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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...
5 days ago · 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. – Leo Frank Case Archive. Prelude to Leo Frank’s August 18, 1913, Trial Testimony.
Aug 17, 2021 · August 17, 2021. In the spring of 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old factory worker, was found murdered in the basement of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. In what would become one of the most...
Apr 13, 2024 · Leo Frank (born April 17, 1884, Cuero, Texas, U.S.—died August 17, 1915, Marietta, Georgia) 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).
Dec 28, 2023 · Convicted of the April 1913 murder of 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Georgia, Jewish-American businessman Leo Frank appeals his conviction for the next two years. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually rejects Frank's final appeal in April 1915. On August 17, 1915 a mob of men abduct and lynch Leo Frank near Marietta, Georgia.
Apr 18, 2024 · The Leo Frank Research Library requests a fully transparent 21st century national inquiry into this century-old complex case that remains as a hotly contested ethnic conflict smoldering under the surface of modern Jewish-Gentile relations.
Frank, a Jew living in Georgia, was a factory superintendent who was convicted―by almost all modern accounts wrongly―of sexually assaulting and murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl, in 1913. His trial was fraught with specious testimony and circumstantial evidence, yet he was still convicted and sentenced to death.
