The ghost that haunts American Jewry

Fiddlin’ John Carson-Little Mary Phagan

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Leo Frank, hanging from a tree in Marietta, GA. Credit: Public domain. I once lived in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Occasionally, I would drive by a particular intersection, and I would shudder. It was at that place — right down the road from today’s Starbucks and Chipotle — that Leo Frank’s body hung from a tree. Read more »