Cant we recognize domestic terrorism? Nov 11, 2009
To make a judgement, especially as adamantly as many of you are, at this point in the investigation is dangerous (lynch mob mentality; Leo Frank case anyone. intellectually lazy (actually considering the facts without resorting to pre-concieved judgements; John Adams successfully defending the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Leo Frank saga still reveals a lot about our nation and ourselves Nov 4, 2009
On Aug. 17, 1915, Leo Frank, a Cornell-educated Jewish industrialist, was lynched just outside Atlanta ... In November, PBS stations will broadcast The People v. Leo Frank, the first full-length documentary to explore the topic ... For one, both the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank are crimes as puzzling as any Arthur Conan Doyle ever invented. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Matthew Gilbert’s Critic’s corner Nov 2, 2009
The People v. Leo Frank 10 p.m., Channel 2. Boston-based filmmaker Ben Loeterman directs this look at the 1913 murder of a young Atlanta factory worker and the trial and lynching of her accused killer. (Boston Globe)
The lynching of Leo Frank lives on Nov 2, 2009
Murder case, Leo Frank lynching live on - CNN.com ... Murder case, Leo Frank lynching live on ... While Georgia Jews remained quiet, so did those who were involved in Frank's killing, said Steve Oney of Los Angeles, California, who wrote the authoritative book "And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank." It would be about 80 years before members of the lynching party were publicly, and not just secretly, known. (CNN)
PBS film details 96-year-old crime Oct 31, 2009
By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press 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 premieres Monday on WQLN at 10 p.m. Advertisement In a rich blend of experts' accounts and dramatic re-enactments, the 90-minute film revisits the case of Leo Frank, a young Cornell-educated Brooklyn native who was plant supervisor of the National Pencil Co. in... (Erie Times-News, PA)
‘Leo Frank’ documentary recalls a tragic history Oct 31, 2009
Leo Frank documentary recalls a tragic history - The Boston Globe ... Leo Frank recalls tragic history ... The PBS show revisits the case of Leo Frank, a factory worker accused of murder. (Boston Globe)
JoJo in LaLa Land Oct 30, 2009
Leo Frank screening Newton homeboy Ben Loeterman hosted a screening of his film The People vs. Leo Frank at the ICA the other night. The film is about the 1913 murder of a child laborer and the subsequent lynching of Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor wrongly convicted of the crime. (Boston Globe)
A film tells of Leo Frank and century-old crimes Oct 30, 2009
Frank's story will be told in "The People v. Leo Frank". 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 premieres Monday on PBS at 10 p.m. EDT. ... NEW YORK (AP) -In a rich blend of experts' accounts and dramatic re-enactments, the 90-minute film revisits the case of Leo Frank, a young Cornell-educated Brooklyn native who was plant supervisor of... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Locals in on act for movie about lynching Oct 30, 2009
Using re-enactments as well as experts' accounts and photographs and documents of the time, "The People vs. Leo Frank" recounts the 1913 murder in Atlanta of 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent trial, conviction and later lynching of a man who probably did not rape and kill her, Leo Frank, supervisor at National Pencil Co. where she worked ... Oney, a University of Georgia graduate, wrote an article in 1985 about the case for Esquire magazine, and after years more research,... (Athens Banner-Herald)
No comments posted. Oct 4, 2009
Atlanta on Trial: As a Southern Jewish playwright, Alfred Uhry knew from the time he was a little boy about the trial of Leo Frank, a northern Jew who in 1913 was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta. Uhry worked the tale into the musical Parade with the help of composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
T.R. Knight marches on with ‘Parade’ Oct 3, 2009
The musical, which opens tomorrow at the Mark Taper Forum, is based on the true story of Leo Frank, lynched for the murder of a young girl who worked in the factory he managed. Knight plays Frank. (Boston Globe)
This day in history Aug 17, 2009
lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who d maintained his innocence, was pardoned by Georgia in 1986. (Boston Globe)
Not your average musical performance (7) Aug 4, 2009
Based on the true story of Leo Frank a Jewish factory manager who was lynched by an angry mob in Atlanta in 1915 for a murder he probably didn t commit Parade tells a powerful tale through its Tony Award-winning score by composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown ... Moses Hernandez plays the part of Jim Conley, a prosecution witness against Leo Frank, during a rehearsal on July 22 of Parade at Horlick High School ... The play is the story of the anti-Semitic lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia in... (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Event being held to support children in war-torn region Jul 30, 2009
The Horlick Players (musical theater): These southeastern Wisconsin high school theater students will perform excerpts from Parade, a powerful musical written by Jason Robert Brown which tells the true tale of a Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank, who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee, and the 1913 trial in Atlanta, Ga. (as well as the lynching of Frank) that resulted from those accusations. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Obits: Juran, Paczkowski, Lindner, Wickre, Thompson, Jun 25, 2009
Dawn Marie Paczkowski was born August 17, 1964, in Veblen, the daughter of Leo Frank and Nadine Kay (Hinman) Paczkowski. She graduated from Watertown High School in 1983. (Marshall County Journal, SD)
Would You Turn Your Cheek to a Terrorist? Feb 8, 2009
Location: GA Reply # 1 Date: Feb 8, 2009 - 2:27 AM EST War on Terror--Part II---KKK There is some comparisons to the Klan--but they existed in one country--not throughout the Christian-world as Al Qaeda and other like organizations do in the Muslim world and while military force clamped down on the First Klan during Reconstruction, it was re-born after the Leo Frank murder in 1914. It continued as a major force for over 50 years in the South and at least 20 years in the Midwest. (Townhall.com)
