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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 unfold in real time through the Atlanta press, day by day.
 
The "You Are There" documentary project is dedicated to transcribing, preserving, and presenting the newspaper record of the Leo Frank case between April 28, 1913, and August 1915, covering more than 800 days of press coverage. Our goal is to restore the original articles, headlines, reports, courtroom coverage, police updates, editorials, and public reactions so viewers can follow the case day by day, article by article, and headline by headline.
 
This project brings viewers back to the streets, factories, courtrooms, police stations, newspaper offices, and public debates of early twentieth-century Atlanta. Instead of beginning with modern summaries, classroom lessons, documentaries, or later interpretations, 'You Are There' returns to the original newspaper record and lets the public see how the true crime case was reported as it happened.
 
You can follow the investigation after the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, trace the arrest of Leo Frank, examine the changing newspaper accounts, read the police interviews, follow the coroner’s inquest, and move through the trial, appeals, commutation, lynching, pardon debates, and aftermath as contemporary readers encountered them between 1913 and 1915.
 

This is history without the filter of a hundred years of Frankite repetition. The mission is simple: return to the original record, recover the Atlanta press coverage, and let viewers follow the Leo Frank case in the words, headlines, and reports of its own time. Travel back in time to Atlanta Georgia.

We are building this work on YouTube at Past Mystery Files, where we have uploaded hundreds of videos so far, making the original newspaper record easier to watch, share, study, and revisit: https://youtube.com/@pastmysteryfiles1