Mary Frances Phagan Kean INDEX A: A ADL, Anti-Defamation League Alabama, 10-12, 15, 51. Albers, Amy: Librarian Switzer Library Albertson Brothers, grocery store, 91. Alexander, Henry, defense lawyer, 151-152. Alexander, Miles, lawyer Kilpatrick & Cody, 293. 11 Alive News Alpin, Elaine Marie Ambulance Service, Greenberg & Bond, 225. American Jewish Committee, 237; Atlanta Chapter, 264, …
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Selected Bibliography: Final
Selected Bibliography Mary Phagan P.O. Box 2375 801 Industrial Blvd. Ellijay, GA 30540-9998 Selected Bibliography NEWSPAPERS: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution [AJC] 1982-2024 The Atlanta Constitution [AC] 1913 - 1982. The Atlanta Georgian [AG]913 - 1915. The Atlanta Journal [AJ]1913 - 1983. The Baltimore Morning Sun, 1913 - 1915. East Cobb Neighbor, 1982. The Jeffersonian, …
Chapter 14: 1989: ADL Attorney Dale Schwartz Revisionism of Judge Roan Statement to Jury Final st of Judge Roan’s Charge to Jury Final
In 1988, ADL Attorney Dale Schwartz was interviewed by Howard Simmons, Jewish Times: Voices of the American Jewish Experience (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 24-25. Schwartz is interviewed about the case on pages 18-31): ADL Attorney Dale Schwartz stated: [In] the judge’s [Roan’s] charge to the jury...he said, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the …
Chapter 12 – Application For Pardon, 1983 Final
I had begun to put my life in proper perspective by October of 1982, when Mike Wing called from the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. He informed me that the Board had received a formal application for a posthumous pardon for Leo Frank. The application was filed by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish …
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Afterward – Pardon: 1986 Final
On March 19, 1985 my father told me that Alonzo Mann died. I felt sad. To me, he was a fine gentleman; he believed what he had seen to be evidence of the truth. He was at peace now. I was still struggling for my peace. On March 6, 1986 Silas Moore of the Pardons …
Chapter 11 – The Phagans Break Their Vow Of Silence Final
Nervousness, curiosity and excitement all plagued me as I awaited the arrival of the Tennessean staff. My mind flitted back and forth to questions I wanted to ask. I wondered what their response would be to me and whether they would push me to come forward with the statement that Mary Phagan's convicted murderer was …
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Chapter 10 – Alonzo Mann’s Testimony Final
At the end of February 1978, my coworkers at Griffin CESA jokingly told me I was on the front page! Silence fell over the room. The look in my face must have told them something: it couldn't be. Why was it on the front page now? It seemed I could never escape.I picked up the …
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Chapter 9 – Reverberations Final
The Vigilance Committee of Mary Phagan stood guard for at least one day and one night at the tree from which they had hung Leo Frank, apparently expecting that someone—perhaps souvenir hunters or someone on the orders of Governor Harris, who had offered a reward for the conviction of any of the lynch party—might cut …
Chapter 8 – The Lynching Final
Leo Frank's removal from Fulton Tower to the Milledgeville Prison Farm was carried out with the utmost secrecy and efficiency.A car pulled up in front of the main doors of the prison and kept its motor running. Reporters kept watch over it; they could not get information in any other way: the telephone lines into …
Chapter 7 – The Commutation Final
John Marshall Slaton had begun wrestling with the idea of commutation of Leo Frank's sentence long before June 1915. "Excepting in a general way," he wrote to a Chicago judge in December 1914, "I do not know the facts of the case and abstained from acquainting myself with them because I desire to remain open …