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Leo Max Frank (04–17–1884 to 08–17–1915)The two-term Georgia B’nai B’rith President (elected 1912–1914) Leo Max Frank (b. April 17, 1884 - d. August 17, 1915) was a psychopathic pedophile-rapist and strangler who molested the child workers at his Atlanta sweatshop from 1908 - 1913, he was given a slapstick fake pardon in 1986 by the Paroles and Pardon board in the capitol, after pro-Israel PR groups like Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and other Jewish ethnocentric groups—namely, American Jewish Committee, & Atlanta Jewish Federation—applied political pressure on the state government in the 1980s. They got the “pardon” sought after, based on a technicality that the state failed to protect the convicted child sex predator, while he was serving a life sentence in a penitentiary at Milledgeville (a central state prison farm demolished in 2018). The pyrrhic pardon did not vacate his 1913 conviction, nor did it actually exonerate him of the crime he committed in any capacity.The state of Georgia still officially recognizes Leo Frank to have been guilty as charged when he was indicted on May 24th, 1913. Fast forward to 2019, 106 years after he was convicted for murder on August 25, 1915, the Jewish community in Georgia has rekindled a legal movement in the Atlanta District Attorney’s office (Paul Howard Jr.) to get a recommendation that Leo Frank was innocent and find a judge that will give him a new trial and then declare it a mistrial when the 137-year-old boney skeleton of Leo Frank doesn’t show up in a suit and tie. Just try to visualize that for a moment. You’re not in the twilight zone.My best guess is those working out front and behind the scenes have the accumulation of power or wealth needed to make the injustice of vindicating Leo Frank happen, even though it will only be achieved only through quasi-constitutional means.There aren’t many images extant of the young victim. This is 9-year-old Mary Phagan circa 1909–1910 (about 3 or 4 years before she was slaughtered in 1913)—the factory girl in question that Leo Frank cornered, shortly after the deceptive ploy of checking the status of supplies in the machine department with her, to see if the work materials had been delivered.Factory diagram provided as evidence at the trial.The top image (difficult to see details) is the second floor of the factory where Frank’s accounting office was located (at the right in this position) and where the assembly work building the pencils was accomplished (at the left in this position). The image below shows a diagram of the lobby and entrance to the building, which is regarded as one of the highest traffic locations in the building.After he viciously bashed the little girl’s face into a swollen purple mess with his knuckles, and gashed her head open against a drill press handle (lathe) in the machine work area of his factory, thus knocking her unconscious, he dragged her to the men’s toilet stall inside that same area of the building. Without removing her underwear, he tore it open across the vagina and anus, he sodomized the virgin, bloodying her underwear which was still around her hips. After the rape she began to regain consciousness, he asphyxiated her with a strong piece of twine used for tying up transport boxes.The above image is the machine room where the pencils were made. At the bottom right of the diagram is where the diagonal lines create a right pointed triangle (pointing right), just below that a bit, about one nip and tuck, is where he cornered the little girl and pounded her face edematous, and smashed the back of her head against the table lathe’s iron hand crank.When the murder was done by strangulation and the body moved to the basement, he tried to frame two different black men for the crime and almost succeeded against the first intended scapegoat, an old black man in his 50s Newt Lee, who was manifestly innocent!Significant BlundersLeo Frank made a number of crucial errors at his trial, mistakes that collapsed his defense and removed any possible chance of an acquittal. One of those blunders is Leo Frank on the witness stand, accidentally changed his alibi, while telling the jury about a trip that fateful afternoon he had unconsciously made, having embarked from his office to the men’s toilet to account for why Monteen Stover found his office empty between 12:05 p.m. and 12:10 p.m. The only toilets on the second floor were located in the machine room, and it was at the exact same time frame the state prosecutor’s legal team, had presented evidence to the court, which proposed he raped and murdered the girl there, next to the water closet (what they called bathrooms back then). Formerly Leo Frank told the police that Mary Phagan was alone with him in his office between 12:05 p.m. and 12:10 p.m.Jim Conley testified at the Leo Frank trial on August 4, 5, & 6, 1913.Photo: Factory sweeper, Jim Conley admitted at trial he was enlisted and participated in moving the body of Mary Phagan after the crime was committed by Leo Frank. Investigators using the third-degree psych warfare of “bad cop versus good cop”, the Atlanta P.D. got Jim Conley to admit his role in the aftermath as an accessory, who worked with Leo Frank to setup the basement so it had the appearance of being the original scene of the crime, instead of the machine room on the second floor of the National Pencil Company, where all the forensic evidence was eventually found. Though the police had found blood and hair in the machine room thanks to the discoveries made by factory employees, what the cops didn’t have was all the lurid details alleged to have happened that fateful afternoon—Conley gave them those particulars and using their intuition, they could fill in the rest with deductive logic.Jim Conley (described as “colored” in the court documents), testified Leo Frank bribed him with $200 to move the dead girl to the basement and burn the body in a giant furnace (but Jim chickened out at the last minute). Conley who was arrested May 1st, 1913, broke down after 2 to 3 weeks of interrogation and admitted his role in the aftermath of concealing where Frank had sodomized and asphyxiated the victim in the metal room—but not before giving 4 convoluted affidavits that contradicted each other. When the pieces of the mystery came together to produce a completed puzzle, Leo Frank’s racist plan of action was to move the dead body to the basement and then frame the black night watchman for the rape-murder.In a twist of fate, Leo Frank made another huge blunder, he forgot to remove the blood-soaked hair from the drill machine that he dropped Phagan’s head against when he was attacking her. His forgetful post-clean-up, made things all too easy for the police, to realize she was killed in the machine room and not the basement. R. P. Barret discovered the hair on his machine by accident, when his hand went to reach for the machine handle it got caught up in Phagan’s hair. Moments later Magnolia Kennedy, found the bloodstains on the floor that had White powder swept over them, but the blood soaked through turning the powder pink.Once the autopsy report was re-examined, and Monteen Stover’s information was considered, Pinkerton Detective Harry Scott’s interviews of Leo Frank, and Jim Conley “dropped the penny”.The police put together the crime this way:Using his position of power over her work status, Leo Frank convinced Mary Phagan to walk with him down the hallway into a workroom located at the back of the factory’s second-floor, so they could see if she would be needed on Monday morning to come back to work that day (she had been temporarily laid off because of a shortage of materials). He propositioned her, she refused his gross offer. He violently destroyed her face, blow after blow with his fists. The final blow came when he bear-hugged the child, lifted her up off the ground, and body-slammed her onto a vice-grip machine used for lathing. He knocked her out cold via a concussion to the back of the head, and sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious on the floor bleeding from her head wound. He finished the sadistic act by cutting off blood to her brain with a hemp cord, constricted around her throat. Lynching her to death with his bare hands, yanking hard on the crude noose he put around her neck. Sinking deeper and deeper under the skin, the cord was found 1/8th inches sunk into the flesh. She died of cerebral damage and asphyxiation with oxygen cut off to fuel the brain. Leo Frank left the cord snug in place, locked in and buried beneath the flesh, with the cord knot pressed in deep at the jugular vein. When the cops found the girl in the basement 15 hours later, the knot was still at the side of her throat sunk in and the cord was still 1/8 inch buried under the skin.Sepia-toned image of the victim, post-mortem. She was dragged more than 125 feet across an earth-floor of the subterranean chamber as a way to throw suspicion on the cellar as the place where the crime had happened. When the medical examiner noticed the disruption to the skin from the dragging showed no signs of bleeding or healing, the state doctor told Atlanta P.D. the factory’s cellar might not be where the crime took place. The 1913 investigators argued, especially if it was a negro who did the mortal act of savagery. Negroes don’t stick around to write contrived letters to the victim’s mom and drag bodies around when they commit this type of crime during White separatist hegemony, when they know the punishment would have been getting their penis and testicles cut off before being lynched. Never had there been an example at the time of a Negro sticking around to write literature after raping and strangling a White girl, they usually left the area hastily.Much more than the fact that Leo Frank forgot to clean off the metal drill press, which had hair drenched in blood on its crank handle—other forensic evidence helped the police recreate the scene of the crime. There was a giant bloodstain on the floor of the metal room next to the men’s toilet. Instead of cleaning it up the bloody mess with soapy water, Leo Frank dumped a bunch of white powder chemicals over it and swept it into the blood, soaking it up and covering it up, but he didn’t realize that later the blood would slowly soak through the powder and as a result turned