Posted on 08/16/2021 10:23:06 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
One hundred years ago today, Leo M. Frank was lynched to an oak tree at Marietta — one of the most notorious mob murders in American history.
Methodically extracted hours before from the Midgeville State Penitentiary by an Ocean’s Eleven-style team of coordinated professionals, Frank’s murder was as shocking in 1915 as it reads in retrospect.
The well-heeled Jewish Yankee was factory superintendent at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta when a 13-year-old girl in his employ was discovered in the factory’s basement — throttled and apparently raped. That was in 1913; for the ensuing two years, the prosecution of Mary Phagan’s boss as her murderer would play out in sensational press coverage.
Frank is today widely thought innocent of the crime, although the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has balked at issuing an unconditional pardon since so little of the original evidence survives. (A 1986 pardon came down “without attempting to address the question of guilt or innocence” in recognition of the slanted trial and the failure to protect Frank from lynchers.) But this was much more than a courtroom drama; the Frank affair crackles with the social tensions of early 20th century America. Industry and labor; integration; sexual violation; sectional politics; race and class and power.....
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You posted this why?
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Probably beause he posts something from “Executed Today” everyday.
You beat me to it.
I did not know that ...thank U
Because this feature from Executed Today interested me more than other ones on the site for this date and because I have posted about a fair number of Catholics and Protestants executed in the past but not so much about Jews.
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And, unlike most of the other bloggers who just regurgitate whatever is happening in today's headlines, his daily posts are actually quite interesting.
always enjoy a little history. thank you.
Do you think ole Leo was guilty?
As usual, extremely interesting. Thanks for posting!
You are always such a source of macabre merriment in the middle of the night......
I doubt it. I doubt Mary really even stuck out to him much.
Agreed.
Something odd though, is that many of the family names of the lynch mob are still prominent in the county.
Oh, the left eye of The Big Chicken looks right at that spot.
There was a kids song about Mary Phagan, my granny would sometimes sing it. I guess like the Lizzy Borden and other rhymes. Strange how they make kids songs about this stuff but I guess it was to teach or something.
Gad! I just went looking and found a loooong song, that’s not what my granny sang. I would like to go back to not knowing all this. Goodnight.
Captain Herb always used the Big chicken as one of his landmarks when he was doing Skycopter traffic.
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