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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. We know this because there were teams of reporters inside and outside the courtroom. Had there actually been a mob atmosphere, Frank’s attorneys could have requested a change of venue.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 anti-Gentile 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 in the metal room (2nd floor) 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 (1968)’.Mary Phagan Bitemark Claim: Real or just another anti-Gentile hoax created about the Leo Frank case?Let us examine the Mary Phagan bite wound origin source: To Number, Our Days by Pierre van Paassen, 1964. Let’s review each sentence and paragraph of this alleged claim that is not reported in Mary Phagan’s autopsy reports. What are some of the problems with these assertions? Does the whole thing sound like a fabrication based on our common sense and research?Pierre van Paassen, circa 1950sThe excerpt that discusses the case of Leo Frank and Van Paassen's discovery of photographic evidence comes 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 (82′ - 86′).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 observer ever believed in 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 Incredulous StoryAlonzo 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 files and they read it. There was no antisemitism at his trial, the ADL and its leadership lied.Governor Slaton (right) and his wife (left) Sarah Grant, photo by Bain media, 20th C.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, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars today, maybe more with all the inflationary printing.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 whipped up in the moment, lynching a rapist or child molester, not these men. They were sober and deliberate, having planned the lynching for months in advance and executed it with operational precision.It is well known The Georgia Supreme Court in 1913 and 1914, disagrees with your conjecture Lennart. The Georgia Supreme Court stated on their official decision and ruled in 1914 the evidence, testimony, and exhibits at the Trial of Leo Frank were sufficient for a guilty verdict. That’s not something Leo Frank’s supporters ever mention in their re-tellings of the case that the Supreme Court ruled the evidence was 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 seemingly designed 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 the Lynching of Leo Frank. Published by Pantheon Books in 2003 with 740 pages and copious annotations. He pretends to be unbiased by his loyalties are with Leo Frank. Oney state he was 95% certain Jim Conley committed the crime, for that reason alone history will not be kind to him.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, 1896, and Senator, 1920) wrote five (January, March, August, September, and October 1915) separate analytical reviews of the Leo Frank case, aspects. Why Was Leo Frank Lynched? (Read the five he published)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.In the American South 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 motivated 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. Anti-Semitism is a trick.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. What happened to Frank was the exception to the rule, given he was the only Jew in the United States lynched.January 2021 U.S. Senator from Georgia Jon Ossoff, public domain 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 Strangler-Pedophile 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 and other topics related in some way to Judaism. It’s appalling that this problem of anti-Gentile 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, using it as a form of racist and ethnic warfare against non-Jews. This tendency causes Jews as a whole to get a historical 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. And in this case, Jewish activists are using history as a myopic form of intellectual warfare.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 without passion or ideological fetishes. 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 having little understanding of the case files 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, there 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 by removing Jewish from in front of the word consensus. They even made sure the “consensus” was in the first paragraph you read on the Wiki 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 anti-Gentile 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 any 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 using the academy as intellectual warfare against Gentiles?We have a PR problem and as Jews, we have to start calling out the history falsifying professors marching through the halls of the institutions of higher learning, 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 must be called out on a daily basis.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]. This 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.Epic 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 to know Leo Frank’s posthumous pardon was based solely on 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. Leo Frank’s defenders are using a Jewish cemetery in NY—the Mount Carmel Cemetery, to promote vicious anti-Gentile racial hate crime hoaxes. And in Marietta, they are defiling the grave of a little girl. For more information about the modern-day family of Mary Phagan, they have a website called “Little Mary Phagan” that can be found online. This familial website has an immense library of research about the case of Mary Phagan. I learned a lot reading the hundreds of newspaper reports from Atlanta, circa 1913.Further References:The Library of CongressThe Marietta Daily Journal

