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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury The Leo Frank case never mentioned the word “Jew” until it was brought up by the defense — and lead prosecutor Hugh Dorsey had a long history of friendly relations and close collaboration with Jews throughout his life and career. So the accusation, common today among pro-Frank partisans, that the indictment and prosecution of Leo Max Frank was motivated by “anti-Semitism” simply doesn’t stand up to even the slightest scrutiny. In this, the eighth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we also learn that Frank himself denied that anti-Jewish feelings played any part in his arrest and trial. In this section of the book, we also learn of the amazing, blustering, and mysterious entry into the case of prominent Atlanta lawyer — shyster, really — “Colonel” Thomas B. Felder. Felder tried to present himself as a merely a public-spirited attorney, working for the Phagan family to “get to the bottom” of the mystery of Mary Phagan’s death. But when he was caught trying to bribe police officials to illegally obtain original documents related to the case — and when the Phagan family denied any connection with him — he beat a hasty retreat while loudly proclaiming his belief in Leo Frank’s guilt and claiming that “Jew money” was causing the authorities to “shield Frank.” Despite his strident attacks on Frank after he was discredited, the evidence is very strong that Felder was actually in Frank’s employ. This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. We at The American Mercury are now proud to present part 8 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above — or at the end of this article — to hear part 8 of the book. * * * Click here to obtain a print or e-book copy of this important work, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.

by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury We hear a lot today about people “playing the race card” — using race unjustly in a dispute, or as a moral bludgeon to obscure the facts. In 1913 Atlanta, the Leo Frank defense team played the race card — and in a very big way. Interestingly, the pro-Frank forces used race in a way that most people would find grossly unacceptable today: crudely attacking prosecution witness James Conley, a black man, in open court and on the record as a “dirty,” “lying,” “thieving” “nigger” — and characterizing the sex killing of Mary Phagan as a “Negro crime” of which “white man” Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta B’nai B’rith, would be — they insinuated — “incapable.” (ILLUSTRATION: Leo Frank’s lead attorney, Luther Z. Rosser, who, along with Reuben Arnold and other members of the Frank defense team, played the 1913 version of the “race card” with vigor, attacking James Conley in particular and, in his words, “niggers” in general.) In this, the seventh audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we also learn that the Frank defense promoted the idea that there was a separate category of testimony — “Negro testimony” — which wise jurors ought to ignore or regard as false. Nevertheless, the race-baiting strategy failed and the all-white jury believed the black man. We also hear about Leo Frank’s own statement to the court. We can’t really call it testimony, because under Georgia law at the time, the defendant had the right to make an unsworn statement and deny the prosecution the right to cross-examine him on it — which is exactly what Leo Frank did. Frank spoke for hours on end, and almost all of that time was spent telling the jury about the intricacies of managing the accounts of the pencil factory where he was superintendent — presumably to give the impression that he would have been so busy with his books on that fatal day that he simply wouldn’t have had time to commit the murder and move the body to the basement. It was ultimately unconvincing. This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. We at The American Mercury are now proud to present part 7 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above — or at the end of this article — to hear part 7 of the book. * * * Click here to obtain a print or e-book copy of this important work, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.

by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury PARTISANS OF Leo Frank have often tried to discredit Jim Conley’s testimony by pointing out that his account of the visit of Corinthia Hall and Emma Clark to the pencil factory where the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan took place was off by more than an hour. But these Frank partisans fail to note that Conley never stated that he saw the two young woman at all — he was merely told that they were there by Leo Frank, who had hustled him into a dark, locked closet after Frank announced the two were coming. Could it be that Frank was making preparations for murdering Conley — the only man on Earth, besides himself, who knew about Mary Phagan’s murder? (ILLUSTRATION: Testimony indicated that Leo M. Frank, shown, led a secret sexual life at the factory where he supervised dozens of teenage girls.) In this, the sixth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we hear the words of James Conley, and also the testimony of the many girls and women who were witnesses to Frank’s sexual behavior. Leo Frank’s lead attorney, the famous Luther Z. Rosser, known for his ferocious cross-examinations, could not break James Conley and his story of a panicked Leo Frank employing him to move Mary Phagan’s body and write the deceptive “death notes” — and, in attempting to break him, actually succeeded in eliciting far more information injurious to Frank, such as details about his illicit sexual escapades with young girls — than even the police and the Pinkertons had uncovered. This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. We at The American Mercury are now proud to present part 6 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above — or at the end of this article — to hear part 6 of the book. * * * Click here to obtain a print or e-book copy of this important work, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.

