflamed” by the anti-Jewish rhetoric of populist writer Tom Watson — though it is common knowledge that Watson never wrote about the case until well after the trial. It’s an amazing litany of incompetence and deception by both Jewish and non-Jewish leaders in the American media, educational, and cultural establishment.
In this, the tenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also see the evidence that — far from being a “persecuted minority” — Jews in the South were very much accepted as a welcomed and even elite part of the white community, and that Jews in turn accepted and supported the supremacist racial hierarchy system there. Their attitude toward black people, the real persecuted minority, was completely the opposite of how the Jewish organizations like to portray it today: Jews fully supported a system in which black men and women constantly lived in fear of losing their lives for the slightest real or imagined infraction. We’ll learn that Leo Frank himself once even stated that black people had “no value.”
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ALMOST THE ENTIRE pro-Leo Frank narrative is dependent on one claim: that Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey fabricated James Conley’s story (or edited and embellished a story made up by Conley) and then coached him to deliver it skillfully on the witness stand. If Conley’s story was not fiction, and not the result of conspiracy, collusion, and coaching; then it must be true — and Leo Frank must be guilty. Thus everything depends on the “coaching” allegation. In this week’s audio book section, we’ll see how untenable is the “coaching” claim. Why would Dorsey and Conley let stand a fiction that included so many checkable facts? — such as people he and Frank had met on the street on the way to the pencil factory — such as the one-hour time discrepancy between Conley’s version of the visit of Emma Clark and Corinthia Hall, and the time the girls themselves gave — and many other items which were totally unnecessary to establishing Frank’s guilt. (ILLUSTRATION: Jewish attorney Louis Marshall)
In this, the eleventh audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn about the massive public relations campaign by leaders of the Jewish community — men such as Albert Lasker, Louis Marshall, and Adolf Ochs — designed to build a sense of outrage in the minds of Americans that an innocent man had been ruthlessly framed by “anti-Semites.”
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TO HEAR the attacks made on the character of James Conley — a major witness against Leo Frank when Frank was tried for murdering a 13-year-old girl in his employ, Mary Phagan — you could easily be forgiven for assuming that you were hearing a speech from a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan instead of the words of B’nai B’rith-associated Frank and his defenders, so harsh were the racial attacks and epithets used against the Black man. Such was the race-baiting nature of the immense nationwide publicity campaign waged by Jewish advertising executive Albert Lasker and his willing “fake news” allies in the media, such as the New York Times‘ Jewish publisher Adolph Ochs. (ILLUSTRATION: The New York Times published reams of blatant pro-Frank propaganda, such as this piece lionizing crooked detective William J. Burns.)
In this, the twelfth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn how that campaign ultimately failed — even according to Lasker, its chief — and ended up increasing dislike and resentment of powerful Jews for their outrageous interference in Georgia’s proper legal process of punishing a sex killer. We also learn that Lasker himself — one of America’s top advertising men, famous for his campaign that convinced millions of American women to start smoking cigarettes — had a strong dislike for Frank and suspected him of being a sex pervert, just as prosecution witnesses had said, but carried out his pro-Frank propaganda duties for the Jewish community nevertheless.
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THE CRIMINAL ACTS of the Leo Frank forces as they attempted to get a new trial for their client — or invalidate the results of the original trial — are so numerous, so outrageous, so obvious, and so egregious that — once you hear about them in this new audio book — you will be outraged at how academia and the media have kept these facts from you. Did you know an attempt was made to pay an inmate to poison one of the state’s main witnesses, James Conley? In fact, it’s fair to say that chicanery on this scale comes very close to proving that Frank was guilty — and that his legal/propaganda/dirty tricks team knew he was guilty; for these are not the acts of innocent men with clear consciences. (ILLUSTRATION: The Burns Detective Agency was hired by the Leo Frank legal team to “find new evidence” and invalidate witnesses’ testimony after Frank was convicted. The agency’s and Frank’s other allies’ scandalous behavior — planting fake evidence; bribing perjurers; paying witnesses to leave town; and even attempting to murder a prosecution witness! — was a significant factor in convincing Georgians that Frank was indeed guilty.)
In this, the thirteenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of the judicial condemnation of Frank’s team — another thing that today’s media accounts and academic studies of the Frank case leave out.
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WAS THERE REALLY an anti-Jewish and anti-Frank “mob atmosphere” at Leo Frank’s trial, as Frank partisans have alleged? If there was, then how did Mrs. Frank get away with calling Prosecutor Dorsey a “Gentile dog” in open court, and then suffer no consequences whatever? Why did such a provocation result in zero retaliation by anyone, much less a “mob,” and zero repercussions for any Jew or the Jewish community as a whole? In fact, Jewish businessmen in Atlanta continued to advertise and sell and prosper just as they had before, and Mrs. Frank was in court the very next day after her outburst, with no reprisals or even threats of reprisals against her. Neither she nor any of her friends or associates in Atlanta’s Jewish community evidently took — or even remarked about the possibility of taking — any special precautions whatsoever. (ILLUSTRATION: This color portrait of Leo Frank — with a depiction of the National Pencil Company building in the background — was commissioned especially for this book, published by the Nation of Islam.)
In this, the fourteenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of the almost incredibly corrupt acts of Governor John Marshall Slaton, usually portrayed as a hero in biased “mainstream” accounts of the case. It was Slaton who made a deal to commute Frank’s death sentence to life in prison — and it was also Slaton who was quietly made a partner in the law firm defending Leo Frank, just a few weeks after Frank was indicted for murdering Mary Phagan. Thus Slaton was literally commuting the death sentence of his own client, an egregiously unethical act. And there’s much more to learn in this audio presentation, too.
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WHO LYNCHED Leo Frank? The culpability is often laid at the feet of a “mob” in the popular literature that promotes the Establishment’s narrative of the case. But was it a mob? How many “mobs” consist of the leading citizens of the community? How many “mobs” have as their leaders no fewer than two Superior Court judges? A very curious mob indeed! (ILLUSTRATION: On the day after the lynching of Leo Frank, a crowd gathered at the site, where Frank’s body still hung for some hours.)
In this, the fifteenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn that the alleged group behind the lynching of Atlanta B’nai B’rith president Frank — the so-called “Knights of Mary Phagan” — very likely never existed at all.
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IS IT POSSIBLE that the Jewish community — namely, the same forces that launched the massive public relations campaign portraying Leo Frank as an innocent victim of “anti-Semitism” — had a hand in murdering him? If not, then why did the Jewish-owned New York Times (the flagship of the Frank publicity machine) create the evidently fictional “Knights of Mary Phagan” and position them as wanting to lynch Frank some months before the actual lynching? Was one motivation their fear that the repellent and perverse personality of a released Frank would undo all the good that their propaganda had done for the Jewish people? Was another motive their desire to position Jews as “victims of the Klan” in the public’s mind — even though the Jews of that time can more accurately be described as collaborators with the Ku Klux Klan in attacking Black people? (ILLUSTRATION: The Ku Klux Klan: How many Americans know about its close historic relationship to the Jewish community?)
In this, the sixteenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we find the most startling speculations and ideas in the entire book. Why did the powerful Jewish groups, who had launched their own investigations of the case and who had been screaming from the nation’s editorial pages for a new trial for Leo Frank, suddenly fall silent when it came to investigating and pursuing the lynching party who killed Frank? Why, even today, are the Jewish connections to the Ku Klux Klan downplayed to such an extent that they are almost unknown to the public?
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WHILE THE supposedly angelic and innocent Leo Frank and his alleged persecution at the hands of “anti-Semites” was a propaganda asset to the Jewish establishment, did it eventually dawn on Jewish leadership that the real Leo Frank, during any possible new trial they might obtain for him with all its inevitable revelations, might be a disaster for Jewish interests? (ILLUSTRATION: Albert Lasker, Jewish advertising wizard and kingpin of the Leo Frank PR campaign; despite his efforts for Frank, he said Frank impressed him “as a sexual pervert.”)
In this, the seventeenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn that the claim that Jews fled Atlanta (in some accounts, fled the South generally) in large numbers is an utter falsehood. Jews greatly increased their presence in Atlanta and the South during the period of Leo Frank’s trial, appeals, lynching, and aftermath.
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WHICH GETS MORE coverage in the media: the singular instance of one solitary Jew, Leo Frank (who was duly convicted of the sex murder of a young girl), being lynched — or the literally hundreds of Black men lynched around the same time in the South without even the pretense of a trial, and often for such insubstantial and unsupportable accusations as “wild talk” or “pay dispute”? You may be sure that throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, it is the single case of a Jew being lynched that receives the lion’s share of publicity, the many hundreds of Black lynching victims getting next to none. This tells us a great deal about who runs the media, and about the real power dynamics in today’s America. (ILLUSTRATION: Lynching in Lee County, Georgia, January, 1916, based on an actual photograph)
In this, the eighteenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of the almost unbelievable disregard for the legal and civil rights of Black people in Georgia’s courts of that time, and the near-impossibility of Black men and women obtaining even the most rudimentary legal representation, to say nothing of anything remotely resembling the gold-plated legal defense and investigative teams marshaled by the Jewish community for Leo Frank, including the full support of many major daily newspapers, periodicals, and New York publishing houses.
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THE TESTIMONY of Black men and women was pivotal in the trial of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, and was so regarded by both the prosecution and defense. But little-heralded then, or now, is the horribly bad treatment these Black witnesses repeatedly received. The prosecution often “sweated” or gave Black witnesses “the Third Degree” — which meant physically or verbally threatening or abusing them, with the idea being that only under such severe fear would Black people tell the truth. Even the man on trial, the man the prosecution said was guilty of murder, Leo M. Frank, never received treatment even remotely like this from the police, the detectives, or the prosecutor’s office. Leo Frank partisans, for their part, strove mightily to frame two Black men, Newt Lee and Jim Conley, with planted “evidence” and hired perjury, and at one point even solicited the murder of James Conley, the Black man whose testimony against Frank was among the most important in the case. (ILLUSTRATION: James Conley)
In this, the nineteenth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of the highly improbable claims of the Frank defense, including Leo Frank’s bizarre claim on the stand that he had “unconsciously” used the toilet at the very location and time at which Mary Phagan was being strangled to death — incidentally leaving his valuable papers and payroll unguarded in an unlocked, open office in an unlocked building.
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ONE OF the most mysterious aspects of the Leo Frank case is the series of “death notes,” four of which were written, according to testimony, but only two of which were ever found. They were discovered right next to the dead body of Frank’s victim, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. If taken at face value, they appear as though they were written by Mary while she was being assaulted. But they also are written in an approximation of the African-American vernacular of that time and in a semi-literate style that Mary Phagan would have been extremely unlikely to use. Were they written by a Black killer, in a hopelessly botched attempt to throw investigators off the trail? Or were they created by a clever killer to make us think that the murderer was a Black man? Were they perhaps even dictated by the killer to a compliant Black man to write, who would thereby impose his genuine style — and handwriting — on them? (ILLUSTRATION: One of the four murder notes — only two were ever found.)
In this, the twentieth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn that the latter scenario — with Leo Frank dictating the notes to James Conley — is exactly what Conley said actually happened. Much has been made by Frank partisans of the fact that Conley’s language on the stand more or less matched the style and usage of the notes, claiming that this rules out Frank having dictated them. But that claim has little merit, for it seems very unlikely that Frank would want to dictate the notes word for word: Allowing Conley to put them in his own words and style would have served Frank’s purpose much better. We’ll also learn of the glaring weaknesses of Frank’s other alibis, many of which appear to have been hastily and sloppily cobbled together at the last minute.
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THE “death notes” left beside Mary Phagan’s body when she was murdered in 1913 have been the subject of endless speculation. Were the notes written by James Conley at the direction of Mary’s convicted killer, Leo Frank? — or were they Conley’s creation alone? — or were they purpose-written by Frank, using Conley’s writing as a guide, in order to throw suspicion away from the real killer and onto a Black man?
In this, the twenty-first audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we will learn what handwriting experts say about the notes, and we will also learn how the historical record has been distorted by Leo Frank partisans such as author Steve Oney.
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ONE OF the weirdest aspects of the Leo Frank case was the — shall we say — strained effort of the Frank team to make some human excrement found in the National Pencil Company elevator shaft into a “proof” that Leo Frank was innocent of murdering Mary Phagan. This so-called “shit in the shaft” theory was based on the overwhelming fear of the Frank defense that the use of that elevator to move Mary’s body — evidenced by dragging marks in the basement’s dirt floor leading from the elevator to precisely where the body was found — was too damning for their client, since only Frank had a key to the elevator. The theory they crafted was that the excrement was deposited at the bottom of the shaft before the murder by James Conley, but was “crushed for the first time” when the detectives visited the basement after the murder — therefore, they claimed, the elevator could not have been used to move Mary’s body.
In this, the twenty-second audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we will see how weak this theory really is. How could anyone tell that the feces was “crushed for the first time” when the detectives went down? Smell was put forward as the “proof” of this, but really — what a stretch; are they alleging it wouldn’t smell the second time? The shaft was uneven and filled with substantial — and loose — debris, any of which could have caused a shifting of the bottom of the elevator car, so that it might strike one object this time, and another object the next time. The car could be started and stopped manually, and it would be normal to stop it above the floor level if something heavy needed to be loaded or unloaded. We’ll also learn — among many other things in this content-rich book — about the almost unbelievable efforts the Frank forces employed to fabricate a “murder confession” on the part of James Conley — with one ADL official even making a public claim that Conley had confessed “thousands of times.”
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ATTORNEY WILLIAM SMITH traded his “free” services as a lawyer for James Conley for the influence of an agent of the William Burns detective agency, Dan Lehon, in an unrelated abduction case — illustrating either extreme naïveté or weak legal ethics on Smith’s part. Smith’s defection from advocate for Conley to accusing him of murder is a very strange about-face. But sudden about-faces abound in the Leo Frank case, especially involving people 1) who had strong evidence against Leo Frank, and 2) who subsequently had close contact with agents of the William Burns agency, who were working for Frank. (ILLUSTRATION: William Smith, “volunteer” attorney for James Conley, who later alleged he had had a change of heart and believed Conley to be guilty.)
In this, the twenty-third audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we will also learn of the shameless abuse of the family and legacy of Judge Leonard Roan, who two years earlier had presided over Frank’s trial. Judge Roan was visited on his deathbed by Leo Frank’s attorneys, who, shortly after the judge’s death, produced an alleged letter from him saying he believed Frank innocent and deserved a new trial — precisely what Frank’s attorneys were trying to achieve at the time. Both internal evidence in the letter itself — and statements from Judge Roan’s own family — indicate that the letter is a forgery.
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THERE HAS NEVER been a better refutation of the 1982 supposed testimony of Alonzo Mann “exonerating” Leo Frank of the charge of murder than in this book by the Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam. They bring up the points that writers for the Mercury have brought up casting considerable doubt on Mann’s story, but add new information that, to this writer’s knowledge, has never been published before. It is the definitive deconstruction of the Mann fable, which was used in the 1980s as a bludgeon by the ADL — twice — to try and extract a pardon for Frank from the state of Georgia — something that might well be tried again now that a new governor is in place there. (ILLUSTRATION: Alonzo Mann in 1982 and as an office boy for the National Pencil Company in 1913)
In this, the twenty-fourth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we will also learn of the bizarre claim of a pro-Frank partisan that “bite marks” were found on the body of Mary Phagan and that the marks “did not match Leo Frank’s teeth.” No such marks were ever found; the widely circulated tale is a complete fabrication.
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THE PROPAGANDA DISGUISED as journalism put forth by the partisans of Leo Frank has been ongoing for more than a century now. But for pure bluster, shallowness, self-promotion, and incompetence, there is none as egregious as the Nashville Tennessean’s money-fueled subsidy and promotion of the Alonzo Mann hoax in 1982. (ILLUSTRATION: The cartoonish illustration for the Nashville Tennessean’s publication of Alonzo Mann’s “revelations” was an apt harbinger of the bad journalism to follow.)
In this, the twenty-fifth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we take the falsehoods the Tennessean invented — or regurgitated, some of them debunked as long ago as 1913 — in their promotion of Alonzo Mann’s contradictory tale and show them for what they are: a sad attempt to exploit a sick, old man — and rehabilitate the reputation of a sex killer (who just happened to be a B’nai B’rith official and member of a wealthy elite).
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THE LEO Frank case marked the maturation of — and radical changes in — the organized Jewish strategies relating to both whites and blacks in the United States. Prior to the Frank case, Jewish groups had definitely positioned themselves (whatever they privately thought, which may have been quite different) as a white ethnicity, and in the South they fully supported segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the social and legal supremacy of whites. After the Leo Frank case, however, organized Jewish interests increasingly portrayed themselves as a “persecuted minority,” suffering under widespread “anti-Semitism,” and co-victims, along with Black people, of white supremacism. But there is a great deal of evidence, some in the Frank case itself, to show that this change was strictly self-serving and insincere. For one example, we should ask ourselves: How did it serve the interests of the multitude of Black lynching victims and their loved ones for the major media outlets operated by Jews to give thousands of times more publicity to the single Jewish victim of lynching — Leo Frank — than to the hundreds upon hundreds of black people who were killed in the same way? (ILLUSTRATION: Leo M. Frank)
In this, the twenty-sixth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of the brazen way in which Leo Frank himself, and the masters of mass persuasion who worked for him, literally made this sleazy convicted sex killer, abuser and murderer of a 13-year-old girl, into a messiah-like “martyr” and repeatedly compared him to Jesus.
This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today.
