Clark Howell (September 21, 1863 – November 14, 1936) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American newspaper man and politician from the state of Georgia.  According to Wikipedia: Howell was born on September 21, 1863 in Atlanta, Georgia. During the American Civil War his mother was in South Carolina, while his father, Captain Evan Howell, served in the infantry and commanded Continue Reading →

An Introduction: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/01/in-the-matter-of-leo-frank-part-i/ In the Matter of Leo Frank, Part I Kevin MacDonald January 15, 2010 In 1913 Mary Phagan, a 13-year old girl, was murdered. The absolutely barebones account of the fascinating story behind this event and all that followed is that Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who managed the factory in Atlanta where Mary worked, was convicted of Continue Reading →

POLITICS, PREJUDICE, AND PERJURY Published in Flagpole Magazine, p. 9 (March 1, 2000). Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law. The Leo Frank Case Leonard Dinnerstein University of Georgia Press, 1987, 1999 248 pp., paperback, $15.95 The case of Leo M. Frank, the most important Georgia criminal proceeding of the 20th century, has Continue Reading →

Leo Frank Appeals: Majority and Unanimous Decisions during the Appeals Process Affirm the Murder Conviction Given by the Trial Jury After the murder trial ended August 21, closing arguments concluded, the jury rendered its decision on August 25 at 4 p.m., and the trial judge affirmed the decision and sentencing on August 26, 1913. Frank’s lawyers immediately appealed. Leo Frank, Continue Reading →

[nggallery id=16] Jewish media bosses: Albert D. Lasker, advertising magnate; and Adolph Ochs, newspaper mogul, owner of the New York Times; commissioned a small media and theater team to recreate the Leo Frank defense version of Mary Phagan’s murder. The actor playing Jim Conley is not a negro, but actually a White man in minstrel show style blackface. The battery, Continue Reading →

The prosecution’s case was that Leo Frank raped and murdered Mary Phagan in the metal room on the second floor of the factory verses the Defense’s version of the case that the sex-murder occurred in the basement by Jim Conley. Jewish-American activist and racist propagandist Adolph Ochs, the media magnate who owned the New York times, commissioned this photo series Continue Reading →

People v. Leo Frank (2009) directed by Ben Loeterman and Steve Oney (senior consultant). Please watch, transcribe, and fact-check each segment of this 84 minute, 2009 published docudrama by using the 1913 – 1915 primary sources of the Leo Frank case (legal records and Atlanta newspaper reports) to determine what is fact or fiction. When you have completed this task, Continue Reading →

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John Marshall Slaton (December 25, 1866 – January 11, 1955), nicknamed Jack Slaton, served two nonconsecutive terms as the 60th Governor of Georgia. No Race Prejudice. “Do you think the question of race prejudice had anything to do with the case against Frank? “No. You will find prejudice against foreigners on the part of some people in Georgia just as Continue Reading →

        In this day of fading ideals and disappearing land marks, little Mary Phagan’s heroism is an heirloom, than which there is nothing more precious among the old red hills of Georgia.Sleep, little girl, sleep in your humble grave but if the angels are good to you in the realms beyond the trouble sunset and the clouded Continue Reading →

The Abduction Site: Milledgeville Prison On August 16, 1915, nearly two months after the June 21, 1915, commutation, Leo M. Frank was abducted from prison by a group of men from the State of Georgia’s highest social, legal, and political strata. They anointed themselves as the Knights of Mary Phagan. After droving Frank 175 miles to Cobb County at the Continue Reading →

Leo Frank Appeals: Majority and Unanimous Decisions during the Appeals Process Affirm the Murder Conviction Given by the Trial Jury by Not Disturbing It After the Leo Frank murder trial ended August 21, closing arguments began and then ended on August 25 at noon. The jury rendered its decision on August 25 at 4 p.m., and August 26 at 10:00 Continue Reading →

After reading the Leo M. Frank chronology of events, you may want to read the period Leo Frank case newspaper articles from 1913 to 1915 (and beyond), and be sure to also review the Leo Frank Images Archive, which has recently exceeded two hundred images. —- The Leo Frank Case Chronology, based on the compilation originally created by Charles Pou, Continue Reading →

1913: The Grave of little Mary Phagan (1899 to 1913) by Fiddlin’ John Carson, April 28, 1913. The Grave of Little Mary Phagan, 1913   Early Film: Thou Shalt Not Kill (1915) Thou Shalt Not Kill: Just four months after Frank’s lynching, Hal Reid, the father of the silent-movie star Wallace Reid, produced Thou Shalt Not Kill, a film based Continue Reading →

Leo Frank Saga References and Bibliography1902 and 1903 Pratt Institute Monthly mentions Leo Frank on the Debate team in June 1902 and mentions Leo Frank’s Brooklyn address as an Alumni in February, 1903. https://leofrank.info/library/pratt-institute/pratt-institute-monthly-1902.pdf. Google map is available. 1906 Steve Oney (Dead Shall Rise, 2003) claims, as do other Jewish-American authors that Leo Frank was 5’6″ and 130lbs., but reliable Continue Reading →