In October of 1913, with the backing of big Jews, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith) was founded by Sigmund Livingston -- in large measure as a direct response to the recent trial of Leo Frank. Frank was a wealthy Jewish pencil factory manager (his family's business)
and the president of the Atlanta chapter of the pre-ADL B'nai B'rith.
On April 26, 1913, he raped and murdered a young employee named Mary Phagan,
age 13 -- and then tried to frame an innocent Black janitor for the
crime. Of course, the ADL -- then and now -- maintains that poor little
Leo was the victim of "anti-Semitism."
Local and state officials resisted intense pressure from the New York Jews and their henchmen to commute Frank's death sentence to life in prion instead. When that effort failed, (((they))) worked the Feds to save Frank. Finally, in August 1915, word came down from the Georgia Governor's office that Frank was to be spared. It turned out that Governor John M. Slaton (D) was once a law partner with Pedo Frank's Defense Counsel. As a result, Slaton's political career was soon finished, though he remained a hero to the ever-persecuted-ones (cough cough).
Angry over the many months of delays -- and now, an actual commutation -- and fearful that Frank's
