Lynch Mob in AmericaBy admin · June 27, 2013 · Must See ·Last Thursday, I posted my film on Jonathan Pollard who is sitting in an American jail – for an unprecedented 28 years – for the terrible crime of … Continue reading
Leo Frank Leo Frank Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose murder conviction and extrajudicial hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to questions of antisemitism in the United States.[2] He was posthumously pardoned in 1986 on technical grounds, without addressing the question of guilt or innocence. An engineer and superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 25, 1913, for the murder of one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Continue reading
Edit Storyline Atlanta, Georgia is rocked when thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan is found murdered inside the pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory’s Jewish owner, is convicted and sentenced to hang. Continue reading
The Knights of Mary Phagan were a division of the Ku Klux Klan who became infamous for their involvement in the lynching of Leo Frank on October 16, 1915 as well as popularizing the now common Klan practice of cross burning. They were inspired by the film Birth Of A Nation and following the lynching many members of this group were brought into the second official revival of the Ku Klux Klan by then Grand Wizard,William Joseph Simmons Continue reading
