Lynch Mob in America

Last Thursday, I posted my film on Jonathan Pollard who is sitting in an American jail – for an unprecedented 28 years – for the terrible crime of giving Israel information that America withheld which helped to destroy Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facility. But Pollard is not the first Jew to face anti-Semitism in the U.S. In 1915, a Jew by the name of Leo Frank was lynched in America for no other reason than that he was a Jew. This week I’m posting a movie I made on Leo Frank. This is his story:

Atlanta, Georgia, 1913. The body of 14-year-old Mary Phagan is found in the National Pencil Company factory. She had been beaten, raped and strangled to death. Leo Frank, the Jewish 29 year-old part owner of the factory, was accused. The “Jewish outsider” was quickly sentenced to hang. The case caused an outrage where petitions from around America demanded a re-trial. Before the truth could be found out, twenty-five men, the “Knights of Mary Phagan”, broke into the jail and took Leo Frank to the woods where he was hanged. “Southern Knights” exposes for the first time the inside story of this gross miscarriage of justice.