Author: Mary Phagan
Setting the Record Straight: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal of the Sandler Article and the Dinnerstein Thesis on the Leo Frank Case by Jenny S. King
MARY PHAGAN KEAN LEGACY PROJECT MaryPhagan.com Setting the Record Straight: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal of the Sandler Article and the Dinnerstein Thesis on the Leo Frank Case Mary Phagan Kean Legacy Project | April 10, 2026 By Jenny S. King…
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles Decision Denying Exoneration for Leo Frank, December 22, 1983, Regarding his Homicide-Conviction for the Strangulation Murder of Mary Phagan in 1913
Transcribed Text: Page 1: State Board of Pardons and Paroles. FIFTH FLOOR, EAST TOWER, FLOYD VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING, 2 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DRIVE, S.E., ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30334. Mobley Howell, Chairman. Mrs. Mamie B. Reese, Member. James T. Morris, Member.…
State Board of Pardons and Paroles, March 11th, 1986
Transcribed Text: PARDON On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old employee in an Atlanta pencil factory, was murdered. Georgians were shocked and outraged. Charged with the murder was the factory superintendent, Leo M. Frank. The funeral of Mary Phagan,…
Statement of James Conley: May 18, 1913
Statement of James Conley, of Atlanta, Georgia made to John R. Black and H. S. at Police Barracks, Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, May 18th, 1913. My full name is James Conley. I reside at 172 Rhodes St. with Lorena Jones,…
Statement of James Conley: May 24, 1913
Statement of James Conley of May 24, 1913. State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, in and for the above stated and county, James Conley, who being sworn on oath says: On…
Statement of Jim Conley: May 28, 1913
Statement of Jim Conley, May 28, 1913. State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for the above State and County, James Conley, who being duly sworn on oath says: I make this…
Statement of Jim Conley: May 29, 1913
I discontinued at 6:00 P. M. Reported. Atlanta 5/31/13. Conley's Statement of May 29, 1913. Atlanta, Georgia May 29, 1913. On Saturday April 26, 1913, when I come back to the pencil factory with Mr. Frank I waited for him…
State’s Exhibit B: Leo Frank’s Unsworn April 28, 1913 Police Deposition Before Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford, Recorded at Atlanta Police Headquarters and Later Entered Into the 1913 Brief of Evidence. Published in the Atlanta Constitution of August 2nd, 1913.
Herein is the Q&A version of Leo Frank’s State’s Exhibit B deposition, given at the Atlanta police station on Monday morning, April 28, 1913, before Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford and recorded by stenographer Gay C. Febuary. Source Atlanta…
Subversive Theater at the Trump-Kennedy Center: The Leo Frank Case, June 2026, Briefly Mentioned by Reason “the Nation’s Leading Libertarian Magazine”
Last summer, 2025, during the height of the Kennedy Center controversy, Parade arrived in Washington, D.C. The musical presents Leo Frank as the central martyr figure of an early 20th-century murder case in Atlanta, repeating the now-familiar modern tagline that…
Summer Reading and Project for Students of the Mary Phagan Case by Professor Rachel Cohen
Professor Rachel Cohen’s Summer Reading Assignment for Students of the Mary Phagan Case June 21 through September 5 This summer reading assignment is for students of the Mary Phagan case: read, study, and fact-check Leonard Dinnerstein’s writings on the Leo…
Testimony of Helen Kerns
Testimony of Helen Kerns, at trial of Leo M. Frank. Direct Examination: I work for the Dodson Medicine Company as stenographer. My father works for Montag. I took shorthand under Professor Briscoe last winter. I have seen Mr. Frank in…
The Annie Maude Carter Episode: Her Repudiation, the Jim Conley Poison-Plot Claim, and the Separate William J. Burns Bribery Scandal, April-May 1914
One Hundred and Twelve Years Ago in the Mary Phagan Case, April 25, 1914 Title: The Annie Maude Carter Episode: Her Repudiation, the Jim Conley Poison-Plot Claim, and the Separate William J. Burns Bribery Scandal, April-May 1914 Author Jay P.…
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) and Its Falsification of History to Rehabilitate a Homicidal Molester of Children Found at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
By Phil St. Raymond (Permission to Republish Granted) May 14, 2026 Since its founding in the shadow and aftermath of Leo Frank’s 1913 trial and conviction, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, also known as the ADL, has helped turn…
The Anti-Defamation League’s Weaponization of Anti-Semitism in the 1913 Leo Frank Trial, the Case that Galvanized its Founding in September 1913.
