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Billboard Touts Innocence; Phagan Family Says ‘Move On’

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Many now know that Frank is guilty and oppose exonerating Frank, due to the efforts of National Alliance members and others fighting for truth

THE LATEST SALVO in the century-long saga over Leo Frank’s guilt or innocence was fired on Monday when a digital billboard went live at the intersection of Upper Roswell Road and Sewell Mill Road in east Cobb. It features a photo of Frank and reads “Leo Frank Was Innocent” and adds details about the upcoming 2 p.m. service Aug. 16 at Temple Kol Emeth.

“It will be seen by tens of thousands as they drive by on the first week of school,” Rabbi Steve Lebow (pictured) told Around Town late Monday afternoon.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a posthumous pardon to Frank in 1986 for the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan, based on the state’s failure to protect him while in its custody and “as an effort to heal old wounds.”

But those “old wounds” haven’t done much healing in the years since then. And the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Aug. 17, 1915, lynching of Frank in Marietta is likely to put some still-raw emotions back on full display.

A series of major events are planned in coming days, several of which seem to favor further efforts to seek “justice” for Frank in connection with the 1913 rape and murder of former Mariettan Phagan, 13, at the factory he managed in Atlanta. Frank was tried and found guilty, but after Gov. John Slaton commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment, a well-organized and well-connected group of men from Marietta abducted Frank from the state prison in Milledgeville, drove him back to Marietta and hanged him at Frey’s Gin just off Roswell Road near the present-day Big Chicken.

No one was ever held responsible for the death of Frank, who is believed to be the only Jewish-American ever lynched in this country.

Among those who likely won’t be attending any of those events is retiree Mary Phagan Keane of Ellijay, the grand-niece and namesake of “Little Mary” Phagan. Keane has served as her family’s spokesperson in recent decades, giving voice to the many here who still think Frank was guilty.

His 1986 pardon was the result of political pressure and threatened economic pressure, she says.

“That’s why they granted it,” Keane said. “They could not prove that Leo Frank was not guilty. (That ruling) was bought and paid for by the supporters of Leo Frank.

“That rabbi (Lebow) needs to stop all this cr-p. It’s already been decided. He has no clue what he does to our family when he brings this up. “Who is he? He has no connections to the (Frank) family, but he’s eager to stir up trouble. Tell him to stop. He wants ‘a new Marietta’? Well, ‘the new Marietta’ needs to move on.” …

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Source: The Marietta Daily Journal

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Heinemann
Heinemann
21 August, 2015 9:44 am

I lived in Marietta, Ga. over 40 years ago. It was even then a beautiful , pastoral forested community whose earlier farming culture and southern charm peacefully receded beneath the implacably changing times which would give birth to a foreign and vulgar, artificial conception. Now it is strip malls, asphalt , ostentatious billboards and perpetual motion of obscene commerce. One should think Rabbi Lebow should be happy with this “new” Marietta. … the good governor , whose conscious could not rest because he believed Frank to be innocent. WHy did he not pardon him then Instead of the commutation?! One can agree on one fact with the good rabbi and disgruntled Jewish community : how unjust it is , that Leo Frank is the only Jew that has been hanged… Read more »

Leo Frank case
Leo Frank case
22 August, 2015 11:40 am

Leo Max Frank had been the superintendent of the National Pencil Company from August 10, 1908 until April 28, 1913 when he was arrested on suspicion of murdering his 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan. In late April of 1913, shortly after Mary Phagan was bludgeoned, raped, strangled-to-death and mutilated by Leo Frank in the factory’s metal room located opposite his window front business office (she was removed to the basement thereafter) — the lawfirm of Luther Rosser and Morris Brandon was hired to represent the National Pencil Company. In early May of 1913 (7 weeks before Slaton was inaugurated as Governor of Georgia), Governor-elect John Slaton and his Jewish-America lawpartner Benjamin Z. Phillips merged with the lawfirm of Luther Rosser and Morris Brandon. Rosser and Brandon moved their office to the… Read more »

Lorna
Lorna
22 August, 2015 3:43 pm

Yea, he was so innocent his own wife refused to be buried
next to him.

Josef Tone
Josef Tone
7 January, 2020 3:49 am

I don’t think that the Jewish establishment cares one bit about Leo Frank, nor do I think they believe that he’s innocent. They’re just following what they see as their own interests. It’s just another one of their revisionist programs, just like their program to defame Wernher von Braun, Charles Lindbergh, and others. In some place, at some time, they decided to set these goals.

Paul
Paul
7 January, 2020 7:18 pm

The Leo Frank trial was much too long. Long trials only suggest doubt. The truth is a half literate coloured man was believed against the arrogant lies of an Cornell- educated , rich jew. But many things are involved: the revival of reconstruction; the monument of Tom Watson has been removed with others from the confederacy from the capitol in Atlanta.

The saddest thing, local people will conform to the lie and are indifferent to the expropriation of their own history .
Mrs. Mary Phagan Keane is faithful to her father’s and grandfather’s (victim’s older brother) legacy. She has not yet betrayed her heritage.