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I hope everyone reading the below will hereby understand just how important this “100-year-old murder in a pencil factory” really was — and how relevant it remains to our world today.
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Mary Phagan was a beautiful little 4-foot-11 girl, a fine daughter, and a perfect employee in the days of child labor, who at just age 13 worked 55 hours a week for factory superintendent Leo Frank, but this little miss fought like a tiger to her very death against the fiendish Jew pervert Leo Frank when the hideous Hebrew demanded sex from her.
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The Jews have done a 1937 movie with Lana Turner about it (“They Won’t Forget”), a 1964 television movie “Profiles in Courage,” glorifying the crooked Georgia governor who tried to get Leo Frank off, and went on to crank out TWO MAJOR MOVIES 1) in 1987, with Jack Lemon, “The Murder of Mary Phagan,”) 
……and again in 2009, “The People Vs. Leo Frank”), all part of the drumbeat on “White prejudice” to guilt-trip all White people — and especially Southerners — for framing the “poor, innocent victim of antisemitism, Leo Frank.”
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This guilt-trip hoax surrounding Leo Frank was merely a trial run, a prep, for the gigantic Jewish Holocaust hoax after WWII. And the total defeat of the Jews (Frank was convicted by a jury of murder despite massive jewspaper pressure and was finally lynched) led straight to the founding of the vicious ADL.
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The closet homosexual who has headed the ADL since 1987, Abraham Foxman 
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Mary Phagan, prosecutor Hugh Dorsey, publisher Tom Watson, and the “crème de la crème” White vigilantes who burst with guns drawn into a Georgia state prison and strung up the pedophile rapist-murder Frank — hanging him high as he faced poor little Mary’s farmhouse — all these brave Whites were righteous heroes in the highest traditions of the Aryan race!
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The leader of the resolute White men who brought the convicted murderer Frank to justice – after two long years of Jewish legal shenanigans, and the child-killer’s every appeal had been rejected, including by the US Supreme Court – was the duly elected Sheriff of Cobb County, Georgia, Mr. George Swanson. No real White man, loving our women and girls as the treasures they are, could do otherwise. Is letting a murderer go free not as bad as murder itself?
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From The Silent and the Damned (by Seltz)
Modern colorization of a 1913 black-and-white photo. Mary had light auburn hair and blue eyes, and was chosen to play “Sleeping Beauty” in a church play. The 13-year-old giggled when the “Handsome Prince” kissed her.
Beaten unconscious, raped, and when she came to and started resisting again, strangled to death by her vile boss, Leo Frank, who then urinated on her body. Frank was the president of B’nai B’rith in Atlanta, Georgia, the “Gate City Lodge #144,” the largest Jewish fraternal organizations in the South, with over 500 active members.
Crusading Georgia publisher, lawyer and former Congressman Tom Watson (see more on him below) told it like it was in his Watson’s Magazine and in his The Jeffersonian. The autopsy indicated Mary had been raped vaginally (the ominous phrase was “violence to the vagina”) and probably anally, and this was an evil that was unspeakably monstrous to the citizens of Georgia and the jury.
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The Big New York Jews rallied behind him and after “The Leo Frank Protest League” with its newspaper ads nationwide failed to sway justice…..
.. the Jewish tycoons immediately founded the ADL (the ludicrously misnamed “Anti-Defamation League”) to thwart the death sentence on the convicted murderer Frank. However, a Georgia “mob” (actually composed of leading and distinguished citizens, including the County Sheriff, the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and a former GOVERNOR!) dragged the pedophile Jew out of prison and strung him up – an amazing story of White persistence and courage!
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The Leo Frank case shows why the infamous ADL ever was set up – in shocked reaction to the failure of Jewish bribes, blackmail, planted evidence, guilt trips about “prejudiced Southerners” and media lies about “antisemitism” to prevent this jury from finding Leo Frank guilty as hell of MURDER!
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The ADL’s head since 1987, the closet homosexual Abraham Foxman, whom foolish Poles had hidden from the National Socialist Germans. They lied to the Reich that he was just a Polish Catholic boy. Now he harasses the Poles as well as the Americans.
