Frank was a real-life Jewish pencil factory superintendent who was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan in 1913. He was lynched by a mob two years later despite overwhelming evidence that another man murdered Phagan. In 1986, Frank was posthumously pardoned by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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Leo Frank Character Timeline in The Plot Against America
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Chapter 9: Perpetual Fear
...he drags him from the clinic and reprimands him, reminding Sandy of the case of Leo Frank . Frank was a Jew who was lynched in Georgia in 1913 after he was...
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