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AS WE NEAR the end of this monumental audio book, we hear the long and moving list of lynching victims, contemporaries of Leo Frank — dozens upon dozens of names, and even some poor souls without names, so unsung were they and so uninvestigated were their murders. After hearing and comprehending the magnitude of these extrajudicial killings, it will become impossible for you to believe in the mainstream media’s — and the ADL’s — emphasis on Leo Frank as the main or only lynching victim worth knowing about, or their promotion of the “Leo Frank was persecuted” narrative, ever again.
We also hear the perspicacious and intelligent take on the case from the Nation of Islam’s Historical Research Group, who authored this, the most important book on the Frank case in over 100 years. They write from the perspective of the black diaspora in America (a point of view almost never heard from on this subject in the mass media). But there are lessons for all peoples here. One might not always agree with every idea expressed by the authors, but this reader sees The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man as one of the most astonishingly honest and meticulously researched modern history books he has read. Anyone who thought that the Nation of Islam was a bunch of “ignorant haters” has just been proven spectacularly wrong. (ILLUSTRATION: Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Jewish ADL: His group has pushed the highly problematic “Leo Frank is innocent” narrative for a century.)
In this, the twenty-seventh audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of — and hear in full — the utterly amazing letter written by murder victim Mary Phagan’s mother and stepfather, and their belief as to exactly who was responsible for the attempted coverup of the facts about the sex murder of their innocent child.
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THE TITLE of this section of the book — “Who’s Who in the Leo Frank Case” — might sound like it’s describing a dry, lifeless list of names. But it is not. This is a most valuable and interesting piece for every serious student of the Leo Frank case. It puts all the players into perspective, with brief but significant details about the role of each. It makes an excellent refresher as we near the end of the book. Most striking to me was the fact that, early on in the case, so many Jews — even Jews close to Leo Frank — considered him guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan. (ILLUSTRATION: Here we see Mary Phagan’s mother and sisters, looking somber sometime after their beloved Mary was killed.)
In this, the twenty-eighth and next-to-last audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we also learn of the astounding number of Jews — all of them in a position to help Leo Frank escape the consequences of his crime and conviction — who were managing editors, editors, owners, or executives of both local Atlanta and national media in the 1913 to 1915 period.
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WITH THIS audio recording, “Leo Frank Case Timeline,” we come to the final section of this important book. In combination with last week’s section setting forth the dramatis personae of this tragic, gripping tale, the listener can put the entire case in proper perspective. And over all these chapters, what an education the listener has received! — in factual accuracy and understanding of the real power vectors involved, far beyond anything even graduate-level courses in American universities, still shamefully wedded to the obviously false ADL/Jewish narrative, can offer on the subject.
In this, the twenty-ninth and last audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, we begin with the historical context of the times and conclude with the publication of this book, tracing every major event in the case in chronological order. The story of the murder of Mary Phagan and the trials and lynching of Leo Frank is an important story — a story of a murder and a subsequent power struggle — that has affected the fate of black people, white people, and Jews in the United States. It is a story the final chapter of which has yet to be written. This book, if it reaches the people it should reach, will itself shape that final chapter.
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So what happens when we put the petty name calling aside?
Which version is more scholarly and shows a deeper research, the NOI version of the Leo Frank case or the one you read on the ADL and SPLC websites, or the pro-Frank books they agree with?
How does the NOI book compare to the Wikipedia article?
Klansman Daniel Burros Jewish KKK Leader, Terrorist-Murder, and Kosher Neo-Nazi Kingpin Heir Apparent.
Research on the KKK and its young soldier Daniel Burros by David Abelman.
In the oral history of the Klan and 20th-century Neo-Nazi groups, he was a brilliant young organizer and evil knight responsible for carrying out the 16th st church bombing as a squire of racist terror in the Invisible Empire and no one ever suspected him.
It was a church explosion that ripped the structure and took the lives of four precious young Negro girls in the early flowering of their playful youth. He blew them to smithereens.
He eventually escaped justice first by never being suspected and second by his own deadly coward hand and others were blamed for the deadly work that he partook and planted underneath the steps.
Jewish insiders were quite common in the Klan's nefarious history, and it is a suppressed fact that our ancestors as shipping titans, clever middle-men, and financier-speculators, benefited from racism and human trafficking disproportionately more than the majority European Gentiles in the Americas.
We have a lot of soul searching to do in the Jewish community and it starts by not flinging out the cuss word anti-Semitism to chill much-needed dialogue or inquiry about the sordid side of our complex Judaic history in the New World. The evidence didn't go away, when we screeched "anti-Semite" because there was no great Alexandria fire at the Nation's grandest library.
Centuries of American newspapers are archived at the Library of Congress (L.O.C.) and being computer scanned, inch by inch, they show who disproportionately dominated the slave auction houses and African flesh trafficking centers, plus their oceanic shipping-lanes are well recorded. Trying to sweep this away with accusations of anti-Semitism at 150 to 300-year-old brittle newspaper ads is not the solution to sweep it aside until that dirty hateful word no longer has the power to silence objective historians and dispassionate librarians who are cataloging these records.
We did a lot of terrible things over the centuries, and we have a lot of soul searching to do, right now, and we need to stop making the history of Jewish racism in the Americas a taboo subject - the same way we do with the shameful unspoken tradition of pedophilia in Jewish religious communities.
We the reform-Jewish members in the MeToo movement are calling for no more veils of silence in our communities, we must deal with the epochal issues of cross-generational child molestation and ethnic bigotry, without always projecting our community's sins on the goyim. For too long we have accused others of our own very common racial crimes.
The Catholic abuse scandals that saturated the media in decades past raged for generations and centuries, but the insular Rabbi pantheon has largely buried the topic of inappropriate sexual contact with kids every chance they get, including allowing religious leaders to continue performing their duties even after a cornucopia of sexual abuse allegations have come forth against them. Those similar behaviors (transferring sexually abusive pederast clergy to new geographic locations) were seen in the Catholic church before this unconscionable practice was finally put to a stop.
Failing to pretend that Jews did not play a significant part in the racist history of American Jim Crow, housing discrimination, racial segregation, and transatlantic slavery, can not be washed away with a handful of Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuits against impoverished Klansman and lawn chair Nazis that resulted in legal pyrrhic victories. No Buddhist Temple mantra chants of "anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism" by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith or other Jewish agitator committees are going to erase the slave auction ads in hundreds of L.O.C. housed newspapers from the pre-1865 era, advertisements featuring obvious Jewish last names as owners and proprietors of such flesh peddling enterprises.
We have a lot of soul searching that needs to be done, and need to stop making Jewish racism and anti-Gentilism an eternally taboo subject the way we do the epidemic of child molestation in Jewish communities. Nor should we deflect our racism with endless accusations with the slur trinity of anti-Semite, anti-Semitic, and anti-Semitism. Basically accusing other people of our own chauvinism. With the recent release of pre-1950 census data showing a disproportion of Negro servants in Jewish households, as compared with Gentile households, and digital scanning initiatives of crumbling 17th, 18th, 19th century newspapers, combined with the new 21st century Internet epoch going global, we can no longer depend on playing the victim and blaming the world for our sins.
Burros posolutely had heaps and mounds of iron chutzpah, there can be no denying that since his best recruitment efforts were door-to-door, and face-to-face, a dangerous effort even as a young recruiter. Secretly Jewish Klansman, Daniel Burros was in fact a prodigious recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and he helped its membership explode in numerical growth during the Black civil rights revolution (a revolution long overdue). As a rising star in the klavern network, and due to his uncanny talent at helping grow the ranks of this secretive fraternal organization, he later served for a time as the Grand Dragon/Wizard of the United Klans of America (UKA) the largest brotherhood in the 'Invisible Empire'. Astonishingly, while running the UKA, he duly served as an energetic top-lieutenant member of Rockwell's American Nazi Party (ANP) and also ran an offshoot organization. But his prolific career in silk sheets on Mondays through Fridays, and a sexy nazi uniform on Saturdays and Sundays, was finally cut short one day, when he was outed as a closet member of the tribe. Instead of a starchy cone-shaped cotton white hood, he should have been wearing a nubby navy blue Kippah trimmed in gold-colored thread.
It was mortifying. He was standing at Mount Everest's peak of ethnic bigotry and prejudice, the next moment he slipped on ice and fell into an abyss of depression. He inhaled a hot bullet to the lung, and finished off with a bullet under the chin, thus committing suicide at the apex of his limelight-driven KKK/Nazi career, after being outed by an investigative journalist as a "nice Jewish boy" (as his childhood neighbors described him), serving as leader of the most powerful Ku Klux Klan organization in the United States of American. He was literally a Kosher Neo-Nazi prince about to become coronated as king.
Just a little blip on the radar, probably just a flock of seaguls. The eternal fake news media at the time, more or less, swept it all under the rug, of course -- nothing to see here, carry on --because it was cringy-embarrassing for the then-American-Jewish-community that was only a generation removed from the finale of the WW2 ethnic cleansing horrorshow.
The thought of an ambitious Jewish boy being one of the leading Nazis in the country and helping the American Nazi Party and IKA brotherhood grow its ranks by leaps and bounds, made the heads spin of baby boomer Jewry and its active synagogue congregants, millions of whom were tattooed-up Holocaust survivors from Magna Germania. Had Rockwell stepped down as his days were numbered, got arrested for good, or been assassinated earlier, Burros would have been the American Barmitzvah'd Nazi Fuhrer and Kosher commander of the American Nazi Party. And what's even more astonishing is that he was definitely no double agent either or ADL spy, he was a diehard true believer in National Socialism and the esoteric racial-Christianity of the Ku Klux Klan. He was a White supremacist Jewish zealot till his last breath.
In the long history of Jewish-American real estate investors engaging in redlining, segregation, and jim crow, both here in the USA for centuries, and in Israel for more than 7-decades, it has been difficult for Jewish activists to come to terms with the fact that many White Jews were leading members, organizers, recruiters, and Grand Wizards A.K.A. Grand Dragons in the K.K.K. secret society from the 1860s onward. No amount of choreographed Jewish Civil Rights soap opera dances has made the issue go away. And with the new #droptheadl movement is in full swing, which means no one is falling for the ADL's two-faced bullshit anymore of alt-left politics for America and alt-right politics for Israel. The game is up.
Jewish activist groups like Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith have attempted to put on a performative stage show parading against the KKK, but have been loathing to admit the civil war founded the organization in its second iteration was successful due to Jewish investment and organization.
The Braggadocio
Even dingbat Dale Schwartz the long-time ADL attorney and immigration lawyer who secured Leo Frank's birdbrained 1986 pardon without exoneration, admitted during his teen and young adult days that his Jewish father's retail store happily provided the luxurious White sheets and hoods for the Knight Riders of the Georgia KKK, on a regular basis, when it was time to torch a telephone poll sized cross, soaked in kerosene. The dimwitted, attorney activist, for many Atlanta area Jewish civil rights groups, couldn't even see how dumdum it was to admit to the world that his father, a moderately successful Jewish dressmaker and clothing retailer was both profiting and outfitting the Ku Klux Klan handsomely in monographed White woven cotton gowns from head to toe. Southern cotton farms, a symbol of the racism and black chattel slavery from generations past, with hunch-backed Negroes working on the endless miles of Southern plantations, from dawn to dusk.
The Knights of Mary Phagan Legend
Jewish groups have tried to conjure up the falsity that the Leo Frank case gave birth to the second incarnation of the KKK in 1915 via the imaginary "Knights of Mary Phagan", but no such group ever existed. The seal-team-like lynching party that ghoulishly strung up Frank called itself "The Vigilance Committee" not the media fabricated "Knights of Mary Phagan" which was invented beforehand (the L.O.C. has the news records to prove it). Moreover, the founder of the second incarnation of the KKK, Dr. Simmons, never once mentioned homicidal-pervert Leo Frank's scandal as the reason for the rebirth, or it having at least influenced the klan's resurgence. Thus, it was a singular blockbuster movie seen by millions that inspired the Klan to rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Birth of a Nation, Not the Leo Frank Mythology
It was recently discovered that Lowes theatres, owned by a prominent early 20th-century Jewish family, in 1914-1915, helped fund the belligerently racist KKK blockbuster 'Birth of a Nation' and play that anti-black flick in every single one of its thousands of nationwide theaters to wildly packed audiences. Tickets sold-out for weeks with much fanfare. There was even a screening of it at the Whitehouse. Without the Jewish picture show franchise funding the film and its 3,000+ movie houses to distribute the film viewing, it would never have reached millions of people and given rise to the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. That movie energized the White Gentile and White Jewish colonial nativism movements and their derivatives.
The self-aggrandizing myth that Leo Frank's 1915 lynching created the second incarnation of the Klan is a self-serving lie for Jewish activists who want to reduce the whole world to us versus them or Good Jews versus Bad Yahoos (to steal Steve Oney's phrase). The ADL-borg is not the good guys or good gals, if they are promoting left-wing programs in the United States which are allowed to criticize right wing extremism but not allowed to criticize Jewish fascism and hatemongering in Israel. The ADL and SPLC must be seen as controlled opposition and psyop purveyors meant to stop criticism from left-wingers directed at Israel and Jewish Supremacism in Western countries.
I noticed this my whole life, when people converted to Judaism, they always went out of their way psychologically to be the super Jews, "Hey everyone look at me! look at me! I'm a Zionist fanatic!" thus they took being Jewish to the extreme, to try and convince everyone they were the perfect example. The same occurs when secret-Jews join the KKK and Nazi groups, they go out of their way to over-prove they are hardcore zealots, and so they are willing to commit the most extreme crimes of violence to show off their bravado and convince every one of them being the ideal soldier-knight. Daniel Burros was one such young man and his insecurity of being secretly among God's chosen, made him dangerous to the point that he was willing to commit terrorism to overcompensate.
May those four innocent Negro children who never got to experience a full life time of 85-odd years, including, being alive this very day, rest in peace. May all the numberous Jewish klansman who betrayed our people for Christian extremism and who took innocent lives through lynching and bomb-terrorism, boil in their own filth at hell for all eternity.
(*The out dated racial description Negro is used for placing the era.)
Further Reading:
White Supremacist Jews & the Ku Klux Klan
NOI RESEARCH GROUP • AUGUST 13, 2020
www.unz.com/article/white-supremacist-jews-the-ku-klux-klan/
Learn more about the ADL by reading all of these articles now before they get censored
www.webshells.com/companies/adlwatch/
NOI Research Group www.NOIRG.org
The Seeking Justice For Little Mary Phagan Website by the Phagan Family
Source (highly recommended): www.LittleMaryPhagan.com
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[Curator submitted by a student of the Leo Frank case from Los Angeles California]
**An Open Letter to Jerry Summers:**
Dear Jerry Summers,
RE: **“Leo Frank - Atlanta's Murder Victim, **Monday, September 20, 2021 - by Jerry Summers” at the Chattanoogan newspaper website URL Chattanoogan dot com:
I use Google ALERTS (google dot com slash alerts) to inform whenever new agitprop is released in the mainstream on a number of topics. I encourage everyone with a Gmail account to set-up google alerts to inform them when any keywords they are interested in result in new Internet content. Google spiders scour the Internet every day for the keywords you specify and it does an amazing job of aggregating this information.
Several times a year we get Leo Frank propaganda news published in the mainstream media. The articles are always the same in that they intentionally hide from the public 99% of the voluminous evidence presented against Leo Frank at his trial and appeals, while focusing on the anti-Gentilic hate crime hoax that his trial was unfair and embued with anti-Semitism. It’s the same tired old reboot of the same racist attack on Gentiles by my coreligionists who put our religion above truth, and feel that the lynching of Leo Frank retroactively changes the timeline of history.
That somehow convicted lethal-pedophiles who rape and aspyxiate to death little girls, get their convictions overturned because they were killed while serving their sentence. How many pedophiles and other violent criminals have been murdered in the American prison system while serving their sentences? My guess is in the last 150 years the number is easily in the thousands but whatever their crime, it doesn’t make it right either—it’s not justice that they should receive “poetic justice” no matter what the perpetrator's sins against society. People should never take the law into their own hands. I would even go so far as to say the death penalty is not justice. No matter what our sociopolitical beliefs on capital punishment or convicts getting killed, neither vetoes a jury’s verdict.
I hope we can agree that extrajudicially hanging someone no matter how egregious their crime is wrong and is unquestionably illegal, it is the opposite of justice. But I hope we can also agree that some convicts who have exhausted all their appeals and are killed while serving their sentence at a penitentiary don’t automatically get exonerate because our coreligionists have decided to make the injustice of his lynching part of our Jewish identity.
This multigenerational effort to rehabilitate Leo Frank and get the court system to declare his day in court a mistrial is absolutely appalling anti-Black racism (the common Jewish narrative tries to put the Mary Phagan rape-murder on Newt Lee and Jim Conley) and ultimately represents extreme anti-Gentilism. Imagine if the reverse were happening to us, where Gentiles were trying to rehabilitate without any new evidence a Muslim who raped and strangled a Jewish girl, we would be mortified and call it deeply anti-Semitic (even though most Muslims are semites).
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to absolve Leo Frank of the Mary Phagan murder as they gave our Jewish community an embarrassing posthumous pardon which left in tact his conviction. As of 2021, his guilt has not been reversed and it would be the ultimate injustice if by backroom dealings of Jewish activist groups (like ADL, Atlanta Jewish Federation, SPLC, and American Jewish Committee) or frontroom groups like the C.I.U. , through manipulation got this child sex predator exculpated.