The Jewish Big Money in New York realized their heavy-handed tactics had backfired failed to prevent the rescue of Leo Frank, . The top New York Jews grasped that they needed henceforth a much more sophisticated legal and PR operation so that AT LEAST FUTURE GUILTY JEWS COULD ESCAPE JUSTICE. And this was the ADL, founded in October 1913, A DIRECT RESULT OF THE MARY PHAGAN-LEO FRANK CASE! A month after the guilty verdict and death sentence on Leo Frank, the “ADL” was formed by the Jewish Freemasonic lodge B’nai B’rith (“Sons of the Covenant”).
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Paragraphs two and three states that “prejudice and discrimination” against Jews had “manifest[ed] itself recently in an attempt to influence courts of law.” This was a clear reference to the Leo Frank trial a few weeks earlier. Subsequent paragraphs insolently advocate that Jews use the ADL themselves to ”influence” the theater, newspapers and magazines whenever they criticize “(in ADL-speak, “defame”) the Jews. Trailer to Hollywood’s 1986 pity-party movie, where poor Leo is murdered by hate-filled White Southern bigots.,
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Here is an accurate depiction of the mission of the ADL on the WN-oriented Metapedia: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/ADL_of_B’nai_B’rith Wikipedia’s article on the ADL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League) states baldly:
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Sigmund Livingston
[The founder, German Jew immigrant Sigmund] Livingston established the ADL in direct response to the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager and B’nai B’rith chapter president in Georgia, who was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13 year old female employee.
The Jewish New York City newspaper The Forward wrote in 2003 (http://forward.com/articles/7157/leaders-urge-adl-to-plan-for-future-after-abe-foxm/) :
According to Foxman, the ADL’s budget is between $50 million and $60 million, depending on how grants are computed. Half of the funds raised come from non-Jewish corporate sponsors. The organization boasts a staff of 350 people in 30 regional offices around the country. It also staffs offices in Jerusalem and Moscow and has representatives in Vienna and Rome.
The Jewish-born Brother Nathanael did a good video on the ADL and its agenda against White America:
This case needs to come fully alive! Why? Because our enemy made a disastrous decision in backing a rapist, a pedophile, a murderer of a pure, proud, pretty young Southern White girl and a would-be framer of two innocent Black men, his own employees, as well!
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The Jews really should have walked away from this case No Italian-American would whine that Al Capone was an innocent victim of prejudice! NO Italian would say John Gotti was targeted by anti-Italianism! If a member of your ethnic group does something wrong, you distance yourself from him!
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The Leo-Frank-Mary Phagan case is also a perfect case to strategically aggravate the already perennial antisemitism existing in the Black community, which has many causes, among them the key Jewish role in financing, starting and running the slave trade:
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–building the slave ships
–captaining and crewing the ships,
–throwing sick Black slaves overboard, and
–actually auctioning the slaves off upon arrival in the colonies.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Relationship_Between_Blacks_and_Jews This major book has naturally inflamed the resentment against Jewry by African-Americans.
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Polls for decades have show that the most anti-Jewish segment of the US population is African-Americans. What this trial proves beyond any doubt is that the Jew Leo Frank (and jewish-owned newspapers, especially the New York Times) were determined to frame (and thus send to their deaths by hanging) one of Frank’s own Black employees, the night watchman Newt Lee, and also the Black janitor, Jim Conley.
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One of DOZENS of New York Times articles blaming Gentiles for the trial
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Ah yes, how the Jews “care” about the Blacks! The entire thrust of the Frank defense team was an outrageous playing of the race card to get a White southern jury to “automatically” blame a Black for the rape and murder of a White girl. But the White jury not only did not buy it, they felt insulted by the blatant appeals by the Jew’s legal team to treat them like Black-hating robots!
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The ultimate in hypocrisy is that at the same time as Jewish money was setting up the NAACP to “help the Blacks fight racial injustice,” Conley was the object of a frame-up attempted by the Frank legal defense team. It called the janitor as “a plain, beastly, drunken, filthy, lying [n----r] …fired with lust….” Even The New York Times would eventually describe him as a ”drunken, lowlived, utterly worthless…Black human animal.”
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So much for Jewish support for Black civil rights! Out the window when the life of a JEW was at stake!
