"The People v. Leo Frank": Film Questions Mary Phagan Murder 100 Years LaterBY EDECIO MARTINEZNOVEMBER 2, 2009 / 8:00 AM EST / CBS NEWS"NEW YORK (AP) It's a century-old miscarriage of justice that still haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers introduced to this tragedy in "The People v. Leo Frank," a powerful retelling that …
Author Archives: Mary Phagan
Parade Musical Is a corruption of history and radical attempt to whitewash a horrible murder and pin it on Jim Conley, a Negro
1998-2000 BROADWAY PARADE IS NOT THE "TRUE STORY" OF LEO FRANK It has been announced that there will soon be a performance of one of the most blatantly deceitful productions ever to appear on an American stage. Parade purports to be a “true account” of the 1913 rape and strangulation murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan …
2003: Steve Oney Publishes Book
It took seventeen [17] years for Steve Oney to publish his book And the Dead Shall Rise, The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, published by Pantheon, a division of Random House, October 7, 2003 with 742 pages which starts with the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old who worked at …
1987-1988 Mary Phagan NBC “Docudrama”
NBC plans Leo Frank miniseriesOn March 22, 1987, the Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution by Monte Plott"We had a script in 1982, but there was a change in management at the network and they said people don't want historic things. They want [ed] contemporary realism, Stevens said. "Now, there is renewed interest in the historical …
1989: ADL Attorney Dale Schwartz Revisionist of Judge Roan’s Charge to Jury
Revisionist: someone who examines and tries to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is.ADL Attorney Dale Schwartz was interviewed by Howard Simmons, Jewish Times: Voices of the American Jewish Experience in 1988 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 24-25. Schwartz is interviewed about the case on pages 18-31):ADL Attorney Dale …
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1995: The secret deceitful underhanded revisionist political Marker Change at Mary Phagan’s Grave by the Parks and Tourism Committee, Marietta City Council and the Jewish Community.
In 1994, Marietta City Cemetery erected historical markers throughout the cemetery from research by Curt Ratledge of Atlanta. [From historic Old Midway Church to Marietta, in Georgia: 1778-1897, April 24, 1992]So what grave is the most visited?Mary Phagan's grave.The marker standing by the grave of Miss Phagan reads:"Celebrated in song as 'Little Mary Phagan' after …
Preface
It has been 37 years since the first book was published in 1988. The original version included the bibliography, but Horizon Press chose not to publish the bibliography. This revision now includes the original and updated bibliography. Much of the information published on the case since 1987 then has been distorted by Broadway, Hollywood, journalism …