*Sketch August 10th, 1913, Hugh Manson Dorsey, left, and Frank Arthur Hooper, right. They successfully prosecuted Leo Frank for the state of Georgia. It was their duty to lift the default of innocence from Leo Frank by providing evidence and testimony to that effect. They did so with resounding success, with the addition of Leo Frank’s delicious irony of admitting he was “unconsciously” at the scene of the crime using the men’s water closet.*
**The Recurring Lie of Leo Frank’s Innocence**
This latest rendition on the Leo Frank legal affair which mangles the facts of the case, makes viciously anti-Gentile accusations about the way the trial was handled. The attorney-author of this article even maliciously attacks the District Attorney, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey of the Stone Mountain Circuit, who did an outstanding job prosecuting the defendant.
Jerry Summers completely begins his anti-Gentilic screed about Leo Frank by debasing the exceedingly fair trial that resulted in Leo Frank being duly convicted, a trial whose fairness was upheld by all the appeals courts (state and federal). Not only were their no technical errors at Leo Frank’s trial, but the State of Georgia’s highest court had something very interesting to say about the proceedings.
The Georgia Supreme Court (GASC) ruled the evidence and testimony at Leo Frank's trial, sustained the guilty verdict rendered by the jury. Now add that GASC determination (7 to 0) to the unanimous decision of the jury (12 to 0) and you have a score of 19 to 0 affirming Leo Frank’s guilt. Rich people are rarely denied justice in Western countries, if anything they are able to use their wealth or the financial resources of their allies to buy their freedom. Leo Frank was given due process of the law, and every right to appeal that case. He had the finest and most expensive lawyers money could buy at the time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marshall
The famous Jewish activist Louis Marshall defended Leo Frank at the Supreme Court of the United States, and that frivolous appeal was rejected in their majority decisions. The SCOTUS voted unanimously they would accept no further appeals from Leo Frank on the matter on April 19th, 1915. Leo Frank had fully exhausted his federal appeals on that day.
Jerry Summers writes: *"Every lawyer and non-lawyer should review some of the various articles on this landmark case to ascertain what happened in a case totally absorbed with anti-Semitism, abusive and prejudicial news coverage, prosecutorial misconduct by law enforcement and a district attorney, jury and witness tampering, use of perjured testimony, forced confessions and many other violations of constitutional rights which fortunately our courts now address but which were totally lacking in 1913-1915."*
What Jerry Summers doesn’t tell you dear reader is that the Georgia Supreme Court appeals files from Leo Frank’s appellate submissions and the prosecutor Hugh Dorsey’s counter to it, includes affidavits from witnesses at Leo Frank’s trial, who were bribed after the August 25th, 1913, conviction to retract their testimony.
*Photo of Governor John M. Slaton and his wife, Circa Early 20th Century.*
Some of these witnesses admitted they were bribed at Governor John M. Slaton’s law office in the Grant building on the 7th floor. It’s all documented and available on the Internet now that the 2011–2013 term’d Governor of Georgia released those records to the public. In 1913–1916, Governor Slaton partly owned the law firm that represented Leo Frank at his trial and at his state appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court. That’s likely something Jerry Summer’s conveniently left out of his biased article.
**APPENDIX: Full Article by Jerry Summers.**
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Monday, September 20, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
Jerry Summers
Until the arrival of the Atlanta Wayne William child murders between July 1979 and May 1981, involving the deaths of 28 young children, adolescents, and adults, the most famous murder case in Georgia was that of Leo Frank.
*Sims: You’re trying to tell everyone that between 1913 and 1979, some six decades there weren’t other famous murder cases in Georgia? You’ve sadly mistaken Mr. Tennessee.*
Every lawyer and non-lawyer should review some of the various articles on this landmark case to ascertain what happened in a case totally absorbed with anti-Semitism, abusive and prejudicial news coverage, prosecutorial misconduct by law enforcement and a district attorney, jury and witness tampering, use of perjured testimony, forced confessions and many other violations of constitutional rights which fortunately our courts now address but which were totally lacking in 1913-1915.
In 1913 Frank was convicted of the murder of a fellow employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Both Frank and his alleged murder victim were employed at the National Pencil Company.
*Sims: They were both employed but many sources say Leo Frank was a part-owner of this manufacturing concern (a minority shareholder). After he was arrested on Tuesday, April 29th, 1913, indicted Saturday, May 24th, 1913, convicted on August 25th, 1913, and continued to be incarcerated during his appeals, he was given a monthly stipend of $100 a month.*
Frank was born to a Jewish-American family in Cuero, Texas on April 17, 1884 and at an early age his family moved to New York where he attended Cornell University and earned a degree in mechanical engineering before moving to Atlanta in 1910.
Sims: Attention Jerry Summers, you made a typo. The incorrect date at 1910, should be 1908.]
The victim, Mary Phagan, was employed at the pencil factory at the hourly wage of 10 cents.
*Sims: Mary Phagan earned 7.5 cents an hour, a huge difference given that a loaf of bread cost about 2 cents in 1913. Mary like other child laborers at the factory earned $4.05 a week for 55-hours of labor, 10 hours a day Monday through Friday, and 5 hours on Saturday. She worked from 6:30 a.m. till 6:30 p.m., according to the research at the time. With 1 hour off for lunch, and 2 half-hour breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon.*
She was strangled on April 26, 1913, and her body was found the next day in the plant’s cellar.
*Sims: Mary Phagan was actually murdered in the machine department (Metal Room) located opposite Leo Frank’s office.*
Initially, three individuals, Leon Frank, the night watchman, Newt Lee, and a black janitor, Jim Conley, were all suspects and jailed.
*Actually, there were more than three individuals, there was James Milton Gantt, Arthur Leminaux (sp), and Gordon Bailey, who were arrested before James “Jim” Conley.*
Lee would be dismissed as the potential killer and Conley would be the star witness who testified as an alleged accomplice of Frank in the murder.
*Sims: Jim Conley testified as an admitted ‘accessory to the murder after the fact’, not an alleged accomplice to the murder.Jim Conley did not admit to directly helping Leo Frank murder Mary Phagan. He only admitted to watching the front door for Leo Frank while he attempted to seduce factory girls, or consorted with in-call prositutes.*
Despite defense efforts to paint Conley as the actual murderer, their efforts were unsuccessful and Frank was convicted and sentenced to death.
*Sims: The best attorneys in Georgia couldn’t break the testimony of Jim Conley on the witness stand. It was clear from the evidence Leo Frank tried to first frame the African-American nightwatchman Newt Lee but when that sleazy racist plot failed, Leo Frank’s defense team then tried to trick the jury into thinking Jim Conley was the culprit. The jury saw right through it. We can see right through it today. Leo Frank was a White supremacist Jew who tried to frame two black men in his ugly racist plot that he blundered.*
What followed the trial and the various hearings and appeals through various appellant courts ended in the United States Supreme Court decision of Frank v. Mangrum, 273 U.S. 309 (1915) when the High Court by a vote of 7-2 affirmed Frank’s conviction and sentence on the grounds that his lawyer had failed to timely raise the issue of whether their client's constitutional right to be present when he was sentenced in absence in the Judge’s chambers because of potential mob violence was violated.
In an earlier 142-page opinion by the Georgia Supreme Court on February 17, 1914, it had rejected the argument on the same issue by a 4-2 vote.
Upon reviewing the facts of the case beginning with the murder of Mary Phagan, on April 26, 1913 and concluding that the lynching of Leo Frank on August 17, 1915 was unlawful, a reader has to be appalled at the complete breakdown and collapse of the justice system in Atlanta.
*Sims: Upon reviewing the facts of the Leo Frank case it was proven with mathematical certainty that Leo Frank murdered Mary Phagan by his own testimony on the witness stand. Leo Frank’s lynching 2 years later was extrajudicial, immoral, and unethical, but it doesn’t retroactively vacate his conviction. Pedophiles are murdered all the time in prison, it’s not justice we can argue, but it doesn't retroactively un-molest or undo the rape on the children they sexually abused. The state medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on Mary Phagan concluded she had been raped shortly before being murdered due to the nature of the bruising inside her vagina. Jewish activist professor Leonard Dinnerstein (1934 - 2019) said she probably wasn’t raped dismissing the autopsy report and he like other anti-Gentile activists promote the Mary Phagan bite wound hoax.*
History has belatedly changed the results of this horrendous black mark on the scales of justice by a posthumous pardon of Leo Frank in 1986 by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, although it failed to completely clear Frank of the crime in a totally inadequate gesture based on a complete abandonment of the principles of “right to a fair trial’ and “due process of law”.
*Sims: History hasn’t changed anything belatedly, only given Leo Frank a half-baked pardon with no substance since it did not nullify his conviction. The Georgia Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court rejected all of Leo Frank’s frivolous appeals, they ruled he was, in fact, given due process of law according to their judicial review. The March 11th, 1986, posthumous pardon of Leo Frank did not absolve him of the Mary Phagan murder, he is still considered guilty under the laws of Georgia. The dubious pardon only gave Leo Frank his right to vote back to him, something we can all agree is ludicrous for a dead man buried 71 years prior.
Hopefully, no one will register Leo Frank (1884 - 1915) to vote a century after he was executed at Sheriff William J. Frey’s property on August 17, 1915, in Marietta, Georgia. The ‘Vigilance Committee” was the name the men gave themselves who lynched Leo Frank. These men who conducted the capital punishment were made up of a former governor, senators, mayors and sitting judges. This was no mob, whipped up in a moment's rage over a lethal pedophile and drunk on moonshine, these government officials planned the hanging for nearly two months. I will publish their names at a later time.*
The final destructive step in this breakdown of justice was when Frank was kidnapped from the Milledgeville State Prison, where he had been taken for protection, by a gang of lynchers and summarily executed in a public display in Marietta.
*Sims: They were no gang of lynchers, nor were they a mob, they were literally government officials who were outraged at the unconstitutional injustice that occurred when Governor Slaton commuted the capital punishment of his own law firm's client, Leo Frank. The most popular hoax these days is that the men who lynched Leo Frank called themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan, this simply is not the case. They never once called themselves that fabricated name. They called themselves, as I have stated above, the vigilance committee. The false history about claiming they called themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan, was surprisingly invented before Leo Frank was actually lynched. It was an attempt to frame these men as members of the KKK, but the Klan did not exist at that time. Thus another biblical good versus evil hoax has been debunked.*
One of the few acts of courage in the case was when Georgia Governor John M. Slaton in 1915 commuted Frank’s sentence from capital punishment to life imprisonment after a full examination of the trial testimony as well as new exonerating evidence produced afterward.
*Sims: There is no courage in a Governor commuting the capital punishment of his own law firm’s client. Absolutely nothing courageous about that at all. In fact not only is it unconstitutional, but it’s also unethical and immoral. It was an act of cowardice. Slaton earned huge sums of money as a result of that act of betrayal.*
Slaton’s actions were the basis for the illegal vigilante action that led to Frank’s lynching on August 17 [1915].
*Sims: Congratulations Jerry Summers, you actually got a fact correct in your retelling of the case, the people saw what Slaton had done as a violation of his oath to his office. The people maintained the 800-year-old jury system by hanging Leo Frank in their eyes. We can agree it was extrajudicial and therefore illegal, but it doesn't make Leo Frank’s rape-murder magically go away.*
A good starting point for a review of the facts, circumstances, and various court rulings would be a review of the lengthy Georgia Supreme Court decision of Frank v. State of Georgia, 114 GA. 243 (1914), the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Frank v. Mangum 273 U.S. 309 (1915) and the 24-page summary of the case in Wikipedia under the name of Leo Frank.
*Sims: I hope people will read all the affidavits about Leo Frank’s defense team trying to bribe them to retract their evidence. It’s quite valuable the public knows these facts. The Wikipedia article on Leo Frank is completely biased.*
Any further interest, in this case, can be satisfied by examination of the various sources listed in the chronology at the end of the article.
Hopefully, such a sensational travesty of our legal justice system will never occur again.
*Sims: The travesty is that my coreligionists feel it’s safe to make anti-Gentilism the central racist narrative in their attempts to rehabilitate Leo Frank and that they regrettably have made Leo Frank’s lynching part of their identity. It’s disgusting that there are people who will make false accusations of anti-Semitism to sanitize Leo Frank’s reputation. He was a sadistic serial pedophile rapist, who sexually assaulted and murdered a little girl. Anti-Gentilism is disgusting when it is hidden behind the guise of fighting Anti-Semitism. I invite you Jerry Summers to have a conversation with me at the Quora group, ‘Leo Frank’. You would benefit from learning the case from someone who knows the facts better than you, a lawyer of 50 years.*
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Jerry Summers
(If you have additional information about one of Mr. Summers' articles or have suggestions or ideas about a future Chattanooga area historical piece, please contact Mr. Summers at jsummers@summersfirm.com (mailto:jsummers@summersfirm.com))
**Leo Frank image (end of article inclusion)**
I would like to invite Jerry Summers to watch this montage explaining the 100 reasons why Leo Frank was guilty and anti-Semitism had nothing to do with his conviction.
Biography of Jerry Summers
Quote, "Biography
Jerry H. Summers is a lifelong resident of Chattanooga and Hamilton County, Tennessee. Following his graduation from law school, he initially worked for two years as a prosecutor in the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office. Entering private practice in 1969, he became the founding member of what is now Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers. An experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Summers is one of a small number of attorneys who has been included in every yearly volume of "Best Lawyers in America" in both personal injury and criminal law. He is also only one of approximately five attorneys in the State of Tennessee who has been selected for membership in the major honoraries based on legal ability and ethical criteria. He is a fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, American College of Trial Lawyers, International Society of Barristers, and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is one of three attorneys in Tennessee invited to join the American Board of Criminal Lawyers.
Mr. Summers has served as President of the Tennessee Trial Layers Association and the Tennessee Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. He has served on the national boards of the American Association for Justice and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and he is a life member of both the state and national organizations. He is active in numerous other legal and community groups and serves on the boards of Area IV Special Olympics, Orange Grove Center (for the mentally and physically impaired), CADAS (treatment of alcohol/drug abuse), and several others.
While maintaining an active trial practice, he is the supervising member of Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers and works closely with each of the other attorneys.
Education
University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee
LL.B. - 1966
University of the South, Sewanee, TN
B.A. - 1963
Central High School, Chattanooga, TN
Professional Associations
American Association for Justice, Member
Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1966
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Honors
named to the 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers list in the area of Criminal Defense
named to the 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers list in the area of Criminal Defense"
Practice Areas
Criminal Law
Aviation
Civil Rights
Election Campaign & Political Law
Employment Law -- Employee
Health & Health Care Law
Litigation & Appeals
Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
Nursing Home
Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
Products Liability Law
White Collar Crimes
Workers' Compensation Law
DUI/DWI
Mesothelioma & Asbestos
Social Security Disability"
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Leo Frank lynching First Time Told In Full ThunderBolt Newspaper February 1961 (RARE). Listed on eBay for $100 or Best Offer, April 2017.
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HERE IS A RARE NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FROM THE THUNDER BOLT NEWSPAPER SPECIAL GEORGIA EDITION THE WHITE MANS VIEWPOINT IT COVERS THE LEO FRANK MURDERED OF MARY PHAGAN IN DETAIL ALSO THE TALMADGE-VANDIVER SELLOUT
THE NEWSPAPER SHOWS SOME WEAR OVERALL GOOD SHAPE FOR THE AGE WILL NEED TO BE FRAMED TO PREVENT OTHER DAMAGE WILL DISPLAY NICELY ONCE IN A FRAM SUPER HARD TO FIND TAKE TIME TO VIEW THE PICTURES FOR CONDITION
PLEASE NOTE THE NEWSPAPER WILL BE FOLDED IN ITS ORIGINAL CREASES FOR SHIPPING
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Further historical commentary not associated with the above eBay listing info
Having been first disbanded in the years after the civil war between the States (1860-1865), the second incarnation of KKK Ku Klux Klan was re-born on November 25, 1915, at the top of Stone Mountain. The event was inaugurated with a fiery, gargantuan-sized Christian cross, made of mature oak logs that had been prior soaked in kerosene. This pivotal historical event was right in the immediate aftermath of Leo Max Frank's August 17, 1915 lynching by the self-styled 'Knights of Mary Phagan'.
The KKK's Glorious Apogee and Utter Collapse
The Protestant-Christian fraternal organization, affectionately known by it's fraternity brothers as "The Invisible Empire of Ku Klux Klan", would peak to amazing heights of membership, but also eventually splinter, fracturing in feuds, personal squabbles and scandals as new fraternal chapters arose around the country, primarily in the South.
This rare item was one of their later newspapers at the time, called "Thunderbolt" and the February 1961 issue featured an article about the Leo Frank case by Dr. Edward R. Fields, KKK Grand Dragon (highest rank, equivalent to President in the hierarchy).
The KKK used titles like Grand Dragon (leader), Exalted Cyclops, Tenacious Titan, and other colorful mythological composite names for there upper level management. It's one of those strange quirky curiosities about the once ultra-secretive fraternal organizations.
Astonishingly, the long-lived Klansman who wrote the article 56 years ago is still alive as of 2017! In the 1980s, Dr. Fields organized a Ku Klux Klan rally and march to the old Marietta Cemetery where Phagan is interred to commemorate her life that was untimely snuffed out in the Spring of her youthful existence, and this was in the midst of the Jewish activist community trying to get Leo Frank a posthumous pardon with full exoneration of his April 26, 1913, ghoulish sex-murder crime that had occurred some 7 decades prior at the time.
1982 The Firestorm Began
Old citizens of the Atlanta and Marietta Jewish community begged the Jewish activists during a four year period 1982-1986 not to "dig up old ghosts", "let sleeping dogs lie" (especially when the first attempt at a Leo Frank pardon was rejected in 1983, before the second attempt succeeded in 1986) and to "please, please, please, not drag us through any more torturous carnival drama sideshow circus extravaganzas like you did back in 1913-1915 when we just were teens and young adults (especially thanks to Adolph Ochs and Albert Lasker who funded a fervent national media campaign on Leo Frank's behalf with its greatest intensity in the national press during 1914 and 1915).