I am so GODDAM FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF THIS SHIT that I just spent $72 in order to post an excellent article from Fortune Magazine that cites dates and people and FACTS about this destructive LIE regarding the 2020 election. Here’s my copying of it - I’m not going to prettify it because I’M TIRED OF THIS BULLSHIT THAT’S DESTROYING OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.JUST FUCKING READ ———————————On Dec. 9, Nicole Nollette, an executive at Dominion Voting Systems, was driving home from a doctor’s appointment when she noticed she’d missed a call from one of her customers.The client, an elections official whose jurisdiction uses Dominion’s voting machines, had also sent her a link to a website. Nollette pulled up the site on her phone and saw her own photo—overlaid with bright red crosshairs, as though she were in the sights of a sniper’s rifle. The website, which bore the moniker “Enemies of the People,” also included an address in Nevada, showing aerial views of that property beneath Nollette’s picture. That alarmed Nollette even more, because she doesn’t live in Nevada but in Colorado, where Dominion is based. The address was for the home of her retired parents. Months later, the Navy veteran remembers the fear in her mother’s voice over the phone as her parents loaded the website: “They have a picture of the house,” her mom gasped.Nollette was one of more than a dozen people, ranging from other Dominion employees to Trump administration officials, whose photos were posted on the website. The site accused them all of playing a role in an elaborate conspiracy to rig November’s presidential election by “flipping” votes for Donald Trump to Joe Biden—and relying on Dominion’s machines, which are in use in 28 states, to do it. Later that day, the FBI showed up on Nollette’s parents’ doorstep to alert them to the menace. Soon, Nollette herself received death threats—including one sent to her personal email address, warning, “Your days are numbered.” She still doesn’t know who sent them, though the FBI later notified Dominion and others that its intel had linked the hit list to Iran.The threats have tapered in the months since President Trump left the White House. But Nollette, who lives alone, still watches for suspicious cars around her street. And while she once made a daily habit of taking walks before sunrise and after sunset, she now goes out only in the light of day. “This is the first time since I left the military that, at least in terms of security and threats, I’ve had to engage that military training,” she says.Nollette’s life is one of many upended by perhaps the mother of all conspiracy theories: a far-fetched but pernicious tale spun up in a last-ditch attempt to overturn the outcome of the presidential election. It’s a tale that found its roots in a rat’s nest of misinformation and which has come to be known, among many who have encountered it, as the Big Lie. Judges, election officials, cybersecurity experts, and governors have been publicly badgered for discrediting it, or vilified for failing to prove it. Others have faced Nollette’s fate, or harassment still more severe. Eric Coomer, Dominion’s director of product strategy and security, was doxed by one of the theory’s espousers about a week after the election. A mountain climber and bread-baker with a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, Coomer has not been able to return home since the threats began and is hiding somewhere outside the U.S.; even his lawyer doesn’t know where he is.The Dominion narrative drew oxygen from various corners of the Internet and conservative political spheres. Trump himself tweeted on Nov. 12 that Dominion “deleted” 2.7 million of his votes. But it passed a point of no return on Nov. 19. That’s when Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, and Sidney Powell, an appellate lawyer and a onetime federal prosecutor, both then representing the Trump campaign, held a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington to focus on “legal challenges” to the election results.Up until that day, Dominion might have been able to mount a defense with a fact-checking campaign aimed at correcting the record; it had hired crisis PR specialists as well as a top physical- and cyber-security firm. “It never really dawned on me that these people had ruined our company,” says John Poulos, Dominion’s cofounder and CEO. But he felt his world tilt as he watched the press conference unfold.LONG-HAUL LITIGANT John Poulos, photographed in Atlanta in March 2021.Photograph by Chuck MarcusSome 25 minutes into the event, Giuliani mentioned Dominion for the first time—just around the memorable moment that his hair dye began streaming down his face. He later singled out Coomer by name, calling him a “vicious, vicious man” who was “close to Antifa.” Giuliani and Powell went on to allege that Dominion’s software had been built in Venezuela under orders of dictator Hugo Chávez for the purpose of fixing elections, and that it counted votes in Germany and Spain—claims that were easily disproved, but were red meat to partisans convinced that the GOP had been victimized.