When I was a young boy I remember watching my grandfather, Nathan Belth, write at the dining room table of his Upper West Side apartment. He spread out research materials over the big surface and ...
On Tuesday, August 17, 1915, the black soil of Frey’s Grove in Marietta, Georgia, became blacker after greedily lapping up the blood that slowly trickled down the leg of the recently lynched Leo Frank ...
The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank By Steve Oney. Pantheon. 742 pp. $35. What turns a murder into a myth? The Leo Frank saga had most of the key elements: innocence defiled, lurid ...
On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, an employee of the National Pencil Factory, went into the business office to pick up $1.20 in pay from business manager Leo Frank. Mary, who was thirteen, earned twelve ...
The 1913 lynching of Leo Frank is one of the most sensational and resonant incidents in U.S. criminal and legal history, and a touchstone of American anti-Semitism. Frank, a Northern Jew, was the ...
On this day in 1913 Mary Phagan, who had been found murdered three days earlier, was buried.During the 13-year-old's funeral her mother was overcome with grief several times. Meanwhile, as the ...
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