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Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chief Curator

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  • Georgia Magazine Interview with Steve Oney, Author of And the Dead Shall Rise
  • A Murder, A Lynching, A Mystery
  • About the Leo Frank Case Research Library Archive and the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery
    • Advertising Banners: Seeking Justice For Mary Phagan (1899 – 1913)
    • Aesthetics and Content Change Log
    • Chapters
    • Glossary
  • Art & Drama
    • Ballad of Mary Phagan and Leo Frank
    • Jason Robert Brown, Co-Creator of Parade the Leo Frank Musical
    • Jewish-Gentile Media Culture Wars: Videos, Films, Movies, Broadway Plays, Music, and Docudramas About or Based on the Leo Frank Conviction for the Murder of Mary Phagan
    • Leo Frank Documentary and Film Review: People v. Leo Frank, Directed by Ben Loeterman and Chief Consultant Steve Oney
    • Librettist, Alfred Uhry, Co-Author of the Internationally Acclaimed Leo Frank Musical, “Parade,” Speaks on the Murder of Mary Phagan, Trial and Lynching of Leo Max Frank
    • Parade: The Leo Frank Broadway Musical
    • TV Miniseries: The Murder of Mary Phagan
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  • Dramatis Personae
    • Biography of Lucille Selig Frank (1888 – 1957)
    • Jim Conley, the National Pencil Company Factory Sweeper (1911 to 1913), Leo Frank Alleged (Hearsay) Murder Confession Number One
    • Magnolia “Minola” McKnight, State’s Exhibit J, June 3, 1913, Leo Frank Admission Amounting to Alleged (Hearsay) Murder Confession Number 2
    • Mary Phagan: Mary Phagan-Kean (b. June 5, 1954), Namesake and Grandniece of Little Mary Phagan (June 1, 1899 – April 26, 1913)
    • The Alonzo Mann Affair
  • Future Development
    • Harry Golden
    • Historical Time Line
    • Mamet
    • Samuels
    • Table of Contents
  • Image Gallery of Leo Frank and Associated Principals
    • “Death” Notes, aka “Murder Notes”: Jim Conley Testified to Writing Them on Behalf of Leo M. Frank
    • 1200 Roswell Road
    • 1905 Images
    • 1908 Images
    • 1914 Images
    • 368 Lafayette Avenue
    • 9 Years Old Leo Frank
    • Abraham Foxman
    • Acquisitions
    • ADL :: Leo Frank is like the holocaust
    • ADL, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
    • Adolph Ochs
    • Advertising Banners Leo Frank
    • Albert Lasker
    • Allan Pinkerton
    • Alonzo Mann
    • Alonzo Mann Newspaper
    • American Mercury
    • An Unspeakable Crime
    • Application For Clemency Leo Frank 1915
    • Atlanta
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    • Autopsy Mary Phagan
    • Burns
    • C. P. Connolly
    • Census Data Leo Frank
    • Clemency Application
    • Clemency Petition
    • Cuero, Texas
    • Documents Preview
    • Factory Diagrams of the National Pencil Company, 1913
    • Frank Arthur Hooper
    • Georgia Pardon March 11, 1986
    • Georgia Supreme Court Records 1
    • Georgia Supreme Court Records 2
    • Herbert Schiff
    • Hugh Dorsey
    • Image Gallery of the National Pencil Company Factory & Location in Atlanta, Georgia
    • James “Jim” Conley, aka James Connolly or Connally
    • John Slaton
    • Judge Leonard Strickland Roan, Presiding over the Leo Frank Trial
    • Jury of the Leo Frank Trial (July 28, 1913 to August 25, 1913)
    • Lemmie Quinn, Purjerer or Decisive Exonerating Witness for Leo Frank
    • Leo Frank Case
    • Leo Frank Defense Theory: Mary Phagan Murder by Jim Conley in the Basement
    • Leo Frank Defense Version of Mary Phagan Murder
    • Leo Frank Lynching Photos: The Leo Frank Lynch Party August 16 & 17, 1915, Marrieta, Cobb County, Georgia
    • Leonard Dinnerstein
    • Letter
    • Life and times of Leo Max Frank
    • Little Mary Anne Phagan (Thursday, June 1, 1899 – Saturday, April 26, 1913) and the Aftermath of Her Murder
