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Frank Frederick Fagan, CM ONL (born c. 1944) is a Canadian businessman and dignitary, who served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2013 to 2018, thus serving as the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- The Murder of Mary Phagan
- Witness For The Prosecution
- Trial and Sentencing
- Governor Commutes Frank's Sentence to Life in Prison
- The Lynching
- Resurgence of The KKK, Emergence of The ADL
- Legacy and A Pardon
Mary Phagan was on her way to Atlanta’s Confederate Memorial Day parade on April 26, 1913 when she stopped in at the National Pencil Company to collect her paycheck–$1.20 for her 10-cents-an-hour work. The next day, the girl’s body was discovered in the factory’s basement. As Steve Oney writes in his book, And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mar...
Even as Frank sat in jail, police had their eyes on yet another suspect. Jim Conley, a Black custodian at the factory, was detained two days after Frank’s arrest “when he was seen in the pencil-factory basement washing out a shirt soaked with what appeared to be blood,” Oney writes in a 2015 Esquire article. When police learned Conley could write, ...
With crowds gathered outside the courthouse chanting “hang the Jew,” the trial, based on mostly circumstantial evidence, made national headlines. “It was a gigantic lightning bolt that hit this state,” Oney told the Atlanta Journal-Consitution. “It wasn’t just a whodunit, but a clearinghouse for cultural grievances that touched on issues of race, c...
Not satisfied with the sentencing, Georgia Governor John Slaton conducted his own extensive investigation into the case, and, on June 21, 1915, the day before Frank’s execution was to take place and as his term in office was ending, commuted his sentence to life in prison. Criticized for having a conflict of interest in the case—his law partner ser...
But Frank wouldn’t survive a second attack less than a month later. A mob of 25 men, calling themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan, arrived in the middle of the night at the Milledgeville prison farm where Frank was held, overpowering the guards—no shots were fired—and kidnapping Frank from his cell. A caravan of cars drove him some 100 miles away ...
Anti-Jewish sentiment and discrimination in the area were widespread leading up to Frank’s murder, led by Tom Watson, the editor of Jeffersonian Magazine, who filled his Atlanta-based publication with antisemitic and anti-Catholic rants. Following Frank’s conviction, Watson wrote, “Jew money has debased us, bought us, and sold us—and laughs at us. ...
Dorsey, the lead prosecutor in Frank's case, was elected Georgia’s governor in 1915 and later served as an Atlanta Judicial Circuit Superior Court judge. Watson, the editor of Jeffersonian Magazine, was elected a U.S. senator in 1920 (he died in office two years later). Conley was sentenced to 12 months on a chain gang as an accessory after the fac...
January 24. ( 1988-01-24) –. January 26, 1988. ( 1988-01-26) [1] The Murder of Mary Phagan is a 1988 American two-part television miniseries starring Jack Lemmon about the murder of a 13-year-old factory worker and the subsequent trial of her accused murderer Leo Frank.
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Frank Fagan is an Associate Professor of Law and Scientific Director of the EDHEC Augmented Law Institute. His teaching and writing considers the interplay of artificial intelligence and law. His empirical work uses natural language processing techniques to examine contract and corporate law doctrine.
Frank Frederick Fagan, CM ONL (born c. 1944) is a Canadian businessman and dignitary, who served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2013 to 2018, thus serving as the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Frank Farrell Fagan, né en 1945, [réf. nécessaire] est un homme d'affaires et homme politique canadien. Il est lieutenant-gouverneur de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador de 2013 à 2018. En 2011, il a été nommé membre de l'Ordre du Canada et, au moment où il est devenu lieutenant-gouverneur, chancelier de l'ordre de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
