02-Nov-09
The Leo Frank lynching story lives on. Tonight, a PBS documentary will bring back the Leo Frank murder trial that remains a mystery after almost 100 years.
02-Nov-09
At the center of it all was Leo Frank, a northern Jew who'd moved to Atlanta to supervise the National Pencil Company factory. When the body of Mary Phagan, a white child laborer, was found in the basement, law enforcement homed in on ...
18-Nov-09
In Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television, Matthew Bernstein, a professor of Film Studies at Emory, examines the retelling of the Leo Frank trial (1913) and Frank's subsequent lynching (1915) in film and on ...
02-Nov-09
The lynching of Leo Frank remains a subject of historical and popular interest. Frank, a Northern Jew, was accused of the rape and murder of Mary Phagan. For crime show buffs, the case contains mishandled evidence, ...
02-Nov-09
The lynching of a northern Jew Leo Frank over rape and murder charges of a 13-year-old girl Mary Phagan took place some 90 years back. However, the execution of.....
02-Nov-09
Tonight, PBS airs "The People V. Leo Frank," a documentary that chronicles the bizarre, ugly case of Leo Frank. Frank was a Cornell-educated industrialist, and the only known Jew to be lynched in America, but that's only one part of ...