I placed a single red rose on the grave. My finger traced over the name Mary Phagan. The epitaph was one I knew by heart.First Visit 1978ON THIS DAY OF FADING IDEALSAND DISAPPEARING LANDMARKSLITTLE MARY PHAGAN'S HEROISMIS AN HEIRLOOM THAN WHICHTHERE IS NOTHING MORE PRECIOUSAMONG THE OLD RED HILLS OFGEORGIA.SLEEP, LITTLE GIRL; …
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Chapter 16: 1998: Parade the Broadway musical is a corruption of history and radical attempt to whitewash a horrible murder and pin it on Jim Conley, a Negro Final
BROADWAY'S PARADE IS NOT THE "TRUE STORY" OF LEO FRANK: HATE ON A STAGE 1998-2024 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 …
Chapter 17: 2003: Steve Oney Publishes Book Final
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 …
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Chapter 13: 1987-1988 Mary Phagan NBC “Docudrama” Final
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 …
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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 15: 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. Final
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: Final
'Will we ever know with complete certainty who killed Mary Phagan? Has the answer gone to the grave with all the participants in the tragedy?'" It has been 37 years since the first book was published in 1988. Unfortunately, Horizon Press chose not to publish the bibliography and index. This revision now includes the updated …
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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