The Murder of Little Mary Phagan

Leo Frank raped and murdered Mary Phagan.

In 1913, Leo M. Frank was an Atlanta sweatshop boss who routinely took sexual advantage of young girls in his employ. He raped and strangled 13-year-old little Mary Phagan to death. He was duly convicted and sentenced to die, but was lynched after a corrupt governor commuted his sentence. Today, over 100 years later, the powerful ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is scheming to get Leo Frank's conviction overturned and to get him "fully exonerated" for his crime. They do this despite the massive mountain of evidence proving Frank guilty-despite the fact that his appeals were rejected and his guilty verdict affirmed thirteen separate times-and despite the fact that he and his backers used racism and racist language to bias the jury and tried to frame two innocent black men for the crime. This book tells the shocking true story in full.

Funded by a war chest of millions and with a staff of aggressive attorneys as long as your arm, the ADL, in concert with other Jewish groups, is working behind the scenes and through a sophisticated public relations campaign to convince political leaders and the public that Leo Frank was the "real victim" in this case-a victim, they claim, of anti-Semitism. Leo Frank, you see, was more than just a sweatshop boss-he was also a high-ranking official of the B'nai B'rith, the Jewish fraternal order that gave birth to the ADL.

My name is Mary Phagan-Kean and I am the great-niece and namesake of little Mary. This book is the great work of my lifetime. The first edition was published in 1987, and this new edition is greatly revised and expanded, more than twice as large as the first, with vastly more footnotes, references, and copies of original documents. It is the product of a half century of research, and it is a labor of love.