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Another NYT front-page article
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Frank’s lawyer, the top-pay Luther Rosser, told jurors in vain: “Conley is a plain, beastly, drunken, filthy, lying nigger with a spreading nose through which probably tons of cocaine have probably been sniffed.” And yet the all-White, Southern jury, in the heyday of the KKK, an organization vigilant about deterring the rape of White women by Blacks, refused to believe that Conley did it, even though Conley had done jail time, as had many Blacks, for various offenses.
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New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs even hired investigators to seek “proof” of Frank’s innocence and went so far as to employ a White actor “in blackface” to portray Conley as the strangler — all for a “report” that Ochs toyed with publishing in his newspaper until he had second thoughts.
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The White jury was unwilling to let either Black man be framed by Leo Frank’s lawyers, no matter how often they tossed around the n- word. They were impressed by the three month-long investigation — late April to late July 1913 — done by the Atlanta police, the “discovery” (gathering of affidavits) and the prosecution’s massive and convincing evidence.
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Leo Frank: Crusading publisher Tom E. Watson (see below) said of him:
He has “an animal jaw and fearfully sensual lips.”
And while the Black janitor, Jim Conley, was indeed a low-life (see below), he had nothing to do with the rape and murder of Mary Phagan, and the Black night watchman, Newt Lee, was pure as the driven snow with regard to Mary Ann Phagan.
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The triple blunder by Frank now began:
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1) The Jew Leo Frank dictated with Jew arrogance to Conley a note – supposedly written by Mary Phagan – depicting Mary as an illiterate peasant, or rather a moron, who could not write a grammatical sentence.
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2) The notes also both mistakenly talked about how a “negro” wanted sex with her, the “negro” who was “the night witch” (night watchman).
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But “negro” was a word for Blacks used by northerners, whereas all Southerners called Blacks “colored” (or, if angry, used the n- word).
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The note itself thus pointed to a northerner as the author. The only northerner on the scene, and with the motive to escape the noose by framing someone else, was Leo Frank.
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3) Frank was trying to get one Black employee, Jim Conley, to help him write a fake Mary-Phagan note in order to frame another Black, Newt Lee, for murder.
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We must realize how serious this framing attempt was. Any attempt to get an innocent man convicted of murder is extremely wicked. But back then, in the Deep South, given a supposed Black perpetrator and a White female victim, that would have meant a certain and swift death penalty for the totally innocent Newt Lee (photo left).
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Scene with Newt Lee from the 2009 Hollywood sob-story movie bashing White Southerners: “The People vs. Leo Frank”
Unlike today, Newt Lee would never have spent 20 years on Death Row making appeal after appeal! That innocent man would have been hanged within six months! (Frank himself was sentenced in October 1913 to be hanged in March 1914.)
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The first note that Frank dictated to Conley as if Mary Phagan had written it said:
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he said he wood love me land down like the night witch did it but that long tall Black negro did buy his slef.
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The second said:
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mam that negro here down here did this i went to make water and he pushed me down that hole a long tall negro Black that hoo it wase long sleam tall negro i wright while play with me.
I guess all Goy females were viewed by Leo Frank, the head of B’nai B’rith in Atlanta, as completely mentally retarded!
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And the supposed Mary was “writing” her notes while “he played with me”????? ….. “i wright while play with me” ….. What kind of deranged mind would think of such a ludicrous scenario? “ “I think I’ll write some notes while I’m being raped.”
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In point of fact, Mary Phagan was not some toothless hayseed but instead a smart girl, and excellent at both spelling and grammar. She was not in school ONLY because of a shortage of desks in the public-school system of the rapidly growing city of Atlanta. Mary was working in the pencil factory just to help her family financially, and just until she got a space in school, a school desk allotted to her, so she could continue her education!
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Here is the text of an actual postcard from Mary to her mother Fannie in 1911, showing her good grammar and spelling for a then 11-year-old and her closeness to her mother. Backstory: Mary had taken the trolley from the family home in East Point, Atlanta up to see her aunt Mattie and cousins in Marietta, 14 miles north:
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A rare photo of 11-year-old Mary and her aunt Mattie in Marietta, colorized by me (JdN)…. with an almost ominous seriousness in both their eyes … As a little girl, Mary loved playing house and playing with dolls with her female cousins, according to her great-niece Mary Phagan -Kean, as found in her excellent book The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (found online at http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/mary_phagan.htm).
