Without addressing guilt or innocence and recognition of the state's failure to protect Frank or bring his killers to justice he was granted a posthumous pardon in 1986. Ruth Mary Crowder (born Phagan) was born on month day 1916, at birth place. Slaton commuted his sentence from death to life in prison, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison at Milledgeville and taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta where he was hanged before a local crowd.
MARIETTA CITY CEMETERY MARY PHAGAN TRIAL
A highly controversial trial fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism resulted in a guilty verdict in 1913. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company, in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen year old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Near the top of the rise, look for the black information marker on a pole. Marietta City Cemetery Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA Plot info: SE corner whereu000bCemetery St. The Leo Frank marker project - a four-year effort spearheaded by JASHP, was dedicated March 7, 2008. Mary Anne Phagan Murdered child factory worker. Philosopher Georgia Santayana noted, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Hatred, bigotry, mob irrationality, judicial and societal moral failure characterized the story. sister who died in 1992 and her mother at St. Marker is located in the Old Marietta City Cemetery, in the southeast. The Grave of Mary Phagan - Marietta City Cemetery - North Georgia. The tragedy, one of the darker moments of Georgia State and American Jewish history, cannot be overlooked or diminished. Marker can be reached from West Atlanta Street SE just north of Cemetery Street SE. She died on 14 December 1963, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Marietta City Cemetery, Marietta, Cobb. Mary Phagan's Grave Old Marietta City Cemetery 395 Powder Springs Street Marietta, GA 30060 Latitude:33.9436879349 Longitude: -84.5473292378 Fort Peachtree. After nearly 93 years, a Georgia State Historical Society marker was dedicated near the site of the infamous Leo Frank lynching in Marietta, Ga., Aug.
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