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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.
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Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard will reopen the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent convicted of murdering a black girl. The article explores the history, evidence and controversies of the case that sparked anti-Semitism and lynching in Georgia.
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American factory superintendent and lynching victim. He was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attention.
Nov 13, 2009 · Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl, was found dead in a pencil factory basement in 1913. Her murder led to the wrongful conviction and lynching of Leo Frank, the factory owner, by a mob of racists and anti-Semites.
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A 1988 crime drama based on the true story of a young girl killed in Atlanta in 1913 and the controversial trial of the factory manager Leo Frank. Starring Jack Lemmon, Richard Jordan, Peter Gallagher and Kevin Spacey, the series won three Primetime Emmys.
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Apr 6, 2023 · Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent, was wrongly convicted for the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl, in 1913. He was kidnapped from prison and lynched by an antisemitic mob in 1915, after exhausting his appeals and commuting his death sentence to life.
• At the time of the Coroner’s Inquest there were only two serious suspects for Mary Phagan’s murder: 1) factory superintendent Leo Frank, the last person known to have seen Mary alive; and 2) night watchman Newt Lee, who discovered the body in the factory’s basement.