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Marietta, Georgia, June 16, 1911, 6:00 p.m.: Hello Mama, How are you? I got here all O.K. I would have wrote [sic] sooner but I hadn’t thought about it. Willie is up here. Aunt Lizzie has got my gingham dress made. I am going to have my picture made soon. Your baby, Mary
Part of that postcard
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Mary’s older sister Ollie Mae on the left and little Mary as a toddler
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As for the night watchman, Newt Lee, though he was strongly suspected at first, he was manifestly innocent and had no reason to lie, He had had good relations with Frank and no motive to hurt him. But Frank had every criminal motive to frame his own loyal Black employees so as to avoid the rope of justice for raping their fellow employee, the White girl, Mary Ann Phagan.
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The other scheme by Frank to send his Black employee Newt Lee to his death was altering Lee’s punch clock slip. (A night watchman must submit a card into a “punch clock” at one of several locations around a factory to show he was awake and checking out different parts of the factory.)
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Newt Lee, the night watchman
Leo Frank had told Newt Lee, the pencil factory’s night watchman, to come earlier than usual, at 4 PM, on the Satuzrday when the murder was committed. But Frank was extremely nervous when Newt Lee arrived (the killing of Mary Phagan having occurred between three and four hours before, and her body was still in the building) and insisted that Lee leave and come back in two hours. When Lee then suggested he could just sleep for a couple of hours on the premises — and there was a cot in the basement near the place where Lee would ultimately find the body — Frank refused to let him. Lee could also have slept in the packing room adjacent to Leo Frank’s office. But Frank insisted that Lee had to leave and “have a good time” instead.
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This violated the corporate rule that once the night watchman entered the building, he could not leave until he handed over the keys to the day watchman. When Lee returned at six, Frank was even more nervous and agitated than two hours earlier, according to Lee. He was so nervous, he could not operate the time clock properly, something he had done hundreds of times before.
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(Leo Frank had officially started to work at the National Pencil Company on Monday morning, August 10, 1908, five years earlier. Twenty-two days later, on September 1, 1908, he was elevated to the position of superintendent of the company, and served in this capacity until he was arrested on Tuesday morning, April 29, 1913.)
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Both ploys by Frank having failed…..
…..while the rapist-murderer was in jail, pro-Frank forces actually planted a bloody shirt in Newt Lee’s house so as to send this perfectly innocent man to his death. Early in the investigation, while both Leo Frank and Newt Lee were being held and some suspicion was still directed at Lee, a bloody shirt was “discovered” in a barrel at Lee’s home. Investigators became suspicious when it was proved that the blood marks on the shirt had been made by wiping it, unworn, in the liquid. The shirt had no trace of body odor and the blood had fully soaked even the armpit area, even though only a small quantity of blood was found at the crime scene.
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This was the first sign that money was being used to procure illegal acts and interfere in the case in such a way as to direct suspicion away from Leo M. Frank. This became a virtual certainty when Lee was definitely cleared. Why would an innocent man have a shirt in his house with Mary Phagan’s blood on it unless someone else had put it there?
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(Subsequently, the Jew tactic has been to blame the other Black, Jim Conley — anybody but Saint Leo the Innocent, against whom 19 of his female employees testified as a lecher, and whose own wife refused to visit him for two weeks after his arrest!…..)
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My view is “frankly” that I am very happy the Jews are still backing their pedophilic, murdering, sex-fiend, whore-mongering brother Leo Frank. As Napoleon said: “Never disturb your enemy when he is making mistakes.”
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A typical ADL webpage on Leo Frank, glorifying itself. Leo looks very victim-like.
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Far from being motivated by blind hatred, the lynchers, men with a Southern sense of honor, chivalrously delivered Leo Frank’s wedding ring to a person who then got the ring back to Frank’s wife Lucille. As even the pro-Jewish book Silence of the Damned admits:
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But where was the chivalry of Leo Frank, who not only raped and murdered his own employee, a thirteen-year-old girl and model employee, but then tried to frame two innocent Black employee and ruthlessly “played the race card” (in vain) to an all-White jury to send innocent men to the gallows in his place???
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The crusade to Whitewash the crimes of Leo Frank is a deep quicksand the Jews refuse to crawl out of. One example of this strategic foolishness is the book The Leo Frank Case by the neanderthalic-looking Leonard Dinnerstein, Ph.D.