it pinkish when factory employees found it.The forensic evidence of where she had been killed was so obvious Monday morning, police were shocked they had missed it in the darkness of the night when they were called to the building by the black night watchman, Newt Lee. Moreover, finding Mary in the basement, they tended to have focused all their attention there looking for clues. They didn’t think to check everywhere else because the basement staging had fooled them.It took the employees finding the blood-drenched hair, and a wide pink patch on the floor of the metal room to alert police for the investigation to pivot. And it took the state medical examiners who did the autopsy to inform the police Phagan might not have been killed in the cellar because her drag scratches on her body, showed no blood release or healing, she had already been dead when she was dragged in the cellar. It was determined there was probably was no struggle in the basement.Diagram of Leo Frank’s office on the second floor at the bottom right.Exoneration Efforts Continue 2019In 2019, the Jewish community with ex-Governor Roy Barnes convinced the district attorney to create a conviction integrity unit for Leo Frank but to add other cases too so it wouldn’t be so obvious that they intended to get him absolved of the rape-murder. They intend to get him exonerated at some point. There are people working behind the scenes to get his name cleared, if it means more books by quack professors and films by biased movie producers claiming he was innocent, they will make it happen. If it means more documentaries rebooting the 2009, People v. Leo Frank, to falsify the case, they will make it happen. They have the leading strata of intellectuals, politicians, movie finance folks, broadway producers, and others working on spreading the meme Leo Frank was framed because of anti-Semitism. Former Governor of Georgia Roy Barnes is sometimes called the John Slaton of the 21st century. Governor Slaton in 1915 owned the law company group which represented Leo Frank at his trial and changed his client’s sentence of death by hanging to life in the penitentiary.The most justifiably hated Governor of Georgia, John Slaton, his term was 1913–1915, He was born in 1866 and died in 1955. Slaton’s law firm was hired to defend Leo Frank at his trial and continued to represent him during his appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court.Exoneration Efforts 1982The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Atlanta Jewish Federation, American Jewish Community, and others applied to get Leo Frank exonerated for the 1913 sex-murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan. They had been building up to that time for 70 years by getting Jewish intellectuals in academic institutes and film directors in Hollywood to promote the ethnicist and anti-Gentile hoax that Leo Frank was framed for the rape-murder, and his trial was inspired by rampant anti-Semitism.Watch this video multiple times. Pay very special attention to the language at how the fake news media promotes a 100% Jewish supremacist narrative and provides zero balance or nuance to the other side of the trial, the prosecution side. The media promotes Leo Frank’s innocence as something we should all take for granted. It’s gaslighting the public from beginning to end, with false history about Antisemitism being presented as factual, while interspersed with the senile Alonzo Mann.The Board of Pardons and Paroles of Georgia found NO evidence to conclusively prove Leo Frank innocent, but the Hasbara extremist TV stations at the time were promoting nothing but racist hoaxes. Meanwhile, the census data, every decade of the late 19th century and early 20th century, shows one of the highest Jewish-Gentile intermarriage rates in the country in the American South, especially Georgia. The yearly Atlanta City Directory of that decade provides evidence of Jews and Gentiles going into business together and having successful partnerships. The only conclusion we can come to is that Jewish Supremacism is the greatest danger to our society with its mendacious machinations of history, turning our understanding of the past into a form of ethnic war, and manipulating our political system, getting us into these endless wars in the Middle East to defend the violent Apartheid Regime of Israel. Studying this case gives one direct access to the Jewish activist mind and makes a fascinating study.The Century of Anti-Gentile Games Continues in the Mainstream Culture.This has been a long process through the entertainment TV networks combined with the news media, and the game is still in play. At that time they had two major films promoting the racial hoax, “The Murder of Mary Phagan, January 1988, a made-for-Television-miniseries on NBC” falsifying history with people standing up in the middle of court singing loudly, shutting down the trial, and 20 years prior, the anti-Gentile Saudek Production film, “Profiles in Courage, 1964”. Both were Jewish activist movies. In both Gentiles were grossly defamed and the facts of the trial turned upsidedown.The Jewish community also had books in play in the mainstream popular culture by quack-scholar Leonard Dinnerstein and mail-fraud conman Harry Golden falsifying the history of the case. Dinnerstein is famous in 1968 for mainstreaming the hoax that mobs of violent anti-Semites were screaming lynching threats into the courtroom at the time of the trial at the judge, witnesses, jury, police, and observers while the proceedings were taking place. When people looked for evidence of this in Leo Frank’s appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court or reports of it in the daily news, none were found. It was another fabrication by the Hasbara mongers.Leonard Dinnerstein (In this 1968 photo) wrote the book, The Leo Frank Case in 1968 and it is the most common book cited by Jewish activists retelling the false version of the 1913 Frank-Phagan case. In 1968 (American Jewish Archive Journal, Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish Community) Dinnerstein is one of many sources claiming there were crowds of people disrupting the trial proceedings with loud threats of violence. Something Frank’s defense attorneys could have used as grounds to immediately call for a mistrial if it had happened, but didn’t because it never happened.Quoting from Professor Chubbs about Leonard Dinnerstein’s academic fraud,Examples of hate crime hoaxes and scams being perpetrated by Leo Frank’s defenders.Leonard Dinnerstein, Ph.D., Arizona Emeritus Professor of Judaic Studies in the American Jewish Archive Journal of November 1968, promoted a hoax—now exposed as totally false—the accusations that mobs of people were screaming homicidal death chants into the courtroom windows at the judge and jury of the Leo Frank trial. The people who claim Leo Frank was innocent are willing to go into the abyss of academic fraud and racist hoaxes to make their fraudulent defense of Leo Frank on his behalf.Starting on page 110 is the example of Dr. Leonard Dinnerstein Ph.D., creating an un-sourced fabrication (lying) based on what we call academic fraud (BUSTED):"Beyond the main testimony, the jurors had little more on which to base their decision than hearsay, rumors, and unsubstantiated accusations. Yet most members of the public were thoroughly convinced of the defendant's guilt and made their voices heard, The intense summer heat necessitated that the courtroom windows be left open, and remarks from the crowds could be heard easily by those inside. "Crack the Jew's neck!" - "Lynch him!" - were some of the epithets emerging from the more boisterous. Threats were also made "against the jury that they would be lynched if they did not hang that 'damned sheeny.' "Source: Leo M. Frank and the American Jewish Community', American Jewish Archive Journal, Autumn 1968, Volume 20, number 2, Cincinnati, Ohio.The Anti-Defamation League uses the racial hoax Dinnerstein popularized. You can see the contribute (donation) button below right next to their false history about the trial and they promote the racist accusation against the Black Janitor Jim Conley, who in part helped the police solve the murder of Mary Phagan. Leo Frank had according to Jim Conley, confessed to him that the assault occurred because Mary Phagan refused Leo Frank’s sexual advances.In the image below, we can see the ADL again is promoting their blood-libelous and anti-Gentile hate crime hoax about mobs shouting “Hang the Jew, Hang the Jew.” These screen captures were gathered from search engine images.Anti-Semitism in this example is being racketeered by this Zionist extremist organization that is engaging in anti-Gentilism.Government researchers in Georgia published Leo Frank’s appeal records on the Internet Archive from the state and federal Supreme Court. There is not a single word in those thousands of pages collected in the official legal files of Frank’s documents mentioning crazed mobs belligerently screaming antisemitic terrorist threats at the presiding judge Leonard Roan, or the jury. None of the newspaper reporters in the courtroom reported any such incidents. All the newspaper reports are available online too.Leonard Dinnerstein (1934 - 2019)Dr. Leonard Dinnerstein, Ph.D., also perpetuates “The 1964 Mary Phagan Bite Mark Hoax” (BUSTED) in his widely read pseudo-history book called ‘The Leo Frank Case’.Mary Phagan Bitemark Claim: Real or just another hoax created about the Leo Frank case?Let us examine the Mary Phagan bite wound origin: To Number, Our Days by Pierre van Paassen, 1964. Let’s examine each sentence and paragraph of this alleged claim. What are some of the problems with these assertions? Does the whole thing sound like a fabrication based on our common sense and research?The excerpt that discusses the case of Leo Frank and Van Paassen's discovery of photographic evidence from pages 237 and 238:The Jewish community of Atlanta at that time seemed to live under a cloud. Several years previously one of its members, Leo Frank, had been lynched as he was being transferred from the Fulton Tower Prison in Atlanta to Milledgeville for trial on a charge of having raped and murdered a little girl in his warehouse which stood right opposite the Constitution building. Many Jewish citizens who recalled the lynching were unanimous in assuring me