Robert Gist

⁣The video is the story of Governor John Marshall "Jack" Slaton (December 25th, 1866 - January 11th, 1955) of Georgia, who in the early 1900s pardoned Leo Frank, who had been convicted of and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young girl. 1964 Profiles in Courage, a Jewish supremacist Hollywood drama that rehabilitates the image of the corrupt 60th governor of Georgia, John Slaton, who commuted the death sentence of Georgia State's criminal defense client Leo Frank, who was show more represented by a law partner from his own private legal firm, Glenn and Slaton, to life imprisonment over his 1913 conviction for the rape-murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan. Thereby, when the Governor commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, there was a blatant conflict of interest with the public's benefit and well-being as well as a subversive diversion from the noble causes of truth and justice.
Various attempts at corruption had been attempted by Leo Frank's legal defense team comprising of various opportunistic and unscrupulous individuals claiming to be lawyers tried to bribe eye witnesses in either retracting their testimonies or persuade police officials towards illegally retrieving the original documents related to the case. Leo Frank's friends and supporters were said to be paying witnesses to leave town or make fabricated affidavits against their previous testimonies. A secret police informant by the name of Colyar recorded Felder attempting to pay $1000 for the original Coleman affidavit and for copies of the confidential police files on the Mary Phagan case. One such example would be that of the conman and lawyer “Colonel” Thomas B. Felder who tried his best discredit the validity of the case by purchasing the original documentation of the charge sheet and related evidence against Leo Frank. Chief of Police Lanford exposed Felder as working for Leo Frank despite his denial. Felder went as far as falsely accusing Jim Conley the factory sweeper of possessing an affidavit where he admitted guilt in murdering Mary Phagan. Jim Conley of course denied this vehemently. The Atlanta Georgian on May 26, 1913 claimed that the bribery effort came from Frank's friends which Thomas Felder automatically branded as being that of a diabolical conspiracy. When things didn't work out with Thomas Felder's antics, he decided to discard his services to Leo Frank's defense team and then towed the line regarding the popular belief that "Jewish money" was protecting Leo Frank. Despite several appeals to various US institutions between August 27, 1913, to April 22, 1915, Leo Frank's legal team was not able to acquire a successful appeal. (fonte: Nbc) show less