Anti-Climactic Pardon, March 11th 1986
The Jewish activists community failed to get Leo Frank absolved of the 1913 murder in 1986 when they finally achieved a posthumous pardon for their civil rights icon, however, the caveat was that the pardon was based on a technicality and without addressing the subject of guilt or innocence - in other words Leo Frank was not officially exonerated of his crime. In response to the pyrrhic victory, the majority of senior citizens in the Georgia Jewish community -- who had begged the Jewish activists not to pursue the pardon efforts -- finally held their palms up to the sky, shook their heads while frowning, and rolled their eyes at the half-baked appeasing results of the four year legal pursuit.
The Good News and Bad News
Leo Frank finally had gotten his rights back as of March 11, 1986, posthumously able to legally vote and own a fire arm again (if they can ever figure out how to use nanomedicine to raise his embalmed body from the dead), even though still considered legally quite guilty. He got those mortal privileges back, but it unfortunately was even more solidly established that his guilt was, then, now, always and forever, for all intents and purposes, permanent.
Did someone say Permanent?!
2015 Efforts to Liberate Leo Frank From Guilt
The Jewish activist community today still believes the ethnocentric "us verses them" and "othering" narrative that Leo Max Frank (1884 - 1915) was and is a martyr of anti-Semitism, media frenzies, keystone cops and kangaroo-court mob madness all primarily because of his religion, Judaism.
1986
The older folks in the Jewish community had mixed feelings and trepidation about the palliative half-assed pardon that gave Leo Frank his posthumous civil rights back but did not actually absolve him of the crime, or overturn his conviction and legally affirmed guilt in the higher courts.
Many Jewish folks implicitly understand that even if Leo Frank was extrajudicially lynched or didn't have a fair trial, that still didn't mean he was innocent. Today many Leo Frank activists (Frankites) publically cite the 1986 pardon as making Leo Frank fully innocent in the eyes of the law, they try to censor, suppress or downplay the fact that Frank is still officially considered guilty... case in point, the recent April 26, 2017, Salon Magazine article by Ingrid Anderson falsely claiming Leo Frank was "cleared of all charges."
Leo Frank defenders apparently seem to have this weird belief that if they keep saying the posthumous pardon cleared Leo Frank of the charges against him that people might actually think it's true. And it seems to be working quite well.
The Full Exoneration of Leo Frank, 2015
On the 100th anniversary of Leo Frank's lynching, Jewish groups in NYC and Metro Atlanta (especially Marietta) put on a number of commemoration events just before and on August 17, 2015.
Just before the 100th anniversary memorials, Rabbi Steven Lebow, the world's foremost Leo Frank activist, put together a coterie of high ranking retired Jewish jurists, activist judges, Georgia community leaders, political activists and some token Goyim, to create an open movement and public conferences with prominent speakers orating at lecterns about their belief in Leo Frank's innocence. The goal was to recruit as many prominent people as possible to ask the then Georgia Governor, Nathan Deal and Georgia Congress, to make some effort towards the exoneration of Leo Frank.
The Back Story on Nathan Deal and Jewish Community in 2013
In 2013, behind the scenes political pressure erupted over the Tom Watson statue controversy on the Atlanta Capital grounds, because of what Watson had published nearly a century prior in January, March, August, September and October issues of his flagship Jeffersonian Magazine, during the year 1915, inflammatory language and calls to action inciting Leo Frank's strangulation-hanging (see comments below on the usage of this term) on August 17, 1915, and even worse, creating a climate of Jewish-Gentile friction in the post-lynching, with the September and October issues of the firebrand's monthly magazine, rhetorically retrying the case with trial transcript testimony and accusing Jews of using their domination of the media to poison public opinion.
Nathan Deal had ordered the removal of the Tom Watson statue from State grounds in October 2013, for the centennial founding of the ADL of B'nai B'rith, whose long ago origins began in Chicago, at the immediate aftermath of Leo Frank's conviction. Leo Frank was the Atlanta president of B'nai B'rith and even though he had been convicted and held in jail awaiting the outcome of his appeals, his 500 member fraternal lodge unanimously re-elected him for a second term as their president in September 1913. Leo Frank ran B'nai B'rith in Georgia from behind bars during his second term as their chapter president from September 1913 - September 1914. It was B'nai B'rith that then founded Anti-Defamation League in October 1913 with a newsletter announcement that has survived to the 21st century.
1913 - 1986
In 1986 Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL led the efforts with other Jewish groups for the pardon) officially removed the B'nai B'rith from their name and just became ADL. The organization founded on Leo Frank's behalf, had in their eyes, closed a 73-year-old true crime affair.
2015 Nathan Deal Doesn't Fold
Nathan Deal wisely declined the exoneration of Leo Frank, especially given that since 2010 the once buried Leo Frank legal documents (1913-1915) have been uncovered, then put online and people were finally able to learn after 100 years of suppression, that:
On August 18, 1913, Leo Frank reversed his alibi and "unconsciously" supposed himself at the men's toilet located in the machine department (colloquially known as the metal room) at the time the State theorized and built their entire case that she was killed there, and it was precisely where Jim Conley (the admitted accessory-after-the-fact) testified on August 4, 1913, that he found the dead body of Phagan. Oops.
But the efforts to get Leo Frank exonerated are still being worked on behind the scenes. So the struggle to get Leo Frank exonerated is far from over. Even at this late stage in the history of the case.
KKK in terminal decline
According to recent reports from some Jewish activist alphabet soup organizations like ADL and SPLC, they are suggesting The KKK Ku Klux Klan is in terminal decline. Their real membership numbers in 2017 are no longer in the low thousands, but in the low hundreds, from their heyday of low single digit millions in the 1920s. The KKK today is basically akin to civil war reenactment groups or SCA where people dress up in medieval costumes, they simply put, don't have the man power or political influence they once had when they dominated the democratic party (Democrats) for generations.
For Historical Purposes Only.
The Lynching of Leo Frank by Dr. Edward R. Fields, editor of the newsletter, February, 1961. Extremely Rare. archive.org/details/Thunderbolt021961
This newspaper listed item sold at eBay for $100 or Best Offer on May 1st 2017.
The term strangulation-hanging is used in the above commentary, because some believe Leo Frank's neck might not have broken when the table was kicked-out from underneath him and that he was basically strangled to death slowly in mid-air by the force of gravity and weight of his body.
[Comments: This article below with his comments was submitted today by one of the many student of the Leo Frank case, J.W. with my comments immediately below. His are thereafter. Lite editing incorporated.
A broad coalition of multicultural students at Point Park University in Pennsylvania protested the Leo Frank rehabilitation musical 'Parade' in 2019, and in February 2023, National Socialist Movement protested 'Parade' in Manhattan, NYC. This latest event occurred on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, in the theater district, ground zero for the reload of 'Parade'. The musical has made Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown, mega millions of dollars in the 20 years of its showing worldwide, and continues creating a firestorm of controversy. We credit this musical for sending more Internet traffic to our Flickr gallery than any other source.
The cross-generational and offbeat cult of Leo Frank that was born in teen years of the 20th century, shortly after Leo Frank was convicted in 1913, continues its evolution into a quasi-religious cult. Members of this cult believe that because the Jewish activists among our coreligionists continue to write books and articles about Leo Frank being innocent, it follows logically the whole world believes it too. The cultees think that because Jewish activists wrote all the pro-Frank books it's a "consensus of universal objectivity", rather than a subjective, Jewish manufactured consensus (to borrow the more general term of Jewish polymath Avram Noam Chomsky). History is always being revised as time marches forward and we can re-evaluate things without the biased schools-of-thought that predominate the fashions of historiography or college trends.
It pains me to say this being Jewish, but the Frank cultees are lost in their cave of tribalism. They see everything as us-vrs-them. They don't get it-for them, subtlety and nuance is dead. There are many opinions as to the guilt or innocence of Leo Frank. The jury and appeals courts had their opinions. The Gentiles of Georgia had their own dominant opinions. Our Jewish community has its own dominant opinion.
Having spoken with hundreds of modern students of the Leo Frank case, they are either evenly split on his guilt or innocent, or tend to lean towards his guilt (at least the ones who study the legal records and don't come from ethnoracial advocacy backgrounds). The fact Judaic activists wrote the lion-share of books or articles, or created media pushing the narrative of Leo Frank's innocence, has been largely counterproductive to our understanding of the case, because these works make little pretense of neutrality.
When modern investigators of the case scrutineer the pro-Frank propaganda they discover these works falsified or omitted swaths of the official legal records. I have come to the same conclusion as others that we need a new review of the case by dispassionate committees, not more Jewish agitator treatments or White supremacist propaganda (both sides are blinded by their own agendas).
Frank's cultees depend too much on weaponizing antisemitism, omission and falsified evidence to make their case, this hurts us as American Jews because it perpetuates stereotypes that we lie or exaggerate about our history in self-service.
What we need is even handed dialogue and debate about the evidence, not tribal camps warring about his innocence or guilt. Gentile tribalism that he is guilty, is just as bad as Jewish tribalism that he is innocent. We need more nuance and subtlety. We need more dispassion when looking at the evidence in the legal records. Using false accusations of antisemitism in every event of Jewish history is not arguments of Leo Frank's innocence. Nor is rehashing endless examples of Jews exaggerating or embellishing our history evidence that Leo Frank is guilty.
It's time to call on the U.S. government to do a dispassionate review of the legal records and the legal records alone without religious, racial or ethnic partisanship. Without accusations of antigentilism or antisemitism. Lets start from the beginning and let any antigentilism or antisemitism speak for itself, but dragging in historical antisemitism as evidence of Leo Frank's innocence is a logical fallacy.
The newer generations, Millennials and Generation-Z are less gullible to emotional manipulation and more skeptical about orthodox schemes of weaving history into schools-of-thought.
The agitators who believe Leo Frank is innocent believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a literal Nazi, including Jews who doubt the tales of his legal persecution. All of this limits dispassionate examination of testimony and evidence, perhaps with that intention. I have been called a self-hating Jew for requesting that we review the case with new eyes. I have been called a self-hating Jew for requesting that people understand the case by learning the prosecution and defense theories of the case, equally well.
Approaching the Leo Frank case without preordained agendas or weaponized antisemitism is the best approach to uncover the mysteries of the case. Neither antigentile hysteria or antisemitic hysteria advances our understanding of the cold case.
Jason Robert Brown is well meaning, but misguided. He looks lost and confused. And it's blatantly obvious he still hasn't read Leo Frank's appeals and the prosecution's response in the Georgia Supreme Court decisions. What is needed is more Jewish-Gentile dialogue, with less tribal extremism and less Jewish-Gentile partisan politics. J.W.'s commentary below. -end of curators commentary.]
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Jason Robert Brown Pens Essay in Response to Antisemitic Protestors at PARADE
"You don’t have to praise or admire Leo Frank to see that he was the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice, fueled by rage and fear and anti-Semitic hysteria." by Team BWW Feb. 23, 2023
As BroadwayWorld first reported on Tuesday, protestors outside the first preview performance of Parade greeted audience members with chants such as "[Leo Frank is] a Jewish Pedophile" and "Learn the truth about what you're going to see tonight. You're paying $300 to go fuc*ing worship a pedophile, you might as well know what you're talking about."
Since then, staements (sic) on the incident have been released by Actors' Equity Association, the show's producers, and the Coalition of Broadway Unions & Guilds. Today, Parade's composer Jason Robert Brown is speaking up. He writes:
So, the Neo-Nazis.
There is a website about the Leo Frank case that is not hard to find on Google [Jason Robert Brown is probably talking about www.LeoFrank.org or www.LeoFrank.info which are both aggregating websites housing articles by Leo Frank detractors and his defenders]. It has been around in some form or other since we first opened Parade in the late 1990's, and perhaps even before then [Jason Robert Brown does not know how to use internet tools like whois.sc to see that both websites only emerged around 2010, not the decade prior in 2000]. It's quite extensive and you might even think it was a legitimate research archive if you didn't dig too deep [Both websites seem to house anti/pro news articles with different opinions, Jason Robert Brown thinks that dissent from the Jewish activist narrative on Leo Frank makes something incorrect]. But then you'll run across something like this article from October 28, 2019, written by the site's curator, N. Joseph Potts: "Jewish Men Dying In Jail For Ravaging Young Girls: [Jeffrey] Epstein v [Leo] Frank."
[Jason Robert Brown is looking at the world through a Jewish lens of us vs. them, and doesn't consider that it might be equally offensive to the Phagan family or Gentiles in general that as Jews we tend to look at everything subjectively, rather than objectively. Jason Robert Brown doesn't understand that there are many views on the Leo Frank case, some might be considered antigentile, some might be considered antisemitic. Jason Robert Brown seems at times to not understand that falsifying history or spreading false rumors about the case can be equally antigentile. There is regrettably too much academic fraud on the Leo Frank trial written by professors and journalists who are pro-Frank. This anti-History diminishes our ability to explore the case with open minds.]
And suddenly there you are, deep in the world of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and fear-mongering that has followed the Jews around since Ptolemy ruled Ancient Egypt.
[A manager of an industrial plant convicted of strangling to death a child factory worker after raping her has nothing to do with Ancient Egypt. This is part of the problem that there are too many false conflations of the Leo Frank case with ancient Egypt, or comparisons with the Holocaust, or the Dreyfus affair. The illogical conflations commonly propounded about Leo Frank, make it hard for the people who make them to look at the case objectively.]
Here's your copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Here's your blood libel. Your Great Replacement Theory. Your Globalists. Your New World Order. Your thirty pieces of silver.
[Jason Robert Brown should read the legal records of the trial and appeal. Jason Robert Brown is shifting into tribal extremism here, and this creates stereotypes about us that we can not be objective about our own history that we have to engage in whataboutism / whataboutery and exaggerate things to make our points rather than use evidence, or logic. Weaponizing antisemitism doesn't help us to understand the sociological mysteries of the case. ]
Look, it's the Illuminati! There's Shylock, Fagin, Svengali, oh hi Ezra Pound, hi Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Sand, Ballllllzac. Everywhere a Jew turns, his or her religion, culture, race is being derided, mocked, slandered.
[Jason Robert Brown would better serve his own limited understanding of the case to start by reading the legal records of trial and appeals. Imagine a Gentile trying to defend Gentile homicidal rapist-pedophile who committed a violent crime by bringing up 5,000 years of Jewish antigentilism. It's a logical fallacy. It's not a serious argument.]
When Jews first encounter this stuff at a young age, our instinct - well, let me not generalize - my instinct was to laugh; surely no one believed this. We had horns? We baked matzah with the blood of Christian children? We secretly ran the world's banking systems? Madness, obviously. As I got older, I developed a wary familiarity with the nonsense. It didn't seem to affect my life too much, but it was always there, this persistent mockery and hostility that seemed so ridiculous on the surface but was continually being given little infusions of oxygen.
You don't need me to tell you that it's all been getting a whole lot more oxygen recently. Maybe since, hm, 2017. Correlation may not equal causation, but the Jew-haters have certainly gotten noisier and bolder since Trump's election. You know that. I know that. They know that. Let's not be coy.
[Jason Robert Brown thinks playing partisan politics and dragging a philosemite Republican Donald Trump (who did more for Israel than any other POTUS) into the narrative is better than re-examining the trial brief of evidence. This irrational behavior doesn't help anyone to better understand the prosecution or defense theories at the trial, or promote Jewish-Gentile dialogue.]
It's not that Parade hasn't been on their radar before. Mary Phagan's grand-niece, Mary Phagan-Kean, has been loudly denouncing Leo Frank and our show (which she of course has not seen, though I can hardly blame her)
[I contacted Mary Phagan-Kean for curious comments, as she keeps a public account on social media, and she has seen the musical 'Parade'. Jason Robert Brown you should do a little bit of research and talk to the stakeholders of this case before you make claims about whether or not they have seen things. I have viewed her family website www.LittleMaryPhagan.com which seeks to prevent the conviction of Leo Frank from being vacated. There is a lot of objective evidence of Jewish supremacism and antigentilism in the efforts by our community to get Frank exonerated by weaponizing antisemitism, instead of using the evidence of the case.
It's quite insensitive to not consider the family of the victim in this case Mr. Jason Robert Brown when you relentlessly weaponize antisemitism. The excessive use of whataboutery is an antigentile behavior when there are real victims and real families in this matter, not just Leo Frank's family, but the Phagan victim's family. This is why there needs to be more dialogue on the case, and less tribal extremism.
Intersectional Gentile students protested your musical at point park university and none of them were Nazis. It was a coalition of multicultural students who felt the musical rehabilitates a homicidal rapist who tried to frame two black men for the crime. It's bizarre that you have two daughters and can't see how making biased statements about the case might hurt other people too. Leo Frank's family and the family of his wife aren't the only victims in this affair.]
...since we opened at Lincoln Center, and has been duly embraced and amplified by anti-Semitic groups; there was a certain degree of hubbub when we opened our tour in Atlanta in 2000; and there are many websites (including the one I mentioned above) that include Parade in their list of sins against the good White people of Georgia and America, but by and large, to be honest, the show itself hasn't had a large impact on the general public, so it hasn't drawn out the crazies as much as it would have had it been, say, Hamilton.
But before we opened at City Center last fall, our producer Jenny Gersten called me to ask whether there had been a history of threats against the show. I didn't need to ask why she was calling. I took a deep breath. Ah, I thought. That's where we are now.
