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Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American lynching victim convicted in 1913 of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attention.
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...
Apr 6, 2023 · Thirty-one-year-old Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent, was kidnapped from prison in Atlanta, Georgia and lynched by an antisemitic mob on August 17, 1915.
Aug 13, 2024 · Leo Frank was an American factory superintendent whose conviction in 1913 for the murder of Mary Phagan resulted in his lynching. His trial and death shaped the nascent Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and spurred the first resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
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May 14, 2003 · Leo Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913. Frank was lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment.
The Murder of Mary Phagan is a 1988 American two-part television miniseries starring Jack Lemmon about the murder of a 13-year-old factory worker and the subsequent trial of her accused murderer Leo Frank.
Mar 8, 1982 · New but long-held secret information was disclosed today in one of the most disputed trials in American history, the murder conviction and subsequent mob lynching of Leo Frank almost 70 years...
Aug 17, 2021 · In what would become one of the most notorious cases in Georgia history – and one that still resonates today – Leo Frank, the superintendent of the factory, was accused of her murder. A...
Aug 16, 2015 · Leo Frank was taken by a mob in Marietta in August 1915 and strung up for the world to see, but now many see a modern effort to brush that history aside Latest U.S.
On August 17, 1915 a mob of men abduct and lynch Leo Frank near Marietta, Georgia. Leo Frank's case energized the press, resulting in nationwide coverage of the trial and Frank's eventual death. Read more about it!
