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		By: Dave Rubin		</title>
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THE JEWISH BANKER/BANK WHO FINANCED THE JAPANESE/RUSSIAN WAR, THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, &#038; BOTH WORLD WARS

Jacob Schiff proposed that the First World War be the war to end all wars, which became an international mantra after the war. The absolute end of all war heralded the Jewish Messianic Era in which the Jews would be &quot;restored&quot; to Palestine, where they would rule the world from Jerusalem. Jewish bankers deliberately created the First World War in order to artificially fulfill Jewish Messianic prophecy by staging the &quot;Battle of Armageddon&quot;, by creating a World government run by Jews known as &quot;The League of Nations&quot;, by &quot;restoring&quot; the Jews to Palestine, by destroying the Empires and Monarchies, by enslaving the Gentiles with Bolshevism, by placing the wealth of the World in Jewish hands, etc. etc. etc. 

Schiff believed that the First World War fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 2:1-4, which states,
	
&quot;1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD&#039;s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.&quot;
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THE JEWISH ZIONIST/BOLSHEVIK MESSIAH:

&quot;The mashiach [Jewish messiah] will bring about the political and spiritual redemption of the Jewish people by bringing us back to Israel and restoring Jerusalem (Isaiah 11:11-12; Jeremiah 23:8; 30:3; Hosea 3:4-5). He will establish a government in Israel that will be the center of all world government, both for Jews and gentiles (Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:10; 42:1). He will rebuild the Temple and re-establish its worship (Jeremiah 33:18). He will restore the religious court system of Israel and establish Jewish law as the law of the land (Jeremiah 33:15)…The world after the messiah comes is often referred to in Jewish literature as Olam Ha-Ba (oh-LAHM hah-BAH), the World to Come…In the Olam Ha-Ba, the whole world will recognize the Jewish G-d as the only true G-d, and the Jewish religion as the only true religion (Isaiah 2:3; 11:10; Micah 4:2-3; Zechariah 14:9).&quot;

– From &quot;Mashiach: The Messiah&quot;, Judaism 101 –—

&quot;The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the &quot;children of Israel&quot; will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.&quot; 
--Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, &#039;La Revue de Paris&#039;, p.574, June 1, 1928

 &quot;With the exception of the USSR as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah.&quot;

– David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish State of Israel.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2360">Jeff</a>.</p>
<p>THE JEWISH BANKER/BANK WHO FINANCED THE JAPANESE/RUSSIAN WAR, THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, &amp; BOTH WORLD WARS</p>
<p>Jacob Schiff proposed that the First World War be the war to end all wars, which became an international mantra after the war. The absolute end of all war heralded the Jewish Messianic Era in which the Jews would be &#8220;restored&#8221; to Palestine, where they would rule the world from Jerusalem. Jewish bankers deliberately created the First World War in order to artificially fulfill Jewish Messianic prophecy by staging the &#8220;Battle of Armageddon&#8221;, by creating a World government run by Jews known as &#8220;The League of Nations&#8221;, by &#8220;restoring&#8221; the Jews to Palestine, by destroying the Empires and Monarchies, by enslaving the Gentiles with Bolshevism, by placing the wealth of the World in Jewish hands, etc. etc. etc. </p>
<p>Schiff believed that the First World War fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 2:1-4, which states,</p>
<p>&#8220;1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD&#8217;s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.&#8221;<br />
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THE JEWISH ZIONIST/BOLSHEVIK MESSIAH:</p>
<p>&#8220;The mashiach [Jewish messiah] will bring about the political and spiritual redemption of the Jewish people by bringing us back to Israel and restoring Jerusalem (Isaiah 11:11-12; Jeremiah 23:8; 30:3; Hosea 3:4-5). He will establish a government in Israel that will be the center of all world government, both for Jews and gentiles (Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:10; 42:1). He will rebuild the Temple and re-establish its worship (Jeremiah 33:18). He will restore the religious court system of Israel and establish Jewish law as the law of the land (Jeremiah 33:15)…The world after the messiah comes is often referred to in Jewish literature as Olam Ha-Ba (oh-LAHM hah-BAH), the World to Come…In the Olam Ha-Ba, the whole world will recognize the Jewish G-d as the only true G-d, and the Jewish religion as the only true religion (Isaiah 2:3; 11:10; Micah 4:2-3; Zechariah 14:9).&#8221;</p>
<p>– From &#8220;Mashiach: The Messiah&#8221;, Judaism 101 –—</p>
<p>&#8220;The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the &#8220;children of Israel&#8221; will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, &#8216;La Revue de Paris&#8217;, p.574, June 1, 1928</p>
<p> &#8220;With the exception of the USSR as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah.&#8221;</p>
<p>– David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish State of Israel.</p>
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		By: Dave Rubin		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2241&quot;&gt;Karl Gharst&lt;/a&gt;.