    • Lucille Selig Frank
    • Luther Rosser
    • Lynching Site August 17, 1915, and Aftermath
    • McKnight
    • Milledgeville Prison
    • Miscellaneous
    • Mount Carmel Cemetery
    • Murder of Mary Phagan Miniseries
    • National Pencil Company Factory Recreated Scenes of the Leo Frank Defense Version of Mary Phagan Murder
    • New York Public Library
    • Newt Lee, National Pencil Company Factory Nightwatchman April 1st, 1913 to April 27, 1913
    • Pardon and Paroles
    • Prison Commission 1915
    • Rabbi David Marx
    • Reuben Arnold
    • State’s Exhibit B
    • Steve Oney
    • Tom Watson, Populist Politician, Author, Editor, Publisher, and Attorney
    • Various Pictures and Images Associated with Leo Max Frank
    • Watson’s Magazine Individual Images
  • Introduction to Leo Frank (1884 to 1915)
    • Leo Frank’s Family Background
    • Leo Max Frank Bibliography, Chronology, Citations, and References
    • Pratt Institute
    • The College Years of Leo Max Frank at His Alma Mater Cornell University 1902 to 1906 in Ithaca, New York, and Brief Employment Experiences
    • The High School Years of Leo Max Frank from 1898 to 1902 at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY
  • Leo Frank and Other Associated Principals in the Early Print Media of Newspapers and Magazines During the 20th Century, Including the Notable March 9, 1914, Atlanta Constitution, Leo Max Frank Jailhouse Interview Admission Amounting to Leo Frank Murder Confession Number Four.
    • Atlanta Constitution
    • Atlanta Georgian
    • Atlanta Journal
    • Jeffersonian Weekly
    • New York Times
  • Reactions
    • Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (known as ADL for short), founded October 20, 1913, Galvanized in Response to the August 25, Conviction of Leo Frank. ADL was the lead in getting Leo Frank posthumously pardoned in 1986, but they FAILED to get him exonerated of the crime.
    • Book Review: Steve Oney, ‘And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank’ (2003)
    • Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.
    • Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, Reviews: Leonard Dinnerstein’s Book, ‘The Leo Frank Case’ (1968, 1987, 1999) and Steve Oney’s Book (2003) ‘And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and Lynching of Leo Frank.
    • Elaine Marie Alphin, An Unspeakable Crime, The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
    • Harrell Rhome on the Case of Mary Phagan and Leo Frank
    • Instauration, The Rehabilitation of Leo Frank, 1986
    • Leo Frank Was Framed According to Stephen J. Goldfarb, an Atlanta (Fulton County) Librarian
    • Leo Frank, Guilty or Not Guilty, Francis Xavier Busch, 1952
    • Leonard Dinnerstein
    • Leonard Dinnerstein, The Leo Frank Case PhD Dissertation, 1966, Leo Frank Case Book (1968 to 2008)
    • LiveLeak on the Leo Frank Case
    • Mystery of the Pencil Factory by Sidney Sutherland, 1929
    • Negro Perspective
    • Post Leo Frank Lynching Analysis by a Leo Frank Defender
    • Robert Seitz Frey (1955 – ) and Nancy C. Thompson
    • The “Truth” About The Leo Frank Case (1915) by C.P. Connolly
    • Wikipedia Biased on Behalf of Leo Frank
  • The Leo Frank Case Radio Network
  • Trials & Evidence
    • American State Trials Volume X 1918 By John D. Lawson LLD
    • Chronology of Events in the Leo Max Frank Epic Saga
    • Clemency / Commutation of Leo Frank on June 21, 1915, by Georgia Governor John M. Slaton
    • Feces in the Elevator Shaft
    • Frank v. Mangum
    • Grand Jury Indictment of Leo M. Frank, Saturday May 24, 1913, in the Superior Court of Atlanta, GA
    • Leo Frank Court Appeals: August 27, 1913 to April 1915
    • Leo Frank Murder Trial Testimony, July 28, 1913 to August 25, 1913
    • Mary Phagan Autopsy, Conducted on Monday, May 5, 1913, by Dr. H. F. Harris, Reported During the Leo Frank Trial on Friday, August 1, 1913.
    • Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency versus National Pencil Company, and the National Pencil Company versus Pinkerton’s Detective Agency
    • Prosecution Side of the Leo M. Frank Case and Review
      • Closing Argument of Hugh Dorsey, Solicitor General for Atlanta Circuit
      • Hair
      • Mr. Frank Arthur Hooper, Closing Arguments for the Prosecution Team in the Leo M. Frank Murder Trial, August 21, 1913, at the Fulton County Superior Court.
      • State’s Exhibit B Presented at the Leo M. Frank Murder Trial (July 28, to August 21), Created on Monday Morning, April 28, 1913, The Statement of Leo M. Frank Stenographed by a Government Magistrate at the Atlanta Police Station in the Presence of Frank’s Lawyers, Luther Zeigler Rosser, Herbert Haas, and Mary Phagan Murder Investigation Detectives
      • State’s Exhibit J, June 3rd, 1913
    • The Appeals of Leo Frank 1913, 1914, and 1915
    • The Coroner’s Inquest of the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery
    • The Partisan and Defense Side of the Leo Frank Case 1913 to 2013
      • Argument of Reuben Rose Arnold on Behalf of Leo Frank (August & October 1913)
      • Defendant’s Exhibit 91, 92, 93
      • Dissenting Georgia State Supreme Court Judges, 1914
      • Dissenting U.S. Supreme Court Judges
      • Luther Zeigler Rosser, August 22, 1913, The Final Arguments of Luther Z. Rosser on Behalf of Mr. Leo Max Frank Charged on May 24, 1913, with having Strangled to Death Little Mary Anne Phagan on Saturday, April 26, 1913
      • The Complete Leo Frank Trial Statement Delivered On August 18, 1913, Between 2:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. at the Fulton County Superior Court House, Atlanta, Georgia and Analysis.
  • What are the Most Probable Solutions to the Murder of Mary Phagan?
    • Kevin MacDonald on the Jewish Evolutionary Strategy, Algorithms and Equations of the Leo Frank Case
    • Leo Frank Case – Open or Closed? By Allen Koenigsberg the World’s Foremost Expert on the Leo Frank Case
    • Leo Frank Case Analysis of Trial and Aftermath by Neutral Books on Leo M. Frank, 1913 to 2013.
    • The National Pencil Company, 37-41 South Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1908 to 1915
    • Tom E. Watson, the Voice of the People on Leo M. Frank, 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917
    • Within the Four-Hour Long Unsworn Leo Max Frank Murder Trial Statement, Delivered on Monday Afternoon, August 18, 1913, Was a Newfangled Admission that Amounted to a Murder Trial Confession; The Revelation Was Made Sometime Between 2:15 PM and 6:00 PM, Maybe 2:45 PM, in the Fulton County Superior Court House of Atlanta, Georgia, During the Month-Long Capital Murder Trial of Leo M. Frank, Charged with Having Strangled Thirteen-Year-Old Little Mary Anne Phagan on Saturday, April 26, 1913

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Recent Posts

  • State Suffers a Severe Blow When Testimony Is Ruled Out
  • Climax of Trial Reached When Frank Faced Jury
  • Books and Papers Put in Evidence by the Defense
  • Supreme Test Comes as State Trains Guns on Frank’s Character
  • Mary Phagan’s Grandmother Dies After Dreaming Girl Was Living
  • Frank May Tell Story to Jury on Stand Today
  • That Pinkertons Double-Crossed Police, Dorsey Tries to Prove
  • Prisoner’s Mother Questioned As to Wealth of Frank Family
  • Dorsey Asks Bauer Where He Spent the Dinner Recess
  • Says Frank Broke Baseball Date Shortly After Girl Was Killed
  • Still Another Office Boy Swears He Never Saw Women With Frank
  • Frank as Innocent as Angels Conley Told Her, Says Witness
  • Maid in Schiff Home Tells of Phone Message From Frank
  • Traveling Salesman for Montag’s Tells of Conversation With Frank
