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Article: `Leo Frank' recalls tragic history
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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NEW YORK - It's a century-old miscarriage of justice that still
haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers
introduced to this tragedy in "The People v. Leo Frank," a powerful
retelling that premieres Monday on PBS at 10 p.m.
In a rich blend of experts' accounts and dramatic re-enactments,
the 90-minute film revisits the case of Leo Frank, a young Cornell-
educated Brooklyn native who was plant supervisor of the National
Pencil Co. in downtown Atlanta.
On a Sunday morning in April 1913, the bludgeoned, sexually
molested body of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old factory girl, was found
in the building's filthy basement. Within weeks, Frank, professing
innocence, was arrested and ...
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