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The USS Liberty, Mary Phagan and the Vicious Culture War for Controlling the Popular Orthodoxy, June 8, 2026, 59th Anniversary Memorial
Dear USS Liberty Veterans, In memory of the USS Liberty men who were mass-murdered in cold blood, and in honor of the surviving USS Liberty veterans who spoke out forcefully about this betrayal. I want to share my own personal…
Attorney Hooper’s Statement in the Atlanta Constitution, 112 Years Ago Today: April 18, 1914.
On This Day, 112 Years Ago: Prosecutor Hooper Contradicts the Defense's Waiver Claim Atlanta Constitution, April 18, 1914 By Vicky Martin, Edited By Mary Phagan-Kean Where the case stood that morning. By Saturday, April 18, 1914, Leo Frank had already…
Biopic of C. P. Connolly (1863 to 1935) and his influence on Mary Phagan’s convicted killer Leo Frank
111 Years Ago Today (December 26, 2025): His two-part Leo Frank case series ran in Collier’s Weekly on December 19, 1914, and December 26, 1914, shaping national opinion on the true-crime while the murder conviction was still being hotly…
Captain Burke, Train Conductor: The Derailment and Train Wreck of the Leo Frank Defense, April 19, 1914
Breaking News, On This Day in Georgia History, 112 Years Ago: Court Proceedings in the Mary Phagan Murder Case, April 19, 1914, Featuring Newspaper Coverage from the Atlanta Constitution (Morning Edition) and Atlanta Journal (Evening Edition), the City’s Daily Press…
Critical Review: The People v. Leo Frank (2009) Directed by Ben Loeterman and Senior Consultant Steve Oney | PBS Broadcast: November 2, 2009 | Runtime: Approximately 85 minutes
Author: Nathan Green Editor: Sal Stevens I. Overview and the Opening Frame The People v. Leo Frank opens with a black screen bearing a single title card: "Made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities." That card is important.…
Forensic-Historian Contextualization of the Hangman’s Shadow, April 15, 1914: The Atlanta Journal
This Day in History of Little Mary Phagan's Case: April 15, 1914: The Atlanta Journal Ally of the Defense? Day 354 Since April 26, 1913. By Marie Townsend, Edited by Leanne Edwards Forensic-Historian Contextualization of the Hangman's Shadow This is…
Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence on Minds Dot Com
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? Please like, repost, and bookmark. Mary Phagan Case This release…
Leonard Dinnerstein’s 1968 Blood Libel and Antigentile Hoax Against the People of Georgia: “Crack the Jew’s Neck! Lynch Him!” Shouted at Leo Frank’s Trial
Research compilation and commentary by Alex Donaldson Career Judaic Studies professor Leonard Dinnerstein (1934 - 2019), in the highlighted paragraph transcribed below, asserts the following on page one hundred ten of the November 1968 issue of the American Jewish Archives…
OPEN LETTER TO PBS (@PBS) (@NewsHour) ABOUT IT’S BIASED DOCUMENTARY SEGMENT ON THE LEO FRANK CASE | POSTED APRIL 26, 2026
OPEN LETTER TO PBS (@PBS) (@NewsHour) ABOUT IT'S BIASED DOCUMENTARY SEGMENT ON THE LEO FRANK CASE | POSTED APRIL 26, 2026 Dear PBS Board of Directors: Paula Kerger, President Chair Catherine Robb, Co-Chair Geoff Sands and Jayme Swain Members: Delores…
Question to GPB Georgia Public Broadcasting (@mygpb on X)
Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Leo Frank Lesson Gives Middle-School Students a Predetermined Narrative, Not Historical Inquiry. Question to GPB Georgia Public Broadcasting (@mygpb) Why does GPB consistently center Frank-sympathetic narratives and Jewish communal trauma while giving no comparable attention to Mary…
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…
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 G. C. February. Source Atlanta…
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…
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 New York Sun, October 12, 1913, Page 6: “Jews Fight to Save Leo Frank,” Antigentilism, Tribal Defense Politics, and the August 1913 “You Christian Dog” Eruption in the Trial of Leo Frank
Mary Phagan Murder Case New Insights Emerge After Leo Frank’s Conviction for Homicide: Was it the providence of disingenuousness speaking backward through time, sending a message of truth from the past to the then-present, and from the then-present into the…
The New York Times. (1914, May 5). Frank affidavits false, says Dorsey. The New York Times, p. 4.
The New York Times Tuesday, May 5, 1914 Page 4 Frank Affidavits False, Says Dorsey Offers Evidence of Jail Plot to Convict Conley Another Defense Witness Recants Hidden Woman to Testify Court Orders Defense to Produce Negress Who Swore Conley…
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Leo Frank Case Mini-Documentary Video
Dear Professor Greggory Wroblewski (@greggory_3), (Re: ) The Southern Poverty Law Center is, in my view, a hate racketeering operation that supercharges fearmongering narratives, while it both promotes and stages historical forgeries surrounding the Mary Phagan murder, as part of…
This Day in History of the Mary Phagan Case: April 14, 1914, The Atlanta Evening Journal. 353 days since April 26, 1913 #OTD #MaryPhagan #Atlanta #Georgia #LeoFrank #OnThisDay
By Mary Phagan-Kean | April 14, 2026 Documentary and Contextualization The article and transcript archived at the Mary Phagan Kean Legacy Project website (maryphagan.com)¹ is exactly one hundred twelve years old today. It ran on Page Two of…
Title: The Unsworn deposition given by National Pencil Company Superintendent Leo Max Frank to Atlanta Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford at the Atlanta, Georgia, police station, recorded by stenographer Gay C. Febuary on Monday, April 28, 1913. Source: Brief of Evidence, 1913. Appeared in the Atlanta Constitution, August 2, 1913.
Leo Max Frank at Atlanta police headquarters on Monday, April 28, 1913, the day after Mary Phagan's body was discovered on April 27, 1913, and the day before Frank's own arrest on April 29, 1913. He is giving a…
Analysis of David Cole: Was Jim Conley a Diabolic Genius, or Does the Leo Frank Rehabilitation Cult Mutate Reality? Part 1 of a 2 Part Series.
David Cole’s Leo Frank Theory Turns the Trial Record Into a Fable By Becky Davis, student of the Phagan case and contributor to the MPK Legacy Project June 1, 2026 Atlanta, Georgia David Cole, formerly known as David Cole stein…
YOU ARE THERE on YouTube
You Are There: Travel Back to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913 Want to follow the Leo Frank case as people first encountered it in the newspapers of the day? Step back into Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913, and watch the case…