“Hang That Jew Or We’ll Hang You!” May 1, 2013 | By Marc Davis One of the most horrific episodes of anti-Semitism in American history – the lynching of Leo Frank – began 100 years ago last week. On April 27, 1913, a night watchman found the bloody body of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in a factory basement in Atlanta. Police Continue Reading →
Never Before Published Mary Phagan Autopsy Photo, Released 2013 The Battered Clothing of Mary Phagan, who was murdered at around noon on Saturday, April 26, 1913 DR. H. F. HARRIS, Sworn for the State, August, 1913. I am a practicing Physician. I made an examination of the body of Mary Phagan on May 5th [1913]. [Skull and Head] On Continue Reading →
Atlanta Constitution Newspaper. http://archive.org/details/LeoFrankCaseInTheAtlantaConstitutionNewspaper1913To1915 Atlanta Georgian Newspaper. http://archive.org/details/AtlantaGeorgianNewspaperAprilToAugust1913 Atlanta Journal Newspaper. http://archive.org/details/AtlantaJournalApril281913toAugust311913 The prosecutor Hugh Dorsey’s closing arguments (who later became Governor years later). Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey in the Trial of Leo Frank. Some but not all of the 9 hours of arguments given to the Jury at the end of the Leo Frank trial. Only 18 Libraries Continue Reading →
The Finest Selection of Articles About Mary Phagan and Leo Frank Case Visit the American Mercury now and read the Leo Frank Trial Transcript Analysis: www.theamericanmercury.org 100 Years Ago Today: The Trial of Leo Frank Begins theamericanmercury.org/2013/07/100-years-ago-today-the-tr… 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 theamericanmercury.org/2013/08/100-years-ago-today-leo-fr… Continue Reading →
Travel down the timeweb to the fall of 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia, you are now a Georgia Supreme Court Justice! How would you rule on Leo Frank’s petitions and appeals, in essence upon his conviction, based upon the official record presented to you? Would you leave undisturbed the verdict rendered against Leo Frank for the Murder of Mary Phagan? The Continue Reading →
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL), Patron Father and Martyr of Anti-Semitism: Leo Frank, Atlanta B’nai B’rith President Serial rapist-pedophile and convicted child killer, Leo Max Frank, violently assaulted, raped, and garroted 13-year-old little Mary Anne Phagan (born Thursday, June 1, 1899) at minutes past twelve-noon, on Confederate Memorial Day, Saturday, April 26, 1913. Phagan was viciously murdered, inside the Continue Reading →
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 →
When we review the official legal records and newspaper accounts of the Leo Frank trial as 21st century observers, traveling down the time web of imagination to explore the possible solutions of the case, we find ourselves coming to three doorways representing the most highly probable solutions concerning who violently assaulted and garroted Mary Phagan. We know with great certainty 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 →
The Leo Frank Affair (1913 to 1915) and its aftermath (1915 to 1986), What Really Happened? Welcome to the Leo Frank Case Research Library Archive, the largest online collection of primary sources concerning the life, and centarian legacy (1915 to 2015) of Leo Frank, who was convicted August 25, 1913, of having strangled 13 year old “little” Mary Anne Phagan Continue Reading →
From High School to College: The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Leo Max Frank was a star student during his four college preparatory years at the Pratt Institute, which began in the fall 1898. In his senior year of high school (1902), at the age of 18, Frank was noted for his upcoming final challenge on the Continue Reading →
American State Trials Volume 10 (1918) by John D. Lawson, LL.D. Beginning on page 182, an interpretation of the Leo M. Frank case by John D. Lawson is featured and then it is followed by an abridged version of the 1913 Leo Frank trial testimony (July 28, 1913 to August 26, 1913) for the murder of little Mary Phagan on 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 →
American Heritage Magazine, October 1996, page 108 to 113 Online: http://www.americanheritage.com/content/framed PDF: https://leofrank.info/library/fate-of-leo-frank-leonard-dinnerstein.pdf PDF 2: Leo Frank, American Heritage Magazine, October 1996. A newly discovered document casts a disturbing light on exactly how Frank’s prosecutor won his case “FRAMED” by STEPHEN J. GOLDFARB Published in American Heritage Magazine, October 1996, page 108 to 113: The Fate of Leo Frank by Continue Reading →
Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term, 1913 Murder Trial Testimony in Adobe PDF format: http://www.leofrank.info/library/georgia-archives/ In the Supreme Court of Georgia FALL TERM, 1913 LEO M. FRANK PLAINTIFF IN ERROR VS. STATE OF GEORGIA DEFENDANT IN ERROR In Error from Fulton Superior Court Continue Reading →
Leo Frank Research Library Disclaimer: Accusations by Christians, Political Conservatives and non-Jews, claiming Wikipedia is biased, have been widely and vociferously made across the Internet. We will present these conclusions here, but it is up to the reader to decide if these accusations have merit or not, by doing their own research and testing on Wikipedia. Try the wikipedia test. Continue Reading →
Download the ARGUMENT OF HUGH M. DORSEY (click here or right mouse click and save as) Arguments of Prosecutor Hugh M. Dorsey, August 1913. Leo Frank murder trial closing arguments by Hugh Manson Dorsey are published under the title, Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor-General, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, at the Trial of Leo M. Frank Charged with the Murder of Continue Reading →
From the scholarly article, “Leo Frank and the American Jewish Community,” published in the prestigious American Jewish Archive Journal, 1968, volume 20, number 2, by Leonard Dinnerstein author of The Leo Frank Case editions 1968 through 2008. Link: Dinnerstein, Leonard. “Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish Community.” American Jewish Archive Journal, November 1968, Volume 20, Number 2. Leonard Dinnerstein’s Continue Reading →
The month long Leo Frank trial, for the murder of Mary Phagan, took place from July 28, 1913 to Aug 26, 1913. The trial testimony and questions were captured as a stenographic record, in total, numbered approximately 1,080,060 words (Phagan Kean, 1989), in a 7 volume set, on over 3,647 pages of legal cap paper (Rosser, Bass, 1914). Alas, it Continue Reading →
The State of Georgia vs. Leo Max Frank (1913 to 2012) These documents support the Honorable State of Georgia’s prosecution team and all of those opposing Leo Frank, led by Solicitor General Hugh Manson Dorsey, the prosecutor for the Atlanta Stone Mountain Circuit. Ironically, the Leo M. Frank legal defense fund that began growing rapidly after the murder of Mary Continue Reading →