MRS LEO FRANK DIDN&#039;T PARDON HER RAPIST, MURDERING HUSBAND

LUCILLE SELIG FRANK
BIRTH	19 Feb 1888 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
DEATH: 23 Apr 1957 (aged 69)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
BURIAL: Oakland Cemetery Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
PLOT: Cremated-ashes buried between parents

Wife of Leo Frank, the only Jewish man ever to be hanged for criminal punishment in the United States. 

Some contemporary observers allege that Leo Frank got bored with Lucille early in the marriage. Frank&#039;s factory was flooded with an ever-changing line-up of svelte former farm girls, working-class teenage child laborers who were blossoming much faster than their upper-class counterparts. These working class girls often matured physically ahead of their time, unlike the daughters of middle class and wealthy families, whose patriarchs could ensure their daughters wouldn&#039;t have to give up school to work long hours in dingy mills and factories for a number of pennies an hour. Child laborers generally earned less than ten cents an hour during the early decades of the 20th century, some as little as one penny an hour.

Leo Frank&#039;s critics emphasize his wily behavior and his attempts to sexually lure the young girls in his employ. 

CHILD PROSTITUTION
And it was more than just the endless stream of poverty-stricken and blossoming, hormonal teenage girls funneling into the factory each day that provided inspiration. A simple phone call to Leo&#039;s favorite madam, Nina Formby, could bring any number of illicit delights. Formby was a mamasan running a child brothel in Atlanta&#039;s Red Light District on Mechanic Street, which was conveniently located only a few blocks north of Frank&#039;s National Pencil Company factory. It is a sad fact of life that Frank, seated at the helm of his company, could order the new &quot;catch of the day&quot; whenever he so desired and have young teen and even pre-teen prostitutes delivered by foot to his office for lunch, or after work, or on Saturdays, and no one would notice any difference, since the factory was always brimming with young girls coming to and fro. Many of the girls who ended up in the child brothels of Atlanta had been former child laborers ground down in the industrial factories and mills of which the National Pencil Company was one. Some of these girls – like Daisy Hopkins, who was a former National Pencil Company employee – might have made that lifestyle decision by choice alone, but we may be sure a large number were entirely victims, and at a tragically early age. Prostitution of all kinds, including the White slave trade was an unfortunate part of the growing pains of late 19th century and early 20th century Atlanta, with politicians on the take, often looking the other way. Cosmetic efforts were often made to stem the tide of this illicit trade and its decline would not come until severe criminal penalties were put in place by the government.

LEO FRANK&#039;S DEFENDERS ON THE IMAGE OF HIS WIFE, LUCILLE SELIG FRANK

Leo Frank partisans sometimes paint a two-dimensional picture of Lucille, portraying her as a woman who believed in the innocence of her husband from the inception of his travails – and until the end of her life. Lucille did become vocally indignant – throwing a tantrum and bursting into tears – when the prosecutor, Hugh Dorsey, insinuated at trial that her husband was philandering at the factory. At least publicly she refused to believe it. But something very unusual happened later to suggest she may have known the uncomfortable truth and wasn&#039;t the oblivious housewife after all. Lucille was, without dispute, a fiercely loyal wife when all is said and done; and she might have been provincial – but she was not a naive Stepford wife.

There may have been a time, early on, when Lucille entirely refused to believe the accusations concerning Leo Frank&#039;s marital unfaithfulness, although even that is far from certain: Her loyalty may have been more tribally- and practically-based than it was founded on a personal conviction of the heart. Whatever her former beliefs, 21st-century research has uncovered indications of her true attitude in her will of 1954, indicating her wish to be cremated, and her subsequent verbal instructions for the dispersal of her ashes – which specified that her remains not be interred next to Leo Frank&#039;s.