By Mary Frances Phagan Kean, June 24, 2025 Was Leo Frank convicted because of Anti-Semitism? Fact Check: FALSE. ADL's Drapes of Anti-Semitism Regarding the 1913 summer murder trial of Atlanta B'nai B'rith President Leo Max Frank (the trial occurred from…
The Forged Time Slip and the Negro Nightwatchman: How Leo Frank Tried to Pin the Mary Phagan Murder on Newt Lee
Leo Frank's Racially Tinged Railroading of the African-American Nightwatchman Newt Lee This video clip herein is from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, ADL-backed 2009 agitprop docudrama People vs. Leo Frank, produced by Jewish-American film director Ben Loeterman, with…
The Grave Of Little Mary Phagan
The Grave Of Little Mary Phagan · Fiddlin John Carson Fiddlin John Carson Vol. 3 1925 - 1926
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 2
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury LOOK AT THE headline and lead article in the Atlanta Georgian newspaper of April 29, 1913, we have illustrated above. Click on this link to see a large and easy-to-read version. "LEE'S GUILT…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 3
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE JEWISH Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) — back in the days when they and their allies had a near-monopoly on public discussion of the Leo Frank case — once made the claim that…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 4
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHEN LEO FRANK was first arrested for the murder of Mary Phagan, his and his defense team's major focus was placing the blame on Newt Lee, the Black night watchman who discovered the…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 5
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury JIM Conley's testimony in the Leo Frank case riveted the attention of not only all those present in the courtroom, but the entire state of Georgia and beyond hung on his words as…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 6
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury PARTISANS OF Leo Frank have often tried to discredit Jim Conley's testimony by pointing out that his account of the visit of Corinthia Hall and Emma Clark to the pencil factory where the…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 7
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WE HEAR A LOT today about people "playing the race card" — using race unjustly in a dispute, or as a moral bludgeon to obscure the facts. In 1913 Atlanta, the Leo Frank…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 8
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE PROSECUTION in the Leo Frank case never mentioned the word "Jew" until it was brought up by the defense — and lead prosecutor Hugh Dorsey had a long history of friendly relations…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 9
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury JEWISH WRITERS on the Leo Frank case have made some astounding claims about the "atmosphere of anti-Semitism" during the trial of B'nai B'rith official Leo Frank for the strangulation sex murder of his…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 10
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE "Hang the Jew" hoax — the claim that "anti-Semitic mobs" stood outside the courtroom during the 1913 Atlanta murder trial of Leo Frank, shouting "hang the Jew or we'll hang you" or…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 11
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury ALMOST THE ENTIRE pro-Leo Frank narrative is dependent on one claim: that Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey fabricated James Conley's story (or edited and embellished a story made up by Conley) and then coached him…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 12
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury TO HEAR the attacks made on the character of James Conley — a major witness against Leo Frank when Frank was tried for murdering a 13-year-old girl in his employ, Mary Phagan —…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 13
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE CRIMINAL ACTS of the Leo Frank forces as they attempted to get a new trial for their client — or invalidate the results of the original trial — are so numerous, so…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 14
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WAS THERE REALLY an anti-Jewish and anti-Frank "mob atmosphere" at Leo Frank's trial, as Frank partisans have alleged? If there was, then how did Mrs. Frank get away with calling Prosecutor Dorsey a…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 15
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHO LYNCHED Leo Frank? The culpability is often laid at the feet of a "mob" in the popular literature that promotes the Establishment's narrative of the case. But was it a mob? How…