by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury JIM Conley’s testimony in the Leo Frank case riveted the attention of not only all those present in the courtroom, but the entire state of Georgia and beyond hung on his words as they were reported. Despite being a member of a disparaged minority, Conley’s word was given respectful attention — and ultimately was even believed over the word of Leo Frank, an elite Jewish man considered white by the standards of the American South. This was unprecedented, but it was also inevitable given the detail, plausibility, and unshakable nature of Conley’s evidence. Even the best legal minds in the state, led by Luther Rosser, widely acknowledged to be the toughest cross-examiner in the business, could not discredit the “ignorant” Black man, no matter how hard they tried. (ILLUSTRATION: Jim Conley, who gave history-making testimony in the Leo Frank case) In this, the fifth audio segment of this truly indispensable work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of their series called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews — we hear the words of James Conley as he actually spoke them on the stand as that all-White 1913 jury leaned forward and strained to hear. And that Black man — a man who admitted helping Leo Frank move Mary Phagan’s body, but who ultimately failed to return and destroy it as Leo Frank wished — set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the solution of the mystery and a verdict of guilty in the case. The detectives, the police, the prosecution, the jury, and the vast majority of the people believed that the well-connected businessman — Leo Frank — was a liar and a murderer; and they believed that the lowly factory sweeper, Jim Conley, was telling the truth. This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. We at The American Mercury are now proud to present part 5 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above — or at the end of this article — to hear part 5 of the book. * * * Click here to obtain a print or e-book copy of this important work, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.

by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHEN LEO FRANK was first arrested for the murder of Mary Phagan, his and his defense team’s major focus was placing the blame on Newt Lee, the Black night watchman who discovered the murdered girl’s body. They were so eager to avoid any attention being given to another Black man, Jim Conley, the factory sweeper who later was shown to be Frank’s accessory after the fact — that they totally ignored the sighting of Conley by a witness on the day of the murder. This was a most unusual and revealing omission, since the sighting could have been used by the defense early on to place suspicion on Conley, but they deliberately decided not to do that. This lends considerable credence to the prosecution theory, backed up by Conley’s own testimony, that Conley helped Frank move the body. (ILLUSTRATION: Jim Conley, center, being led away in custody) In this, the fourth audio segment of this excellent book originally published by the Nation of Islam — the best book we have seen on this subject — we also learn how the Frank team, having failed to fix the murder on the watchman, suddenly “discovered” Jim Conley and tried to blame him for the crime. Leo Frank even attempted to take credit for alerting investigators to the fact that Jim Conley could write (he had been feigning illiteracy to avoid any connection with the “death notes” found by Mary Phagan’s body), though the testimony of all the detectives, even the detectives hired by Frank, was that Frank had nothing to do with that discovery. This new audio book, based on the Nation of Islam’s The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, the best investigative effort made on the Leo Frank case in the last 100 years, will take you on a trip into the past — to the greatest American murder mystery of all time; a mystery that will reveal to you the hidden forces that shape our world even today. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. We at The American Mercury are now proud to present part 4 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above — or at the end of this article — to hear part 4 of the book. * * * Click here to obtain a print or e-book copy of this important work, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.

