The People v. Leo Frank, Teacher's Guide Clip 1A

[yabits]

> The southerners would have preferred to blame it on the black guy.

A person of ordinary intelligence and perception could see how wrong that statement was. First of all, Southerners would never want to believe that a "black man" would have the temerity to abuse and murder an innocent white girl of 13 years old.

Southern whites would never accept the blood of a black man as atonement for the murder. Only the blood of somebody more prominent and important -- yet different -- would suffice.

[vfuturist]

exactly blah blah blah Leo Frank did it, but the propagandist Ben Loeterman spins the case

[bammbamm12]

Blah blah blah. Frank did it. He was convicted fair & square. Frank's attorney tried to pass it off on Jim Conley - didn't work. It would have been easy to blame it on the black guy. The southerners would have preferred to blame it on the black guy. But the black guy didn't do it and the evidence proved it. Frank did it, and was convicted.