I feel terrible that audience members who are waiting in line to see our show on Broadway may be accosted by Neo-Nazis. (I can't believe I'm writing that sentence.) But I'll tell you the truth: I'm glad the assholes showed up. I'm glad they feel threatened enough to emerge into the light and show their faces. I suspect they don't particularly know or care about the case; they just want to yell out the words "Jew" and "pedophile." They won't really engage with you, they can't; everything they could tell you about Leo Frank and the case has been decisively debunked, over and over again. No legitimate conversation about the murder of Mary Phagan will end with you believing Leo Frank was guilty. There is plenty of research, much more than there was when Alfred and I started work on this show, which details in stark clarity the myriad ways in which Leo Frank was targeted and attacked by a society which did not care about the evidence or the law; the wounded, frightened populace of Atlanta wanted a Jew punished, and in the same way that some people will tell you that there was fraud in our last election no matter how much you show them that there wasn't, the people of Georgia in 1913 believed that a Jew killed that girl no matter how much you proved that he couldn't have. Some of them still do.
I have always suspected that Leo Frank was a difficult man to like. He was no hero. He was no martyr. But one of the things Parade says is that you don't have to praise or admire Leo Frank to see that he was the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice, fueled by rage and fear and anti-Semitic hysteria.
For the past couple of months, lots of people have been saying to me how important it is that we're bringing Parade to Broadway right now, how the world needs to see this story at this moment in time. Honestly, I've been kind of skeptical; the story's been there all along. But I have to acknowledge in light of last night's events that there's something about Ben Platt, a Jewish star, leading this American story about prejudice and scapegoating, right there in our weird little corner of the National Cultural Conversation, that really counts. Clearly it affects our audience. Obviously it's affecting the other side as well. The Conversation was brought right to the stage door last night. That's where we are now. יְֽהֹוָ֗ה עֹ֭ז לְעַמּ֣וֹ יִתֵּ֑ן יְהֹוָ֓ה ׀ יְבָרֵ֖ךְ אֶת־עַמּ֣וֹ בַשָּׁלֽוֹם
Source: www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jason-Robert-Brown-Pens-Ess...
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Related websites referred to in the article:
Phagan Family website: www.LittleMaryPhagan.com
Leo Frank archive: www.leofrank.org
Leo Frank Research Library www.leofrank.info
*National Socialist Movement fliers: www.GoyimTV.com
ADL/Anti-Defamation League www.adl.org
SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) www.SPLC.com
GAB TV tv.gab.com/search?q=%22Leo+Frank%22
*Parental discretion is advised.
The Whitefish, Montana-based National Policy Institute (NPI), whose efforts include a campaign to make the Republican Party exclusively white, plans to hold their conference on Oct. 26th, 2013. Among its speakers will be retired Sam Dickson of the Council of Conservative Citizens and Tomislav Sunic, a former Croatian diplomat and longtime white supremacist who recently was listed as one of the instructors in the Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute, that took place Aug. 23-29th, 2013 in Harrison, AR and organized by Pastor Thom Robb's Ku Klux Klan Knights Party.
NPI, a politically-connected white supremacist organization whose leader is calling for the “European world” to adopt eugenics to prevent those like Trayvon Martin friend Rachel Jeantel from becoming humanity's future, plans to hold a conference for the second time at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade in Washington, DC.
NPI is listed as a hate group via the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC stated that "The institute has published two studies: a critique of affirmative action, which the institute opposes; and "Mass Deportation is a Viable Solution to America's Illegal Immigration Crisis," written by Edwin Rubenstein. Who happens to be affiliated with VDARE which is an anti-immigration hate organization "dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century."
Confirmed Speakers:
ALAIN DE BENOIST is a French philosopher and social and political commentator. In 1968, he established the nationalist think-tank GRECE (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”) and became one of the leading minds of the European “New Right” (a term Benoist does not wholeheartedly accept). His books include The Problem of Democracy, Beyond Human Rights, On Being a Pagan, as well as studies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Ernst Jünger.
PIERO SAN GIORGIO is a Swiss author and former businessman and software executive. For the past decade, Giorgio has dedicated himself to studying the global economic system and its dependence on ever-expanding populations, debt, and resource exploitation. His book on the fundamental unsustainable of the system was published in French to wide acclaim in both economic and “identitarian” circles; in September of this year, the English translation will appear, Survive—The Economic Collapse. Survive is both an economic and social analysis as well as a practical manual for successful, sustainable living in the “interesting times” that lie ahead.
TOMISLAV SUNIC is a Croatian-America author, translator, and former professor. He is best known for his history of the “Conservative Revolution” and European “New Right”—Against Democracy and Equality. His other works include Homo Americanus, Postmortem Report (a collection of essays), as well as other volumes in English, Croatian, and French.
Hosts:
RICHARD SPENCER is President of The National Policy Institute and Washington Summit Publishers. He was formerly an Assistant Editor at The American Conservative magazine (2007) and Editor of Taki’s Magazine (Takimag.com) (2008-2009). In 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com and edited it for its first two years. Currently, he is Editor of Radix Journal, a biannual journal on culture and critical theory, and the host of Vanguard Radio, a weekly podcast.
ROMAN BERNARD is a French journalist and blogger. From 2007 to 2010, he edited Criticus, a widely-read political and cultural blog in France. In 2010 and 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Le Cri du Contribuable, a Paris-based monthly magazine on fiscal and financial issues. Since 2012, he has been involved at the same time with the “Identitarian” movement in Europe and the Alternative Right in America.
For more information on the National Policy Institute, there conference and VDARE you can check out:
“It is not possible to be in favour of justice for some people, and not be in favour of justice for all people.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (via the Southern Poverty Law Centre)
Gov. John Marshall Slaton photo circa early 20th century.
[Editor's warning: This photo and article republishing comes from politically incorrect website www.NationalVanguard.org please report this web site to ADL and SPLC, we have been successful getting this website blocked and censored by many ISPs and countries around the world]
Re-published by Michael Olanich at National Vanguard, on August 20th, 2015 nationalvanguard.org/2015/08/jewish-group-erects-memorial...
John Marshall Slaton’s corruption was exposed by National Alliance (audiobooks and ADV sections); and even John Slaton affirmed Frank’s guilty verdict on the last page of his 29-page commutation order and stated that “anti-Semitism” was not the cause of his conviction (see: New York Times).
Georgia Governor John Slaton and the Leo Frank Case:
nationalvanguard.org/2015/07/governor-john-slaton-and-the...
Facts the Jews do not want anyone to know about the Leo Frank commutation rendered on June 21, 1915, is this: The 60th Governor of Georgia, John Slaton, commuted the death sentence of his own law firm’s client, Leo Frank in a gross conflict of interest. It was a violation to his constitutional oath of office and a conspicuous betrayal of the people of Georgia, which is why Slaton waited until he was less than a week away from his term as governor ending on June 26, 1915.
The Atlanta City Directory 1914, 1915, 1916 lists then Governor John Slaton as law partner of Leo Frank’s lead trial attorney Luther Rosser, (included in the 4-man law firm were also Morris Brandon and Benjamin Z. Phillips). The search tool on archive.org doesn't always work, but sometimes it can take longer than 10 – 15 minutes to find the indicating pages, because the directory is so large, but try a search variation on “Rosser, Brandon” or other variations of Rosser, Brandon, Slaton, Phillips, it doesn't always work so you will have to search by hand. It takes a little bit of finagling to find the proof, but in 1914 alone there are at least 6 mentions of this law firm and thus indicates the disqualifying conflict of interest. Also see 'The Murder of Little Mary Phagan' (1987, 1989) by Mary Phagan Kean, in chapter 2.
Atlanta City Directory 1914, 1915, 1916
1914: archive.org/details/atlantacitydirec1914foot
1915: Also lists the law firm Rosser, Brandon, Slaton and Philips.
1916: archive.org/details/atlantacitydirec1916atla
1917: The law firm of Rosser, Brandon, Slaton and Phillips had broken up and is no longer listed in the Atlanta City Directory.
Tribute Announced for Governor Who Commuted Leo Frank's Death Sentence
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Daily Report
PLANS WERE announced this week to honor the Georgia governor known for—100 years ago—commuting the death sentence of a man widely believed to be wrongly convicted of murder. That man, Leo Frank, was later lynched by a mob.
Governor John Marshall Slaton (pictured), who was also a lawyer, will soon be recognized with a marker on the grounds of the Atlanta History Center, near his former residence. A dedication ceremony is planned for 11 a.m. June 17, at the center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road N.W., the Georgia Historical Society announced. The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is erecting the marker along with the state and city history groups.
“With the dedication of this marker, we commemorate the life and legacy of Governor John Slaton,” said Dr. W. Todd Groce, president and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society. “Governor Slaton was a public servant who, in his own words, ‘could endure misconstruction, abuse and condemnation’ but could not stand ‘the constant companionship of an accusing conscience.'”
Speakers announced for the event include: Groce; Assistant Attorney General Van Pearlstein; Supreme Court Justice David E. Nahmias; Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center; Shelley Rose, senior associate regional director, Anti-Defamation League; Rabbi Steven Lebow, Temple Kol Emeth; and Jerry Klinger, president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.
The marker will bear the governor’s name and lifespan, 1866-1955, followed by this note:
“John Marshall Slaton was born in Meriwether County and graduated from the University of Georgia before practicing law in Atlanta. Slaton served in both houses of the Georgia legislature and two terms as governor (1911-12 and 1913-15). While in office, he modernized Georgia’s tax system and roads. Concerned by the sensationalized atmosphere and circumstantial evidence that led to the notorious 1913 conviction of Jewish businessman Leo Frank in the murder of teenager Mary Phagan, Slaton granted Frank clemency in June 1915. Slaton’s commutation of Frank’s death sentence drew national attention but hostile local backlash resulted in Frank’s lynching in August 1915 and the end of Slaton’s political career. Slaton lived on property adjacent to today’s Atlanta History Center and Slaton Drive (named in his honor). He is buried in Oakland Cemetery.”
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Source: Daily Report
Read more: www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202729308620/Tribute-Announ...
The Whitefish, Montana-based National Policy Institute (NPI), whose efforts include a campaign to make the Republican Party exclusively white, plans to hold their conference on Oct. 26th, 2013. Among its speakers will be retired Sam Dickson of the Council of Conservative Citizens and Tomislav Sunic, a former Croatian diplomat and longtime white supremacist who recently was listed as one of the instructors in the Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute, that took place Aug. 23-29th, 2013 in Harrison, AR and organized by Pastor Thom Robb's Ku Klux Klan Knights Party.
NPI, a politically-connected white supremacist organization whose leader is calling for the “European world” to adopt eugenics to prevent those like Trayvon Martin friend Rachel Jeantel from becoming humanity's future, plans to hold a conference for the second time at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade in Washington, DC.
NPI is listed as a hate group via the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC stated that "The institute has published two studies: a critique of affirmative action, which the institute opposes; and "Mass Deportation is a Viable Solution to America's Illegal Immigration Crisis," written by Edwin Rubenstein. Who happens to be affiliated with VDARE which is an anti-immigration hate organization "dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century."
Confirmed Speakers:
ALAIN DE BENOIST is a French philosopher and social and political commentator. In 1968, he established the nationalist think-tank GRECE (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”) and became one of the leading minds of the European “New Right” (a term Benoist does not wholeheartedly accept). His books include The Problem of Democracy, Beyond Human Rights, On Being a Pagan, as well as studies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Ernst Jünger.
PIERO SAN GIORGIO is a Swiss author and former businessman and software executive. For the past decade, Giorgio has dedicated himself to studying the global economic system and its dependence on ever-expanding populations, debt, and resource exploitation. His book on the fundamental unsustainable of the system was published in French to wide acclaim in both economic and “identitarian” circles; in September of this year, the English translation will appear, Survive—The Economic Collapse. Survive is both an economic and social analysis as well as a practical manual for successful, sustainable living in the “interesting times” that lie ahead.
TOMISLAV SUNIC is a Croatian-America author, translator, and former professor. He is best known for his history of the “Conservative Revolution” and European “New Right”—Against Democracy and Equality. His other works include Homo Americanus, Postmortem Report (a collection of essays), as well as other volumes in English, Croatian, and French.
Hosts:
RICHARD SPENCER is President of The National Policy Institute and Washington Summit Publishers. He was formerly an Assistant Editor at The American Conservative magazine (2007) and Editor of Taki’s Magazine (Takimag.com) (2008-2009). In 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com and edited it for its first two years. Currently, he is Editor of Radix Journal, a biannual journal on culture and critical theory, and the host of Vanguard Radio, a weekly podcast.
ROMAN BERNARD is a French journalist and blogger. From 2007 to 2010, he edited Criticus, a widely-read political and cultural blog in France. In 2010 and 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Le Cri du Contribuable, a Paris-based monthly magazine on fiscal and financial issues. Since 2012, he has been involved at the same time with the “Identitarian” movement in Europe and the Alternative Right in America.
For more information on the National Policy Institute, there conference and VDARE you can check out:
One of the slides of Julian Bond's talk: "Crossing the Color Line: From Rhythm 'n' Blues to Rock 'n' Roll"
[Curator remarks: We have been deluged with emails about the recent push by the National Socialist Movement to draw attention to Goyim TV and their group website.
Information sent in by a student of the Leo Frank case, J.W., who follows mainstream news on the subject closely. Many have wondered who was behind the fastest growing antisemitic video sharing website in the world promoting controversial Leo Frank trial research. The cold-case has become a flashpoint in our society in modern times, as SPLC and ADL have attempted to rehabilitate Leo Frank as a spiritual symbol of hate and bigotry gone to far. In opposition, children's rights advocates, black civil rights groups and others have called upon the image of murder victim Mary Phagan, who was raped and strangled, as a national call to seek tougher laws nationwide against homicidal pedophiles, up-to and including the death penalty for them. Many believe that Leo Frank tried to frame 2 of his black employees, and 1 of his white employees for the Phagan rape-murder.
The affair has been of radar focus in the Qanon movement, a popular conspiracy group which claims to be fighting against what they believe is the entrenchment of pedophiles in politics and big gov. They cite the Alan Dershowitz defended Jeffrey Epstein case as one pearl of strong evidence in a string of pearls, after there were revealed flight logs of powerful leaders having gone to his Bahamian island to allegedly engage in sexual activity with underaged teenage girls. Other cases include Weinstein, Anthony Wiener, Bill Cosby, pederast molestation in Jewish and Catholic communities by spiritual leaders, and related sex crime convictions that have brought attention to the MeToo movement.
J.W. writes (February 23, 2023), "A massive explosion of anti-Leo Frank propaganda distribution on the Internet and live protests are erupting at theater presentations of Broadway's cult classic, Parade, a PR musical engineered to rehab Leo Frank's killer pedo reputation. Leo Frank was the only Jew ever lynched in the United States two years after a disputed trial. The mastermind behind www.GoyimTV.com is Jon Minadeo of Petaluma California, who is relocating to the sunshine state. Jewish Floridians are concerned by the aggressive antisemitic flyrering (sic) protected by the first amendment. The far-right chief executive of Florida, Ron DeSantis has passed a number of unconstitutional laws banning certain criticisms of Jews, which has been helpful on its face to generally reduce "hateful opinions" and speech being aired, but there is concern these laws could be challenged and overturned in courts. The laws are blatantly unconstitutional. Jewish groups are demanding more legalistic protection from hurtful rhetoric."
J.W. writes (February 24th, 2023), "In response to the relocation of Jon Minadeo, Jewish groups in south eastern Florida are forming committees to petition the state government to pass a law making it illegal or define it as antisemitic to say that Leo Frank is guilty. They seek the international definition of antisemitism to include any suggestion Leo Frank is guilty. Such groups were able to previously get Republican Governor Ronald DeSantis to make it illegal to work for the state of Florida if a person is skeptical about the validity of commonly touted Jewish death tolls during WW2 or question whether the homocidal gas chambers existed or not. Jewish groups are also in talks seeking to have it defined as antisemitic to promote that Alfred Dreyfus was guilty."
Updated 2-28-2023.
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From the Jewish Daily Forward: Antisemitic Propaganda Group GoyimTV.com moving to Florida from California.
forward.com/fast-forward/528898/the-antisemitic-propagand...
Jewish Thespian Benjamin Platt Denounces Neo-Nazi Protestors Outside Theatre
www.billboard.com/music/music-news/ben-platt-antisemitic-...
*GoyimTV.com propaganda on the Leo Frank case:
www.goyimtv.com/search?q=leo+frank
*Parental discretion is advised.
If you receive antisemitic fliers please immediately contact ADL.org
February 24th, 2023, Pro-Jewish & Jewish Friendly News Source, Addendum:
1. Ben Platt Addresses ‘Ugly and Scary’ Antisemitic Protests at Broadway’s Parade
www.vulture.com/2023/02/ben-platt-broadway-parade-antisem...
2. Ben Platt speaks out against antisemitic protests of ‘Parade’ on Broadway
edition.cnn.com/2023/02/22/entertainment/ben-platt-antise...
3. Neo-Nazis rally outside Broadway preview of ‘Parade,’ show about antisemitic murder
www.timesofisrael.com/neo-nazis-rally-outside-broadway-pr...
4. Ben Platt Speaks Out After First Broadway Performance of 'Parade' Was Met with Antisemitic Protesters
people.com/theater/ben-platt-speaks-out-after-broadway-pe...
5. Broadway ‘Parade’ Star Ben Platt Responds To Antisemitic Protesters: “Ugly And Scary But A Wonderful Reminder” Of The Need For This Musical
deadline.com/2023/02/broadway-parade-ben-platt-antisemiti...
6. ‘Very Ugly and Scary’: Ben Platt Addresses Neo-Nazi Protesters Outside of ‘Parade’ Musical
www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-protes...