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. The books is simply full of inaccuracies, outright lies and omissions of essential facts. This review on Amazon says it all: http://www.amazon.com/review/RRVQOXEWEOBVU/
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Excerpt:
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Given how many decades Leonard Dinnerstein spent studying this case (nearly half a century), it seems almost incomprehensible the sheer number of conspicuous errors, misquotes, mistakes, fabrications, misrepresentations, frauds, deception, falsificications & shameless omissions made in every edition of his book on the Leo Frank Case from 1968 all the way through to 2008. Going even further back, & closely examining Dinnerstein’s 1966 PhD dissertation, reveals early-on his central thesis is based upon paranoid pathological obsessions with accusing non-existent ’widespread anti-Semitism,’ as the primary reason Leo Frank was indicted & convicted. Dinnerstein believes the Leo Frank conviction was an anti-Semitic outburst & episode, that erupted from “anti-Semitic Southern culture”, despite the consensus among Jewish & Gentile historians that anti-Semitism was virtually non-existent in the South. Moreover, given the fact Jews were considered an integral part of European-American culture in the South, meant that Leo Frank being a German-Jew more likely helped him than hurt him (see: The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs 1894-1915, Lindemann, 1992).
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JdN: The evidence against Leo Frank, including most of all his own infuriating and suspicious behavior before and during the trial, was so overwhelming that a Deep South jury — in a city which had had a huge race riot just seven years earlier — see below — over the issue of Blacks raping White women – nevertheless took the word of the Black janitor Jim Conley over that of the “White” Jew Leo Frank.
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Jim Conley was a disreputable person and incompetent employee who could not even run the freight elevator correctly in the pencil factory and was thus switched to janitorial work. The all-White jury nevertheless believed him, despite knowing via the newspapers and Leo Frank’s lawyers about of his many arrests and his four weeks on a chain gang for various crimes such as fighting and drunkenness. There was certainly NO sympathy on the part of the Atlanta jury for the ne’er-do-well Black criminal Conley. Conley went on after the Leo Frank trial to be arrested, convicted and then serve 15 years for burglarizing a liquor store, surviving, btw, a shotgun blast from the store owner.
Atlanta City Hall in 1913
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The Leo Frank case was the first instance EVER in the then 300-year history of the American South of a “White” man being convicted of murder on the word of a Black man.
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A newspaper sketch of Frank, emphasizing how “calm and collected” he acted.
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That shows just how strong the evidence against Leo Frank was. It was a case of the EVIDENCE, which was furnished by 1) Jim Conley, 2) the Atlanta police, 3) 19 female employees at the National Pencil Factory, and 4) Leo Frank himself, that earned him his guilty verdict and death sentence. After that conviction for murder, every level of the judicial system up to and including the United States Supreme Court (see below) rejected Leo Frank’s appeals.
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Newspaper photo collage of Mary and her aunt Mattie. Mary had striking eyes and a unique beauty, but it is clear from the photos also that she was still girlish and far too young to have an affair — and of course not an affair with a married man.
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Five witnesses testify specifically that Frank constantly sexually harassed Mary Phagan in particular (from page 239, American State Trials, volume X (1918) by John Lawson)
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The McKnight Affidavits
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The Black cook, Minola McKnight (photo left), who worked at the Frank-Selig home and her common-law husband, Albert McKnight were both interrogated as to what they might have seen, heard or overheard. Minola McKnight’s report was as devastating as a hydrogen bomb to Frank, but Leonard Dinnerstein claims she was forced by the police to say it, noting that she repudiated her affidavit shortly afterward, but of course she did. She had to! She had to keep working for the Frank family to feed herself in order to survive! There were no food stamps back then! If you were poor and got fired, you starved! And who would hire a Black woman as a domestic after she had been FIRED for testifying about private matters she witnessed in the home of her employers?? No one would!
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Lucille and Leo Frank
In the affidavit (see below) Minola had just accused 1) one member of confessing he had committed a rape and murder and 2) her other employers she accused thereby of covering up that murder confession, and 3) they were all covering up how bad and strained the Frank marriage was, which the police and any jury would see as a “motive” to seek sex elsewhere! When marriages are very bad, that is when people with opportunity stray! Dinnerstein sort of ignores the glaring fact that her sole income as an uneducated Black woman 100 years agoin the segregated Old South came from the Franks!