THE NOTARIZED LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LUCILLE SELIG FRANK ACQUIRED
In 1954, three years before Lucille passed away, something very profound and emotionally liberating occurred that would forever be remembered as a defining moment in the life of this martyred figure. An unofficial document in the hands of Lucille was made legal and official. It was signed â€˜Lucille S. Frank&#039;, witnessed, notarized, and registered with the local government of Atlanta, Georgia – and that document from 1954 has survived to the early 21st century.

UNMISTAKABLE IMPLICATIONS
In Lucille&#039;s short â€˜Last Will and Testament&#039; notarized, registered, and currently present (2013) within the local government registry office of Atlanta, Lucille disbursed a number of her personal items – a few of which seem conspicuously absent from the list – to friends and family, but more importantly she specifically requested cremation. (Mrs. Lucille S. Frank, Signatory, The Last Will and Testament of Lucille Selig Frank, 1954, accessed 2012). What happened to Lucille and Leo&#039;s wedding album? What happened to Leo&#039;s wedding ring that he bequeathed to her during the last moments of his life?

From the perspective of the Jewish community, Lucille&#039;s quiet yet controversial 1957 cremation was rather unusual. For a faithful, proud, and practicing Jewish woman from a prominent and historically significant Jewish family to go against the traditional practice of burial next to one&#039;s deceased spouse – or at the very least requesting to have her ashes buried or spread near her husband – was distinctly odd.

Were her wishes, thus expressed, an honest and candid verdict against the innocence of Leo Frank? The very clear living request she gave to her family before she died (see statement of A. Marcus, Features, Oney, 2004), specifically asking them to spread her ashes in a local Atlanta park, meant clearly that Lucille did not want her ashes spread at the Mount Carmel Cemetery near her husband, hundreds of miles away, or buried there next to him. 

Did Lucille&#039;s wishes speak volumes? 
Is Lucille even today speaking to us as the only jurywoman worthy enough to pass judgment, in a not-so-silent ballot?

Widowed in 1915, Lucille Selig Frank was no ordinary &quot;jurist peer&quot; called to pass impartial judgment. She was much more intimate than that: She was the truly loyal wife of Leo Frank, a woman who stood by her husband unshakably and without absence through the whole humiliating ordeal, beginning two weeks after his arrest, including all his court appearances, and through every twist and turn of the defense&#039;s strategy from 1913 to 1915 and beyond. That she could wish her remains to be placed far, far away from those of her late husband is a powerfully moving act. (It took Lucille two weeks to begin her stalwart defense of Leo, during which time she refused to even visit him in jail. Could this be a sign of the deep emotional turmoil his acts of infidelity and violence had caused?)

Lucille might not have known all the details about what happened at the National Pencil Company after twelve noon on April 26, 1913, but – if the June 3, 1913 affidavit of Magnolia McKnight, known as State&#039;s Exhibit J, and the corroborating affidavit of Minola&#039;s husband Albert, can be believed – she probably knew that Leo Frank had tried to seduce young Mary Phagan and had then killed her to protect his status and reputation. Imagine the magnitude of suppressed pain, grief, and suffering Lucille endured after learning from Leo&#039;s own lips what really happened that fateful noon hour while she was at the Opera House. 

Imagine what it was like for the rest of her life having to publicly pretend otherwise. It&#039;s certainly not a burden most people could fathom, much less endure.

Lucille was also very much involved in Leo Frank&#039;s appeals. After his trial ended with a guilty verdict, another little girl came forward who claimed that Leo Frank had raped her, causing her to became pregnant; this little girl reported that after Leo Frank seduced her, he descended between her legs and sadistically plunged his teeth into the tenderest tissues adjacent to her vagina (Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Records, 1913, 1914). The child was permanently scarified, not just physically, but mentally. She and Leo&#039;s alleged child were whisked way to a Christian home in Ohio for unwed teen mothers, which was the normal course of events in those times and circumstances. There can be no denying that such revelations were impossible for Lucille to miss or ignore: She acted as stenographer and secretary for her husband, managing and organizing his appeals petitions between 1913 and 1915.

