Southern Knights
S1 : E5
TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Atlanta Georgia, 1913. The body of 14-year-old Mary Phagan is found in the National Pencil Company factory. She had been beaten, raped and strangled to death. Leo Frank, the Jewish 29 year-old part owner of the factory was accused. The Jewish outsider was quickly sentenced to hang. The case caused an outrage where petitions from around America demanded a re-trial. Before the truth could be found out. Twenty-five men, the Knights of Mary Phagan broke into the jail and took Leo Frank to the woods where he was hanged. Southern Knights exposes for the first time the inside story of this gross miscarriage of justice.
