- Collection:
- Leo M. Frank Collections
- Title:
- The Jeffrey Levine Papers
- Creator:
- Schwartz, Dale M., 1940-2021
Wittenstein, Charles F., 1928-2013
Thompson, Jerry, 1940-
Sherborne, Robert, 1950-
Henson, Allen Lumpkin
Slaton, John M. - Date of Original:
- 1982/1983
- Subject:
- Georgia. State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Pardon--Georgia
Lynching--Georgia--Marietta
Justice, Administration of
Judgments
Trials (Murder)--Georgia
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
National Pencil Company--Employees
Jews--Georgia--History--20th century
Judicial process--United States
False testimony--Law and legislation
Governors--Georgia--History--20th century
Georgia--Ethnic relations
Georgia--History
Investigative reporting
Affidavits
Jews--Persecutions--Georgia--History--20th century
Journalism--United States
Governors--Georgia--Correspondence
Criminal law
Due process of law
Antisemitism--Georgia
Vigilantism--Georgia - People:
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Frank, Lucille Selig, 1888-1957
Thompson, Jerry, 1940-
Sherborne, Robert, 1950-
Schwartz, Dale M., 1940-2021
Wittenstein, Charles F., 1928-2013
Henson, Allen Lumpkin
Conley, James (Jim), 1886-ca. 1952 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- family papers
correspondence
affidavits
records
legal documents
clippings (information artifacts)
transcripts
letterheads - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- CONTENT WARNING: Page 154 of this item contains an image of Leo Frank's body after he was lynched. This folder contains a Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles Decision in Response to Application for Posthumous Pardon for Leo M. Frank (denied in 1983); an application for Leo M. Frank's posthumous pardon prepared by Dale M. Schwartz and Charles F. Wittenstein; National Pencil Company custodian Jim Conley's "four statements"; an affidavit dated March 4, 1982 from 83-year-old Alonzo Mann, who, at the time of Mary Phagan's murder, was the 14-year-old office boy at the National Pencil Company Building. Within the affidavit, Mann reverses his testimony, asserts that Jim Conley, not Leo Frank, was Mary Phagan's killer, and that Conley threatened to kill him if he stated otherwise at Frank's trial. The folder also contains a transcript of Mann's videotaped testimony, dated November 10, 1982; a copy of Georgia governor John M. Slaton's order of June 21, 1915 that commuted Leo Frank's execution sentence to life imprisonment; an in-depth special news section published on Sunday, March 7, 1982 in The Tennessean newspaper authored by Jerry Thompson and Robert Sherborne outlining the miscarriage of justice against Leo Frank; an affidavit from Annie Maud Carter, a girlfriend of Jim Conley who initially stated Conley had confessed Phagan's murder, but reversed her testimony under pressure from solicitor Hugh Dorsey; excerpts of the Leo Frank case covered in chapter 7 of "Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer" by Allen Lumpkin Henson (Vantage Press, 1959); a letter dated October 29, 1914 from Leo Frank to his college friend J. H. Gould on National Pencil Company letterhead.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_07-052vf-l
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_07-052vf-l#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_07-052vf-l/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 pages; 8.5 x 11 inches
- Original Collection:
- The Jeffrey Levine Papers
- Holding Institution:
- William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
- Rights:
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