WATSON'S MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 1915, PART 5 OF 13, LEO FRANK CASE BY U.S. SENATOR TOM WATSON

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Published on Dec 14, 2022
Tom Watson was a House of Representatives member (1896) and United States Senator (1920) from Georgia, who was regarded as one of the most brilliant criminal defense attorneys of his time.
Although he uses vitriolic language when speaking about Hebrew people, he had defended Jewish people in the past. He believes in Leo's guilt and is appalled by the powers that supported him. He was a radical populist who championed poor African-American and European-American farmers. In 1913, he was offered a $5000 retainer (which is about $150,000 in today's dollars) to defend Leo Frank but he refused, and the following year (1914) ,after Leo Frank was convicted, he wrote about the case in his Jeffersonian weekly newspaper. In 1915, he wrote five magazine articles on the trial and appeals in his Watson's Magazine, January, March, August, September and October issues. We present here an audiobook segment (PART FIVE) of that September 1915 article, transformed into a montage.