[PDF][PDF] The Fate of Leo Frank
L Dinnerstein - American Heritage, 1996 - leofrank.org
ON DECEMBER 23, 1933, THE LEAD EDITORIAL IN me ATLANTA Constitution began,“Leo
Frank has been lynched a second time.” The first lynching had occurred almost seventy
years earlier, when Leo Frank, convicted murderer of a thirteenyear-old_ girl, had been
taken from prison by a band of vigilantes and hanged from a tree in the girl's hometown of
Marietta, Georgia. The lynching was perhaps unique, for Frank was not black but a Jew.
Frank also is widely considered to have been innocent of his crime. Thus the second …
Frank has been lynched a second time.” The first lynching had occurred almost seventy
years earlier, when Leo Frank, convicted murderer of a thirteenyear-old_ girl, had been
taken from prison by a band of vigilantes and hanged from a tree in the girl's hometown of
Marietta, Georgia. The lynching was perhaps unique, for Frank was not black but a Jew.
Frank also is widely considered to have been innocent of his crime. Thus the second …