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Want to watch a clipping video or listen to an audiobook of the Leo Frank trial testimony from the official Brief of Evidence, covering July 28 through August 21, 1913?

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This release of the 1913 Trial Brief of Evidence, presented in text, audiobook, and clipping video formats, stands as one of the most comprehensive public presentations of Leo Frank’s day in court as, primary historical evidence to date. Its purpose is to help preserve the historical record and make it available for independent study, free from ADL-style suppression, cancellation, or censorship. The material is also being mirrored on additional free-speech-oriented platforms to ensure long-term access in an era of increasing content restriction and cancel culture.

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The complete Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence from 1913 is now fully uploaded to Minds and is free to view with a free Minds account:

http://www.minds.com/crimetimecapsule

Trial location

Fulton County Superior Court Annex, Atlanta, Georgia

Full Chronology From A to Z

All 202 transcript clipping videos from the Leo Max Frank trial, spanning July through August 1913, are available on Minds under the channel Crime Time Capsule. This archive contains the verbatim testimony digest and official trial records presented to the jury in Fulton County Superior Court. It allows listeners and readers to examine the case exactly as it was presented in 1913.

Why Minds was chosen

In the past, when newly transcribed Leo Frank legal records were published on other media-sharing websites, those sites were repeatedly targeted by denial-of-service attacks, censorship pressure by Jewish advocacy groups, and hacking attempts. To prevent further disruption, the project was decentralized and distributed across alternative platforms that support First Amendment principles and the free expression of controversial historical material. So far we have experienced censorship on Flickr, Quora, Meta, TikTok and others. 

Minds was selected because it allows these records to remain accessible without interference, but it also costs money to maintain a subscription for posting these videos because some of them are quite lengthy.

Trial timeline overview

Testimony in the Leo Frank trial took place from Monday, July 28, to Thursday, August 21, 1913. Closing arguments concluded on Monday, August 25, 1913. That same afternoon, the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict. On Tuesday, August 26, 1913, Judge Leonard Strickland Roan affirmed the verdict and sentenced Leo Max Frank to death by hanging. The capital punishment sentence was stayed while appeals were pursued over the next two years. On June 21, 1915, Governor John M. Slaton commuted the sentence to life imprisonment, a decision that sparked widespread outrage due to his prior professional ties to Frank’s defense. Slaton was co-owner of the law firm that represented Leo Frank at his trial and subsequent appeals to the state supreme court. 

Support my work

If you wish to support ongoing efforts to preserve and publish historical material related to the Leo Frank case, you may consider purchasing the newly released 2025 edition of The Murder of Little Mary Phagan. This second revised and expanded edition includes new material, additional analysis, and extensive documentation, incorporating roughly four decades of developments related to historical narrative control surrounding the case. Lots of really insightful updates can be found in the 2025 edition, as compared to the 1989 edition.

Mary Phagan Kean Legacy Project

My book is available on Amazon at The Murder of Little Mary Phagan: Phagan-Kean, Mary: 9781737966012: Amazon.com: Books. Each purchase helps fund continued transcription, digitization, and preservation of original trial documents, ensuring future researchers have access to primary testimony, legal records, and contemporary newspaper reporting.

How to access the archive

You can watch and listen to all 202 narrated segments of the Trial Brief of Evidence here. A free Minds account is required:

http://www.minds.com/crimetimecapsule

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