7. ‘Parade’ Producers Condemn Neo-Nazi Protest at Show About Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/theater/parade-broadway-neo-na...
8. The real history behind 'Parade' on Broadway
"Editor's note: The section of this article titled "What happened at Leo Frank’s trial?" includes information from an account of the Leo Frank case published through the University of Georgia Press. A link and clarifying language have been added to differentiate the source used in this article from the Leo Frank Case Archive [ www.LeoFrank.org ] and the Leo Frank Case Research Library [ www.LeoFrank.info ], websites maintained by anti-Semitic far-right groups." www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/the-real-hi...
9. Neo-Nazis protest outside Broadway show about lynching of Jewish man www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/02/22/broadway-para...
The Whitefish, Montana-based National Policy Institute (NPI), whose efforts include a campaign to make the Republican Party exclusively white, plans to hold their conference on Oct. 26th, 2013. Among its speakers will be retired Sam Dickson of the Council of Conservative Citizens and Tomislav Sunic, a former Croatian diplomat and longtime white supremacist who recently was listed as one of the instructors in the Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute, that took place Aug. 23-29th, 2013 in Harrison, AR and organized by Pastor Thom Robb's Ku Klux Klan Knights Party.
NPI, a politically-connected white supremacist organization whose leader is calling for the “European world” to adopt eugenics to prevent those like Trayvon Martin friend Rachel Jeantel from becoming humanity's future, plans to hold a conference for the second time at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade in Washington, DC.
NPI is listed as a hate group via the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC stated that "The institute has published two studies: a critique of affirmative action, which the institute opposes; and "Mass Deportation is a Viable Solution to America's Illegal Immigration Crisis," written by Edwin Rubenstein. Who happens to be affiliated with VDARE which is an anti-immigration hate organization "dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century."
Confirmed Speakers:
ALAIN DE BENOIST is a French philosopher and social and political commentator. In 1968, he established the nationalist think-tank GRECE (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”) and became one of the leading minds of the European “New Right” (a term Benoist does not wholeheartedly accept). His books include The Problem of Democracy, Beyond Human Rights, On Being a Pagan, as well as studies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Ernst Jünger.
PIERO SAN GIORGIO is a Swiss author and former businessman and software executive. For the past decade, Giorgio has dedicated himself to studying the global economic system and its dependence on ever-expanding populations, debt, and resource exploitation. His book on the fundamental unsustainable of the system was published in French to wide acclaim in both economic and “identitarian” circles; in September of this year, the English translation will appear, Survive—The Economic Collapse. Survive is both an economic and social analysis as well as a practical manual for successful, sustainable living in the “interesting times” that lie ahead.
TOMISLAV SUNIC is a Croatian-America author, translator, and former professor. He is best known for his history of the “Conservative Revolution” and European “New Right”—Against Democracy and Equality. His other works include Homo Americanus, Postmortem Report (a collection of essays), as well as other volumes in English, Croatian, and French.
Hosts:
RICHARD SPENCER is President of The National Policy Institute and Washington Summit Publishers. He was formerly an Assistant Editor at The American Conservative magazine (2007) and Editor of Taki’s Magazine (Takimag.com) (2008-2009). In 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com and edited it for its first two years. Currently, he is Editor of Radix Journal, a biannual journal on culture and critical theory, and the host of Vanguard Radio, a weekly podcast.
ROMAN BERNARD is a French journalist and blogger. From 2007 to 2010, he edited Criticus, a widely-read political and cultural blog in France. In 2010 and 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Le Cri du Contribuable, a Paris-based monthly magazine on fiscal and financial issues. Since 2012, he has been involved at the same time with the “Identitarian” movement in Europe and the Alternative Right in America.
For more information on the National Policy Institute, there conference and VDARE you can check out:
Rockville Maryland, June 27, 2023. A huge group (1,000?) of mainly African American and Muslim folks gathered at the Board Of Education to protest LGBTQ+ education in Montgomery County MD public schools. They are advocating to restore an 'opt out' policy. That means that if a teacher assigns reading material that parents object to, the student does not have to participate. The main organizers of today's protest seemed to be white activists associated with intolerant right wing outfits including the SPLC* designated hate group Moms For Liberty. Also present were the shadowy Family Rights For Religious Freedom*** and The Coalition For Virtue**. Sadly, there also seemed to be major buy-in from Muslim groups I respect that should know better. Inside the BOE there was testimony about MoCo's policies both pro and con but the general public was largely excluded for understandable security reasons.
A small contingent of my Rainbow Brigade friends were on hand for a dance party to show support for our LGBTQ+ neighbors. Although one of the white male right wing speakers claimed that there was physical conflict initiated by the Rainbows this was not the case. I've attended and photographed a fair number of Rainbow events and I can report that Rainbow protectors are well trained in peaceful de-escalation techniques. In fact, one of the folks here today actually took a punch from a Proud Boy and just turned the other cheek. Thankfully he has healed and continues to show up to support his community with skill and grace.
*Southern Poverty Law Center
**Said to be a Muslim group, established 2023?
***Also Muslim focused, established 2023? No names? Why?
The National Alliance was successful once and can be again under a management that cares to grow the organization with only quality people. Erich Gliebe certainly didn't care and just cannibalized the organization till it was almost gone; living off it as a vampire sucks the life blood of its host.
Gliebe's successors are no better and arguably even worse, having among their company criminals and "untermenschen" that a decent and responsible person would be embarrassed to be associated with. The deficiencies of the "new" National Alliance are rife with the worst people that claim to represent the interests of Aryan survival in North America.
We don't have to "demonize" these people. All need be done is point out the simple facts that are all well documented. We must warn innocent people of what comprises the leadership of this "new" National Alliance before they get taken in. This is not a family friendly community despite their deceptive adverting.
Consider the following:
Will Williams, "chairman"
1. Documented mental disorder. Receives 100% mental disability from the government. (People with mental disorder may not be members of the National Alliance.)
2. Documented friendly working relationship with the SPLC. Friendly e-mails between Williams and SPLC are public on our site and others.
3. Documented conviction of criminal battery just this year on a woman. Sentenced to 6 months jail time.
Kevin Strom, "media director" "public spokesperson"
(Beware: He's a security risk.)
1. Documented both as a personally admitted and convicted sex criminal; a pedophile in fact. Served 2 years in prison and is currently on a 15 year supervised probation on child pornography charges.You can see his information at the Pennsylvania State Police website under the Megan's Law section.
2. Documented: Was previously tried on child stalking and enticement but "walked" on a technicality.
3. Documented: Admitted his perversion in a signed, notarized family contract previous to his arrest and trials. (available on our site)
Frazier Glenn Miller, NA internet recruiter and decades long friend of Williams
1. Documented: Convicted triple murderer of 3 people in cold blood; complete strangers. Now awaits the death gurney and injection.
2. Documented: Two time U.S. government informant against White activists.
David ("I'm not a racist") Pringle,
"chief of staff" (with no staff)
Documented: Advocates the co-mingling of the National Alliance with the right-wing reactionary "constitutional" militias (a red flag if there ever was one). Certainly, the militias will not claim that they are pro-White but pro-America or pro-Constitution, or "sovereign citizens" or whatever. More than a few are race-mixers themselves.
We want to make it clear that the National Alliance is a revolutionary organization dedicated to the goal of the creation of White living space in North America. We are not about the constitution, "apple pie" and the flag nor anything concerned of what is commonly referred to concerning the term America.
At one time, America, being exclusively a White concept invoked the image of White people when you referred to the term. No longer is that the case and history does not move backwards; only forwards. A new paradigm is at hand. The message of the National Alliance and its struggle to convey that message are the birth pangs of a new dispensation of the future.
The National Alliance refuses to defend nor rehabilitate an old rotting system. We don't cry "Equal rights for Whites!" or other similar nonsense. We want no part of reanimating the terminally ill. We want nothing to do with a multi-cultural society; period; equal rights or not. In the most simplest of terms, "The U.S. is not us."
This "new" National Alliance is 180 degrees from what Dr. Pierce envisioned. It is a corruption; an abomination.
We invite you to read our Pledge of Intent and consider our vision of a reformed and restored National Alliance. And if that is also your own vision, you are most welcome to help.
Our Pledge of Intent: wp.me/p4kAQg-2oE
The Whitefish, Montana-based National Policy Institute (NPI), whose efforts include a campaign to make the Republican Party exclusively white, plans to hold their conference on Oct. 26th, 2013. Among its speakers will be retired Sam Dickson of the Council of Conservative Citizens and Tomislav Sunic, a former Croatian diplomat and longtime white supremacist who recently was listed as one of the instructors in the Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute, that took place Aug. 23-29th, 2013 in Harrison, AR and organized by Pastor Thom Robb's Ku Klux Klan Knights Party.
NPI, a politically-connected white supremacist organization whose leader is calling for the “European world” to adopt eugenics to prevent those like Trayvon Martin friend Rachel Jeantel from becoming humanity's future, plans to hold a conference for the second time at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade in Washington, DC.
NPI is listed as a hate group via the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC stated that "The institute has published two studies: a critique of affirmative action, which the institute opposes; and "Mass Deportation is a Viable Solution to America's Illegal Immigration Crisis," written by Edwin Rubenstein. Who happens to be affiliated with VDARE which is an anti-immigration hate organization "dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century."
Confirmed Speakers:
ALAIN DE BENOIST is a French philosopher and social and political commentator. In 1968, he established the nationalist think-tank GRECE (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”) and became one of the leading minds of the European “New Right” (a term Benoist does not wholeheartedly accept). His books include The Problem of Democracy, Beyond Human Rights, On Being a Pagan, as well as studies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Ernst Jünger.
PIERO SAN GIORGIO is a Swiss author and former businessman and software executive. For the past decade, Giorgio has dedicated himself to studying the global economic system and its dependence on ever-expanding populations, debt, and resource exploitation. His book on the fundamental unsustainable of the system was published in French to wide acclaim in both economic and “identitarian” circles; in September of this year, the English translation will appear, Survive—The Economic Collapse. Survive is both an economic and social analysis as well as a practical manual for successful, sustainable living in the “interesting times” that lie ahead.
TOMISLAV SUNIC is a Croatian-America author, translator, and former professor. He is best known for his history of the “Conservative Revolution” and European “New Right”—Against Democracy and Equality. His other works include Homo Americanus, Postmortem Report (a collection of essays), as well as other volumes in English, Croatian, and French.
Hosts:
RICHARD SPENCER is President of The National Policy Institute and Washington Summit Publishers. He was formerly an Assistant Editor at The American Conservative magazine (2007) and Editor of Taki’s Magazine (Takimag.com) (2008-2009). In 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com and edited it for its first two years. Currently, he is Editor of Radix Journal, a biannual journal on culture and critical theory, and the host of Vanguard Radio, a weekly podcast.
ROMAN BERNARD is a French journalist and blogger. From 2007 to 2010, he edited Criticus, a widely-read political and cultural blog in France. In 2010 and 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Le Cri du Contribuable, a Paris-based monthly magazine on fiscal and financial issues. Since 2012, he has been involved at the same time with the “Identitarian” movement in Europe and the Alternative Right in America.
For more information on the National Policy Institute, there conference and VDARE you can check out:
Rockville Maryland, June 27, 2023. A huge group (1,000?) of mainly African American and Muslim folks gathered at the Board Of Education to protest LGBTQ+ education in Montgomery County MD public schools. They are advocating to restore an 'opt out' policy. That means that if a teacher assigns reading material that parents object to, the student does not have to participate. The main organizers of today's protest seemed to be white activists associated with intolerant right wing outfits including the SPLC* designated hate group Moms For Liberty. Also present were the shadowy Family Rights For Religious Freedom*** and The Coalition For Virtue**. Sadly, there also seemed to be major buy-in from Muslim groups I respect that should know better. Inside the BOE there was testimony about MoCo's policies both pro and con but the general public was largely excluded for understandable security reasons.
A small contingent of my Rainbow Brigade friends were on hand for a dance party to show support for our LGBTQ+ neighbors. Although one of the white male right wing speakers claimed that there was physical conflict initiated by the Rainbows this was not the case. I've attended and photographed a fair number of Rainbow events and I can report that Rainbow protectors are well trained in peaceful de-escalation techniques. In fact, one of the folks here today actually took a punch from a Proud Boy and just turned the other cheek. Thankfully he has healed and continues to show up to support his community with skill and grace.
*Southern Poverty Law Center
**Said to be a Muslim group, established 2023?
***Also Muslim focused, established 2023? No names? Why?
Rockville Maryland, June 27, 2023. A huge group (1,000?) of mainly African American and Muslim folks gathered at the Board Of Education to protest LGBTQ+ education in Montgomery County MD public schools. They are advocating to restore an 'opt out' policy. That means that if a teacher assigns reading material that parents object to, the student does not have to participate. The main organizers of today's protest seemed to be white activists associated with intolerant right wing outfits including the SPLC* designated hate group Moms For Liberty. Also present were the shadowy Family Rights For Religious Freedom*** and The Coalition For Virtue**. Sadly, there also seemed to be major buy-in from Muslim groups I respect that should know better. Inside the BOE there was testimony about MoCo's policies both pro and con but the general public was largely excluded for understandable security reasons.
A small contingent of my Rainbow Brigade friends were on hand for a dance party to show support for our LGBTQ+ neighbors. Although one of the white male right wing speakers claimed that there was physical conflict initiated by the Rainbows this was not the case. I've attended and photographed a fair number of Rainbow events and I can report that Rainbow protectors are well trained in peaceful de-escalation techniques. In fact, one of the folks here today actually took a punch from a Proud Boy and just turned the other cheek. Thankfully he has healed and continues to show up to support his community with skill and grace.
*Southern Poverty Law Center
**Said to be a Muslim group, established 2023?
***Also Muslim focused, established 2023? No names? Why?
Rockville Maryland, June 27, 2023. A huge group (1,000?) of mainly African American and Muslim folks gathered at the Board Of Education to protest LGBTQ+ education in Montgomery County MD public schools. They are advocating to restore an 'opt out' policy. That means that if a teacher assigns reading material that parents object to, the student does not have to participate. The main organizers of today's protest seemed to be white activists associated with intolerant right wing outfits including the SPLC* designated hate group Moms For Liberty. Also present were the shadowy Family Rights For Religious Freedom*** and The Coalition For Virtue**. Sadly, there also seemed to be major buy-in from Muslim groups I respect that should know better. Inside the BOE there was testimony about MoCo's policies both pro and con but the general public was largely excluded for understandable security reasons.
A small contingent of my Rainbow Brigade friends were on hand for a dance party to show support for our LGBTQ+ neighbors. Although one of the white male right wing speakers claimed that there was physical conflict initiated by the Rainbows this was not the case. I've attended and photographed a fair number of Rainbow events and I can report that Rainbow protectors are well trained in peaceful de-escalation techniques. In fact, one of the folks here today actually took a punch from a Proud Boy and just turned the other cheek. Thankfully he has healed and continues to show up to support his community with skill and grace.
*Southern Poverty Law Center
**Said to be a Muslim group, established 2023?
***Also Muslim focused, established 2023? No names? Why?
Day after day, day and night, pundits (some of the actually in the know) emit a steady stream of commentary, analysis, and a heaping dose of allegations and insinuations, one candidate in particular garnering disproportionate attention. With all we have seen and heard about the 2016 election, has anyone asked how this very unfunny circus show is affecting children?
Please read my review (with link) on an important report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I leave the commentary open, but reserve the right to delete abusive comments.
This controversial review of Parade comes from www.TUMBLR.COM reposted from www.incogman.net a very hateful web site. (Warning Graphic Content and anti-Semitism, Must Be Over 21 Years Old to View) Please report www.Incogman.net web site to ADL and SPLC, Simon Wiesenthal Center and Search Light. Successful efforts so far have gotten international ISPs on board to block incogman.
By Robert "Bob" Frapples
'Parade' the Broadway Musical (1998) by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry, uses a raped teenage girl who was strangled to death as a cheap plot device to humanize and rehabilitate a sexual predator and convicted child-killer because of his ethnoreligion: Judaism.
On Confederate Memorial Day, Saturday, April 26, 1913, inside a dingy shuttered factory at the heart of Atlanta’s industrial sector, an infatuated serial rapist-pedophile, sexually assaulted one of his teenage employees. The victim had rejected her boss's flirtatious innuendos and finally an outright indecent sexual proposition and proposal for the last time. In 1913, there was no word for sexual harassment, sex offender, sexual predator or pedophile, other than some of the commonly used terms such as *degenerate libertine*, lustful, *lecherous*, rake, *satyr* and *lascivious*.
Back Story:
13-year-old child laborer, Little Mary Phagan (Born June 1, 1899), had been laid off because the brass sheet metal had fully depleted on Monday morning, April 21, 1913, thus without this essential production material, there could be no brass bands created to be attached at the ends of pencils, and therefore Phagan couldn't use the knurling machine at her work station to insert rubber erasers into them.
Mary and four other girls had been temporarily laid off from the Metal Room, located on the second floor of the National Pencil Company. One of those girls was named Monteen Stover, who is represented as Iola Stover in this theatrical play.
Little Miss Monteen Stover:
"Iola Stover" who worked on the 4th floor of the National Pencil Company inc., while Mary’s job at the back of the 2nd floor was a business critical dependency in the factory’s manufacturing operations, because adding erasers into the base of pencils was the last production stage, before they were placed as bunches in waxy tissue paper, packaged inside monogrammed boxes, loaded into crates, picked up by draymen (Negro deliverymen whipping on horse drawn flatbed carts) and later shipped off for distribution nationwide by train.
