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Posted by Richard Mamches
on April 13, 2001, 17:16:34
On March 11, 1986 the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles finally granted Leo Frank a posthumous pardon, but this is not mentioned in PARADE. I am curious as to why Alfred Uhry did not include this fact in the play? Leo Frank's office boy Alonzo Mann came forward in 1982 to say he saw Jim Conley, the pencil company janitor, carrying Mary Phagan's dead body down to the basement, and Conley threatened to kill him if he reported what he saw. Mann gave an affidavit of this to the Georgia Pardons and Paroles board, and after initially denying the pardon in 1983, ultimately granted Leo Frank a pardon sought by the Atlanta Jewish community and other national Jewish groups.
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