1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,040 Hey internet friends, isn't it odd that a solitary moment can change everything? 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:11,360 How one person's actions can transform the future and influence lives for decades and even 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:18,640 centuries? A single wicked act, a handful of rush lies, retribution, and what we're left with 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,320 is the thing that emerged from the black pit of chaos. A patient group was long-awaited for 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,920 everyone to forget the past, so that they can rewrite it. They're by carving out a new 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:36,400 future. We've arrived at their moment, now, as I speak. The culmination of their suffering, 7 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:42,560 their plotting, their efforts, the anti-deformation leak has waited a long time for their rain, 8 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:48,560 and ticing the masses under the guise of all that is just in fear. With their thorns wrapping 9 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:55,600 around the siding, shaping public discourse, silencing those who would seek to question them, 10 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:02,400 all to be a ruling force, unquestioned, and unmatched. Some would even argue that the ADL is the 11 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:09,680 single most influential organization in the United States. But is the ADL worthy of such power such 12 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:15,680 influence? Are they a better man to society as they claim? Where are they unfit? 13 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:21,840 Eligidament. They're very existence built upon the sleight of hand and half truth. You'll be 14 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,960 able to answer that question for me after this video. Using official court documents, 15 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:32,400 newspaper articles, witness testimonies and statements from the victims living family. 16 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,680 I'm going to tell you the story of how the life of little Mary Fagan came to an end. 17 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:44,320 How the anti-deformation leak rose to power, and why the ADL seeks to erase this moment from the 18 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:51,040 pages of history. As a reminder, facts are not hateful, and as the quote goes, 19 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:58,160 truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. You just let it loose, and it'll defend itself. 20 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:10,800 Let's travel back in time to over a century ago. To my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, 21 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:18,480 April 26, 1913. Both civil war at Atlanta had finally stopped smoldering. Businessmen and workers 22 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:24,640 alike flock south for opportunity. One of these businessmen was a 29-year-old Jewish man by the 23 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:30,160 name of Leo Frank, who was raised in New York and had spent the last several years touring Europe 24 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:35,360 after graduating from Cornell. Learning the ways of business so he could run at Atlanta's National 25 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:41,840 Pencil Company. A sweatshop factory where over a hundred children were employed, a four-story building 26 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,960 cake didn't grime with little in the way of ventilation where Frank served as a superintendent. 27 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,960 Outside of work, Frank was heavily involved in the local Jewish community, 28 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:56,160 becoming president of the Atlanta chapter of Benay, Brith, which is kind of like a Masonic society 29 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:01,920 with their lodges and doings, but only for Jewish members. Benay, Brith is the ADL's parent 30 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:08,240 organization and was founded in 1843 in New York as a Jewish counterpart of fraternal orders that 31 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:14,320 were then flourishing in America. It was a Saturday, a holiday to be precise. On the day that was 32 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:21,040 once celebrated as Confederate Memorial Day. When 13-year-old pencil factory worker Mary Fayan 33 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:27,840 entered the office of her boss, Leo Frank, to collect her pay of a dollar 20 cents. Mary was just 34 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,960 12 years old when she began working for Frank. She and her family they didn't have much. 35 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,920 When her mother was six months pregnant with her Mary's father died of measles, leaving her 36 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:43,600 mother widowed with four other young children. Mary's mom moved her family from Alabama to East 37 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:49,440 Point at Atlanta, Georgia, where they had more family and more opportunity for employment. 38 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:56,080 Mary herself was a beautiful girl with fair skin, blue eyes, dimples, and long reddish brown hair. 39 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:01,760 And she was described by her family and peers as a sweet girl with a bubbly and loving personality. 40 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:07,840 On this tragic Saturday in 1913, Mary set out to collect her paycheck and meet her boy sweet 41 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,320 heart outside of the factory that afternoon, so they could go watch the parade together. 42 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:18,640 Sadly, that never happened. Leo Frank would be the last known person to see Mary Fayan alive. 