that Frank was innocent of the crime.I took to reading all the evidence pro and con in the record department at the courthouse. Before long I came upon an envelope containing a sheaf of papers and a number of X-ray photographs showing teeth indentures. The murdered girl had been bitten on the left shoulder and neck before being strangled. But the X-ray photos of the teeth marks on her body did not correspond with Leo Frank’s set of teeth of which several photos were included. If those photos had been published at the time of the murder, as they should have been, the lynching would probably not have taken place.Though, as I said, the man died several years before, it was not too late, I thought, to rehabilitate his memory and perhaps restore the good name of his family. I showed Clark Howell the evidence establishing Frank’s innocence and asked permission to run a series of articles dealing with the case and especially with the evidence just uncovered. Mr. Howell immediately concurred, but the most prominent Jewish lawyer in the city, Mr. Harry Alexander, whom I consulted with a view to have him present the evidence to the grand jury, demurred. He said Frank had not even been tried. Hence no new trial could be requested. Moreover, the Jewish community in its entirety still felt nervous about the incident. If I wrote the articles old resentments might be stirred up and, who knows, some of the unknown lynchers might recognize themselves as participants in my description of the lynching. It was better, Mr. Alexander thought, to leave sleeping lions alone. Some local rabbis were drawn into the discussion and they actually pleaded with Clark Howell to stop me from reviving interest in the Frank case as this was bound to have evil repercussions on the Jewish community.That someone had blabbed out of school became quite evident when I received a printed warning saying: "Lay off the Frank case if you want to keep healthy." The unsigned warning was reinforced one night or, rather, early one morning when I was driving home. A large automobile drove up alongside of me and forced me into the track of a fast-moving streetcar coming from the opposite direction. My car was demolished, but I escaped without a scratch....Source: To Number Our Days (‘64) by P. van Paassen. Library of Congress, pp 237–8.In reality, X-ray technology was in its infancy in 1913, and it was never possible to X-ray bite marks on the skin in 1913 or today (ask any X-ray technician). Vehicles had virtually no safety features to speak of in 1922, so the chances of someone walking away “without a scratch” from a head-on collision is a bald-faced lie. Was Leo Frank’s attorney named “Harry Alexander” (false) or Henry Alexander (correct)? Leo Frank was not lynched on his way to his murder trial in 1913. He was tried and sentenced to death by Judge Leonard Strickland Roan on August 26, 1913. The hanging took place nearly two years later on August 17, 1915. Leo Frank’s case went on trial in Atlanta, not 125 miles away in Milledgeville where the fake news hoaxer suggests the trial was scheduled.You can find these same pro-Frank hoaxes in other books by people who claim Leo Frank was an innocent man framed because of his religion. Jewish supremacists blinded by their own tribal arrogance, they are unable to see the irony of Frank trying to frame two black men.Leo Frank at Cornell University, early 20th century.1906 college yearbook, thanks to Cornell Alumni staff archivist using a mega-expensive scanner.Leo Frank was a bona fide libidinous philanderer who cheated on his wife regularly with diseased hookers, and he was a depraved pedophile who chased after prepubescent boys and girls working in his manufacturing sweatshop. A significant number of factory girls at the Leo Frank trial testified at trial he was a gross libertine of sorts whose behavior was lascivious. They also reported him taking a girl who he promoted to foreman into the girl’s dressing room for trysts a couple of times a week. A black janitor testified he walked in on Leo Frank several times performing oral sex on Atlanta prostitutes. Another witness testified that Leo Frank would have parties with beer and prostitutes in his office. Two little girls at the Coroner’s inquest testified Leo Frank made innuendos offering them money for sex.The Eighties Pardon Hoax.Alonzo M. Mann (August 8th, 1898 - March 18th, 1985)An alleged eye-witness testimony given by a senile 84-year-old man, 70 years after the fact could never be regarded as reliable evidence, which is why in this situation, Leo Frank was never cleared of his 1913 homicidal sex crime in the 1980s.Leo Frank was given a silly half-baked posthumous pardon on March 11th, 1986, which did not officially exculpate him, it only gave him his right back to vote, run for office and own a firearm, something a buried cadaver that has been dead for 70 years could hardly use.The eye witness referred to is Alonzo Mann (1898 - 1985) who admitted in the 1980s to lying under oath at the 1913 Leo Frank trial, he said he left the National Pencil Company at 11:30 a.m. on April 26th, 1913, but in the 1980s he said he left at noon and came back 5 minutes later. He couldn’t come up with a reason why he came back to the factory when asked. He no reason because it was likely a self-serving lie, just as much as he admitted to lying when under oath in 1913.We might ask these common-sense questions to understand why no unbiased observers believed Alonzo Mann’s fictional story.Would a Black man in the White separatist American South of 1913 where lynching was prevalent attack a White girl in a lobby where all the doors were glass-paned and the streets were crowded with White confederate supporters?Would a Black man in the White separatist American South of 1913 where lynching was prevalent leave the front glass-paned doors unlocked in the highest traffic place of the factory while moving a dead or unconscious White girl when factory employees were coming in and out of the factory all morning long to collect their pay envelopes?If Alonzo Mann had seen a Black man carrying a dead or unconscious White girl, the very child who turned out to be the rape-murder victim Mary Phagan, and he told his parents about it—would any parents allow their teenage son or daughter to return back to that same job site two days later on Monday morning where that same alleged black killer-rapist was also working at the factory and hadn’t been arrested?Alonzo Mann’s make-believe story doesn’t pass the common sense test and it’s now understandable why the Georgia Pardons and Paroles Board did not exculpate pedophile Leo Frank of the 1913 Mary Phagan rape-murder. The trial brief of evidence of that 25-day trial is among the Georgia Supreme Court records of Leo Frank’s case and they read it. There was no antisemitism at his trial, the ADL and its leadership lied.Governor Slaton (Commutes Leo Frank’s Death Sentence to Life in Prison)The outgoing Gov. of Georgia Slaton was the owner of the law group company defending Leo Frank at his trial and represented him on appeal to the Supreme court of Georgia. Leo Frank’s wealthy defenders at the time paid the law group company $15,000 to defend him, the equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars today, maybe more.According to Steve Oney, No mob broke Leo Frank out of jail and lynched him. It was anything but a mob, it was sitting politicians, senators, mayors, judges, an ex-Governor, and other men in the leading strata of Georgia society. That’s not a mob. When we think of mob, we are thinking of drunken Yahoos lynching a rapist or child molester, not these men. They were sober and deliberate.It is well known The Georgia Supreme Court in 1913 and 1914, disagrees with your conjecture Lennart. The Georgia Supreme Court state on official paper and ruled in 1914 the evidence, testimony, and exhibits at the Trial of Leo Frank were sufficient for a guilty verdict.Legal Records of the Pardon (4 pages, 1983, 1986)The 1983 failed Pardon (3 pages)The successful 1986 “Pardon” which didn’t include absolution was tantamount to no Pardon at all. It didn’t officially clear his name. The state of Georgia still officially recognizes Leo Frank as guilty, but that’s not something his defenders want the public to know. They haven’t given up yet, and it is believed they are close to achieving their aims of having his verdict torn asunder.Shortened summary 1982–1986In 1982, the Jewish chief executive editor of the Nashville Tennessean John Seigenthaler - Wikipedia working with the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and other Jewish groups (Atlanta Jewish Federation and American Jewish Committee), found a foggy-brained octagenarian, Alonzo Mann—who worked at the National Pencil Company in the Spring of 1913 as Leo Frank’s personal errand-boy. In 1913, Alonzo Mann was only 14 years old, but in 1983 he 84 years old. Leo Frank’s former officeboy was barely kept alive with a pacemaker (he suffered a heart attack many years prior). Mann worked as an office boy for just 3 short weeks when Leo Frank was then arrested 70 years earlier (April 28, 1913). So these Jewish activist communal groups got this old WW1 veteran at the end of his life to come up with a cockamamie story to try and fool the Georgia Paroles and Pardon board into exonerating Leo Frank. Read the three pager docs above for the nitty-gritty.The board saw right through Mann’s hokey tissue of lies, but it was powerful Jewish groups behind the exoneration effort, so the state committee threw them an appeasing dog bone just to shut them up and get rid of them (like giving a participation award for showing up). The state of Georgia gave Leo Frank a pardon on biodegradable paper but not a real pardon carved in stone, in reality. This is how others in the Jewish community have described it to me. In other words, Leo Frank wasn’t vindicated of the crime, he was only given his unusable civil rights back with the pardon, so he could vote again, run for the office of city Mosquito Control director, and own a handgun, which we can all agree is pretty darn silly since he was dead for 70 years at the time. Can someone who they buried 6 feet under the ground in 1915, vote again seven decades later?Citations:John Seigenthaler - Wikipedia - Jewish activist editor of the Nashville Tennessean who tracked down Alonzo Mann.Anti-Defamation