- Collection:
- Leo M. Frank Collections
- Title:
- the A.B. Kapplin Papers
- Creator:
- Frank, Leo M., 1884-1915
Slaton, John M. - Date of Original:
- 1915
- Subject:
- Trials (Murder)--Georgia
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
Mass media and criminal justice
Murder in mass media
Pardon--Georgia
Governors--Georgia--Correspondence
Executive power--Georgia
Jewish press--United States--History--20th century
Jews--Persecutions--Georgia--History--20th century
Journalism--United States
Justice, Administration of
Newspapers
Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Atlanta
United States--Ethnic relations - People:
- Kapplin, A.B. (Abraham Bennett), 1891-1960
Frank, Leo M., 1884-1915
Slaton, John M. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Michigan, St. Louis County, Duluth - Medium:
- family papers
correspondence - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Two short letters written to A. B. Kapplin, a newspaper man from Duluth, Minnesota who was active in Jewish communal affairs. He became interested as a reporter and Jewish activist in the Leo M. Frank trial of 1915. The letters, written by Leo Frank (dated January 27, 1915 and February 9, 1915), thank Kapplin for his efforts to exonerate him. The third letter (dated June 24, 1915) is from Georgia governor John Slaton, written to Dr. S. Gross, President of the A. B. Kapplin Society of the Duluth, Michigan, B'nai B'rith Lodge, in thanks for his actions on behalf of Leo Frank. Governor Slaton had commuted Frank’s sentence from death to life imprisonment June 21, 1915, just days before he left office on June 26, 1915. To escape the mob, Slaton fled the state. Frank was lynched several weeks later on August 17, 1915.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_00-047vf-k
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_00-047vf-k#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_00-047vf-k/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 pages; 5.5 x 6.5-8.5 x 8 inches
- Original Collection:
- the A.B. Kapplin Papers
- Holding Institution:
- William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
- Rights:
-
