![]() ![]() ĭirector Harold Prince turned to Jason Robert Brown to write the score after Stephen Sondheim turned the project down. The events surrounding the investigation and trial led to two groups emerging: the revival of the defunct KKK and the birth of the Jewish Civil Rights organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia, and he was hanged from an oak tree. Slaton, in 1915 due to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible problems with the trial, Leo Frank was transferred to a prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, where a lynching party seized and kidnapped him. When Frank's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing Governor of Georgia, John M. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused antisemitic tensions in Atlanta and the U.S. The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The stenographer can be seen next to Newt Lee, who is being questioned by prosecutor Hugh Dorsey. ![]()
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