Even though cosmetically she had to put on the mask of pretense and appearance – pretending publicly her husband Leo Frank was not guilty of the murder, or of any infidelities – on some level it was probably difficult for Lucille to trick herself into not believing the nineteen employees who came forward and suggested Frank was a sexual predator and pedophile who engaged in numerous illicit assignations and who tacitly facilitated the assignations of others. 
Some witnesses stated Leo Frank was regularly whoring on the Sabbath and trying to &quot;turnout&quot; many young girls at the factory. If Lucille and Leo had an unsatisfying or almost non-existent sex life, she knew of it, even if no one else did – and, if so, she probably suspected what happened on those days when her husband was &quot;working late&quot; at his factory or &quot;working late on the weekends&quot;.

Leo and Lucille Frank never had children and, except for one unsubstantiated rumor, there was no hint of any pregnancy. As 21st century dispassionate explorers we might speculate: 

Was she naturally sterile, or was Leo no longer interested, or both? If the rumors were true about Leo Frank seeking out daliances with Atlanta&#039;s prostitutes, in an age where there were no antibiotics, could he have given his once-virgin wife one of the many commonly known STDs or the silent sterilizer Chlamydia? 

And surely what was most shaming is that there was evidence discovered in 1914, during Frank&#039;s appeals, that he inseminated one of his former factory child laborers, a naive young teen who became pregnant and was shipped off to a home for unwed mothers in Ohio, something that – no matter how much she repressed it – would have mortified Lucille.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2241">Karl Gharst</a>.</p>
<p>MRS LEO FRANK DIDN&#8217;T PARDON HER RAPIST, MURDERING HUSBAND</p>
<p>LUCILLE SELIG FRANK<br />
BIRTH	19 Feb 1888 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA<br />
DEATH: 23 Apr 1957 (aged 69)<br />
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA<br />
BURIAL: Oakland Cemetery Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA<br />
PLOT: Cremated-ashes buried between parents</p>
<p>Wife of Leo Frank, the only Jewish man ever to be hanged for criminal punishment in the United States. </p>
<p>Some contemporary observers allege that Leo Frank got bored with Lucille early in the marriage. Frank&#8217;s factory was flooded with an ever-changing line-up of svelte former farm girls, working-class teenage child laborers who were blossoming much faster than their upper-class counterparts. These working class girls often matured physically ahead of their time, unlike the daughters of middle class and wealthy families, whose patriarchs could ensure their daughters wouldn&#8217;t have to give up school to work long hours in dingy mills and factories for a number of pennies an hour. Child laborers generally earned less than ten cents an hour during the early decades of the 20th century, some as little as one penny an hour.</p>
<p>Leo Frank&#8217;s critics emphasize his wily behavior and his attempts to sexually lure the young girls in his employ. </p>
<p>CHILD PROSTITUTION<br />
And it was more than just the endless stream of poverty-stricken and blossoming, hormonal teenage girls funneling into the factory each day that provided inspiration. A simple phone call to Leo&#8217;s favorite madam, Nina Formby, could bring any number of illicit delights. Formby was a mamasan running a child brothel in Atlanta&#8217;s Red Light District on Mechanic Street, which was conveniently located only a few blocks north of Frank&#8217;s National Pencil Company factory. It is a sad fact of life that Frank, seated at the helm of his company, could order the new &#8220;catch of the day&#8221; whenever he so desired and have young teen and even pre-teen prostitutes delivered by foot to his office for lunch, or after work, or on Saturdays, and no one would notice any difference, since the factory was always brimming with young girls coming to and fro. Many of the girls who ended up in the child brothels of Atlanta had been former child laborers ground down in the industrial factories and mills of which the National Pencil Company was one. Some of these girls – like Daisy Hopkins, who was a former National Pencil Company employee – might have made that lifestyle decision by choice alone, but we may be sure a large number were entirely victims, and at a tragically early age. Prostitution of all kinds, including the White slave trade was an unfortunate part of the growing pains of late 19th century and early 20th century Atlanta, with politicians on the take, often looking the other way. Cosmetic efforts were often made to stem the tide of this illicit trade and its decline would not come until severe criminal penalties were put in place by the government.</p>