Atlanta Press Wants Answers - Within three days of Mary Phagan's murder, both Newt Lee and Leo Frank were held in separate cells at Atlanta Police Headquarters. The explosive racial dynamics of the burgeoning murder case - including Leo Frank's claim that "blacks" were responsible - even a careful reading of the report reveals no trace of anti-Semitism at the outset. The Anti-Defamation League's teacher's guide to the recent Fagan murder claims: However, not a single article or editorial hinted at such a thing. A month after his murder, Georgian editors found Leo Frank's positive exoneration. No fingerprints on the girl's body or clothing were identified as belonging to him.A search by the detectives implicating him in the crime turned up nothing….Police, as far as is known, have identified Frank If it hadn't been for free entry for Mary Fagan herself, she might not even have known she was the last person she saw. The moment he saw her body, he told the officer that this was the girl he had paid for at noon the previous day. As far as evidence suggests, no one knew that Mary Fagan was in the building at the time. The biggest victim of negative and racist pre-trial propaganda was Newt Lee, and black status was restored whenever his name was mentioned in print. and was even publicly threatened with death in newspaper headlines. The constitutional clause reads, "Your loyalty or [your] neck. In the same article, printed three days after the murder, Lee's race is mentioned nine times. Despite the age-old allegations of agitation, an analysis published in Forum magazine in 1916 reminds us that the "newscopy" associated with it ended up in Jewish hands. No one, surplus cop or not, lost sight of the fact that the little girl was dead and Frank was the last man known to have seen Mary Fagan alive. Blood and hair, physical evidence of her murder, were found on the same floor as his office, and he says he met the girl minutes before she was killed. They believed it was enough evidence to hang Frank. The Trial of Leo Frank: Theory & The Evidence n Calling the state of the Georgia case against Leo Frank "compelling," Steve Onney, author of a 742-page book on the case, says it We stand up to those who call us anti-Semitic and unfavorable anger. Motivated his charge. At the time of the trial, Mary Fagan's murder was being investigated by the coroner's office and his four specialized agencies: the Atlanta Police Department, the Georgia District Attorney's Office, Pinkerton and the William J. Burns Detective Agency. . The latter two of him were employed by Leo Frank, but all four agreed on surprisingly similar theories, revolving around the spider-and-web scenario. They claimed that Saturday, April 26, they took advantage of the weekly payday holiday when the factory was closed and unmanned to have a sexual encounter with an unsuspecting 13-year-old Mary Fagan. . When she resisted him, 29-year-old Frank violently assaulted her and accidentally knocked her unconscious in the ensuing fight. Realizing the horrific consequences of his deed, Frank deliberately killed her by strangling her with a heavy 6-foot-long string of hers, such as is commonly used in factories. A series of circumstantial evidence of time, motive, opportunity, and physical evidence made Frank's conviction more likely, if not simpler. The jury must not only consider the prosecution's scenario, but also whether alternative theories are plausible. It was not a "chain" of evidence because, as lead prosecutor Hugh Dorsey puts it, "the chain is no stronger than its weakest link." and neither may be sufficient on its own, but all together can be powerful enough to prove the accused's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. evidence of Although the state's case was based on good evidence, there was one unusual feature that put this indictment in a class of its own: the white male defendant was a murderer who deserved death. State Attorney Hugh Dorsey believed he could Overcoming this serious anomaly, he finalized his case before the Georgia courts in August 1913. Allegations: Leo Frank murdered Mary Fagan in his upstairs metal room down the hall from Frank's office. Evidence: Police found a fan-shaped splattered blood stain on the floor of the metal room. A police officer testified: It looked as if a white substance had been wiped over it, and N.V. Darley, the factory manager, testified that it "looked like an attempt to cover up the blood stains." A white substance known as Haskoline was sold and used as a lubricant in factory machinery. Only Frank seems to have known it was actually "soap and oil" and understood its value as a cleaning agent. On April 26th, Frank spent most of his time in his second floor of the factory. Suspect: Mary Fagan's head hit the handle of a machine in a metal room. Evidence: Several strands of hair were found hanging from the lathe, which witnesses claimed were not there when the factory closed Friday. Her two wounds on Ms. Fagan's head, one on her face and one on the back of her head, caused bleeding under her skull and knocked her unconscious. The injuries consisted of someone being slapped in the face and then falling backwards against the machine's metal crank, causing the protruding shaft to pull out some of his hair. Allegations: Mary Fagan was sexually abused during her lifetime. Evidence: The testimony of Dr. H.F. Harris confirmed that Fagan was bleeding from her vagina before she died: There was evidence of some kind of violence in the walls of the vagina....the dilation of blood vessels Showed damage to vagina shortly before death….evidence of riots in the neighborhood Hymen. Claim: The murder occurred around the time Mary Fagan met Leo Frank. Evidence: It is known that Mary ate cabbage that day before leaving home to go to the factory.A chemical analysis of the progress and extent of digestion of the contents of Mary's stomach suggested the time of her murder. Fixed around the time she was dating Leo Frank. Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey brought his case to a Fulton County grand jury, and on May 24 (almost a month after the April 26 murders), Leo Frank was indicted for the murder of Mary Fagan. it was done. According to internal ADL documents, the 23-member grand jury included five prominent members of the Jewish community, all of whom voted to indict Leo Frank. Among them was the merchant and manufacturer Viktor He Hugo Krieg Shaver, who served on the Executive Committee of both the National Jewish Charity Congress and his Hebrew Congregational Union of America. All have signed an indictment, some of which are as follows: On behalf of the citizens of Georgia, I impeach and indict Leo M. Frank for murder...by force and weapon, unlawfully and maliciously murdered Mary her Fagan, on the spot. Choked her.. with her string around her neck... They decided to detain Newt Lee as a key witness. With this grand jury vote confirming his investigation, District Attorney Dorsey confidently prepared for the trial of Leo Frank, who would take Atlanta in the summer of 1913.