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Minola had indeed told the truth when pressured by the police. And of course they had to pressure her, knowing she was facing the counter-pressure at work of being fired by the Franks if she revealed the truth. So Minola, “between a rock [the cops] and a hard place [the Franks] both told the truth and then recanted it. It was the only thing she could do. All Minola (also called Magnolia) had to do was return from the police station and walk through that Frank door to try to get back into the kitchen and, undoubtedly, she got it it with both barrels from the Selig-Franks: “What did you say to the police, Minola?” She doubtless got it from Leo (who was facing a slight problem called the gallows), from Lucille (facing disgrace, widowhood and the end of her husband’s middle-class income) and from Lucille’s two parents, very prominent members of the synagogue.
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Beyond that B’nai B’rith, of which Frank was the local chapter president, feared a huge scandal if their local president was tried and found guilty or rape and murder of a Christian girl, and the big New York Jews of course saw the PR disaster that was brewing for their whole national organization and for all American Jewry.
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(Leo Frank was not a lone nutjob like the Jewish serial killer, “the Son of Sam,” in NYC in the 1970s. Sam Berkowitz, the self-described “Son of Sam,” terrorized New York City in the 1970s, killing 6 and wounding 7. He has steadily maintained he did not act alone but as part of a satanic cult. http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz) Berkowitz has had the decency to admit his guilt (unlike Leo Frank), to refuse to apply for parole, to say he should stay in prison for the rest of his life for his crimes, and he also has converted to Christianity. .
Frank by contrast was an Ivy League engineer, a prominent businessman, a key Jewish official in the capital of a major state, and a rising star in American Jewry! So the Jews as a whole and the Selig-Franks in particular HAD to get Minola and/or Albert to recant the truths they had just spoken. What stands out in the following affidavits by both McKnights are several devastating assertions:
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1. Leo Frank got himself drunk on the evening of the murder.
2. Leo Frank confessed the murder to his wife.
3. Leo Frank quarreled with his wife before the murder, he told his wife he was saving his kisses for another, and thus he would not kiss her.
4. Why did Leo Frank so thoughtfully buy his wife a box of chocolates at Jacob’s Pharmacy at 6:30 pm?
5. Leo Frank was suicidal on the night of the murder, asking for his pistol to kill himself. 6. Leo Frank may have shown remorse to his wife about the murder.
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Affidavit of Albert McKnight, husband of the Black cook in the Leo Frank home (first a photo facsimile of the crumpled-up paper, then a transcription):
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The key is at the end: Transcription:
“I can tell Mr. Frank has done something as they act strange. Mrs. Frank tells Magnolia [ = Minola] every day not to forget what to say if they come for her to go to court again. Mrs. Frank had a quarrel with Mr. Frank on the morning of the murder. She asked Mr. Frank to kiss her but then he said he was saving his kisses for ____ and would not kiss her. Magnolia said she heard Mrs. Frank say she would never live with him again, for she knew he had killed that girl, and they had the right man and ought to break his neck.” Signed : Albert McKnight & witnessed by R.L. Craven & A. Morrison
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STATE’S EXHIBIT J, Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913.
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Affidavit executed by Minola McKnight for Solicitor [ = District Attorney, the Prosecutor, Hugh] Dorsey, as follows: State of Georgia, County of Fulton.
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Personally appeared before me, a notary public in and for the above State and county, Minola McKnight, who lives in the rear of 351 Pulliam St., Atlanta, Ga., who being duly sworn deposes and says:
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On Saturday morning, April 26, 1913, Mr. [Leo] Frank left home about eight o’clock, and Albert [McKnight], my husband, was there Saturday, too. Albert [McKnight] got there I guess about a quarter after one [1:15 PM] and he [Albert McKnight] was there when Mr. [Leo] Frank come for dinner (Dinner is what they called Lunch back then), which was about half-past one [1:30 PM], but Mr. Frank did not eat any dinner (Lunch), and he left in about ten minutes [1:40 PM] after he [Mr. Leo Frank] got there.
