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Speaker 1: Good day, everyone, and welcome back to the Bright Wine Podcast,
Speaker 1: where we take a closer look in the stories that
Speaker 1: shape history and their impact on society today. I'm your host,
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Speaker 1: we're unpacking one of the most infamous cases of anti
Speaker 1: Semitism in America's history the early twentieth century, the case
Speaker 1: of Leo Frank. Let us pray their father, all praises
Speaker 1: to the most High, our God that hates the wicked
Speaker 1: every day, our God, we worship him, and he will
Speaker 1: lead us down the yellow brick road the freedom and safety.
Speaker 3: Won't he do it?
Speaker 1: Our God that is supreme. We give you unlimited thanks.
Speaker 1: We give you jubilant glory. We give you efficient honor.
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Speaker 1: do so by the way of our provider, our keeper,
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Speaker 1: right hand of God.
Speaker 3: In which the world calls Jesus Christ. Amen. All praises,
Speaker 3: all praises.
Speaker 1: Sometimes trouble will flee if you would just open your mouths.
Speaker 1: In the Book of Proverbs, chapter twenty eight, verse one,
Speaker 1: the wicked flee when no man pursue it, but the
Speaker 1: righteous are bold as a lion. There was a man
Speaker 1: back in nineteen twenty six named Leo Franks a pervert.
Speaker 1: He forced himself upon the innocenus he murdered. This story
Speaker 1: is about more than just a crime and a trial.
Speaker 1: It's about systematic racism, discrimination, the dangers of prejudice, mob mentality,
Speaker 1: and the ad l It's also a reminder of why
Speaker 1: history matters and how past events still echo in today's world.
Speaker 1: The tragic case of Mary Fagin on August on April
Speaker 1: twenty sixth, nineteen thirteen, That day was Confederate Memorial Holiday.
Speaker 1: Throughout the South, Leo Franks, coming from the North to
Speaker 1: run factories in the South, was vialified as a Jewish businessman.
Speaker 1: He married into a prominent Jewish family, and he was
Speaker 1: the president of the city of Atlanti's benign Ruth Lodge
Speaker 1: for Advocacy Wink Wink. The South already had deep suspicions
Speaker 1: of outsiders get a rope, but on the holiday. On
Speaker 1: that holiday, Leo Franks went to work anyway.
Speaker 3: The factory was closed to his customers.
Speaker 1: And had only an office boy and the janitor, James Connedy,
Speaker 1: who testified against Frank, that was working that day, so
Speaker 1: Frank was alone. When an employee married Fagan, a Southern
Speaker 1: girl of humble forefathers.
Speaker 3: Okay came in to pick up her wages.
Speaker 1: The next morning, she was found murgered in the basement
Speaker 1: of the factory the National Pencil Company, Her bloody body
Speaker 1: found face down on a pile of rubbish. The evidence
Speaker 1: and witnesses testimonies linked Frank to Fagan's death. One day later,
Speaker 1: he was arrested and eventually tried and convicted. What made
Speaker 1: this trial even more controversial was the climate which it
Speaker 1: took place. Prejudice trying to say that the black man's
Speaker 1: testimony holds no way against Leo Frank's testimony, and at
Speaker 1: the same time the lynchion of Frank caused the two
Speaker 1: groups to identify more closely with one another, when in actuality,
Speaker 1: the Blacks had a different set of identifying barriers. Black
Speaker 1: folks got lynched on the daily like planes falling out of.
Speaker 3: Sky these days.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, a stuck justification that the Jewish
Speaker 1: were not antyhumanely treated. Although they were denied, they were
Speaker 1: also given that an open invitation with humane obstacles to cross,
Speaker 1: and a continuous promise stated by the statue of Liberty
Speaker 1: full poem engraved on the outside of the bottom floor
Speaker 1: of lady liberty that says, give me your tire ur,
Speaker 1: you're poor. Number two, your huddle up masses yearning to
Speaker 1: breathe free. That don't sound like the cream of the
Speaker 1: crop to me. Number three, the richest refuse of your
Speaker 1: teaming shows. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3: You invite trouble.
Speaker 1: Now you want to send them back, m hypocritical. Number four,
Speaker 1: send these homeless tempests tossed to me, be careful what
Speaker 1: you wish for. And number five, I lift my lamp
Speaker 1: beside the golden door. Why maybe because back then, in
Speaker 1: that colonial era, industrialization and getting away from the agriculture,
Speaker 1: a band of the South helped Westford expansion through the
Speaker 1: gateway arch in Saint Louis to show me state by
Speaker 1: the way, let's give a big, big, big shout out
Speaker 1: to Saint Louis up in there for show. Show you're right,
Speaker 1: show not. I was born and raised the loup.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 1: You know it's said, how quickly in this society we
Speaker 1: have amnesia. I mean, notice how up to this point
Speaker 1: in history there's a little concern about a thirteen year old.
Speaker 1: How old a thirteen year old forced molestation and murder?
Speaker 1: Let us sink in now The role of anti Semitism
Speaker 1: was when Georgia's Governor, John Slaton commuted Frank's death sentences
Speaker 1: to life in prison that outraged board over zero. Frank's
Speaker 1: case sent shockwaves through Georgia and soon became a national headline.
Speaker 1: The riotings of the Knights of the Mary Fagin played
Speaker 1: a significant role in reviving the KKK because the society
Speaker 1: was demonstrating coping with the effects of industrialization, immigration and urbanization,
Speaker 1: which with their urbanization.