“It was just a surreal moment,” says Poulos, who was at home in Toronto with his wife, three teenagers, and two dogs. “I thought that they were working to incite a civil war.”Earlier that month, Powell had promised to release the “Kraken,” a monster of Norse lore that was her metaphor for evidence of widespread voter fraud. That evidence, according to authorities ranging from the Department of Justice to Republican election attorneys, has yet to be delivered. What Powell and Giuliani unleashed instead was a barrage of misinformation that embedded shrapnel-like shards of doubt in the walls of democracy. In the days after the press conference, Giuliani and Powell would repeat their claims about Dominion many more times on right-leaning cable networks, including the most popular of all, Fox News, which last year commanded more than 3.5 million nightly prime-time viewers. Other sources far less reputable or official picked up the story and ran with it: According to Zignal Labs, which tracks opinion trends across media, Dominion has been mentioned in reference to rigging the election more than 400,000 times on Twitter, YouTube, and other social media. Dominion for countless Trump supporters quickly became a name synonymous with suspicion and scandal.We are not initiating claims to reach a settlement agreement where the truth can't come out.John Poulos, CEO, Dominion Voting SystemsThe Dominion narrative became one of the thickest clouds in a fog of calumny around the election. In the two weeks after the Associated Press called the race for Biden, Fox News either questioned or put forth conspiracy theories about the results at least 774 times, according to Media Matters, a nonprofit that tracks right-leaning misinformation. A survey around the same time by researchers from universities including Northeastern found that more than half of Republican voters either thought Trump had won or weren’t sure who did. Poulos’s own uncle, in Arizona, believes Dominion played some role in a conspiracy. “He doesn’t know what parts to disbelieve,” Poulos says.The consequences played out in unspeakably tragic form on Jan. 6, when a mob, made up predominantly of those who believed the election was stolen, broke into the U.S. Capitol in a riot that left five people dead.Two days later, Dominion filed its first defamation lawsuit. Poulos had decided to litigate not long after the November press conference. “The only remedy that we have is by taking their case to court,” he says. “The truth absolutely needs to come out.”Accidental plaintiffsIn the chaos of the nation’s corrosive election dispute, it was easy to miss the significance of the attacks on Dominion. When Trump backers spread general (if largely baseless) rumors about wide-scale ballot and voter fraud, their allegations were easily defensible as free political speech. But when Powell and Giuliani pointed the finger at Dominion, they crossed a crucial line. Now the operatives were making specific claims about a specific party, in ways that were economically damaging. And because those claims were quickly discredited—including in investigations by GOP election operatives who had every motive to hope they were true—the speakers’ insistence on repeating them would seem, legally, to demonstrate “actual malice,” or reckless disregard for the truth.“If they meet all of those elements, then you can hold people accountable, regardless of the fact that it is in the context of the political process,” says attorney Tom Clare. Clare has not lost a defamation trial since founding his libel-focused law firm, Clare Locke, seven years ago; now he’s representing Dominion.On Jan. 8, Dominion filed a defamation case against Powell. Over the next few weeks it filed similar suits against Giuliani and Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who has released hours-long videos rife with conspiracy theories starring Dominion; each suit requests damages of $1.3 billion. The company filed its fourth suit on March 26 against Fox News, asking for a judgment of more than $1.6 billion. (Dominion’s is the second big defamation case Fox is facing based on its coverage of voting machines: In February, Smartmatic—a competitor to Dominion with considerably smaller U.S. operations—sued Fox for $2.7 billion.) It’s a history-making tornado of litigation, legal experts say, for the volume of claims against multiple defendants around the same issue. “That is, in my experience, unique,” says J. Erik Connolly, Smartmatic’s attorney, who successfully sued ABC News for its “pink slime” coverage on behalf of a beef company in the biggest defamation suit on record. “From a reputational damage perspective, it’s a perfect storm.”$1.6 billionDamages sought by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox NewsThe cases are also potentially groundbreaking in a more significant way, one whose ramifications are impossible to predict: They’re an effort by private companies to make other parties literally pay for abusing political discourse—including a media giant that has had a huge influence on 21st-century public life. Fox argues that the voting-machine allegations were inherently newsworthy, and that the airtime it gave them is protected under the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press. The plaintiffs argue that the falsity of the allegations, and the apparent endorsement of them by some Fox hosts, strips those protections away.Companies are positioned to conduct this fight in a way that individuals rarely are. Politicians seldom