League - Wikipedia founded in late September 1913 in response to Leo Frank’s trial outcome. Atlanta B’nai B’rith voted unanimously 500 to 0, to re-elect Leo Frank for a second term as president of their State fraternity. Leo Frank ran B’nai B’rith from jail, something we have seen Mafia bosses and drug king pins do.The Tennessean - Wikipedia - the newspaper which gave legs to Alonzo Mann’s tall tales.American Jewish Committee - Wikipedia - Sought with the Atlanta Jewish Federation, and Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith to get Leo Frank exonerated of the Mary Phagan rape-murder.Home - Jewish Federation of Greater AtlantaDEFENSE EXHIBIT 61 AT THE TRIAL OF LEO FRANK, JULY-AUGUST, 1913.In this rotation of the diagram, toilets are at the top left corner and it is very important to note they are the only toilets on the entire second floor. The bottom right corner is Leo Frank’s office. When Mary Phagan arrived at about noon + a couple of minutes, she requested her work wages and asked Mr. Frank if the materials for her job had been delivered yet. Leo Frank knew they hadn’t, but he said I don’t know, meaning we should probably find out since the factory is closed on Sunday and there would be no deliveries then. They walked into the metal room, he closed the double doors behind them. He made his indecent proposal. She probably slapped him across his face and he erupted into violence punching her in the face. He lifted her up and threw her down backward on the machine gouging her head, leaving hair behind that had noticeable blood on it. He could have raped her there or dragged her to the men's toilet to rape and sodomize her. Either way, she was found dead in the men’s toilet by Jim Conley.Leo Frank trial reference sources disproving the anti-Semitism charge and proving that the evidence overwhelmingly proved that Leo Frank was a sexual predator and well beyond a reasonable doubt, murdered Little Mary Phagan:The Coroner’s Inquest is where the people of Atlanta Georgia learned that sweatshop operator Leo Frank was using his weekly payday of Saturdays at noontime to proposition young girls into prostitution with him as the client.Read: Leo Frank: The Coroner’s InquestAn introduction to one of the most fascinating rape-murder trials of the early 20th century. 100 Years Ago Today:The Trial of Leo Frank Begins (100 Years Ago Today: The Trial of Leo Frank Begins)Leo Frank Trial Week One The Leo Frank Trial: Week One (The Leo Frank Trial: Week One)Leo Frank Trial Week Two The Leo Frank Trial: Week Two (The Leo Frank Trial: Week Two)Leo Frank Trial Week Three The Leo Frank Trial: Week Three (The Leo Frank Trial: Week Three)An amazing summary of Leo Frank in the witness chair delivering an oral statement to the jury at his rape-murder trial. 100 Years Ago Today:Leo Frank Takes the Stand (100 Years Ago Today: Leo Frank Takes the Stand)The Leo Frank Trial Week Four (The Leo Frank Trial: Week Four)Four Perorations.The Leo Frank Trial Closing Arguments of Hooper, Arnold, and Rosser (The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments of Hooper, Arnold, and Rosser) and the Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments, District Attorney (The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments, Solicitor Dorsey).The presiding judge Leonard Strickland Roan’s Charge to the Court (New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank - Judge Leonard Roan’s Charge to the Jury)One of the most amazing series of arguments why Leo Frank was convicted, not because of anti-Semitism, but the facts: 100 Reasons Leo Frank Is GuiltyOverview:An impressive background and overview of the Leo Frank case, and why the racist and anti-Gentile charge of anti-Semitism is false: Three Deaths by Strangling: Mary Phagan, Leo Frank, and TruthALONZO MCCLENDON MANN (1898 - 1986)Alonzo Mann’s late in life fraudulent claims to trick the public into thinking Leo Frank was innocent. The effort failed and Leo Frank was given a half-baked posthumous pardon which did not officially clear his name of the Phagan murder.Read: The Astounding Alonzo Mann HoaxLUCILLE SELIG FRANK (1888 - 1957) BECAME MRS. LEO FRANK (1910 – 1915)Lucille Selig the wife of Leo Frank did not visit her husband for two weeks in jail after he was arrested for sexually molested and garroted Mary Phagan. Lucille Selig also refused to have her own ashen remains be buried or disbursed by Leo Frank’s side at the Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens New York. The grave set aside for her is still empty there.Read: The Amazing Story of Mrs. Leo Frank (a good read)Quoted, “Leo Frank’s wife, Lucille Selig, privately chose to not be buried next to her husband (Source: Lucille Selig, Last Will, and Testament, Notarized in Atlanta Georgia 1954).”“There is more evidence of this fact that Lucille did not want to follow the standard Jewish tradition of burial, and to be interred adjacent to her only husband, Leo Frank. According to her nephew’s statements during an interview by author and journalist Steve Oney, we learn of his interview with the descendants of Lucille Selig Frank’s biological sister Sarah Selig Marcus:”Journalist-Author Steve Oney, wrote And the Dead Shall Rise. The Murder of Mary Phagan and Lynching of Leo Frank. Published by Pantheon Books in 2003 with 740 pages.Quoted from Steve Oney, “I spent several hours up the road in St. Petersburg with Alan and Fanny Marcus, two Atlantans who'd retired to Florida. Alan was Lucille Frank's nephew. He'd grown up at her knee and borne witness to the devastation that the lynching had wrought in her life and in the life of Atlanta's Jewish community. Following Lucille's death in 1957, her body was cremated. She wanted her ashes scattered in a public park, but an Atlanta ordinance forbade it. For the next six years, the ashes sat in a box at Patterson's Funeral Home. One day, Alan received what for him was an upsetting call. The ashes needed to be disposed of. Alan didn't know what to do….. For months, he carried Lucille's remains around Atlanta in the trunk of his red Corvair. Early one morning in 1964, he and his brother drove downtown to Oakland Cemetery. There, under the cover of the gray dawn light, the two men buried this martyred figure in an unmarked plot between the headstones of her parents. (Georgia Magazine, UGA, Volume 83, Number 2, March 2004, ‘And The Dead Shall Rise’ by Steve Oney at Internet Archive).” End of quoted text.U.S. Congressman Tom Watson (House of Representatives and Senator) wrote five (January, March, August, September, and October 1915) separate analytical reviews of the Leo Frank case, aspects. Why Was Leo Frank Lynched?The thirteen-part audiobook by the great-niece of the murder victim, Mary Anne Phagan. By far one of the best books ever written about the Leo Frank case until 2016.Listen: New Audio Book: The Murder of Little Mary PhaganComments with regards to the Jewish Supremacist and Jewish activist lies about the culture of the south being anti-Semitic.There was no rampant anti-Semitism at the time, then or now, and Leo Frank’s trial was not motivated by anti-Semitism. This claim that Leo Frank’s trial was because of rampant anti-Semitism is a disgusting anti-Gentilic falsity. I encourage you to read the Leo Frank historical lynching marker in Marietta Georgia, and the monument the ADL put at his place of rest in 2005 at the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, NYC. Both make anti-Gentile statements that amount to vicious defamation. There is no evidence of Antisemitism being a major force in the South, ever, despite exceptions to the rule, or with regard to Leo Frank’s trial, there was no anti-Semitism at his trial.2005 the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith under Abraham Foxman put this anti-Gentile monument at the Mount Carmel Cemetery entrance.ADL’s Cemetery Pimping of Anti-Gentilism:LEO FRANKTHE TRIAL OF LEO FRANK WAS MOTIVATEDBY THE RAMPANT ANTISEMITISM AT THE TIMETHE FOUNDING OF ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUETHAT SAME YEAR WAS MOTIVATED BY THE PASSIONTO ERADICATE SUCH INJUSTICE AND BIGOTRYDESPITE HIS INNOCENT FRANK WAS ABDUCTEDFROM JAIL IN 1915 AND LYNCHED ADL REMEMBERSTHE VICTIM LEO FRANK AND REDEDICATESITSELF THERE WILL BE NO MOREVICTIMS OF INJUSTICE AND INTOLERANCEThe predominant culture of the Philo-Semitic South perceived that it was rare for a Jew to commit such a sadistic sex murder and then mutilate the body of the victim, like in the case of Mary Phagan, April 26, 1913. Frank’s German Jewishness actually helped him a lot more than it hurt him.Jews and Gentiles engaged in a lot of business partnerships together and as a result, Jews have always been highly respected in the South. Jewish supremacist activists today try to project their false history that anti-Semitism was rampant in the South, when it never was and this is why Gentiles take the default position that Zionist extremist historians tend to be habitual liars and falsifiers of history, because there is tremendous evidence of this fact, now that all the books at the library of congress are being digitized, and easily searched. How could any intelligent person NOT take a default position that Jewish historians who write about the Leo Frank case are pathological liars? They’ve manufactured consensus and turned the true crime into a maudlin soap opera about poor-innocent Leo Frank. They failed miserably to rehabilitate a serial rapist-pedophile. They’re still trying to get him exonerate today in Atlanta. They formed a Georgia Conviction Integrity Unit for the express purpose of having his verdict of guilt, cancelled, 108 years after the trial.This anti-Gentile sign was originally inaugurated in 2008 in Marietta Georgia, removed in 2014 for road maintenance upgrades and enhancements, then rededicated across the street from its former spot in 2018. The hate sign makes anti-Gentile blood-libelous traducements and codifies anti-Gentilic defamations about Leo Frank’s trial which are categorically false. Jewish activists and their advocacy groups are using public city and county property to force their beguiling version of history down the throats of the everyday pedestrians in the area. Once in the ground, the media publicized the nefarious accusations to the world during an elaborate promotional event, like the August 2018 re-inauguration of the said sign.Leo Frank Lynching Historical Marker Text: Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. 