<p>LEO FRANK&#8217;S DEFENDERS ON THE IMAGE OF HIS WIFE, LUCILLE SELIG FRANK</p>
<p>Leo Frank partisans sometimes paint a two-dimensional picture of Lucille, portraying her as a woman who believed in the innocence of her husband from the inception of his travails – and until the end of her life. Lucille did become vocally indignant – throwing a tantrum and bursting into tears – when the prosecutor, Hugh Dorsey, insinuated at trial that her husband was philandering at the factory. At least publicly she refused to believe it. But something very unusual happened later to suggest she may have known the uncomfortable truth and wasn&#8217;t the oblivious housewife after all. Lucille was, without dispute, a fiercely loyal wife when all is said and done; and she might have been provincial – but she was not a naive Stepford wife.</p>
<p>There may have been a time, early on, when Lucille entirely refused to believe the accusations concerning Leo Frank&#8217;s marital unfaithfulness, although even that is far from certain: Her loyalty may have been more tribally- and practically-based than it was founded on a personal conviction of the heart. Whatever her former beliefs, 21st-century research has uncovered indications of her true attitude in her will of 1954, indicating her wish to be cremated, and her subsequent verbal instructions for the dispersal of her ashes – which specified that her remains not be interred next to Leo Frank&#8217;s.</p>
<p>THE NOTARIZED LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LUCILLE SELIG FRANK ACQUIRED<br />
In 1954, three years before Lucille passed away, something very profound and emotionally liberating occurred that would forever be remembered as a defining moment in the life of this martyred figure. An unofficial document in the hands of Lucille was made legal and official. It was signed â€˜Lucille S. Frank&#8217;, witnessed, notarized, and registered with the local government of Atlanta, Georgia – and that document from 1954 has survived to the early 21st century.</p>
<p>UNMISTAKABLE IMPLICATIONS<br />
In Lucille&#8217;s short â€˜Last Will and Testament&#8217; notarized, registered, and currently present (2013) within the local government registry office of Atlanta, Lucille disbursed a number of her personal items – a few of which seem conspicuously absent from the list – to friends and family, but more importantly she specifically requested cremation. (Mrs. Lucille S. Frank, Signatory, The Last Will and Testament of Lucille Selig Frank, 1954, accessed 2012). What happened to Lucille and Leo&#8217;s wedding album? What happened to Leo&#8217;s wedding ring that he bequeathed to her during the last moments of his life?</p>
<p>From the perspective of the Jewish community, Lucille&#8217;s quiet yet controversial 1957 cremation was rather unusual. For a faithful, proud, and practicing Jewish woman from a prominent and historically significant Jewish family to go against the traditional practice of burial next to one&#8217;s deceased spouse – or at the very least requesting to have her ashes buried or spread near her husband – was distinctly odd.</p>
<p>Were her wishes, thus expressed, an honest and candid verdict against the innocence of Leo Frank? The very clear living request she gave to her family before she died (see statement of A. Marcus, Features, Oney, 2004), specifically asking them to spread her ashes in a local Atlanta park, meant clearly that Lucille did not want her ashes spread at the Mount Carmel Cemetery near her husband, hundreds of miles away, or buried there next to him. </p>
<p>Did Lucille&#8217;s wishes speak volumes?<br />
Is Lucille even today speaking to us as the only jurywoman worthy enough to pass judgment, in a not-so-silent ballot?</p>
