Posted by Christopher Mc on Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Under: Culture
You know those times when you learn a new word or hear about an author and then you find yourself hearing the word again in the next few days and you think it's a very odd coincidence. Well today I was looking in wikepedia at Leo Frank, convicted in 1914 of murdering a young girl, Mary Phagan. His death sentence was commuted cos the Governor of Georgia thought the evidence was dodgy and he was subsequently snatched from prison and lynched, the only Jew lynched in America. The mob called themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan and they developed into the relaunched Ku Klux Klan.
A film was made in 1988 starring Jack Lemmon called The Murder of Mary Phagan.
Anyway, flicking through the stations tonight and what do I find but the very film. How odd is that?
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