Speaker 3: Excuse me at it's water.
Speaker 1: Which would go on to target Jews, Negroes, and immigrants.
Speaker 1: The case spurred juris leaders to establish the ADL in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen. By many hostile heated tensions several in particular,
Speaker 1: throughout the trial, the media and public opinion were heavily
Speaker 1: influenced by antisemic, anti Semitic rhetorics. The prosecution played into
Speaker 1: the presides, portraying Frank acid and moral outsider. The atmosphere
Speaker 1: was continuously heated that the mob outside of the courthouse
Speaker 1: shouted threats against Jews, and the news magazine repeatedly demanded
Speaker 1: the execution of the filthy pervert.
Speaker 3: From New York.
Speaker 1: For Frank's defense, his lawyer asked, who is this man,
Speaker 1: James Connley drunken line any word that not like Negro?
Speaker 1: The accuser James Connedy, who said that Frank had ordered
Speaker 1: him to conceal the girl's body in the basement after
Speaker 1: a minute he had killed her when she resisted his advances.
Speaker 3: Frank denied the charges.
Speaker 1: It was his word against Connedy's, the word of a
Speaker 1: supervisor against a poor laborer who had previously served time
Speaker 1: in prison for petty theft. For what petty theft? No
Speaker 1: for rape, petty theafth, No for murder, petty death. Leo
Speaker 1: Frank got his two siscen and wondered, how can a
Speaker 1: Southern woman of impeachable character who spoke on his behalf
Speaker 1: could be disbelieved while the drapery, of course, using an
Speaker 1: N word it's not like Negro, could be accepted as
Speaker 1: the whole damn truth. Meanwhile, the local newspaper who the
Speaker 1: local newspaper accused the Jewish risk folks for determining that
Speaker 1: no aristocrat like Leo Franks should die for.
Speaker 3: The death of a working class gentile.
Speaker 1: They were so worried about mass hysteria generated the nation
Speaker 1: Jewish population community rallied and immobilized behind a condemned man,
Speaker 1: hoping to upset the verdict on appeal. Even a noted
Speaker 1: advertising executives spent one hundred thousand dollars in personal funds
Speaker 1: and took a year off from his agency to rally
Speaker 1: for Frank.
Speaker 3: So, therefore.
Speaker 1: Leo Frank's legal team feared for his life, as rightful
Speaker 1: was he. So a group of men later known as
Speaker 1: the Knights of Mary Fangs stormed in the prison, kidnapped
Speaker 1: Franks list him on August seventeen, nineteen fifteen, in Marietta, Georgia.
Speaker 3: Oh I passed through there before.
Speaker 1: In the South in nineteen thirteen, nothing ever happened like
Speaker 1: this before under such circumstanders, What do we do?
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Scrambling, swapping that flies, scratching their heads. This act was
Speaker 1: not just about vengeance.
Speaker 3: It was about It was a.
Speaker 1: Statement fueled by deep seated hatred and the refusals to
Speaker 1: sell the biased justice that didn't align with the malash murder.
Speaker 1: Malitious murder. Leo Frank was the catalyst for the creation
Speaker 1: of the ad L Anti Defamation Lead, which mission statement
Speaker 1: reads the ADL's court mission is to fight anti Semitism
Speaker 1: and work to secure justice.
Speaker 3: For all, treatment for all.
Speaker 1: Regardless of their background or identity. Let me ask the
Speaker 1: list the listening audience this, how does Mary Fakin that
Speaker 1: forever would be always thirteen year old great great grandchild
Speaker 1: feel or her great great grandchildren feel about the faith
Speaker 1: and the law to protect the perpetrator of their great
Speaker 1: late grandmother at the age of thirteen and nineteen thirteen,
Speaker 1: more than one hundred years ago. What would you say
Speaker 1: that bygones be bygones. Let me pose a question to
Speaker 1: the listening audience. Let me pose this, how can you
Speaker 1: tell the difference between a jeke in order to discriminate
Speaker 1: against them? Is it a certain color or augmentation or pigmentation?
Speaker 1: Is that the society factor? Let me humbly ask the
Speaker 1: listening audience this, how would you feel your child, who
Speaker 1: may not be responsible enough to work, yet only thirteen
Speaker 1: year old baby girl gets fourth upon and murdered and
Speaker 1: the killer gets their sentence communists to a LFE sentence
Speaker 1: from the extreme maximum punishment of the law to just imprisonment.
Speaker 1: Why only because the family is high rate is extremely
Speaker 1: mad as the killer as they should be. Also, Frank
Speaker 1: was posthumously pardoned in nineteen eighty six. Now how would
Speaker 1: you feel about that? Well? Know well it happened. And
Speaker 1: in the closing, the Leo Frank case reminds us that
Speaker 1: history has a way of a repeating itself when lessons
Speaker 1: aren't learned, aren't learned. Misinformation and fear can corrupt justice,
Speaker 1: but awareness and action can change that. So what can
Speaker 1: we do? Challenge racism at all forms of hate when
Speaker 1: we see them, Educate ourselves and others about historical and
Speaker 1: so they don't happen again. If this episode resonates with you,
Speaker 1: share it with others. Let's continue the conversation and work
Speaker 1: toward where just isn't determined by bias. It's still not
Speaker 1: too late. We learn something new every day until next time.
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Speaker 1: a lion, Great like a lion, Home like a lion,
Speaker 1: trenchet like a lion. Good night, everyone sst shallowamb
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