<p>Widowed in 1915, Lucille Selig Frank was no ordinary &#8220;jurist peer&#8221; called to pass impartial judgment. She was much more intimate than that: She was the truly loyal wife of Leo Frank, a woman who stood by her husband unshakably and without absence through the whole humiliating ordeal, beginning two weeks after his arrest, including all his court appearances, and through every twist and turn of the defense&#8217;s strategy from 1913 to 1915 and beyond. That she could wish her remains to be placed far, far away from those of her late husband is a powerfully moving act. (It took Lucille two weeks to begin her stalwart defense of Leo, during which time she refused to even visit him in jail. Could this be a sign of the deep emotional turmoil his acts of infidelity and violence had caused?)</p>
<p>Lucille might not have known all the details about what happened at the National Pencil Company after twelve noon on April 26, 1913, but – if the June 3, 1913 affidavit of Magnolia McKnight, known as State&#8217;s Exhibit J, and the corroborating affidavit of Minola&#8217;s husband Albert, can be believed – she probably knew that Leo Frank had tried to seduce young Mary Phagan and had then killed her to protect his status and reputation. Imagine the magnitude of suppressed pain, grief, and suffering Lucille endured after learning from Leo&#8217;s own lips what really happened that fateful noon hour while she was at the Opera House. </p>
<p>Imagine what it was like for the rest of her life having to publicly pretend otherwise. It&#8217;s certainly not a burden most people could fathom, much less endure.</p>
<p>Lucille was also very much involved in Leo Frank&#8217;s appeals. After his trial ended with a guilty verdict, another little girl came forward who claimed that Leo Frank had raped her, causing her to became pregnant; this little girl reported that after Leo Frank seduced her, he descended between her legs and sadistically plunged his teeth into the tenderest tissues adjacent to her vagina (Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Records, 1913, 1914). The child was permanently scarified, not just physically, but mentally. She and Leo&#8217;s alleged child were whisked way to a Christian home in Ohio for unwed teen mothers, which was the normal course of events in those times and circumstances. There can be no denying that such revelations were impossible for Lucille to miss or ignore: She acted as stenographer and secretary for her husband, managing and organizing his appeals petitions between 1913 and 1915.</p>
<p>Even though cosmetically she had to put on the mask of pretense and appearance – pretending publicly her husband Leo Frank was not guilty of the murder, or of any infidelities – on some level it was probably difficult for Lucille to trick herself into not believing the nineteen employees who came forward and suggested Frank was a sexual predator and pedophile who engaged in numerous illicit assignations and who tacitly facilitated the assignations of others.<br />
Some witnesses stated Leo Frank was regularly whoring on the Sabbath and trying to &#8220;turnout&#8221; many young girls at the factory. If Lucille and Leo had an unsatisfying or almost non-existent sex life, she knew of it, even if no one else did – and, if so, she probably suspected what happened on those days when her husband was &#8220;working late&#8221; at his factory or &#8220;working late on the weekends&#8221;.</p>
<p>Leo and Lucille Frank never had children and, except for one unsubstantiated rumor, there was no hint of any pregnancy. As 21st century dispassionate explorers we might speculate: </p>
<p>Was she naturally sterile, or was Leo no longer interested, or both? If the rumors were true about Leo Frank seeking out daliances with Atlanta&#8217;s prostitutes, in an age where there were no antibiotics, could he have given his once-virgin wife one of the many commonly known STDs or the silent sterilizer Chlamydia? </p>
<p>And surely what was most shaming is that there was evidence discovered in 1914, during Frank&#8217;s appeals, that he inseminated one of his former factory child laborers, a naive young teen who became pregnant and was shipped off to a home for unwed mothers in Ohio, something that – no matter how much she repressed it – would have mortified Lucille.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;THE JEWISH TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. During the twenty centuries of its existence...IT SURVIVED IN ITS ENTIRETY, and not only has the power of its foes FAILED TO DESTROY EVEN A SINGLE LINE, but it has not even been able materially to weaken its influence for any length of time. 