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Mr. [Leo] Frank come back to the house at seven o’clock that night, and Albert [McKnight] was there when he [Leo Frank] got there. Albert [McKnight] had gone home that [early] evening but he come back. I don’t know what time he [Albert McKnight] got there, but he come sometime before Mr. [Leo] Frank did, and Mr. [Leo] Frank eat supper about seven o’clock, and when I left there that night about eight o’clock, I left Mr. [Leo] Frank there. Sunday morning I got there about eight o’clock, and there was an automobile standing in front of the house and I didn’t pay any attention to it.
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I saw a man in the automobile get a bucket of water and pour into it. Mr. [Leo] Frank’s wife [Lucille Selig Frank] was downstairs and Mr. [Emil Selig] and Mrs. [Josephine] Selig were upstairs. Albert [McKnight] was there Sunday morning, but I don’t remember what time he got there. I called them down to breakfast about half past eight [8:30 AM] and I found out that Mr. [Leo] Frank was gone. Mr. [Emil] Selig and Mrs. [Josephine] Selig eat breakfast, but Mrs. [Lucille] Frank didn’t eat until Mr. Frank come back and then they eat breakfast together. I didn’t hear them say anything at the breakfast table.
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After dinner I understood them to say that a girl and Mr. [Leo] Frank were caught at the office Saturday. I don’t know who said it, Miss Lucile (Mrs. Frank) and Mr. [Emil Selig] and Mrs. [Josephine] Selig and Mr. [Leo] Frank were standing there talking, after dinner when they said it; I understood them to say it was a Jew girl. On Tuesday, Mr. [Leo] Frank says to me, ‘It is mighty bad, Minola, I might have to go to jail about this girl, and I don’t know anything about it.’
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Sunday, Miss Lucile said to Mrs. Selig that Mr. Frank didn’t rest so good Saturday night; she said he was drunk and wouldn’t let her sleep with him, and she said she slept on the floor on the rug by the bed because Mr. [Leo] Frank was drinking. Miss Lucile [Selig Frank] said Sunday that Mr. [Leo] Frank told her Saturday night that he was in trouble, and that he didn’t know the reason why he would murder, and he told his wife to get his pistol and let him kill himself.
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I heard Miss Lucile [Selig Frank] say that to Mrs. [Josephine] Selig [her mother], and it got away with Mrs. [Josephine] Selig mighty bad; she didn’t know what to think. I haven’t heard Miss Lucile say whether she believed it or not.
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I don’t know why Mrs. Frank didn’t come to see her husband, but it was a pretty good while before she would come to see him, maybe two weeks. She would tell me, ‘Wasn’t it mighty bad that he was locked up,’ she would say, ‘Minola, I don’t know what I am going to do.’ When I left home to go to the solicitor general’s office, they told me to mind how I talked.
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They pay me $3.50 a week [= $150 in 2013 dollars], but last week they paid me $4.00 [ = $200 today] , and one week she paid me $6.50 [ = $350 today]. Up to the time of the murder I was getting $3.50 a week and the week right after the murder I don’t remember how much she paid me, and the next week they paid me $3.50, and the next week they paid me $6.50, and the next week they paid me $4.00 and the next week they paid me $4.00. One week, I don’t remember which one, Mrs. Selig gave me $5, but it wasn’t for my work, and they didn’t tell me what it was for, she just said, ‘ Here is $5, Minola.’
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I understood that it was a tip for me to keep quiet. They would tell me to mind how I talked and Miss Lucile gave me a hat.”
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Question: “Is that the reason you didn’t tell the solicitor yesterday all about this, that Miss Lucile and the others had told you not to say anything about what happened at home there’?”
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Answer: “Yes, sir.”
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Question: “Is that true?”
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Answer: “Yes, sir.”
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Question:. “And that’s the reason you would rather have been locked up last night than tell?’”
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Answer: “Yes, sir.”
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Question: “Has Mr. Pickett or Mr. Cravens or Mr. Campbell or myself influenced you in any way or threatened you in any way to make this statement? ”
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Answer: “No, sir.”
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Question: “You make it of your own free will and accord in their presence and in the presence of Mr. Gordon, your attorney?”
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Answer: “Yes, sir.”
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(Signed) MINOLA McKNIGHT.
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Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 3d day of June, 1913.
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(Signed) G. C. FEBRUARY, Notary public, Fulton County, Ga.