sue for defamation, especially in the heat of a campaign. No matter how damaging the rumors spread by an opponent, they can’t afford the distraction of hashing out the truth about their past in court. And few individuals, public or private, can afford the cost. A business, on the other hand, can bring deeper pockets to the battle—and can point to the tangible pain of lost profit and revenue to show that untruths have consequences.In the case of the voting machine companies, Connolly points out that the allegations took aim at the very heart of their brands: accuracy and reliability. “When you have an attack like that on your core business model, a defamation lawsuit may become a business necessity,” Connolly says. “It’s one of the only ways you can restore your reputation.” The multibillion-dollar question is whether, in protecting that business model, these relatively obscure companies can reshape the rules around accuracy and reliability in public debate.The aftershocks of innuendoThis visualization of data from media-research firm Zignal Labs shows how various unsubstantiated claims about Dominion persisted online.A distrusted industryJohn Poulos started Dominion out of his basement in Toronto in 2003. A Canadian who doesn’t even vote in the U.S., he’d recently moved back home from Silicon Valley after selling his first startup, a telecom technology company. He found his next big idea in the aftermath of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, with its controversies over butterfly ballots and hanging chads. Congress had subsequently passed the Help America Vote Act focused on improving voting technology and accessibility. Poulos had an idea for creating a system that would help blind people vote without compromising the secrecy of their ballots. He named the company after Canada’s Dominion Elections Act of 1920, which expanded women’s suffrage. “We thought that would be a nice homage to helping voters vote,” Poulos says.Dominion voting machines could also be used by sighted voters, and Poulos gradually built a clientele among state and local governments. He recruited a staff dedicated to the company’s democratic mission, if not the “obscene” hours and seven-day election season workweeks. By 2020, Dominion was the second-largest voting-machine business in the United States, with its machines used in 1,500 elections in 28 states and Puerto Rico, and a staff of about 300.But Dominion had joined an industry that was already viewed with suspicion from across the political spectrum. In the push to modernize voting technology, some jurisdictions had upgraded to electronic systems whose traceability was opaque—-particularly in cases in which machines left no paper records. In 2006, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion, environmental attorney, and future anti-vaccination activist, published an article in Rolling Stone questioning whether the 2004 election had been “stolen” by the GOP with help from such machines. In 2008, a Princeton University computer science professor named Andrew Appel demonstrated how to hack certain voting machines using a screwdriver.The paranoia helped set off a rollback to more old-school methods; most machines today, including Dominion’s, generate or tally paper ballots that can be recounted. Still, mistrust kept percolating, particularly after reports of Russian interference dogged the 2016 presidential elections. (That meddling included extensive misinformation campaigns, but investigations found no evidence of voting-system tampering.) Dominion wasn’t immune from the suspicion: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein sued to review the source code of Dominion and other machines in Wisconsin after her loss there four years ago; that litigation is ongoing.Despite that backdrop of distrust, the 2020 election might have unfolded with little drama for Dominion—if not for Antrim County. That northern Michigan jurisdiction is a Republican stronghold, but on Election Night, and as the vote was counted into Wednesday morning, Biden and down-ballot Democrats appeared to be winning by a landslide. When campaign attorneys brought the anomaly to election officials’ attention, they discovered the problem: There had been a change in the candidates listed on the ballot, but a local official had neglected to reprogram some of the machines—which used Dominion’s software—with the new template. As a result, voters’ selections were essentially transposed down a row in initial tallies, their votes accruing to another party’s candidate.Election officials corrected the human error the same day it was caught; in the end, Trump was the clear winner in Antrim. Antrim “shows that the problems and process leads to the correct result,” says Edward Perez, global director of technology development for the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on researching election tech. “It seems a strange circumstance to pick on to show how the election was rigged.”DOUBLE-CHECKED An election worker handles ballots in Phoenix. Arizona was one of the states where investigators sought, but didn’t find, evidence of vote-rigging.USA Network/ReutersThe damage, however, was done, and conspiracy theorists had a kernel of doubt to run with. Dominion’s machines were in use in some of the most closely contested states: Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona, to name a few. On Nov. 6, before the election was officially called, Rep. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, citing the Antrim incident, began tweeting calls to “audit all Dominion software” for its “massive fraud potential.” Calls for investigations grew louder, and President Trump, determined to fight the election results, was happy to amplify them.By the time Powell and Giuliani held their press conference, things had taken a more outlandish turn. Conspiracy-mongers had assigned Dominion a partner in evil: Venezuelan strongman Chávez, who had died in 2013. Powell’s narrative relied significantly on a heavily redacted affidavit from a supposed “Venezuelan whistleblower” who alleged that Smartmatic had built its software to be able to secretly change votes to Chávez, and that Dominion’s system descended from that mold. Both Smartmatic and Dominion vigorously dismiss that narrative. But the story did have a distorted, game-of-Telephone connection to reality that helped it sound more plausible to those inclined to believe it. Smartmatic’s founders were Venezuelans; the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. probed the company’s ties to Venezuela back in 2006; and Dominion had bought a former subsidiary of Smartmatic’s several years after Smartmatic divested it. That thin reed turned into a stick that Powell and Giuliani beat Dominion with. Dominion’s ties to Venezuela have garnered more than 110,000 social media mentions, according to Zignal. (As for Smartmatic, in the 2020 election in the U.S., the only place where its machines were used was Los Angeles.)The bizarre conditions around the election provided particularly fertile ground for skepticism. The combination of a close result and a long vote-counting process—caused by the unprecedented millions who cast absentee ballots owing to COVID-19 concerns—created a tense nationwide spectator sport, with party lawyers, poll watchers, and armchair detectives seeking paths for their guy to eke out a win. “It’s the old cliché: Old fish and old election results smell, because people get suspicious about them,” says Mark Braden, a former chief counsel to the RNC who’s now at the firm BakerHostetler (and who calls the claims against Dominion “fantasyland, total garbage, 100%”). Add a President who had spent months laying the groundwork to cry fraud if he lost, and the climate was ripe for conspiracy theories. “The base is very credulous on these sorts of accusations,” says a Republican attorney. “And Dominion drew the short straw.”Still, while the theory that Dominion machines were flipping votes might have initially seemed to hold water in light of the Antrim County bungle, the bottom fell out as soon as GOP officials went looking for proof in states that Biden won. Charlie Spies, an election law attorney, represented Republican hopeful John James in the 2020 Michigan Senate race. If the Antrim County glitch had carried over into the other counties using Dominion machines in the state, his candidate would have won. “My goal was to find evidence of a problem large enough to have impacted the results,” says Spies. He says he tried to run down every claim raised by Powell, hoping it would help, but all came up short. “Where I get lost on the big conspiracy is, these machines aren’t interconnected,” he says. “And one machine doesn’t change a statewide election.”Where I get lost on the big conspiracy is, these machines aren't interconnected, and one machine doesn't change a statewide election.Charlie Spies, Republican election-law attorneyRepublican campaign attorneys and candidates across the country were trying to do the same thing. In Arizona, lawyers from both in and out of state descended to investigate Dominion’s machines, but after nearly a week of digging and interviewing technicians and election workers, they found no statistical anomalies, improper Internet connections, nor any other problems.Over in Virginia, Republican party officials and attorneys were surprised to hear Giuliani reference fraud in their state during the Nov. 19 press conference; they had heard nothing of the sort from their own poll watchers. When they followed up with the Trump campaign, no one got back to them. If there were examples of malfeasance, the officials thought it was odd not to be asked to investigate them. “We could never get anyone to tell us what proof they had,” says Chris Marston, a Republican campaign attorney and founder of Election CFO, a campaign-finance compliance company. “But we feel comfortable there was no widespread machine-based fraud in Virginia.”All along, Powell was making her case, both in the media and behind the scenes. GOP candidates who’d lost their races say they were fielding calls from Powell and her team, urging them to “keep on fighting,” that she was “going to break this wide open” and that they’d “better get on board.” But when campaign lawyers asked for evidence, “we’d never get anything back other than general, ‘It’s bad, they cheated, it was stolen,’ ” says a Republican attorney. “There’s no ‘there’ there,” says another.