Mary Phagan Kean – The murder of little Mary Phagan
Read by Margaret Huffstickler
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank’s lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank’s Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles–which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank’s innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
01 – Title Copyright Acknowledgements
02 – Acknowledgements Dedication Contents
03 – Introduction
04 – Chapter 1 – ARE YOU BY ANY CHANCE
05 – Chapter 2 – THE LEGACY
06 – Chapter 3 – MY SEARCH BEGINS
07 – Chapter 4 – THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
08 – Chapter 5 – THE CASE FOR THE DEFENSE
09 – Chapter 6 – SENTENCING AND AFTERMATH
10 – Chapter 7 – THE COMMUTATION
11 – Chapter 8 – THE LYNCHING
12 – Chapter 9 – REVERBERATIONS
13 – Chapter 10 – ALONZO MANNS TESTIMONY
14 – Chapter 11 – THE PHAGANS BREAK THEIR VOW OF SILENCE
15 – Chapter 12 – APPLICATION FOR PARDON – 1983
16 – AFTERWORD PARDON