43 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:24,160 The following morning before the sun had even risen in the east, the night watchman also 44 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,680 known as the security guard of the Pinsal factory, a black man by the name of Newt Lee. 45 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:35,360 Discovered Mary's dead and brutally beaten body discarded in the basement of the factory, 46 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:41,200 monks to see of bloody pencil shavings with a cord around her neck. And beside her body, 47 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:48,320 two notes describing her murder through Mary's point of view. She wrote about a long tall black man 48 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:54,240 called the night witch. It was written like she scribbled it down in her final moments, 49 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,840 even though the note wasn't in her handwriting. Her autopsy later revealed that the 13-year-old 50 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:04,320 had not only been beaten but raped by her killer. Of course, 51 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:10,640 Newt Lee was immediately brought in for questioning. He was the main suspect. He discovered Mary's body 52 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:16,640 after all. Police fired a gun right next to Lee's head and he was subject to intense interrogation 53 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:22,080 as the hunt for Mary's killer commenced. But despite the pressure, Lee never confessed. 54 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,640 According to police reports, a blood-soaked shirt was left at Newt Lee's home. 55 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,360 Leo Frank's attorney hinted to police where they would find the evidence. Newt's papers 56 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:36,960 published this development and the mob nearly lynched Newt Lee then in there. But police were not as 57 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,800 easily swayed. There was strong evidence to support that Leo Frank himself had hired private 58 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:48,480 detectives to frame his night watchmen because the detectives had done such a sloppy job. 59 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:54,720 All of this was relayed in the Atlanta Constitution and even in the New York Times in 1914. 60 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:00,160 Alongside reports of bribery and witness intimidation. Once Lee was found innocent, 61 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:05,680 two suspects remained. The first suspect was a black man by the name of Jim Conley. 62 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:11,520 The factor he's janitor, who curiously held the lowest status job at the factor, yet somehow 63 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:17,760 has paid 50% more than all that other child laborers like Mary. Conley was even given special 64 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:24,560 privileges by his superintendent, Leo Frank. They had an interestingly close working relationship. 65 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:30,240 You see, Conley never had to keep up with his timeguard. He never had to punch the clock like 66 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:37,600 others. He could just come and go as he pleased. The second suspect was Conley's boss, Leo Frank, 67 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:43,520 who went on record as the last person to witness Mary alive. Unlike Conley, Leo Frank hired 68 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:49,760 the best offense team, money could buy. Unlike Conley, Frank had the money for illegal team to prove 69 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:56,880 his innocence. Not only that, but unlike Conley, Frank had the backing of Benay Brith to influence 70 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:03,360 and sway his trial. The Graham jury consisted of 23 members, including five prominent members 71 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,520 of the Jewish community in Atlanta. Two of which were reportedly from the synagogue, Frank attended. 72 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,560 Mary Fagan's murder trial made headline after headline all summer. You see, 73 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:20,000 Georgia summers are notoriously hot in the human. The days are long, the sun, 74 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,520 unrelenting. All you have to do is walk outside and you'll start sweating. The trial began to heat 75 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,960 up after Conley admitted that he wasn't illiterate like he had previously stated. I'll know 76 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:37,840 he could read and write, just fine. So fine, in fact, that Conley swore his boss Leo Frank 77 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:44,640 paid him to write Mary's murder note. Then what about the long tall black man? The night witch. 78 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:50,480 As Conley continued, it seemed like his involvement was more and more like he was Frank's 79 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:58,160 accomplice, with Frank as the main suspect. Unlike Conley, Frank absolutely refused to be cross-examined. 80 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,600 But there was overwhelming evidence against him, including blood and hair left at the crime scene, 81 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,800 as well as Frank's ever changing alibi. Frank's accounts of his interaction with Mary in 82 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,720 her final moments began to unravel. They morphed with every retelling. Originally, Frank's 83 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:20,560 wore that he stayed in his office following Mary's departure after receiving her pay on the loop. 84 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,600 But later, Frank stated he might have taken an unconscious bathroom break that would have 85 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,880 placed him walking past the metal room. The site where Mary was believed to have been murdered, 86 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:36,800 and at the suspected time when the attack occurred. Another young worker was called to the witness 87 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,680 stand claiming that she had gone to Frank's office right after Mary had left, and Frank wasn't 88 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:46,480 there. He was nowhere to be found, and she even waited around for a bit, but concluded that 89 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,760 Frank had gone home for the day. The character witnesses included a string of female employees who 90 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:57,680 all had the same thing to say about Frank. He was handy with the girls, he touched them, he stared, 91 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:03,680 he made rude comments. The guy was a well-known pervert, and all the female employees knew it. 92 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:10,160 They all said so, quote, 16-year-old Nelly Wood told the court how Frank had pushed himself against her 93 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:15,760 and touched her breast. 