“Air-gapped”What the Republican operatives were—or weren’t—finding was exactly what experts in voting systems expected. In the new, lower-tech era, most voting machines including Dominion’s are designed to operate fully offline, with no connection to the Internet—they’re “air-gapped,” to use the cybersecurity term. Appel—the Princeton computer scientist who has hacked a voting machine with a screwdriver—notes that there are still at least a couple of ways to compromise the new breed remotely, generally involving a touchpoint to the Internet. One would be to install malicious software on the machines before they’re shipped out from warehouses, such as through a phishing attack on a Dominion employee. Another way would be to hack the laptops that county officials use to program the machines at a local level, which typically involves uploading the ballot data to a memory card or thumb drive and transferring that—with the addition of a fraudulent algorithm—to the machines. If pulled off successfully, the machines could be “hacked in a networked way, where one hack covers thousands of machines,” Appel says.Still, would-be hackers face formidable obstacles. One is that under current practice, even the programming laptops are, except in rare lapses, not connected to the Internet, making them virtually inaccessible to a remote hacker. Second, even if an attacker did install fraudulent vote-switching software on machines, it’s extremely unlikely that it would escape discovery during the various certification and accuracy testing protocols the machines undergo ahead of an election, or in the postelection audits that certain states conduct. “There are many, many places where a bad actor would have to maintain the lack of detection, again and again and again and again,” explains OSET’s Perez. And at the end of the day, if the paper ballots match the machine tallies—as they did in the states that conducted 2020 recounts—“that’s pretty strong evidence that the voting computers weren’t hacked,” says Appel.If a hack like the one Powell and Giuliani were describing were to take place, in other words, 2020 is the year it would have been caught. Between November and January, there have been recounts or audits of votes involving more than 1,000 Dominion machines—including the third recount, by hand, of Georgia’s 5 million-plus ballots. None found errors or irregularities on any meaningful scale.“There are many, many places where a bad actor would have to maintain the lack of detection, again and again and again and again,” to rig voting machines.Edward Perez, The Oset InstituteAs legal challenges regarding more mundane allegations fell apart soon after the election, other law firms dropped the Trump campaign as a client—consolidating the campaign’s legal strategy, and its legal complaints, in the hands of Giuliani and allies like Powell. Powell had built a reputation for her expertise in appeals litigation; she didn’t lack for legal experience or acumen.But the evidence that Powell and her team attached to legal briefs in suits related to Dominion often reads like a hodgepodge of disconnected headlines. Some documents cite a computer game found downloaded onto a laptop running Dominion software as evidence of potential hacking; others point to unusually high voter turnout numbers as proof of something fishy. In some affidavits, witnesses explain that they are basing their testimony on things they found in Google searches. In December, when an Arizona judge dismissed one of Powell’s cases in its entirety, she concluded, “Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal court.” To critics, the evidence Powell and her allies have aired against Dominion, both in court and in the media, is at best an illustration of confirmation bias—conspiracy theorists citing one-off irregularities as proof of that conspiracy, without connecting any dots.Put another way, just because a voting machine could be hacked doesn’t mean it was—a distinction that Mark Braden finds himself explaining a lot lately. Braden, the former chief counsel to the RNC, has worked on roughly 100 recounts in his career, more, he thinks, than any other Republican lawyer in the country. He’s recently been fielding calls from others in the party wondering about the Dominion allegations, and he’s been trying to shoot them down. “They think, ‘Oh, there’s so much smoke, there must be some fire,’ ” Braden says. “And the answer is, everyone just has clouds in their mind. It’s not smoke—these are just clouds of confusion.”By Christmas of 2020, more than 50 lawsuits from the Trump campaign and its associates alleging election improprieties had been dismissed—and the legal and cybersecurity establishments had increasingly shrugged off the Dominion story. Before leaving office in December, Attorney General William Barr said said that after federal investigations, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” In March, the DOJ along with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) declassified a joint report that addressed “multiple public claims that one or more foreign governments—including Venezuela, Cuba, or China” controlled voting machines and manipulated vote counts. Upon investigation, the report said, the agencies “determined that they are not credible.”Fact, opinion, and newsAmid all the hate mail and death threats last fall, Poulos received an unexpected message from a Greek Orthodox priest in Long Island, N.Y. The priest had correctly guessed Poulos’s denomination and reached out to offer support. The men have never met, but they’ve spoken a handful of times, and the priest has sent Poulos books, from the spiritual to historical. “We’d have these conversations about how this is not the first time in history that something unfair has happened, and it seems hopeless,” Poulos recalls. “And he kept reminding me that in truth, we are on the right side of history.” A catharsis came in one of the counseling sessions, when the priest quoted Winston Churchill: “When you’re going through hell, keep going.” For Poulos and his employees, that phrase is now a sort of