- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 155
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1986-03-13
- Subject:
- Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Atlanta
Antisemitism--Georgia--Atlanta
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Slaton, John M., Jr.
Joye, Harlon
Lynching
Crime - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The entire program is a feature about the Leo Frank case, in which a Jewish man (Frank) was accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young girl who worked at the National Pencil Factory with Frank. He was lynched by vigilantes in Marietta. The program was recorded in the wake of a decision by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles which granted a posthumous pardon to Frank. The program includes background information on the case and. The program features audio excerpts from Atlanta attorney Dale Schwartz; Alonzo Mann, who offered testimony in 1982 which contradicted his original testimony about the guilt of Leo Frank; Atlanta attorney Tom Watson Brown offers reasoning to attempt to debunk Mann's case; Ebon Dooley, Director of the Atlanta Arts Exchange, who reads a portion of Jim Conley's testimony; Clarence Feebleman, a teenager at the time of trial; radio producer Harlon Joye, who produced a program about the trial in the early 1980s, and Roy Harwell, who remembers the role of Tom Watson during the trial. The program ends with a sign off by Boyd Lewis.
"Southwind" was a radio program about the issues, people, and culture of the South that aired on WABE-FM, Atlanta's public radio station. The series, which aired from 1980 to 1987, was conceived, produced, and reported by journalist Boyd Lewis. - Local Identifier:
- MSS 1118.155.001
ahc.1118.155.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/121
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- 7 in. reel-to-reel audio tape, 3 3/4 ips
29:40 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
