Editor’s Note: in the Headline of this article, by “defend”, “defend the memory of” is intended.

Leo Frank was found guilty, and sentenced to death, by the court, but that sentence was commuted to life in prison by the Governor of Georgia, whereupon a mob broke Leo Frank out and take him to the home town of Mary Fagan, his victim, where they lynched him. — The ADL was founded subsequently to defend Jews from “prejudice” and in particular to defend the memory of Frank, whom they hold was innocent to this day.

But knowing the facts of the case make it clear what the motivation of the founders of the ADL truly were.

These facts are not unimportant to us Catholics, too, because the victim in this case, Mary Fagan, was a Roman Catholic. — Let us pray for her soul and her family relations, who still survive to this day.

Finally, this video shows the excellent system of justice which prevailed in the United States of America in 1913-5, and how all parts of the justice system considered the complex array of evidence in this case fairly and equitably. It should not surprise that after a century of work by organizations committed to other goals, that that system is now in total disarray.