mantra.To a certain degree, Dominion’s pushback is already having its desired effect. In November and December, Dominion and Smartmatic sent warning letters to Fox News about the allegations the network was airing. After that, Fox ran some “fact-checking” segments including an interview with OSET’s Perez debunking the claims. Powell, Giuliani, and the story itself have largely receded from the network since early January.The story continues to ricochet around conservative media and social media, however, and Poulos and his colleagues say the damage endures. Dominion, as a privately held company, does not disclose its finances, but its latest lawsuit against Fox enumerates some of the harm it claims to have suffered, including anticipated voting-machine deals in Ohio and Louisiana that have been put on ice since the election. The damages the company is requesting include $600 million in lost profits, as well as lost enterprise value of at least $1 billion, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on security and “combatting the disinformation campaign.” Although the many zeroes have raised some eyebrows, Clare, Dominion’s attorney, defends the calculations. “The scope and the reach and the number of people that heard this and believed it and acted upon it is something that is just unprecedented in the 25-plus years that I’ve been doing this.”To win in court, Dominion’s and Smartmatic’s lawyers know it won’t be enough to prove the Big Lie isn’t true. Because the companies will likely be considered “public figures” in the eyes of the law (corporations almost always are) there’s a higher bar to clear to show defamation: They’ll need to prove the presence of actual malice—that the speaker of the false information either lied knowingly or with a reckless disregard for the truth. That means the trial could turn on a question that’s particularly urgent in an age of incompatible realities and “alternative facts”: Does putting trust in a false narrative count as reckless disregard for truth?Excerpted from US Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation v. Fox News Network, LLCThe defendants’ responses in the Dominion cases refract this question in different ways. Rudy Giuliani, who has so far represented himself in suits by Dominion and Coomer, did not respond to requests for comment, and his court filings to date give little indication of his strategy. Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, has yet to respond to Dominion in court, but he says he plans to double down on his claims. Lindell says he received a “smoking gun” that he aims to release as part of a later evidence dump, though he declined to let Fortune review it. “We’re going to countersue them with the biggest First Amendment lawsuit in history,” he says, adding, “It’s not defaming if you’re telling the truth about somebody.”Sidney Powell responded to Dominion’s lawsuit in late March with a motion to dismiss. One of the arguments in her brief is particularly provocative: Even if her statements could be proved true or false, it reads, “no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.” On one level, that puzzles defamation experts because it seems to undermine Powell’s authority. Sandra Baron, a First Amendment attorney and a senior fellow at the Information Society Project of Yale Law School, thinks it’s a long shot: “The last I looked, that defense worked best for a group of shock jocks—‘nobody takes what we’re saying seriously,’ ” Baron says. “But I think that’s a hard argument for a lawyer to make.” In an interview with Fortune, Powell’s lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler, clarifies the argument somewhat. Powell’s public statements weren’t facts, he argues, but became opinions when she presented testimony of other people she judged to be expert witnesses. Kleinhendler acknowledges that those witnesses’ credentials could have been flimsy, but says that by itself shouldn’t disqualify their arguments, or put Powell at fault. “These expert reports weren’t just idle chatter—they were supported by documents, by screenshots, by analyses,” Kleinhendler says. He and Powell had hoped—and still hope—their documents would have been enough to “warrant discovery” of additional evidence in court.There’s a “very basic mistake” in that argument, says George Freeman, executive director for the Media Law Resource Center who was a longtime libel defense attorney at the New York Times. “Those disclosed facts have to be true,” he says. If they aren’t, “the defense falls apart.” (Powell may also be taken to task, in court, for the vehemence with which she framed those “opinions” as facts. On Lou Dobbs’s eponymous Fox Business primetime show in early December, for example, she told the host, “You would have to be a damn fool and abjectly stupid not to see what happened here, for anybody who’s willing to look at the real evidence.”)The distinction between fact and opinion, and who’s responsible for the accuracy of the former, are bound to be the main themes of the suits against Fox News—undoubtedly the most consequential pieces of the voting-machine litigation. Whatever their outcome, those cases could send ripples throughout the media, attorneys say, redefining the role of organizations in both covering and correcting misinformation. Fox had yet to respond to Dominion’s suit when this article went to press, but its response to Smartmatic offers a look into its strategy. (Fox News declined to make staffers available for interviews for this story.)Last