The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man Part 2 Frank arrived at the Forsyth Street factory at about 8:30 a.m. and attended to routine paperwork in his second-floor office. Frank expected the few who had missed it to come on Saturday 23rd. Mary Phagan had asked her friend and coworker Helen Ferguson to pick up the $1.20 due her on Friday —just as she had on two past occasions—but this time Helen was told by Leo Frank, “I can`t let you have it,” so Mary would have to come herself the next day to be paid. By Saturday noon several factory employees had arrived, taken care of their business with Frank, and departed. A Black janitor named James “Jim” Conley was stationed on the first floor, and Frank was alone on the second floor in his office when Mary Phagan arrived shortly after noon. The cord was wound so tightly that it remained embedded in her neck when the undertaker later removed Mary`s body from the factory. It was then, prosecutors say, that a panicked Leo Frank summoned the factory`s Black janitor James Conley, swore him to secrecy, and ordered him to help move the body to the basement. Conley and Frank carried Mary`s body to the elevator, and upon reaching the basement, dragged her body across the dirt floor to a final resting place near a trash pile by the furnace. Both men then returned to Frank`s second-floor office, where he gave Conley a pad of paper and ordered him to write as Frank dictated. Frank then ordered Conley to return later that day to burn the girl`s remains in the basement furnace, promising him a cash reward and threatening to put the notes by the body. Conley left the factory, never to return that day. Frank returned to the factory at approximately 3:00 p. m. and waited in vain for Conley, and unable to incinerate the body himself, left two cryptic notes next to the dead girl. At 4:00 p. m., another Black employee, night watchman Newt Lee, arrived at the factory to work his overnight shift. Lee used his key to pass through, but Frank rushed from his office to inform Lee that he did not need him until 6:00p.m. Lee asked if he could stay in the factory to rest for the next two hours. Moments later a white former employee named James Gantt arrived at the front door unexpectedly and asked to retrieve some shoes he said he had left at the factory. Gantt countered that he had left two pairs, whereupon Frank relented and allowed his former bookkeeper into the factory, but ordered Lee to escort him as Frank left for home. Less than an hour later at 7:00 p. m. Frank called Lee at the factory and asked if everything was all right, something he had not done before. Frank would later claim that he had called the factory to make sure that James Gantt had left. But Lee testified that Frank did not ask about Gantt. At 3:00 a. m. Sunday morning, Lee again made his hourly rounds, and while in the basement he noticed a strange heap in the distance that appeared to be a body. Lee then called the police, who arrived at the factory within minutes. The investigating officers found that the body, clothing, and face of Mary Phagan were dirty from having been dragged across the filthy basement floor. The police immediately arrested the Black night watchman, Newt Lee. Soon thereafter, as leads and information surfaced, they arrested the fired white employee who had come for his shoes, James Gantt; a former streetcar conductor and friend of Mary`s named Arthur Mullinax; and a 19-year-old Black elevator operator at the factory named Gordon Bailey. Two days later they arrested him for the murder of Mary Phagan. Indeed, night watchman Newt Lee was charged with the crime whilst standing in the basement, after leading police to the body. Lee`s arrival at the factory long after the estimated time of Mary Phagan`s death, his calm and cooperative demeanor, and the brutality of this “most foul and unnatural murder” troubled authorities and forced a retreat from their knee-jerk ritual. Adding to their concern was the noticeably nervous demeanor of factory superintendent Leo Frank, the last person to see Mary Phagan alive. On this, the 105th anniversary of Mary Phagan’s death, we at The American Mercury are proud to present part 2 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above or at the end of this article to hear part 2 of the book. * * * The Jewish community in the United States are still trying to get Leo Frank the Jewish rapist and murderer exonerated. The best two books on the Leo Frank case are: 1. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean 2. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.

