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Posts Tagged ‘leo frank lynching

James Bain Exonerated By DNA After 35 Years In A Florida Prison

December 17, 2009

James Bain,54, was wrongly convicted in December of 1974 for the rape and kidnapping of a 9-year-old little boy. Bain had been in prison since the Nixon presidency, just to give you some perspective. The Innocence Project,  is a national organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing, was responsible for aggressively getting […]

‘Hang the Jew’,the curious case of The People v. Leo Frank

November 2, 2009

Tonight on PBS  will air “The People v. Leo Frank,” a must-see documentary about the only known Jew to be lynched in the American South, Monday, Nov. 2, at 10 p.m. Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American man who became the only known Jew to be  on lynched American soil.(Source […]