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. A highly controversial trial fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism resulted in a guilty verdict in 1913. After Governor John M. Slaton commuted his sentence from death to life in prison, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison in Milledgeville and taken to Phagan’s hometown of Marietta where he was hanged before a local crowd. Without addressing guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state’s failure to either protect Frank or bring his killers to justice, he was granted a posthumous pardon in 1986.The Highly Assimilated Jewish Community of the SouthThe trope of anti-Semitism in the American South is a Jewish supremacist hoax. The South had one of the highest intermarriage rates in the United States between the largely German and Russian Jews and European-American Gentiles. Jews were very highly respected throughout Southern history and they are so highly respected today.Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Source: Wikipedia.In the past, during the Confederacy of Southern states (Dixie) and its separatist war with the United States in the first half of the 1860s, a Jewish Southerner and owner of 140 slaves, Judah P. Benjamin was on the breakaway nation-states’ currency. Census data proves incontrovertible proof Jews disproportionately owned farming slaves or had African servants in their homes.Obverse: On the left side is Judah P. Benjamin, who served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Confederacy. Reference: World Banknotes & Coins Pictures | Old Money, Foreign Currency Notes, World Paper Money Museum.Obverse: At the right side is Judah P. Benjamin, who served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Confederacy. Reference: World Banknotes & Coins Pictures | Old Money, Foreign Currency Notes, World Paper Money Museum.The so-called rampant anti-Semitism of the time is a racist hoax. The Southern states, especially Georgia have always been very pro-Jewish (since colonial times) and pro-Israel (since 1948). The Georgia electorate just promoted a young Jew to one of the highest seats in the federal congress, named Jon Ossoff, elected to the U.S. Senate in January 2021. And Jewish activists literally spammed social media trying to compare this new Georgia Senatorial victor with Leo Frank.January 2021 U.S. Senator from Georgia Jon Ossoff, image from Wikipedia.A search on Twitter under the hashtags #leofrank or search on “Leo Frank Ossoff” in the January time frame shows a throttling of tweets connecting the two. Twitter was littered with references to Leo Frank’s lynching and Ossoff’s election win. Child molester Leo Frank is literally a pop culture hero with a religious following of devotees who explode with rage when you calmly share the legal records and evidence of his guilt, which is exactly why the facts of his trial should be shared with the public going forward.The Leo Frank Cult and RehabilitationThis is a common psychological problem with Jewish agitators is they project the Jewish supremacist narrative of history and fake reality on the past and the present for self-serving purposes to foster the ugly siege mentality in us and our fellow Jews everywhere. I’ve noticed it's very common for Jewish activists who have advanced college degrees to commit academic dishonesty if it serves Jewish interests above Gentiles with regard to the Leo Frank case. It’s appalling that this problem of dishonesty is so prevalent. With Google Books, we can prove they did commit fraud and trace the origin of their gaslighting.This is why we in the diaspora, as a collective ethnoreligion, have a serious PR problem—we have a significant minority of our coreligionists who manipulate our understanding of the past as a form of racist and ethnic warfare against non-Jews. This tendency causes Jews as a whole to get a reputation as compulsive liars and rightfully so. This negative behavior of rehabilitating Jewish criminals like the Rosenbergs, Dreyfus, Pollard, and Leo Frank, is what members of our tribe are engaging-in, and thereby sullying our reputation with regards to our honesty and integrity about subjects related to Gentile-Jewish relations. In parallel, this is the problem with stereotyping, when you have a dominant minority, in a particular group behaving a certain way, the whole group sometimes gets tarred and feathered with the predominant actions of the loudest subset.In this case, the people who continue to engage in the rehabilitation of Dreyfus, Leo Frank, the Rosenbergs, and other Jewish criminals, are easily proven wrong when the trial transcripts and evidence are reviewed by modern scholars. For instance, Dreyfus was rehabilitated by political manipulation in the late 1890s, yet anyone who reads his trial and contemplates the evidence realizes he was nothing more than a 2-bit sloppy spy, just like Pollard and the Rosenbergs. Leo Frank is no different in a similar sense that he made amazing blunders, yet Jewish activists are frenetic and apoplectic about rehabilitating him. Fair-minded observers who read the trial transcript and appeal records realize it’s impossible to come to any other conclusion than the certainty of Leo Frank’s guilt, with no shortage of spasmodic activists with little understanding of the case coming to his defense and rescue.Stereotypes are based on significant subsets of a groupWith us, we have a large minority of Jew-versus-Gentile agitators in academia and the Western press who engage in yellow journalist news and re-writing historiography to “serve Jewish best interests” and attack Gentiles. We see this clearly in a survey of everything written by Jews about the Leo Frank case since 1913 and their modern hasbara network. Now more than ever, where a lot of Jews in the educational system, fake civil rights groups like ADL (actually just a PR firm for Israel), and the mainstream media regularly promote every falsehood about the Leo Frank trial and appeals. They produced more than 5 books on the subject that can verifiably be proven to engage in academic fraud, Leonard Dinnerstein Ph.D. being the chief among them.They even fabricated a “consensus” on Leo Frank - Wikipedia by getting two dozen Zionist scholars to say Leo Frank was innocent and then think the Gentiles are going to fall for the “consensus” ploy. They even made sure the “consensus” was in the first paragraph you read on the article, just in case you don’t read their full report from top to bottom.Leo Frank Wikipedia Quote: Today, the consensus of researchers is that Frank was wrongly convicted and Jim Conley was likely the actual murderer. Leo Frank - WikipediaThis kind of behavior, as described above, by Hasbara extremists hurts us as a people and puts us at risk of danger. And most Jewish activists have such a lofty degree of self-deception and lack self-reflection, that they can’t even comprehend most people can see right through their manipulation of history. We really need more introspection as an ethnoreligious people because the hatred of Jews by the world is not irrational, but logical, since Jewish academics lie so relentlessly and compulsively. How could they not hate us for it?We have a PR problem and as Jews we have to start calling out the history falsifying professors marching through the halls of the academy, the fake news journalists in the telescreens or reporting on the streets, and the zionist agitation groups who engage in conspicuous academic misconduct, using our understanding of history to wage ethnic warfare against Gentiles.Other Reading:The Leo Frank Case Research Library - Information on the 1913 bludgeoning, rape, strangulation and mutilation of Mary Phagan and the subsequent trial, appeals and mob lynching of Leo Frank in 1915.Georgia State Farm Prison demolishedWorld Banknotes & Coins Pictures | Old Money, Foreign Currency Notes, World Paper Money MuseumFounded by H.L. Mencken in 1924Judah P. Benjamin - WikipediaLeo Frank Case Archive“Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to go through to claim Leo Frank was railroaded at his trial, after he sat down into the witness chair and told the jury he just so happened to be at the location of the crime scene using the toilet, when the murder was thought to have taken place there that afternoon.”Using the grave of the child sex predator’s victim to rehabilitate him? You decide.In 1982, the Jewish activist and chief executive editor of the Nashville Tennessean John Seigenthaler working in relay with the ADL’s lawyer Charles Wittenstein, and teaming-up with other Jewish groups (Atlanta Jewish Federation, and American Jewish Committee), found a foggy octagenarian, Alonzo M. Mann, barely kept alive with an artificial heart (pacemaker) who had worked as an office boy for 3 weeks when Leo Frank was arrested 70 years earlier (Frank was arrested on April 29th, 1913, Alonzo Mann started his office boy job in early April), and they got him in the 1980s to come up with a cockamamie story to try and trick the Georgia Paroles and Pardon board to exonerate Leo Frank. I’ll add the three-page rejection letter to the exoneration-effort in the footer area of the answer above.The state-sanctioned committee saw right through the tissue of lies, but it was powerful Jewish groups (ADL, AJC, AJF) behind the exoneration effort, so they threw them an appeasing dog biscuit just to shut them up and get rid of them (like giving a participation award to someone just for showing up). Thus, the state of Georgia gave Leo Frank a pardon in 1986 on “biodegradable bathroom tissue paper” but not a real pardon carved in stone with a full exoneration, that’s the reality of the 1982–1986 anti-Gentile episode.The Jewish community was embarrassed by the outcome that a decade later they had mention of Leo Frank not being exonerated, actually removed from a Mary Phagan historical sign in a cemetery next to the child-victim’s grave. They didn’t want people knowing the pardon was half-baked and without absolution or exculpation for Frank’s crime. They wanted everyone to be tricked.Let's start with the first iteration of the Mary Phagan graveside historical marker in the years 1995 and prior. Pay special attention to the language of the sign concerning what was erased and