The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man Part 1 Leo Frank - Preface to the Secret Relationship Series. "We have no documentable evidence of antisemitism on the part of the Nation of Islam movement or Elijah Mohammed" - Arnold Foster - Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith. In 1991, the Honorable Minister Lewis Farrakhan, national representative of the most Honorable Elijah Mohammed and the Nation of Islam (N.O.I.) released the first of several volumes in the scholarly series titled the secret relationship between Blacks and Jews. Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam hold the theological belief that black people of America are the real children of Israel and that those who claim to be Jews are in error. He further states that the Jewish people are among the historical white oppressors of black people and that the special relationship they claim to have formed with some black leaders is deceptive, exploitative and deleterious to black independence and black progress. In its 334 pages, the Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, veracity of the Minister's position is conclusively proved, revealing that Jews were in fact at the very center of the transatlantic slave trade. In the American Civil War, Jews had joined the Southern Confederacy as strategists, financiers, and soldiers willing to die and kill to maintain black slavery. Today, the Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews can be found in the collections of every major academic library, including those of every Ivy League college and university. New evidence that challenges and corrects the prevailing interpretations of the history of blacks and Jews in the post slavery American South. The research confirms that after the emancipation of black slaves, Jews helped create and defend the racially oppressive Jim Crow system in the American South and were among the leading traders in America's cotton economy. The American labor movement is shown to have had deep Jewish roots and a devastating long term effect on black economic progress. The first two volumes of The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews contain nearly 1000 pages of research that uncovers a history of oppression Jews had successfully kept hidden from view. The present third volume in the series, The Leo Frank Case The Lynching of a Guilty Man, examines a tragic incident, largely unknown to most American blacks, but reverentially regarded by American Jews. That incident occurred in Atlanta, Georgia between 1913 and 1915, and involved a B'nai Brith leader and factory manager named Leo Max Frank. The case became an international cause celebra for Jews, most of whom believed Frank was the victim of antisemitism. For 100 years, Jews have insisted that the Leo Frank case is emblematic of their history of suffering and victimization in America. Moreover, the case so profoundly affected the relationship blacks had with American Jews that it can be said that before the Leo Frank affair, the Jews were the black man's open enemy. After the Leo Frank affair, Jews were the black man's best friend. Indeed, the Leo Frank case is that pivotal point in black history, when the Jews' history of slave trading, ownership of cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations, Ku Klux Klan terrorism and Jim Crow apartheid was deliberately replaced with a new narrative of shared persecution, civil rights coalition and political common cause. Consequently, an honest assessment of the black Jewish relationship must include a comprehensive examination of the Leo Frank case and its profound effect on both blacks and Jews. Significantly, the Jewish demand that scholars focus on the Leo Frank case history leads to an unanticipated treasure trove of unexplored records and documents that unlock the most confidential operations of the Jews highest leadership circles. As the Jewish people united in the international fight to overturn Leo Frank's murder conviction, the Leo Frank case offers a unique window into the thinking and strategizing by the leadership of the Jewish people. Leo Frank was not of the rank and file Jewish citizenry. But the Leo Frank trial and conviction set up a showdown like no other in Gentile-Jewish history and relations. All the major Jewish leaders in banking, media, clergy, law, business and politics mounted a massive operation to free Leo Frank, and the racial ruthlessness of their efforts is laid bare through a massive cache of documents, including personal letters, rabbinical sermons, official reports, interview transcripts, legal filings and newspaper reports. The case is further marred by the academic world's willful concealment of this damning evidence as a deception that continues to this very moment from the trial of Leo Frank in 1913 to his lynching two years later. No other example exists that so publicly pitted Jews and White Gentiles against each other in a test of wills like the Leo Frank case. Jews practically demand that the outside world investigate the case to draw an accurate portrait of the American Jewish identity, how they have suffered and overcome racial and religious persecution. The case is the central pillar of Jewish American identity. On this, the 105th anniversary of Mary Phagan’s death, we at The American Mercury are proud to present part 1 of our audio version of this very important book, read by Vanessa Neubauer. To read all the chapters we’ve published so far, simply click on this link. Simply press “play” on the player embedded above or at the end of this article to hear part 1 of the book. * * * The Jewish community in the United States are still trying to get Leo Frank the Jewish rapist and murderer exonerated. The best two books on the Leo Frank case are: 1. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean 2. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. For further information on the Nation of Islam Historical Research Group, readers are encouraged to visit their Web site, noirg.org.