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From Dinnerstein’s The Leo Frank Case, pp26-27:
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Interesting how the negress Minola backpedaled when she realized she was going to lose her job for telling the truth to the cops, as in “Who cares about the little White girl?”
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Dinnerstein goes to unbelievable lengths in his book to obfuscate the 1,800 pages of legal files that survived into the 21st century from the Georgia Supreme Court, records that showed to what criminal extent Leo Frank’s friends & legal defense team (including, incredibly, Governor John Marshall Slaton) were willing to go.
Governor Slaton and his wife; the governor, scandalously and inconceivably, formed a law partnership with Leo Frank’s defense lawyer Luther Rosser just before the trial began, and later the governor-law partner commuted Frank’s death sentence to life in prison, with just five days left in his term as governor. This was the final outrage that triggered the lynching of Leo Frank.
. This included tricking witnesses into: –perjuring themselves, –signing false affidavits, & –retracting their trial testimony. After omitting all the incriminating evidence against Leo Frank from his book, Dinnerstein then claims Leo Frank was innocent, despite the fact that every level of the United States legal system from 1913 to 1986, did not disturb the guilty verdict of the trial jury. Moreover, if the presiding judge Leonard Strickland Roan had any doubts about Leo Frank’s guilt….
Judge Leonard Strickland Roan
….Judge Roan could have given Frank a new trial when the defense petitioned him on more than 100 grounds. In fact, nothing in the defense team’s petitions for a new trial or appeals ever mentions one single incident of anti-Semitism, making most of Dinnerstein’s manufactured claims about anti-Semitic conspiracies into nothing more than a maudlin, tawdry hate-crime hoax.
As the courtroom diagram from an Atlanta newspaper indicates, there was exhaustive newspaper coverage of every detail of the investigation, arrests, the grand jury hearing, the trial, the appeals, the commutation of the death sentence, and finally the abduction from state prison of Leo Frank and then his lynching.
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Much of the public became certain that Leo Frank was guilty and highly resolved that Frank must be punished by death and not escape justice via his wealthy friends. Crimes against White women were not viewed passively in the Deep South; they resulted in hundreds of lynchings in Georgia between 1890 and 1910. “Honor” was the basis of Southern manhood and of female sexuality.
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Atlanta’s huge problem with prostitution was seen as a great scandal, and the married Leo Frank, it emerged during the trial, was a regular customer of prostitutes. For all these reasons, Frank became by the summer of 1913 the most loathed criminal in Georgia history.Anti-Semitism?
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The question that arises concerning the May 24, 1913 indictment rendered against Leo Frank: What compelled 21 grand jurors (with several Jewish members amongst them) to vote unanimously against Leo Frank (when only 12 votes were needed to indict), was it the compelling facts, testimony & evidence presented to them, or some kind of anti-Semitic blood-libel conspiracies?
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The prosecution led by Hugh Dorsey provided a huge drawing (below) of the National Pencil Factory to the jury, showing the three floors thereof which were relevant to the crime, plus each of the 15 stages of the atrocity, from Leo Frank leaving his office to the metal room where he killed Mary Phagan and finally where the body ended up in the back of the basement. There, at 3 am on Sunday morning, 15 hours after the foul deed (by which time Mary’s parents and grandfather were beside themselves with worry), the innocent Black night watchman Newt Lee discovered the body of little Mary Phagan and he immediately contacted the Atlanta police.
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Leo Frank had already begun his efforts to frame Newt Lee, who was (quite unfairly) kept in jail until Leo Frank himself was convicted of the murder four months later. . *** We can’t answer this question from Dinnerstein’s overly simplistic book, because he intentionally obfuscates & omits nearly the entire Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence (1913) & Coroner’s Inquest Testimony.
. Dinnerstein also doesn’t tell his readers who testified during the Grand Jury hearings, so people have no choice but to do their own research, to find out for themselves & then look back in the records, to see what these particular witnesses testified about at the Coroner’s Inquest before the Grand Jury & then later after the Grand Jury, what these same witnesses testified during the Leo Frank Trial. Let me explain in detail why this book is quackery at its finest:
Leonard Dinnerstein in the 2009 agitprop movie “the People vs Leo Frank”
Dinnerstein uses his agitprop hate-propaganda book to invoke the age-old racist blood-libel canards against Whites, this time again