  • Mother of Frank Takes Stand to Identify Letter Son Wrote
  • Miss Mary Perk Tells Jurymen She Believes Conley Is Guilty
  • Never Saw Any Women in Office of Frank Says Negro Witness
  • Leo Frank Innocent, Said Conley, According to a Girl Operator
  • Host of Witnesses Declare Frank’s Character to Be Good
  • Every Girl on Fourth Floor of Factory Will Go on Stand
  • Dorsey Questions Witness About Alleged Fund for Frank’s Defense
  • Aged Negro Drayman Called As a Witness Against Conley
  • Both Wife and Phone, He Says, Are Expensive and Necessary
  • Credit Man is Put on Stand to Identify Frank’s Writing
  • Factory Employee’s Testimony Causes Laughter in Court Room
  • Mrs. Rae Frank Goes on Stand in Defense of Her Son
  • Pencil Factory Model is Damaged in Fight
  • Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son’s Defense
  • Witness, Called by Defense, Testifies Against Frank
  • Mother’s Love Gives Trial Its Great Scene
  • Many Testify to Frank’s Good Character
  • Statement by Frank Will Be the Climactic Feature of the Trial
  • Girls Testify For and Against Frank
  • American Pravda: The Leo Frank Case and the Origins of the ADL
  • Eight Character Witnesses Come to Defense of Superintendent
  • Lawyers Appear Very Interested in Raincoat Lent to Leo M. Frank
  • Milton Klein, Visitor of Frank, Is Grilled by Solicitor Dorsey
  • Defense Witness Admit Barrett is Sensible Fellow
  • Elevator Made Loud Noise Said Employee of Pencil Company
  • Frank in Jovial Mood While Poker Game Was Going on at His House on Night of 26th
  • Two More Character Witnesses Are Introduced by the Defense
  • Wife and Mother of Frank Are Permitted to Remain in Court
  • Sig Montag Tells of Employment Of Detectives and Two Lawyers
  • Factory Mechanic Tells of Blood on Floor From Man’s Wounded Hand
  • Women Tell of Seeing Frank On Way to and From Factory On Day That Girl Was Murdered
  • Cars Often Ahead of Schedule Declares a Street Car Man
  • Character of Frank Good, So Many Witnesses Declare
  • Miss Eva May Flowers Did Not See Any Blood on Factory Floor
  • Frank Not Nervous on Night Of Murder Says Mrs. Ursenbach
  • Pittsburg Witness Tells of Frank’s Standing in School
  • Factory Forewoman Swears Conley Said He Was Drunk on April 26
  • Sister of Mrs. Leo M. Frank Tells Jury About Card Game
  • Mother-in-Law of Frank Denies Charges in Cook’s Affidavit
  • Many Men Swear to Good Character of Superintendent of Pencil Factory
  • All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial
  • Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury
  • Testimony of Girls Help to Leo M. Frank
  • What ‘They Say’ Won’t Hurt Leo Frank; State Must ‘Prove’ Depravity
  • Frank Prepares to Take Stand
  • Bitter Fight at Morning Session Over Testimony of Dr. Wm. Owen
  • Mrs. Rae Frank, Mother of Prisoner, Denounces Solicitor Hugh Dorsey
  • More Witnesses Are Called to Blacken Dalton’s Character
  • Lemmie Quinn is Severely Grilled by Solicitor Dorsey
  • Financial Sheets Introduced At Frank Trial in Afternoon
  • Former Office Boy Saw No Women With Frank on Thanksgiving Day
  • Quinn Intimates That Spots May Have Been on Floor for Months
  • Lively Tilts Mark the Hearing Of Testimony of Dr. Kendrick
  • Surprise Sprung by Introduction of Character Witnesses by Defense
  • Dr. William Owen Tells How Conley’s Story Was Re-enacted
  • Mother of Frank Denounces Solicitor Dorsey in Court
  • Court Stirred by Outburst From Leo Frank’s Mother
  • Frank’s Story of Before and After Crime Corroborated; Defense’s Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails
  • State Fights Frank’s Alibi
  • Steel Workers Enthralled by Leo Frank Trial
  • State’s Sole Aim is to Convict, Defense’s to Clear in Modern Trial
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