Leo Frank Created a Successful Business as its Superintendent:
During an average week, the National Pencil Company was grossing between $2500 and $5400, which was rather impressive by 1913 standards for a company born only five years prior. The NPCo factory's official founding date was: April 8th, 1908 (Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, April 8, 1908, see: www.Archive.org The Internet Archive).
Between Noon and 12:02 PM, Saturday, April 26, 1913:
At the National Pencil Company headquarters, located on 37-41 South Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, Miss Phagan entered the anteroom of Leo Frank’s second floor window front office at just minutes after highnoon.
Standing in the door frame between the inneroom and anteroom, Little Mary Phagan said, “Mr. Frank?” and Leo’s lion-heart began thumping quickly as he recognized the voice and slowly gazed up from his papers, especially because now he was all alone with the very attractive child laborer who was dressed gaily in a handmade lavender dress trimmed with white lace, one whom he had a crush on for so long and she had blossomed far beyond her tender age.
The Paymaster James Milton Gantt
Leo had recently fired the 6’4” tall, strikingly handsome, James Milton Gantt, about two weeks earlier, because of an unaccounted $2 shortage in the petty cash payroll box. But it was nothing more than a ruse. Leo knew Mary was very much into James, as she looked up dreamy into his sky blue eyes, like he was her Knight in shining armor, and James looked after Mary as well and had known the Phagan family for years.
So the Superintendent got the prince out of the way, so the jealous dragon could play!
In comparison to the strapping farmboy Gantt, Leo was an ugly little man, snaggle-toothed with mossy gray stained teeth. Frank's feminine mouth was fearfully sensual, plump and succulent, donning freaky Obama-purplish Indonesian lips with Apsara contours and tinges of avocado hues. Leo Frank's lecherous eyeballs were hyperthyroid -- "Graves Disease" -- with bulging deep black dilated eyes, his left one out of orbit diagonal sideways to the 2 O'clock position, looking extra creepy, because they were magnified behind thick intensifying eye glasses designed for the myopic.
The Lecher
It was Mary Anne Phagan the one employee Leo was infatuated with and couldn’t have because of Gantt, she had spurned lecherous Leo’s obnoxious pesterings and flirtatious innuendos since the Spring of 1912, humiliating his arrogant and fragile ego, and making him ever more determined.
For an ambitious 29-year old Jewish White man like Leo Frank, who never liked taking "no" for an answer, now he would finally get even once and for all!
Frank said “Hello Mary” in a high pitched nebbish voice with a Brooklyn-Yiddish accent. Phagan immediately requested her reduced pay envelope of $1.20 and inquired if the ordered metal supplies had arrived yet. She was naturally concerned, because she came from a poverty stricken family with 4 other siblings and very much depended on the money -- curiously wanting to know: if whether or not, she should return to work on Monday morning, April 28, 1913 at 6:35 a.m.
The Death March to the Metal Room Trap:
Leo Frank said inquisitively, “No, I don’t know,” as he pushed back his wooden chair, whose legs screeched against the floor boards, he stood up briskly grooming his cloths, while walking together with little Mary Phagan into the machine room, located just down the hall, opposite from Frank’s office.
Leo and Mary made small talk about wondering if Mr. Darley had received the brass shipment in a timely manner, and stocked the closet next to the lady’s dressing room, where these supplies were normally stored -- located diagonal to the wall, where the lathe work station was situated in the metal room proper. The metalroom's closet, wasn't very far from the only set of toilets that existed on the second floor.
Although Leo Frank said “No, I don’t know”, in truth his requisition papers indicated otherwise. Leo's hand written business ledger indicated the brass shipment wasn't to be received until early in the following week. Saturday was Confederate Memorial Day, an important Georgia State holiday and no deliveries would be made because of the memorial parade. Outside the factory, the streets were brimming with festive revelers walking briskly to and fro, and despite the somber mood the holiday represented, there was excitement in the air under chilly overcast skies. The streets of Atlanta were teeming with White people on this state holiday.
Most Jewish-American accounts of the Mary Phagan murder case leave out the facts and details about what happened next…
After the 5’8” tall Leo Frank lured 4’11” tall Mary Phagan into the metal room on the pretext of determining whether or not she would need to report to work on Monday morning, April 28, 1913; upon “realizing” that the all important metal hadn't yet arrived, he used her temporary laid off status as a species of sexual coercion, but something went very wrong and took a violent turn.
Inside the metal room, Frank’s heart began to throb and he said to Phagan -- while he gently caressed her shoulder with his effeminate hand -- “Mary, If you still want to work here, I want you to be with me”. Phagan became grotesquely horrified and tried to swiftly pass by Frank on his left side and run out of the metal room, but he checked her like he was playing basketball for his class team at Cornell, as he had faithfully participated for four years (1902 - 1906) . Blocking her escape attempt and closing ranks, this time there was no where to run, and there was no where to hide. She was cornered and there would be no escape. Flustered, he seized her angrily with both hands this time, but Phagan jerked, yanking away and told him “I’m not that kind of girl, take your hands of me!”
At this point the incident had crossed the line and could no longer be played off as a joke, as it had always been in the past with so many other male & female child laborers, 19 girls would later come forward and testify, describing "Frank's character for lasciviousness as bad" (Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913).
It was then at that exact moment, when she spurned the ultimatum of her lecherous and bug-eyed superintendent for the last time, denying the desires of a boss who had earned himself a reputation amongst the child laborers at the factory: as a kind of fiendish pervert.
In the silence of the Storm, a great rumbling quivered through the floor boards of the second floor.
Terror Unfolded! In an explosion of rage, like a bucket of bricks falling out of the sky, Leo Frank tightly flexed his Anthony Weiner jaw, as the striated muscles in his face flexed and he clenched his left fist as the gold wedding band on his ring-finger tinkled in the dim silver light falling from the grimy factory windows, and then he pivoted, swiveling, pitching a fist curve ball into Mary Phagan’s right eye as she reeled back screaming in horror. In a precipitous storm of fury, his angry knuckles began hailing down in a flurry against her delicate feminine cheek-bones like a symphony of sledge hammers crushing rocks on the chain gang.
Jim Conley who was idly seated on a wooden crate at the factory's first floor lobby - right next to the staircase - while the assault was occurring upstairs in the metal room, eerily described to Atlanta Police weeks later, the sound of Phagan’s bone chilling echoing cry of mortified agony: As a stuttering laugh that broke off into a shriek and then absolute silence.
Leo Frank kept pounding Mary Phagan’s face in, blow after blow, while the back of her head slammed against the the lathe workstation belonging to the young machinist recently employed for 6 weeks, Robert P Barret, forensically leaving behind bloody tresses of her dark strawberry-blond hair tangled around its solid iron handle (that was shaped like an "L"). Why it was never cleaned up after the murder tends to sustain the bespectacled Leo Frank’s irrational state of mind and short-sightedness.
.....Phagan crumpled to the floor passing out at the feet of Leo Frank towering above, whose heart pounding chest was heaving breaths of stale air as he looked down upon her and slanted shadows.
Frank's face was flushed with blood and shivering with tantalizing sexual intensity as his wildly dilated eyes sparkled like black diamonds, and were devilishly exaggerated-out from underneath his thick lensed wirerim eyeglasses. Frank immediately dragged Phagan to the doorway of the men's toilet in the metal room, tossing her over on the grimy oil-dirt waxy wooden floor like a sack of potatoes.
Kneeling down, Frank then ripped off a 3 inch wide strip of Phagan’s petty coat, tearing upward at first from the hem midsagitally to her crotch and then turning across horizontally momentarily, followed by tearing down to the hem again, he put the bunched ruffled material made of cotton behind her head like a sponge, to soak up the slowly leaking blood from the lathe wound.
Next Frank frantically hiked up and pealed open her torn dress, spread her tender baby fat thighs, ripped open her knitted underwear across the vagina all the way to the right seam, unbuttoned his pants, pushed his underwear down, and hocked a thick disgusting loogey of coffee and tobacco phlegm into his left palm, right onto his wedding band, and moving the thick snot-like spittle around in circles with his thumb, before massaging it all around the tip of his rock-hard STD infected 4” erect penis.
Then the Vicious Psychopath Raped Mary Phagan.
Her innocence was torn away, bleeding. Phagan woke up in agonizing pain from unconsciousness, putting her arms and hands over her black and blue eyes, sobbing and crying out in pain repeatedly, “No, No, No”, with tears showering from her swollen face, trying to roll away was impossible.
In a moment of morbid fear and frightened clarity, Leo Frank was unable to ejaculate and felt humiliating shame, seeing his whole life pass before his own eyes in Phagans tear-drenched beaten purple face. Knowing his stellar reputation in the widely assimilated German Jewish community would be irreparably harmed if she told anyone about what happened; Knowing his wife from a culturally prominent Southern-Patrician Jewish family (whose maternal ancestor Levi Cohen, two generations prior founded the first synagogue in Atlanta) would surely seek divorce in the aftermath; And knowing his family in Brooklyn would without a shadow of a doubt be devastated by him for his unspeakable crime. In this moment of ghoulish horror, Leo Frank knew he would be forever disgraced if anyone found out, and that he would likely be living out his life break stones on the chain gang..... so there was no other way out, but to permanently silence Phagan, so she couldn't tell and that’s just exactly what he did.
Frank stood up quickly looking around the room, he pulled himself together hurriedly and grabbed a nearby 7 foot long jute cord hanging off a nail on the adjacent wall. With white knuckles flexing, he garroted Mary Phagan to death, burying the cord 1/8th inches deep into her tender throat, autopsy photo shows more than one attempt at strangling her to death, it concluded by leaving the sunken knot at the right side of Mary's neck. Frank stepped back looking upon what he had done as Phagan's unseeing cornflower-blue eyes stared hideously into the ceiling's dusty emptiness. Frank gasped, frozen in time and silence, breathless with frantically shifting black eyes, back and forth, to assess the situation.
Psychopathia Sexualis:
Leo Frank had just began creating a scene rightout of a chapter from the book, 'Psychopathia Sexualis', one that would continue to evolve in bizarre complexity. After some whatado thoughts, Leo called his 27-year-old Negro janitor, James "Jim" Conley, to help him remove the body from the metal room bathroom area, and dispose of the limp-lifeless body of the child into the basement, where it was intended to later be cremated in the factory's giant cellar furnace, so there would be no physical evidence of what really happened.
Leo Frank's Deliciously Conspiratorial Racist Anti-Black Sub Plot Unfolds:
However Conley refused the final step of stuffing Mary Phagan into the oversized basement furnace-incinerator without Leo's help and instead agreed to ghost-write death notes on behalf of Leo Frank, framing the newly hired Negro nightwatchman that nobody really knew, Newton "Newt" Lee of Afro-Caribbean descent. Newt Lee in his trademark faded blue overalls, was an old 50-something, honest, married, dark complected, balding, tall and slim man with no criminal record to speakof, who had spent most of his life as a lanky negro graveyard shift security guard, doing his rounds in the cold quiet darkness, shuffling his feet in slow motion across creaky wide-plank floorboards, with a sauntering smoky lantern in tow.
The Shocking Discovery in the Cellar, Sunday, April 27, 1913:
On Sunday morning, Newt Lee the graveyard shift nightwatchman — who the racist Leo Frank tried to frame for the murder — punched the time clock at 3:01 o'clock a.m. about Frank's office, as he was required to do every half hour, and then he went down to the basement to use the racially segregated "colored" toilet for "dropping the Cosbys off at the pool" and upon completing his "bidniss" (pooping), he was upset someone forgot to leave paper there and so he went squishy-and-all to check the backdoor leading out to a service ramp at the alley. It was the loading ramp, where product was picked up by a drayman (Man with a horse drawn carriage). It was there in the gloom at 3:20 o'clock a.m., he discovered the mauled body of an unknown little white girl -- who was later identified by Grace Hicks as Little Mary Anne Phagan -- she was dumped in the rear corner of the basement, where garbage was normally staged before being consumed in the cellar's massive furnace-incinerator that heated the building and provided hot water for the upper floors of the factory.
3:40 A.M.
When the police arrived, they followed Lee down the 14-foot ladder below into the 80 foot wide, 200 feet long, stygian, catacomb-like, stone-walled tunnel, and with primitive flashlights and dancing faceshadows, found tracks indicating Mary Phagan had been dragged face down 140 feet from the elevator shaft across the hard dirt cinders of the earthen basement floor, before being dumped diagonal to the incinerator, but astonishingly the deep pocks and scratches on her face didn’t show any signs of bleeding! This curious detail forensically suggested to the Coroner and undertaker that she might have already been quite dead before being taken to the basement. Physicians had known for centuries that when the heart stops beating, the bleeding-scabbing cascade in the healing process on the epidermis (skin) no longer occurs. It was a unfortunate detail the myopic murderer and his pet step-and-fetch-it -- who became an admitted accessory-after-the-fact -- had never anticipated.
Phagan’s underwear that was still attached around her hips, was soaked in dried blood and discharge. Her dress was moist from top to bottom in urine, suggesting that someone had pissed all over her entire body. Wrapped around her neck was the strip of her blood soaked petty coat, hiding what was ghoulishly underneath, the 7 foot jute cord cinched in a loop around her neck, snugly buried 1/8 inches deep into the throat. Phagan’s face was black and blue, and her tongue stuck out from her mouth through her teeth one inch. There were wounds on the side and back of her head, and wounds below both knees. The upper side of her shirt at the chest level had be torn open revealing her left breast. Her hair and entire front part of the body were caked with coal cinders, dirt and debris, presumably from being dragged by her ankles facedown across the hard earthen floor in the basement. Oddly, her arms were reverently crossed over her bosom. Her pocketbook made from German silver was missing and the red flowers attached to the front of her pale cobalt blue hat were missing. Her parasol was found at the bottom of the garbage strewn elevator shaft tray a few feet away and next to a no-longer-steaming coil of human excrement, later determined to have been laid by Jim the sweeper. Members of the Jewish community would make the asinine claim for more than a century that the feces in the elevator shaft is what exonerates Leo Frank, this BS theory (pun intended) is now commonly referred as the, 'Shit in the Shaft' (Oney, 2003).
Police tried all night long to contact the restlessly sleeping Leo Frank, but he didn’t answer the rattling box receiver, even though the telephone was located and ringing obnoxiously just under the wooden floor boards -- of his second floor bedroom -- in the dining room just right below. Finally the police were able to reach Leo Frank on the phone in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 27, 1913, letting him know they would be at his home shortly to speak with him.
When the police first arrived at the Frank-Selig residence at 68 east Georgia avenue, Lucille answered the door in a fluffy White turkish bathrobe. Leo stepped out from behind a curtain and was acting very nervous, struggling to put on his collar and tie. The half dressed Frank kept delaying leaving his home, complaining he hadn't had breakfast yet, asking repeatedly for a cup of coffee, but the police insisted he come with them immediately. Frank kept asking rapid fire questions to the police before they even had a chance to answer frustrating the police. Once inside the squad car, Leo Frank nervously claimed he didn’t know his employee Mary Phagan or any of the girls at the factory, and denied knowing Phagan’s name when he saw her mutilated corpse on a cooling table at P.J. Bloomfield’s mortuary.
When police and detectives took Frank to his second floor office at the Pencil factory, he opened his four foot tall safe, removed the payroll ledger, and told the accompanying officers he paid off Mary Phagan employee number 186 at about 12:03 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, 1913. The next day (Monday morning, April 28, 1913) in the presence of his elite lawyers (Luther Rosser and Herbert Haas), Leo Frank made a stenographed deposition to detectives and police at the Atlanta station-house that Mary Phagan came into his office between “12:05pm and 12:10pm, maybe 12:07pm” (State's Exhibit B, Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913).
What Leo Frank did not know at the time of the sadistic rape-murder was taking place at the men's toilet is that the 5'2" tall and 14-year-old Monteen Stover (Iola Stover), another little girl who had been laid off early in the week for the same reason as Mary — because the brass sheet metal had run out — was waiting inside his office all by her lonesome. According to Monteen "iola" Stover waited in Leo Frank’s business office from 12:05 pm to 12:10 pm based on his wall clock, hoping to collect her pay envelope, but she left after waiting for 5 full minutes, because she thought the building might have been deserted due to the state holiday.
For 3.5 months, Leo Frank swore to the murder alibi that he never left his office when Phagan arrived, until at 12:45 p.m., to go upstairs to the fourth floor, but then on the witness stand at his trial on Monday afternoon, August 18, 1913, he — Reversed himself — making a newfangled and never before heard, ineluctable admission to explain why Monteen Stover had found his office empty during the exact same time Leo Frank told the police Mary Phagan was with him in his office (State's Exhibit B, 1913).
Frank seated comfortably on the hard witness stand, said,
“NOW GENTLEMEN”, looked the jurors in their eyes and announced to a packed courtroom, that he might have gone to the bathroom in the metal room to use the toilet or urinate -- at that critical time -- and that those were things that a man does “unconsciously”. (He would re-assert this newfangled bathroom incriminating admission in a jailhouse interview published in the March 9, 1914 edition of the Atlanta Constitution, Read it: AC, March 9, 1914, @ www.archive.org The Internet Archive).
Exact Leo Frank Trial Quote
Now gentlemen [of the Jury], to the best of my recollection from the time the whistle blew for twelve o’clock [noon on Saturday, April 26, 1913] until after a quarter to one [12:46 p.m.] when I went up stairs and spoke to Arthur White and Harry Denham [at the rear of the fourth floor], to the best of my recollection, I did not stir out of the inner office [at the front of the second floor]; but it is possible that in order to answer a call of nature or to urinate I may have gone to the toilet [in the metal room at the rear of the second floor]. Those are things that a man does unconsciously and cannot tell how many times nor when he does it (Leo Frank Trial Statement, August 18, Brief of Evidence, 1913).