what was added.On the first semantic version of this cemetery sign below, it gave you factual and accurate information about,Firstly: Mary Phagan celebrated in a famous folk song at the time.Secondly, her grave which unbeknownst formerly had only a small ground marker from 1913–1914 that was replaced by the CSA veterans who provided the marble headstone presently there now in 1915.Thirdly, U.S. congressman (U.S. House of Representatives, 1896; and U.S. Senate, 1920) Tom Watson’s posthumous poetic tribute to Mary Phagan written in 1915, added in the form of a marble slab added 11 years after the Senator from Georgia passed away in 1922.Fourthly, It goes into Leo Frank being sentenced to hang [by both the trial judge and jury] and his sentence being commuted [to life in prison by Governor John Slaton who owned the law firm that defended Leo Frank during his 1913 trial and 1914 state appeals]. Followed by information about Leo Frank getting lynched [in response to the Governor’s gross violation of morals and ethics, including betrayal to the state constitution]. And that Leo Frank’s pardon in 1986, did not officially absolve him of the crime. The state of Georgia still recognizes Leo Frank as guilty. The last part outraged the Jewish community at the time because they wanted that inconvenient fact about Frank’s fake-posthumous-pardon to remain obfuscated with regard to his verdict of guilt being sustained.MARY PHAGAN. Celebrated in song as “Little Mary Phagan” [She was only 4′10″ tall] after her murder on [Georgia Confederate Memorial Day [April 26] 1913 in Atlanta. Grave marked by CSA [the Confederate States of America] veterans in [June 25th] 1915. Tribute by Tom Watson set 1933 [this refers to the famous epitaph poem on a marble slab atop of the grave]. Leo Frank, sentenced to hang, granted clemency [life in prison with no parole] before lynching August 17, 1915. His 1986 pardon based on State’s failure to protect him/apprehend killers, not Frank’s innocence.“Not Frank’s Innocence” - These three words had the Marietta and Atlanta Hasbaras of the time seething with infantilizing anger. The public was not meant to know that after 73 years (1913 - 1986) of lawyers, historians and journalists created a manufactured consensus of Leo Frank’s supposed innocent that the state of Georgia politely refused to officially codify their falsification of history in the pop culture of entertainment and education. This was an enormous setback in their propaganda efforts, so instead, they decided to double down. And that’s exactly what they have done since 1986, they have redoubled their effort to wrongfully exonerate Leo Frank in the court of public opinion. Since 1986 they have flooded the mainstream media with newspaper articles professing his innocence and blaming the “Negro and Colored man” (how they referred to him for 73 years, emphasizing his race), Jim Conley.Public Relations DisasterSo as you can see this sign was a big public relations problem that needed to be whitewashed with nonsense about him having a controversial trial. The Jewish community’s leaders didn’t want people knowing Leo Frank’s posthumous pardon was based solely on a technicality, not his supposed innocence. It’s the latter issue that was the thorn in their side for 73 years at the time. After FOUR (82–86) calendar years of sleazy wheeling and dealing behind the scenes, they still couldn’t wangle and cobble together any convincing evidence or logical arguments to vindicate Frank. Moreover, digging up the Georgia Supreme Court Record of Frank’s appeal and trial brief of evidence likely increased the belief in 1986 of his guilt and the certitude that the jury’s verdict was right, even 7-decades years after the trial ended. Today in 2021, almost 108 years after the 1913 trial, Leo Frank’s Georgia Supreme Court appeals showcases the criminal extremes of his well-monied defense team’s illegal treachery. When people read all the dirty details that came out in Leo Frank’s 1913–1914 appeals to the supreme court of Georgia, their jaws drop in shock and horror. You won’t believe it until you read that official legal volume yourself, it’s mind-bending and mind-blowing.Sign Number 2: 1995.The sign above is the second iteration of the historical marker.According to the Marietta Daily Journal (I can add images of the newspaper article) Marietta Rabbi Lebow and Marietta city councilman Philip Goldstein, had the original sign texted removed in part and had scrubbed the parts they found irrelevant, which was the contextualization letting everyone know the state still regarded Leo Frank as guilty.With regards to Leo Frank’s Frankite Cult, these people are playing disgusting games by having a Leo Frank rehabilitation sign placed right next to the dead girl’s grave. They are using political maneuvers against the best interests of the people of Marietta Georgia and in essence, harassing the family of the young 1913 victim.Seriously, try to imagine for a moment if a young female member of your family or extended family was sexually assaulted and strangled to death by a serial rapist & pedophile who ran a sweatshop and this sex killer was actually molesting other kids in the factory he operated, and his religious defenders put up the funds and convinced a local city council to put a sign next to the victims grave, sanitizing the reputation of the convicted homicidal sodomite.These Frankite cult freaks behind Leo Frank’s rehabilitation are mentally ill sickos and weirdos, psychologically torturing the family of the dead little child! The facts outlined herewithin is the reason why this macabre story must be told and why the facts of the case, as to why he was duly convicted, need to be talked about and debated in public. They’re actually trying to gaslight the state of Georgia to overturn his 1913 molestation-murder conviction!This is how other members in the Jewish community have described it to me—Leo Frank wasn’t vindicated of the sexually violent crime of homicide he was convicted for—he was only given his unusable civil rights back with the 1986 posthumous-pardon. After March 11th, 1986, he can now vote again (say what?!), run for the political office (can dead people run for office?!), and own a handgun (scary thought, can you imagine his zombie with a firearm?!)I think we can all agree it is pretty darn silly since he was dead for 71 years at the time (March 11th, 1986) and they gave him all these rights back that he doesn’t deserve and cannot use just to appease the Jewish community. Can someone who they buried 6 feet under the ground in 1915, vote again seven decades later in presidential elections? I hope not!Marietta Daily Journal Articles About the Ole SwitcherooThe above-typed text was the original that was sneakily changed without public notice in the pre-dawn light when no one was around to see it happen.

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Gene See, a retired highway construction inspector, and Bob Hyson, a semi-retired insurance sales manager, said Trump had been cheated, that Biden had dementia and that Democrats planned all along to quickly replace Biden with his more liberal running mate for vice president, Kamala Harris."I think if they ever get to the bottom of it, they will find massive fraud," said another of the diners, Larry Kessel, a 67-year-old farmer.Kessel’s wife, Jane, patted him on the arm, trying to calm him, as he grew agitated while railing against anti-Trump media bias.Trump’s rage against the media has lately included rants against Fox News. He has pushed his supporters towards more right-wing outlets such as Newsmax and One America News Network, which have championed the president’s fraud claims.Rory Wells, 51, a New Jersey lawyer who attended a pro-Trump “stop the steal” election protest in Trenton last week, said he now watches Newsmax because Fox isn’t sufficiently conservative.“I like that I get to hear from Rudy Giuliani and others who are not immediately discounted as being crazy,” he said of Trump’s lead election lawyer.ADVERTISEMENTNewsmax CEO Chris Ruddy said the network’s viewership has exploded since the election, with nearly 3 million viewers nightly via cable television and streaming video devices.Ruddy said Newsmax isn’t saying that Biden stole the election - but they’re also not calling him the winner given that Trump has valid legal claims. “The same media who said Biden would win in a landslide now want to not have recounts,” he said in a phone interview.Charles Herring, president of One America News Network, said in a statement that his network has seen three weeks of record ratings, as “frustrated Fox News viewers” have tuned in.‘NO WAY IN HELL’Some Trump supporters said they would accept Biden as the winner if that is the final, official result. Janel Henritz, 36, echoed some others in saying that she believed the election included fraud, but perhaps not enough to change the outcome. Henritz, who works alongside her mother Janet Hedrick at their log cabin resort in West Virginia, said she would accept the outcome if Biden remains the winner after recounts and court challenges."Then he won fair and square," she said.ADVERTISEMENTIn Sundown, Texas, Mayor Jonathan Strickland said there’s "no way in hell" Biden won fairly. The only way he’ll believe it, he said, is if Trump himself says so.“Trump is the only one we’ve been able to trust for the last four years,” said Strickland, an oilfield production engineer. “As far as the civil war goes, I don’t think it’s off the table.”If it comes to a fight, Caleb Fryar is ready. But the 26-year-old son of Brett Fryar, the chiropractor, said he hoped Trump’s fraud allegations would instead spark a massive mobilization of Republican voters in future elections.Asked whether Trump might be duping his followers, he said it’s hard to fathom.“If I’m being manipulated by Trump ... then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,” Caleb Fryar said. “I think he’s the greatest patriot that ever lived.”