14-year-old Nelly Petta's witness for the defense recounted how Leo 94 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,440 Frank had propositioned her for sex. 20 girls and all gave similar testimony about Frank's 95 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,880 and proprieties. Several male employees described how they had witnessed Leo Frank rub up against 96 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:32,720 young female co-workers a little bit too much. This testimony was so explicit that the judge had 97 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:38,880 to clear the courtroom of women. And quote, after a long drawn-out trial that garnered immense 98 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:44,800 public attention and claims from the prosecution that alleged bribery and witness tampering from 99 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:51,120 Frank's legal team had occurred, the grand jury reached a unanimous verdict. All the grandiors, 100 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:57,120 including the five Jewish jurors, signed the bill of indictment against Leo Frank. They'd all 101 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:02,720 decided he was guilty. After being convicted of murder, the judge's sentence Frank to death by 102 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:08,720 hanging, which was said to be carried out in October. But after Frank's legal team attempted several 103 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:15,360 failed appeals all the way up to the federal level. 13-separate appeals to be exact. In 1915 104 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:22,080 under intense political pressure, Attorney in Georgia Governor Slayton on his last day in office 105 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:27,600 had Frank's sentence reduced to life in prison. Alongside the order Governor Slayton wrote that 106 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:34,880 the U.S. Supreme Court, quote, found in the trial no error and law and had correctly in my judgment, 107 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:40,640 found that there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict. And quote, keep in mind that 108 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:46,480 Frank on top of murdering Mary Fagan had tried to pin the murder on two different black men. 109 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:53,280 Frank claimed that rape and murder were black crimes. In any black person who testified against him 110 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:58,640 should be barred because their testimony was invalid based on their skin color. When the 111 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,920 public heard that Governor Slayton had reduced Frank's sentence. They were angry. They believe 112 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:10,560 the justice system had failed Mary Fagan, the real victim. After all, Governor Slayton was a former 113 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:16,000 partner at the law firm of Frank's defense team. So the public's suspected some under the 114 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,560 table deals in bribery. As a result, a group of about 25 men who called themselves the 115 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:29,200 Knights of Mary Fagan took justice into their own hands. They kidnapped Leo Frank from prison 116 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:34,880 and hanged him in Mary at her Georgia. His body facing the direction of the Fagan residents. 117 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:39,760 You remember I told you in the beginning that Leo Frank was the president of the Llaner chapter 118 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:46,400 of Benay brith. An organization whose mission preaches philanthropy and community outreach. But apparently 119 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,800 they did a little bit too much community outreach because they were accused of espionage during 120 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:56,720 the Civil War and implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln. With the goal of subverting 121 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:02,000 and fragmenting America so that it could once again fall under the British crown. And this was 122 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,920 documented by both Gentile and Jewish scholars alike. They were accused of being spies. 123 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:14,240 Spice for the crown. It didn't matter to Benay brith. That Leo Frank was found guilty and convicted 124 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:21,280 of murder by a unanimous jury. Even when he was sitting in his jail cell, the Atlanta chapter 125 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:26,480 re-elected Frank as president. Members of Benay brith stated that they believe the real murder 126 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:33,360 was Jim Conley, the janitor. In the testimony of a black man, a second-class citizen in their eyes 127 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:39,760 was unreliable. Furthermore, Benay brith claimed that the trial was too hasty and that only honest 128 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,720 people in the courtroom were Frank and his defense team. Everybody else they claim was either 129 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:50,160 brith, threatened, or fell under one all encompassing term. An anti-symite. 130 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,600 All my sources are listed as the pinned comment under this YouTube video and as always I look forward 131 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,480 to your comments. Thank you for watching and subscribing and supporting my channel on Patreon. Bye.