It was deliciously ironic for unbiased observers who simply wanted to arrive at the truth, but for Leo Frank detractors, it was the equivalent of an inescapable murder trial confession, because Frank had contradicted himself and entrapped himself beyond escape in the men's toilet of the metal room.
Leo Frank’s defenders would spend 100 years suppressing this testimony about an “unconscious” metalroom bathroom incident and claim that: all the best evidence at the trial and modern analysis, indicated that Jim Conley assaulted Phagan in factory lobby on the first floor, where there was no evidence found after the murder discovery, except for a senile octogenarian named Alonzo "Lonnie" Mann (August 8, 1898 - March 19, 1985) who was formerly Leo Frank’s office boy in 1913 for three weeks before Frank's arrest. In 1982, "Lonnie" came forward 69 years after the verdict, claiming he saw Conley carrying an unconscious Mary Phagan there toward the basement's trap door of a scuttle-hole, leading to the basement, suggesting the disposal of the victim was by the stairs, instead of the elevator as Conley stated, thus contradicting Conley at the trial, who had admitted carrying the corpse of Phagan to the basement for Leo Frank by elevator, so it added no new evidence other than only changing the path of disposal, and Mann lacked veracity, because he testified to leaving at 11:30 am in 1913, not 12:05 pm. However, The Racist Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and powerful Jewish groups of American-Israeli Jewry used this questionable evidence to secure a posthumous pardon for Leo Frank on a technicality that the State of Georgia failed to protect the inmate at the Milledgeville penitentiary, but the pardon was *without exoneration for the crime* -- an important detail usually left out in almost every retelling of the Leo Frank Case.
The Prosecution's Theory: The Metal Room.
The “unconscious” toilet revelation by Leo Frank was an earth shattering retort on the witness stand to Monteen Stover, because earlier in the trial, his accomplice-after-the-fact, Jim Conley, said he found Mary Phagan dead in the bathroom area of the metal room after Leo Frank's alleged admission, that he confessed to Jim about accidentally murdering her there because she wouldn’t have sex with him. Employee witnesses for the defense and prosecution had already testified to finding a 5 inch dried blood puddle diagonal to the bathroom door in the metal room and about a lock of Phagans bloody hair tangled around the solid metal handle of the bench lathe in the same room known officially as the metal department and colloquially as the metal room.
Had you been sitting in the Jury box or behind the judge's Rostrum on August 18, 1913, listening to Leo Frank’s explanation for why his office might have been empty, when he claimed to the police he was there alone with Mary Phagan at that exact same time, you would have involuntarily shivered as cold chills spilled down your spine, but for more than 100 years, the Jewish community has waged an anti-Gentile racist defamation campaign against Southern European-Americans and African-Americans, claiming they framed Leo Frank, indicted and convicted him for racist hate because he was Jewish and 2 years later strangled him in revenge by lynching him solely because he was Jewish, not because he had pounded in the face of a little girl, before raping and strangling her in a scenario right out of the book "Psychopathia Sexualis".
The racist anti-Gentile narrative that anti-Semitism was behind it all, has been perpetuated in the mainstream media now for more than 100 years and has become the orthodox popular culture, but is the tide changing?
The Leo Frank Case has evolved into the longest running anti-Semitic Hate crime hoax and anti-Gentile blood libel slander in the history of the United States of America.
The conviction of Leo Frank galvanized the formation of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith in October, 1913, after the 500 member strong Atlanta B’nai B’rith voted unanimously, as reported on September 24th, 1913 (Atlanta Constitution), to re-elect their “wrongfully” imprisoned President Leo Frank to a second term as their beloved leader. Leo Frank ran the affairs of his B’nai B’rith chapter behind bars until September of 1914, when he was not re-elected again for a third term and his appeals were falling apart because of the criminal activity involved with bribing and coercing witnesses by the Governor John M. Slaton (Georgia Supreme Court Records, 1913, 1914).
Leonard Dinnerstein for more than 50 years, Abraham Foxman (Op Ed, August 18, 2005) and the ADL (adl.org) have been at the forefront of perpetuating the hate crime hoax that people were shouting and chanting “hang the Jew” and “Kill the Jew” outside the Leo Frank trial courtroom that had all of its windows wide open during the proceedings, because of the hot summer days from July 28, to August 25, 1913. This is a viciously racist anti-Gentile Lie perpetuated on the ADL website, and by Abraham Foxman, Leonard Dinnerstein, and many other hatefilled domestic extremists, spreading bigoted racially tinged smears against European-American Southerners.
Why anyone would transform a sadistic pedophile and convicted child killer into a martyr of anti-Semitism is incomprehensible, but Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry have made millions of dollars with their musical 'Parade' performing literally internationally, falsifying the official records of the Leo Frank Trial and humanizing a violent child molester who would be a registered sex offender today and incarcerated for life.
A dead little raped teenage girl is used as a cheap plot device to wage a vicious culture war against Southerners. Many people are asking: Are these the treacherous people we want determining our popular culture? Are these the people we want determining the theatre curriculum in our public schools and colleges?
Jews calling the Leo Frank Case an American Dreyfus Affair for more than a century is more than unconscionable chutzpah, its an act of an insolent culture war. The Leo Frank trial is being used as a morality tale for the purpose of shaming and deracinating European-Americans into denying their tradition of ethnic solidarity and wrongfully making Americans think they destroyed an innocent and noble man because he was Jewish. This is the old mask of anti-Gentile defamation that began in 1913, with a turn of the the 21st century face lift.
If you have even any doubts about Leo Frank’s innocence or guilt, then listen to the silent echo in time and space from the spirit of Lucille Selig Frank (February 29, 1888 - April 23, 1957).
If you ever get a chance, go to the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, New York City, visit Leo Frank’s grave, and look to the left of it and stare, that empty grave was reserved for Lucille Selig, ask yourself why is it still empty in 2013? If you have doubts that grave is still empty, go to the cemetery front office at the gate entry and ask them if it is indeed empty or not, because they will tell you it is absolutely. You can actually write an official letter to the cemetery requesting information about the Frank-Stern family grave site (purchased in 1911) and they will respond on official letterhead, if you want more than just verbal proof, but physical documentation about the emptiness of grave plot #1 located left of grave plot #2 where Leo Frank is interred. In the early 1990's Steve Oney discovered that Lucille was cremated (also documented in her will, 1954), instead of buried or ashes dispersed next to her beloved Leo, and she told her family she wanted her ashes dispersed in an Atlanta park, which is about 900 miles away from her husband and the empty grave left of him from the observer.
You would think after reading all the insistent, shrill denials in mass media for the last 100 years; newspaper and magazine articles, books, made-for-TV movies, miniseries and docudramas– including heart-tugging plays (Knights of Mary Phagan by Jesse Waldinger) and even a stage musical (Parade) in New York that spread internationally like wildfire – that suggest Lucille’s love for her husband Leo Frank was eternal and lasted till the day she passed away and beyond her death. So, once again, why did she specifically not want to be buried next to Leo Frank?
Finally, why were Lucille’s ashes not spread or buried next to Leo Frank?
Because Lucille was no feather brained step-ford wife when all is said and done. If she really loved Leo Frank eternally, beyond the dog and pony show of appearances, she would have been buried in the empty grave next to him that was reserved for her at the Mount Carmel Cemetery or atleast her ashes spread there, but she left her own verdict on the Leo Frank trial from the passing of her life, and the silence speaks deafening volumes when she died long ago on April 23, 1957 of a heart disease (broken heart), just 3 short days before the 44th anniversary of the Mary Phagan murder.
If you want to learn what really happened at the Leo Frank trial, visit The American Mercury on the Internet and read their August and September, October, November and December 2013, Leo Frank Case reports, they are publishing a superb multi-part series on the centennial of the Leo Frank trial. It’s chock full of images and thoughtful analysis, you would never get from other sources, who erroneously and willfully go out of their way to distort what happened in the Fulton County court house 100 years ago (July 28, 1913 - August 26, 1913).
The Jewish Daily Forward www.Forward.com and Abraham Foxman www.ADL.org are foaming at the mouth about the American Mercury and Leo Frank Research Library, because 100 years of lies that have aggressively been pushed into the popular mainstream culture are disintegrating, one by one. Some members of the Jewish community never dreamed the 1,800 page Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court archives would end up being published online at the centennial of the Mary Phagan murder, April 26, 2013, available for the whole world to read (archive.org), but now there is no escape from the disturbing truth within these official records.
100 Years of Censorship Coming to an End
Soon the world is going to find out about another child laborer Leo Frank sadistically defiled, one year before Mary Phagan was raped and killed. After the Leo Frank trial ended another little girl came forward with descriptions of a harrowing incident… In 1912, Leo Frank raped another one of his child employees, and when he was done ravaging her, he slithered down between her legs and bit her so hard on the inner thy adjacent to the vagina, that he permanently scarified her, but this didn’t come out until Leo Frank's appeals, because the girl had gotten pregnant and shipped off to a home for unwed mothers! This is the sadistic pedophile who has been used as a seditious bludgeon for a century to attack, defame, smear, slander, blood libel, and hate hoax Gentile Americans! This is the man being held up as a holy religious martyr of anti-Semitism. This is the girl whose virgin blood and strangled corpse gave birth to the financially and politically powerful ADL, the racist anti-Gentile hate group masquerading as a civil rights organization, always honoring Leo Frank as heroic and whose trial is a reminder that "not too long ago anti-Semitism, not the facts, convicted an innocent man" (ADL.org).
Fight for Mary Phagan's Honor
We Will Never Forget Mary Phagan and we will never stop fighting for her honor until our very last dying breath. We will never stop fighting against the century old culture defamation war waged by the Jewish community, Jewish Groups like anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and many individual Jews against the South, Southerners, European-Americans, African-Americans, Christians and for that matter their ugly culture war all of Western Civilization. Fight back against the Jewish lies. Post this article everywhere. We Generation X'ers and Millennials and future generations WANT OUR HISTORY BACK!!
Source: www.tumblr.com/blog/leomaxfrank (Warning Graphic Content, Viewer Discretion is Advised, Must be 21 or older to view)
Further Reading:
Visit the American Mercury now and read the Leo Frank Trial Transcript Analysis: www.theamericanmercury.org
Atlanta Constitution, March 9, 1914.
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100 Years Ago Today: The Trial of Leo Frank Begins
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Leo Frank Trial Week One
theamericanmercury.org/2013/08/the-leo-frank-trial-week-one/
Leo Frank Trial Week Two
theamericanmercury.org/2013/08/the-leo-frank-trial-week-two/
One Hundred Years Ago Leo Frank Mounts the Witness Stand
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Leo Frank Trial Week Three
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Leo Frank Trial Week Four
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Leo Frank Trial Closing Arguments of Frank Arthur Hooper, Reuben Rose Arnold and Luther Zeigler Rosser
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Closing Arguments of Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey at the Leo Frank Trial, August 21, 22, 23, and 25th (court was closed on the 24th)
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One Hundred Reasons Leo Frank is Guilty
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Anti-Defamation League: One Hundred Years of Jewish Hate, October 1913 – 2013
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Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies: Leonard Dinnerstein’s Pseudo-history About the Leo Frank Case
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Review of Tabloid Style Journalist Steve Oney’s the Dead Shall Rise: Who Really Solved the Mary Phagan Murder Case?
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Did Leo Frank Confess to the Murder of Mary Phagan?
theamericanmercury.org/2012/09/did-leo-frank-confess/
Atlanta Constitution Newspaper (1913 – 1915):
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Atlanta Georgian Newspaper (April – August, 1913):
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Atlanta Journal Newspaper (April – August, 1913):
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Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913
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The Whitefish, Montana-based National Policy Institute (NPI), whose efforts include a campaign to make the Republican Party exclusively white, plans to hold their conference on Oct. 26th, 2013. Among its speakers will be retired Sam Dickson of the Council of Conservative Citizens and Tomislav Sunic, a former Croatian diplomat and longtime white supremacist who recently was listed as one of the instructors in the Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute, that took place Aug. 23-29th, 2013 in Harrison, AR and organized by Pastor Thom Robb's Ku Klux Klan Knights Party.
NPI, a politically-connected white supremacist organization whose leader is calling for the “European world” to adopt eugenics to prevent those like Trayvon Martin friend Rachel Jeantel from becoming humanity's future, plans to hold a conference for the second time at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade in Washington, DC.
NPI is listed as a hate group via the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC stated that "The institute has published two studies: a critique of affirmative action, which the institute opposes; and "Mass Deportation is a Viable Solution to America's Illegal Immigration Crisis," written by Edwin Rubenstein. Who happens to be affiliated with VDARE which is an anti-immigration hate organization "dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century."
Confirmed Speakers:
ALAIN DE BENOIST is a French philosopher and social and political commentator. In 1968, he established the nationalist think-tank GRECE (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”) and became one of the leading minds of the European “New Right” (a term Benoist does not wholeheartedly accept). His books include The Problem of Democracy, Beyond Human Rights, On Being a Pagan, as well as studies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Ernst Jünger.
PIERO SAN GIORGIO is a Swiss author and former businessman and software executive. For the past decade, Giorgio has dedicated himself to studying the global economic system and its dependence on ever-expanding populations, debt, and resource exploitation. His book on the fundamental unsustainable of the system was published in French to wide acclaim in both economic and “identitarian” circles; in September of this year, the English translation will appear, Survive—The Economic Collapse. Survive is both an economic and social analysis as well as a practical manual for successful, sustainable living in the “interesting times” that lie ahead.
TOMISLAV SUNIC is a Croatian-America author, translator, and former professor. He is best known for his history of the “Conservative Revolution” and European “New Right”—Against Democracy and Equality. His other works include Homo Americanus, Postmortem Report (a collection of essays), as well as other volumes in English, Croatian, and French.
Hosts:
RICHARD SPENCER is President of The National Policy Institute and Washington Summit Publishers. He was formerly an Assistant Editor at The American Conservative magazine (2007) and Editor of Taki’s Magazine (Takimag.com) (2008-2009). In 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com and edited it for its first two years. Currently, he is Editor of Radix Journal, a biannual journal on culture and critical theory, and the host of Vanguard Radio, a weekly podcast.
ROMAN BERNARD is a French journalist and blogger. From 2007 to 2010, he edited Criticus, a widely-read political and cultural blog in France. In 2010 and 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Le Cri du Contribuable, a Paris-based monthly magazine on fiscal and financial issues. Since 2012, he has been involved at the same time with the “Identitarian” movement in Europe and the Alternative Right in America.
For more information on the National Policy Institute, there conference and VDARE you can check out:
In the early part of the Spring semester of 1988, the President of Western Kentucky University, Kern Alexander, announced that he wanted to install faculty editors at the WKU student newspaper, the College Heights Herald, and the WKU yearbook, the Talisman. Both publications were entirely student run. These editors would control what students were able to publish, and have the power to stop any story or photo from being published. He also wanted to require students to take a class if they wanted to work at either publication, and then limit how many semesters students could work at the publications. Most everyone agreed that Dr. Alexander's motivation was that he did not like the idea of an adversarial press, and that he was angry that the paper had uncovered that his wife would not be joining him at WKU and that he was getting a divorce. He denied those were the reasons. WKU students rebelled at the idea of faculty control of the student publications - and the rebellion was organized in my living room. I wasn’t on the Herald staff anymore - I'd left after my junior year - which gave me the freedom to participate in the protest and feed information to the three main organizers of the protest, the first at WKU in many, many years. I typed up (yes, on a typewriter) a timeline to show exactly how this attempted takeover happened, paid Kinkos for a lot of copies, and distributed it all over campus. I found out later that the office of student affairs was furious and wanted to find the author. I guess they wanted to give me a strong talking to. Not all students liked the Herald - but the idea of the President putting in editorial control was too much to stomach. The march was fabulous, it was huge, it got national coverage, and Alexander resigned shortly thereafter. Alexander has managed to scrub most information about this protest from the Internet, and since it was pre-Internet, the media coverage of the controversy isn't online, but you can read all about it here, on pages 13-14: issuu.com/splc/docs/v9n2-spring88
Yes, that's me at the protest, wearing my Les Miserables t-shirt I had bought in London. I was ready to build barricades and sing! It was either late March or April 1988. I miss my skinny legs. I'm holding hands with Todd Link. Art Elrod is next to him, in a blue shirt. Mike Sprouse, with the big hair, is next to him.
I’m not sure what it was used for -- perhaps someone out there will know. My guess is for food and other perishables (and maybe the sacramental wine!). It might have also been used as a smokehouse. But it looks like this will last "forever." I love the cute, tin roof As the church in front was founded in 1877, it’s likely this was built around that time.
Behind St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Good Harbor, on M-22 (AKA Manitou Trail) at Townline Road, Schomberg, Michigan, between Glen Arbor and Leland. The church was founded by German immigrants to Leelanau County in 1877.
(Click on image to view on black -- looks better.)
Inscription on the front of the headquarters of the Family Research Council, 801 G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Family Research Council (FRC) is an American conservative Christian group and lobbying organization formed in the United States in 1981 by James Dobson. It was incorporated in 1983. In the late 1980s, the FRC officially became a division of Dobson's main organization, Focus on the Family, but after an administrative separation, the FRC became an independent entity in 1992. Tony Perkins is the current president.
The FRC promotes what it considers to be traditional family values, by advocating and lobbying for socially conservative policies. It opposes and lobbies against LGBT rights (such as same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption), abortion, divorce, embryonic stem-cell research and pornography. The FRC is affiliated with a 501(c)(4) lobbying PAC known as FRC Action. In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) classified the FRC as an anti-gay hate group, a designation which generated controversy. In 2012, a security guard working at the FRC headquarters was shot by a man who saw the organization listed on the SPLC's web site.