They Won't Forget (1937) Mary Phagan Leo Frank ADL Bnai Brith (1:34:16)

This video (one hour 34 minutes) shows how Hollywood can take a story and twist it so its the same story, but with a different target. An American Journalist, Ward Greene (1892 – 1956), (an descendant of General Nathanael Greene) reported on the trial of Leo Frank, a Jew for the murder of a little white girl, 13 year old Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, in 1913. Leo Frank, a Jew from New York, was President of the Atlanta chapter of the quasi-masonic Jewish organisation called B'nai B'rith. An issue at the time was the exploitation of child labor by Jewish owned factories. Mary Phagan worked in the factory owned by Frank, and earnt 10 cents a hour for a 55 hour week. Leo Frank was convicted and sentenced to death, but after huge Jewish pressure, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. Incensed by this outrage, a group of people from Mary's home town, stormed the prison, and hanged Frank. Greene later wrote a book based on this subject called Death in the Deep South in 1936. This book was the basis for the film, They Won't Forget in 1937. The film was directed by Mervyn Le Roy, a Jew. In the film, the Jewish "Frank" becomes a white Yankee called Hale, convicted on flimsy evidence by anti-Yankee, Southern bigots. The victim, 13 year Mary Phagan, becomes Mary Clay, played by a busty Lana Turner.