I looked, that defense worked best for a group of shock jocks. But I think that's a hard argument for a lawyer to make.Sandra Baron, The Information Society Project, Yale Law School, on Sidney Powell's legal strategyThe network argues in the Smartmatic case that President Trump’s election challenges were “undeniably newsworthy” and “matters of public concern”—categories of speech which the law affords some greater protection. “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that Fox cannot be held liable for fairly reporting and commenting on competing allegations in a hotly contested and actively litigated election,” Fox said in a statement. Fox also points to the “fact-checking segments” it aired, as well as instances where its own on-air staff said that no evidence of widespread fraud had emerged.The defense Fox appears to be employing, says Freeman, is known as neutral reportage—the idea that news outlets are allowed to report on and restate important claims made by responsible people. Freeman is one of many advocates who argue that the media should have this right. Neutral reportage is a privilege recognized in few courts, however, and in New York, where Fox is based (and being sued by Smartmatic), the courts have rejected it. And even if a court was receptive, attorneys say Fox might still stumble over the neutrality part; after all, a jury will have to weigh the totality of its coverage, and whether it endorsed its guests’ points. Examples of such perceived endorsement pepper the complaints from Dominion and Smartmatic. In November, for example, Dobbs ended a discussion with Powell about Dominion saying he was “glad” she was working “to straighten out all of this. It is a foul mess, and it is far more sinister than any of us could have imagined.” (Fox dropped Dobbs’s show in February—the day after Smartmatic served its lawsuit—but the network says that the cancellation was unrelated to the defamation cases.)If Fox were to lose, Dominion and some mainstream commentators will likely hail the win as a triumph of business against misinformation, a line drawn in the sand between facts and alternative facts—and a possible template for future lawsuits. That may be a be-careful-what-you-wish-for scenario, says Yale’s Baron. The benefits of reining in actually fake news, if you will, could have a chilling effect on the freedom of the press and on some speech in general. “The hope is that it will only chill those who are likely to lose libel suits,” she says. “I think the country may get an opportunity to learn a lot about the limits, for good or for ill, of libel law in the context of this litigation.”Beyond the First Amendment, there are other spheres for holding accountable those responsible for the Big Lie. Powell and Giuliani, along with several other attorneys who filed election challenges, are facing complaints from government officials seeking to disbar them from the legal profession entirely. And some lawmakers who have spread and acted on claims like Powell’s and Giuliani’s are being punished by some donors: Multiple companies have discontinued their donations to the campaigns of lawmakers who declined to certify the validity of the 2020 election. .There’s also the question of whether Dominion’s lawsuits will progress far enough, fast enough, to make a difference. Ironically enough, the toxic information climate exemplified by the Dominion narrative may make it harder to get to the truth. Once it goes to trial, it may be a challenge to empanel enough jurors whose views have not been tainted by the pervasive allegations. Any definitive verdict is likely three to four years down the road, which means there could be another presidential election before a ruling can vindicate the voting machine companies. Should Dominion prevail, its less clear whether it will even make a difference in the minds of the millions for whom the conspiracy theories are gospel.For Poulos, the issues around integrity and democracy outweigh those concerns. He says Dominion, which is paying the lawyer bills out of its own coffers, has enough runway to pursue the litigation for years and does not plan to settle. “We are not initiating claims to reach a settlement agreement where the truth can’t come out,” he says. “That’s just not of interest to us.” In the meantime, Poulos and his colleagues have been embracing a different mission: explaining to American voters how their elections work. As long as most jurisdictions are using paper ballots—which electoral experts expect even the few holdouts will eventually adopt—there’s a simple path to peace of mind. Nicole Nollette, the Dominion executive, has made it a priority to clear up misinformation. “You don’t need to take our word for it,” she constantly explains. Not when the proof is right there: “You can recount the paper ballots by hand; you can recount them by a machine,” she says. In the future, more states just might—which could be a more effective way to quell conspiracy theories before they catch fire.This article appears in the April/May issue of Fortune with the headline, "Dominion Voting: Big lies vs. big lawsuits."Dive into stories from Fortune’s print edition:Just how green is your “green” fund?The pandemic has derailed women’s careers and livelihoods. Is America giving up on them?Underrated or overrated? Executives rank the business world’s top CEOsBig Lies vs. Big Lawsuits: Why Dominion Voting is suing Fox News and a host of Trump alliesInside Brunello Cucinelli’s vision for “humanistic capitalism”