(This story corrects to delete reference in first paragraph to Brett Fryar teaching Sunday school and bible studies at Southcrest Baptist Church. He taught those classes at another church.)ADVERTISEMENT(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Texas, Nathan Layne in West Virginia and Tim Reid in California; editing by Brian Thevenot)Incoming GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other supporters of President Trump protest the election results outside the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Nov. 7. (Kevin D. Liles/for The Washington Post)Elena Parent, a Democratic state lawmaker from the Atlanta area, listened incredulously in a small hearing room in early December as a stream of witnesses spun fantastical tales of alleged election fraud before the Georgia Senate’s Judiciary Committee.A retired Army colonel claimed the state’s voting machines were controlled by Communists from Venezuela. A volunteer lawyer with President Trump’s campaign shared surveillance video that she said showed election workers in Atlanta counting “suitcases” of phony ballots that swung Georgia’s election to former vice president Joe Biden. The president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, told the panel: “Every single vote should be taken away from Biden.”“Since this has been debunked repeatedly, what evidence can you give to us that counters what our elections officials presented us with only an hour ago?” Parent asked one of the witnesses, her voice rising in exasperation. When she tried to ask a follow-up question, the Republican committee chairman cut her off.AdHer questions — and the fact that the claims were misleading, unsubstantiated or just plain false — did little to keep the rumors in check. It didn’t matter that state and local election officials had explained what was in the video and conducted a hand recount to show that the machines were not rigged. It didn’t matter that multiple news outlets detailed, over and over, that there was no evidence of widespread fraud. It didn’t matter that, amid a global pandemic and massive demand for mail ballots, a system under historic strain in fact held up decisively.To preserve his hold on power, Trump has spent the weeks since Election Day promoting falsehoodsabout voting problems in Georgia and five other states, successfully persuading tens of millions of his supporters to believe a lie — that the election was stolen from him, and from them.He has done so by harnessing the power of his position, using his pulpit at the White House and his Twitter feed to let loose a fusillade of conspiracy theories. His assault on the integrity of the election has gotten a hefty assist from pro-Trump media outfits and an assortment of state lawmakers and lawyers who gave oxygen to the debunked allegations — and a majority of congressional Republicans, who called on the Supreme Court to overturn the results in four states.Control of the Senate rests in the hands of Georgia voters in the Jan. 5 runoff election that will determine two seats. (The Washington Post)Trump is continuing to press his case, even now that the electoral college has formally elected Biden. In a meeting with allies on Friday, the president discussed deploying the military to rerun the election and appointing attorney Sidney Powell, whose conspiracy theories about election fraud have been widely discredited, as a special counsel to investigate the outcome.Along the way, Trump has willfully damaged two bedrocks of American democracy that he has been going after for years: confidence in the media as a source of trusted information and faith in systems of government. It might be one of his lasting legacies.A Fox News poll released on Dec. 11shows that more than a third of registered voters believe the election was stolen from Trump — a number that rises to 77 percent among those who voted for Trump. Conversely, 56 percent of voters believe Trump weakened American democracy by contesting election results in various states, with the number rising to 85 percent among those who voted for Biden, according to the poll.Trump’s campaign spokesman, Tim Murtaugh, declined to answer specific questions about the damage the president has done or the untruths he embraced.“President Trump owes it to the 75 million Americans who voted for him — and to those who voted for Joe Biden — to ensure that the election was free, fair and secure,” he said.Even now that the electoral college has voted, and the GOP’s top leaders have publicly accepted Biden’s victory, both parties and the country overall must reckon with the mark Trump has left on American democracy. Biden will start his presidency with nearly half the country believing he is not the legitimate occupant of the White House. Many Americans who voted against Trump and have watched with horror as he has tried to subvert the results are equally disillusioned about the strength of the system, which they fear could have toppled but for the courage of a cadre of election officials, state Republicansand judges who held the line.Few anticipate that the mistrust and divisions will fade with the 45th president’s departure from the White House. One reason: The most ardent purveyors of unfounded accusations say they have no plans to back down.“The fact is that President Trump was reelected by what will be known soon to be a landslide victory unparalleled in this country,” said L. Lin Wood, a Georgia lawyer and Trump ally who has filed unsuccessful lawsuits on the president’s behalf.Wood said he spoke to the president in a phone call earlier this month, encouraging him not to concede in what he described as “a battle between good and evil.”Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, said that kind of rhetoric has emboldened some in the country to doubt the results merely because their preferred candidate lost.“We’re entering a very dangerous phase where a sizable share of the population has no faith in the basic mechanics of the democracy,” Persily said. Millions of voters, he added, now see the fight over who should lead the country as a function of “the willingness to exert power as opposed to playing by fair rules of the game.”A base willing to believeTrump has demonstrated a unique capacity to rally supporters to his war cries, even when they are false or unproven. He gained notoriety nearly a decade ago as the leader of the so-called birther movement, asserting falsely that then-President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.This year, Trump’s obsession with election fraud has tested his followers anew, and their willingness to go along with him has shown how powerful his hold is on the GOP.Thousands of President Trump’s supporters converged on Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 to falsely claim he won the election. (The Washington Post)The president’s false claims about voting ramped up in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when election officials were gearing up for a historic surge in mail balloting. He got help from a chorus of Republican allies, who echoed and amplified his untruths on the campaign trail, on conservative television and in state capitols in key battlegrounds.In the days following the election, his rhetoric defied logic as he cited more and more outlandish accusations and echoed unverified Twitter accounts. “They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan,” Trump tweeted on Nov. 4, suggesting falsely that ballots still being counted a day after the election were fraudulent. “So bad for our Country!”On Nov. 30, the president retweeted an account named @Catturd2 that claimed in Arizona, “Truck Loads of Ballots Kept Coming in For 10 Days After Elections Officials Thought They Were Done Counting.”Many of his increasingly outrageous accusations — blasted out to his 89 million followers on Twitter — came straight from one of his new favorite news sources, One America News.“Pennsylvania Poll Watcher: USB Drives uploaded to machines, gave Biden thousands of votes,” the president tweeted on Nov. 27.Dec. 16: “Study: Dominion Machines shifted 2-3% of Trump Votes to Biden. Far more votes than needed to sway election.”Cobb County election workers recount votes by hand in Marietta, Ga. (Kevin D. Liles/for The Washington Post)Trump and his allies also claimed to have scores of “affidavits” alleging fraud on a massive scale. But the sworn statements his campaign and his allies submitted in lawsuits contained meaningless observations, such as one complaint in Michigan that a “man of intimidating size” had followed a poll watcher too closely, and another who said that a public address system was too loud and therefore “distracting to those of us trying to concentrate.”Trump and his allies have lost overwhelmingly when they tried to overturn Biden’s victory through the courts, with at least 88 judges across the country ruling against them either on procedural grounds or on the merits in more than 50 cases. The president’s campaign on Sunday said it was filing a new petition with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the result in Pennsylvania, challenging state voting procedures similar to those that the court has so far declined to act on.Even as his accusations havecollapsed under scrutiny, they have gained traction among his most ardent supporters.They have been spurred on by Trump-supporting cable and online news outlets such as OAN and Newsmax, which touted unfounded theories about the Dominion machines, dead people voting and poll workers in Michigan allegedly covering up windows with cardboard to prevent observers from watching the process.At a rally in Valdosta, Ga., earlier this month for two Republican senators facing a runoff election on Jan. 5, Trump paused his speech and turned to giant screens that played misleading news reports on fraud. Thousands in the crowd watched the videos, rapt.Trump supporters chant at a rally in Valdosta, Ga. in early December. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Trump’s arguments made sense, his supporters said. They couldn’t believe that Biden fared better than Obama had in his races, and they were suspicious that Trump was ahead in some states on Election Day but fell behind as mail ballots were counted — either unaware or untrusting of news reports explaining why that was expected.