I'm glad to be here on X as the spokeswoman for the Phagan family. We have renewed our effort to seek justice for Little Mary Phagan and stop the unconstitutional exoneration of Leo Frank, which is being aggressively pushed for in Atlanta by his posthumous allies.

Please support me as I continue my fight to stop the exoneration of Leo Frank. Will you please help me share my family's story this year? I need your help reaching a wider audience! Please heart, share and bookmark this post! The Miscarriage of Justice Against the Phagan Family and Little Mary Phagan: Atlanta, Georgia, Four Decades Ago to the Present Year (1986-2026) By Mary Phagan-Kean (@PhaganKean) Struggle of My Life and Mission of Phagan Family For nearly six decades (1967 - 2026) and with the help of my family, I have pored over the Leo Frank trial transcripts and appellate records documented from 1913 to 1915, thousands of pages in all (they are being transcribed and published on one of my websites called the Mary Phagan-Kean Legacy Project MaryPhagan.com). When one adds to the legal records of the case, the contemporary newspaper coverage of day-to-day events from April-1913 to August-1915, the total archive expands well beyond ten thousand pages, drawn from papers across the nation. I am publishing those news articles online, and so far we have 1900 clippings and plan on expanding it by 600 to 1000 more. Every transcript will eventually be accompanied with an audiobook and narrated video. 43 Years Ago (1983 - 2026) In 1983, forty-three years ago as of this writing, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a petition filed by several Jewish activist organizations seeking the full exoneration of Leo Frank, the former president of the Atlanta B’nai B’rith lodge (Gate City Lodge #144). At that time, Frank had been convicted in Fulton County, some seventy years earlier, in August 1913, of the strangulation murder of a thirteen-year-old girl, Mary Anne Phagan (June 1, 1899 - April 26, 1913). Today we are still seeking justice for her! The evidence offered in support of the petition consisted of two late-in-life affidavits from Alonzo McClendon Mann (August 8, 1898 - March 18, 1985), an eighty-five-year-old man who, as a fourteen-year-old office boy in 1913, had worked for Frank at the National Pencil Company in downtown Atlanta. In those 1982 (March and November) affidavits, Mann claimed he had seen the 27-year-old, Negro factory janitor, James "Jim" Conley, carrying the unconscious or dead body of little Mary Phagan, in the lobby, moving toward the basement. The Board, after considerable examination of the official documentation and evidence of the Leo Frank case, found the newfangled statements unpersuasive and inconclusive. Trial testimony had already established that Conley himself admitted helping Frank move the victim’s body from the second floor to the basement. The affidavits changed nothing and were likely suborned perjury. I will publish Mann's two affidavits in full on their anniversaries this year in March and again in November. The Jewish Pressure Group Siege of 1982 - 1986 Frustrated by the Board’s controversial decision, Jewish advocacy leaders mounted an intensive, four-year lobbying effort behind closed doors. The Phagan family, press, and community at large was left out of these backroom meetings. In March 1986 (4 decades ago this year and next month) they finally obtained a posthumous pardon for Leo Frank. That pardon, however, was carefully worded: it restored only certain civil rights to the homicidal pedophile, such as the right to vote, to hold office, or to own a firearm. It did not vacate the murder conviction, nor did it declare Frank innocent. Community Outrage on All Sides Since these restored civil rights had been granted to a convicted sex killer 71 years after his death, the Jewish community of Georgia was incensed and in a state of outrage, because it did not overturn the jury's verdict. Many members of the Jewish community regarded it as a dubious pardon for these reasons. Some long-established Georgia Jews who had lived through the 1913 trial, viewed it as the ultimate insult and a slap to the face: the state was purportedly restoring voting rights to a dead man, who, as a practical matter, could not legally register to vote at all. Some Jewish community members interpreted the pardon of Leo Frank, as the government telling them to "shut up and go away, already!" Some Gentile members of the community who had worked as child laborers in the early 20th century when the crime occurred, were in a state of total disbelief at the injustice-that a homicidal pedophile had been given a half-baked pardon. The Phagan family regarded the event as a miscarriage of justice, because they were precluded from being allowed to voice their concerns during the pardon tribunal's hearings. The opaque pardon hearings were quasi-illegal because they had been held in clandestine secrecy exclusively with Jewish advocacy organizations and did not allow the chance for attorney's from the Phagan family to represent their opposition. Leo Frank's Falsified Vindication (1986 - 2026) Yet for the past forty years the pardon has been routinely presented by many in the Jewish community as proof of exoneration. The distinction is crucial. Under Georgia law, Leo Frank remains a convicted murderer. Now the Jewish community is working behind the scenes again in 2026 to get Leo Frank's verdict of guilt overturned. Marietta Rabbi Steven Lebow, Former Governor Roy Barnes, and Jewish community leader are working with Atlanta District Attorney Fanni Willis (pronounced fawnie) to unconstitutionally declare him innocent. Dear reader, this is why we need your help in sharing our message of opposition to Frank's vindication! Video Commercial: The Mary Phagan Case Documentary Promo The present vignette was prepared with the generous assistance of a longtime supporter of my family’s cause on the West Coast. Portions were refined with the help of modern research tools, including Grok AI, to ensure clarity and precision while preserving the historical record and my family’s perspective. My voice was recorded separately and placed as the background narration. This year I am completing a script for a feature-length documentary grounded entirely in the official trial and appellate documents. My aim is to present the most significant facts in straightforward, chronological narration so that viewers can judge the case for themselves. The film will draw primarily from the primary sources and will be enriched by oral histories my relatives have shared with me throughout my life. If you wish to support this effort, I invite you to purchase a copy of my book, The Murder of Little Mary Phagan. The second revised edition, released in recent months, incorporates nearly thirty-eight years of additional developments, including the renewed campaigns by Jewish advocacy groups to secure Leo Frank’s formal exoneration. Every page remains anchored in the same primary records I have studied for most of my adult life. Please follow me on X, and check out the pinned-post of my profile! Thank you from the Phagan Family! Hashtags: #MaryPhagan #MaryPhaganCase #Atlanta #Georgia #TrueCrime #MurderMystery #LeoFrank #LeoFrankTrial #TheADL #BnaiBrith #AmericanJewishCommittee #AJC #StevenLebow #RoyBarnes