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Program dramatizes the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and the trial and
lynching of Leo Frank, accused of her murder. Will Janowitz ("The
Sopranos") and Seth Gilliam ("The Wire") star.
This program brings to vivid life one of the most fascinating
criminal cases in American history: the 1913 murder of 13-year-old
Mary Phagan, a child laborer in an Atlanta pencil factory, and the
trial and lynching of Leo Frank, the Jewish factory supervisor
accused of her murder. The film illuminates the scandalous trial
and its shocking aftermath with dramatic sequences created verbatim
from transcripts, documents and letters. The cast is led by Will
Janowitz ("The Sopranos") and Seth Gilliam ("The Wire").