“Do you truly believe that Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama?” asked Wendy Mick, 53, who traveled from New Jersey to a “Stop the Steal” rally in the District on Dec. 12, and said that Newsmax and OAN are her new preferred sources for political news. “He never campaigned. There’s no way that Biden got so many votes.”How the lie took holdThe relative silence of Republicans lawmakers in the initial days after the election, both in states and on Capitol Hill, quickly gave way to a flood of support for Trump’s posture.A stock line emerged among Republican leaders who refused to acknowledge Biden’s win: The president has the right to pursue all legal avenues available to him.But Trump has done more than pursue all legal avenues. He has openly cajoled his supporters to join the fight. And they did.In Maricopa County, Ariz., home of Phoenix, his supporters lashed out at local election officials, accusing them without evidence of improperly verifying signatures, switching Trump votes to Biden votes on duplicate ballots and keeping observers too far away from ballot-counting to see anything.In Wisconsin, they claimed the use of drop boxes for mail ballots was illegal. With most municipal offices closed to the public because of the pandemic, many city clerks set up secure drop boxes not just for ballots, but for other city business such as utility bills.“I had customers dropping off absentee ballots and saying, ‘How are you going to differentiate my ballot from a utility bill?’ and I thought, ‘Wow, you must really think I’m dumb that I can’t differentiate a ballot envelope from a utility bill,’ ” said Lori Stottler, the city clerk in Beloit, Wis., on the Illinois border. “But then I thought, ‘Well, they don’t know what I do.’ And I took a step back and I tried to explain.”GOP Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler’s Facebook page was inundated with demands from constituents that he reverse Biden’s win in the state. Protesters also gathered outside his rural home in Lancaster County on Dec. 5 with bullhorns and signs.“Petition your governor for a special session!” an organizer shouted. “Why haven’t you petitioned him?”“Do your job!” the crowd chanted back. “Do your job! Do your job!”Trump supporters pray and sing outside the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Dec. 14, as the state’s electors cast their ballots for Biden. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)At one point, Rep. Seth Grove, a Republican lawmaker from York County, Pa., said a conservative activist confronted him at the Capitol in Harrisburg, demanding that the legislature take action to seat Trump’s electors — even though state law does not allow such a move.Grove said he was stunned when the longtime tea party organizer proclaimed, “You know, the Constitution doesn’t limit government!”It was a reminder, Grove said, of just how much power Trump has amassed over the Republican electorate, to the point that some of his supporters are no longer guided by political principles they have claimed adherence to in the past.“I looked at him. I’m like, ‘What?’ ” Grove recalled. “It shocked me. Shocked me.”Lawmakers in Arizona and Pennsylvania rebuffed the president’s efforts to stage official hearings to examine potential fraud. But back benchers in both states assembled media spectacles in hotel ballrooms, labeling them hearings but presenting “witnesses” that were not under oath and offering no evidence for their claims.Republican lawmakers in Michigan and Georgia did hold official hearings, giving Giuliani an additional platform to unspool a series of false claims.“I know they are under a lot of pressure from their base, from the lies being spun by Trump and his enablers, right-wing media, etc., but it was really disappointing,” said Parent, the Georgia senator. “The hearing was obviously a sham that wasn’t designed to answer any questions about the election.”Republicans on the committee did not respond to requests for comment.One witness at the Michigan hearing, Mellissa Carone, gained notoriety for a stream of unfounded accusations, including one claim that she’d seen a van pull up to a Detroit vote-counting center that was meant to bring in meals for election workers but was actually filled with phony ballots. Carone had previously been deemed “simply not credible” by a state judge.Trump lashed out at those who refused to bend to his will. He called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, an “enemy of the people” for failing to embrace the president’s accusations of fraud. He accused the Michigan secretary of state, Democrat Jocelyn Benson, of “breaking the law” by rigging voting machines.Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks at a news conference in Atlanta. (Kevin D. Liles/for The Washington Post)And he threatened Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, also a Republican, with a primary challenge in 2022 for not helping him reverse the outcome — even though Kemp had explained in a contentious phone call that he did not have the power to do so.Trump’s rhetoric has spurred some of his supporters to do more than merely protest.Raffensperger and his wife began receiving death threats and accepted a state security detail at their home in suburban Atlanta. Protesters trespassed at Benson’s home in Detroit, some armed with bullhorns and some with guns, ignoring neighbors’ pleas to go home because they were scaring children, including Benson’s 4-year-old son.In Houston, a former police captain was arrested Tuesday after allegedly slamming into an air-conditioning repairman’s truck to thwart what he said was a vast election-fraud scheme. The man, Mark Anthony Aguirre, was paid $250,000 by a right-wing organization to pursue fraud conspiracy theories and believed that the truck contained 750,000 fake ballots, police said.The truck, it turned out, was full of nothing but air conditioning parts.'The fraud happened'Vanishingly few national Republicans have been willing to stand up to the false statements, despite privately acknowledging that the election is over. “The future will take care of itself,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters in early December, refusing to acknowledge that Biden had won.In Pennsylvania, Republican lawmakers who had initially resisted the president’s entreaties wound up signing onto an emergency petition to the Supreme Court that sought to overturn Biden’s win in the state, though they never cited fraud in their filing. They also sent a letter to Congress urging federal lawmakers to reject Pennsylvania’s electoral votes when they convene on Jan. 6.Grove, the GOP lawmaker from Pennsylvania, said he and other Republicans had assumed the letter would go nowhere. A challenge requires support from a member of both the House and Senate, but Grove and others incorrectly thought they had to be from the state in question, and they knew that Pennsylvania’s two senators, Republican Patrick J. Toomey and Democrat Robert P. Casey Jr., would not support it.“We didn’t know that anyone can do it from any state,” Grove said. “That was a surprise.”Congressional Republicans also began echoing Trump’s claims; 126 of them ultimately signed onto an emergency petition to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn results in four states Biden had won.“The fraud happened,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at a hearing last week in Washington to examine election irregularities.Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who called the hearing despite acknowledgingthat Biden had won a legitimate election following the electoral college vote, declared at the start of the proceeding: “There was fraud in this election. I don’t have any doubt about that.”That idea that something went wrong with the vote this year has now taken hold among many Americans.Anna Van Winkle, a retired aesthetician in Savannah, Ga., who voted for Trump, has accepted her candidate’s defeat, but believes lawmakers must fix the election process to make sure such broad doubt in the outcome can’t happen again.“My concern is that we don’t go down this road again,” she said. “We had a problem. We had a big problem. And now, going forward, the best way to deal with this is to fix this where somebody like me is not going to wonder, ‘Okay, was there fraud here?’”Van Winkle was perplexed when she received multiple absentee ballot request forms at her address, and worries that others willing to commit ballot fraud would have been able to do so by requesting more than one ballot. Although Georgia requires identification to request a ballot online — and signature matching on ballots themselves — Van Winkle doesn’t understand why states don’t require mail voters to get their ballots notarized.Clayton County election workers recount votes in Jonesboro, Ga. (Kevin D. Liles/for The Washington Post)Voting-right activists, meanwhile, are concerned that such sentiments will now be cited as an excuse to try to erect new barriers to casting ballots.Indeed, GOP lawmakers in Georgia have already floated a proposal to eliminate no-excuses absentee balloting, meaning only those with a qualifying reason such as illness or an overseas assignment could vote by mail. In Texas, lawmakers have filed bills to limit distribution of absentee ballot applications and make it a felony to help voters fill out ballots. Pennsylvania Republicans have discussed tighter identification requirements for mail ballots and signature matches.Defenders of this year’s elections also recognize the need to shore up public confidence. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who advocated unsuccessfully for billions in election aid for states this year, believes Congress must act to curtail misinformation on social media companies, which she said fell short in their civic obligation to restrict false claims on their platforms.Klobuchar said she was heartened by the Republicans who immediately acknowledged Biden’s win, by those who did so after the electoral college vote and by the dozens of judges across the country, many of them Republican appointees, who roundly rejected the fraud claims of Trump and his allies.“All of those things mean our democracy is working during a really hard time,” she said.But there remains the reality that Trump and millions of his supporters still refuse to accept Biden’s win, creating a disturbing precedent, Klobuchar said, in a political system that has prided itself on the peaceful transfer of power and acknowledgment of election results.“I’m concerned about our democracy in the long run if these civil mores change,” she said, “so people don’t even have to tell the truth about who won.”Emma Brown, Robert Barnes, Emily Guskin, Rosalind S. Helderman, Elise Viebeck and Rachel Weiner contributed to this report.