A Musical About Leo Frank

There's a musical in New York city about Leo Frank--the jewish guy who was lynched for raping and murdering an Irish girl Mary Phegan.

I somehow heard about this story in high school. How many thousands of people were murdered in the early 1900s that I didn't hear about? I don't even really remember the context or classroom presentation of the information about the case; I guess it was some 1980's propaganda about racial "injustice", of course not the Jew on Irish murder injustice, but the "wrongful" lynching of Frank.

Jewish groups promote the story as if it's a slam dunk that Leo Frank was innocent. However there were four jews on the grand jury that indicted him. Also, a number of different authors have delved into the subject and provided the details of the case and he looks pretty guilty. In fact, he even tried to shift blame onto a black janitor, who would have then faced the death penalty.

I wonder if they'll have that part in the musical: "It was the negro, it was the negro not the jew.... the negro, the negro, the negro that is true.... Here's a note I found that said that he did it.... Oy Vei! I didn't know he is illiterate..."

Anyway, was he guilty or not? There's no way to know for sure all these years later. I assume he did it, but don't really know.

Imagine all the trouble with the mindset of backing people of your "race" no matter what. It seems pretty stupid and cumbersome.