IT STILL DOMINATES THE MINDS OF A WHOLE PEOPLE, WHO VENERATE ITS CONTENTS AS DIVINE TRUTH...&quot;

JEWISH BABYLONIAN TALMUD: SANHEDRIN, 55b-55a: 
&quot;What is meant by this? - Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that (2) What is the basis of their dispute? - Rab maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse, may, as the passive subject of pederasty throw guilt (upon the actual offender); whilst he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse cannot be a passive subject of pederasty (in that respect) (3). But Samuel maintains: Scriptures writes, (And thou shalt not lie with mankind) as with the lyings of a woman (4). It has been taught in accordance with Rab: Pederasty at the age of nine years and a day; (55a) (he) who commits bestiality, whether naturally or unnaturally: or a woman who causes herself to be bestiality abused, whether naturally or unnaturally, is liable to punishment (5).&quot;

JEWISH TALMUD, KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. 
&quot;Rabba said, It means (5) this: When a grown up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this (6), it is as if one puts the finger in the eye (7), but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown up woman, he makes her as `a girl who is injured by a piece of wood&#039; &quot;.
    (footnotes) &quot;(5). Lit., `says&#039;. (6) Lit., `here&#039;, that is, less than three years old. (7) Tears come to the eyes again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under three years.&quot;

JEWISH TALMUD, KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. 
&quot;Rab Judah said that Rab said: A small boy who has intercourse with a grown up woman makes her (as though she were ) injured by a piece of wood (1). Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood(a dildo).&quot;
    (footnotes) &quot;(1) Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood.&quot;

SANHEDRIN, 69b 	
&quot;Our rabbis taught: If a woman sported lewdly with her young son (a minor), and he committed the first stage of cohabitation with her, -Beth Shammai says, he thereby renders her unfit for the priesthood (1). Beth Hillel declares her fit...All agree that the connection of a boy nine years and a day is a real connection; whilst that of one less than eight years is not (2); their dispute refers only to one who is eight years old.
THE TALMUD IS THE HEART&#039;S BLOOD OF THE JEWISH RELIGION

 &quot;The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart&#039;s blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe ~ whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists ~ we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.&quot; ~ Herman Wouk

We will legally define the Talmud as the basis of the Israeli legal system. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

&quot;THE JEWISH TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD&quot;!

The official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud published in 1935 was &quot;Translated into English with Notes, Glossary and Indices&quot; by such eminent Talmudic scholars as Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Daiches, Rabbi Dr. Israel W. Slotki, M.A., Litt.D., The Reverend Dr. A. Cohen, M.A.&#039;, Ph.D., Maurice Simon, M.A., and the Very Reverend The Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz wrote the &quot;Foreword&quot; for the Soncino Edition of the Talmud. The Very Reverend Rabbi Hertz was at the time the Chief Rabbi of England. 
The world&#039;s leading authorities on the Talmud confirm that the official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud translated into English follows the original texts with great exactness. It is almost a word-for-word translation of the original texts. In his famous classic &quot;The History of the Talmud,&quot; Michael Rodkinson, the leading authority on the Talmud, in collaboration with the celebrated Reverend Dr. Isaac M. Wise states:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;THE JEWISH TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. During the twenty centuries of its existence&#8230;IT SURVIVED IN ITS ENTIRETY, and not only has the power of its foes FAILED TO DESTROY EVEN A SINGLE LINE, but it has not even been able materially to weaken its influence for any length of time. </p>
<p>IT STILL DOMINATES THE MINDS OF A WHOLE PEOPLE, WHO VENERATE ITS CONTENTS AS DIVINE TRUTH&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>JEWISH BABYLONIAN TALMUD: SANHEDRIN, 55b-55a:<br />
&#8220;What is meant by this? &#8211; Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that (2) What is the basis of their dispute? &#8211; Rab maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse, may, as the passive subject of pederasty throw guilt (upon the actual offender); whilst he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse cannot be a passive subject of pederasty (in that respect) (3). But Samuel maintains: Scriptures writes, (And thou shalt not lie with mankind) as with the lyings of a woman (4). It has been taught in accordance with Rab: Pederasty at the age of nine years and a day; (55a) (he) who commits bestiality, whether naturally or unnaturally: or a woman who causes herself to be bestiality abused, whether naturally or unnaturally, is liable to punishment (5).&#8221;</p>
<p>JEWISH TALMUD, KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b.<br />
&#8220;Rabba said, It means (5) this: When a grown up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this (6), it is as if one puts the finger in the eye (7), but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown up woman, he makes her as `a girl who is injured by a piece of wood&#8217; &#8220;.<br />
    (footnotes) &#8220;(5). Lit., `says&#8217;. (6) Lit., `here&#8217;, that is, less than three years old. (7) Tears come to the eyes again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under three years.&#8221;</p>
<p>JEWISH TALMUD, KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b.<br />
&#8220;Rab Judah said that Rab said: A small boy who has intercourse with a grown up woman makes her (as though she were ) injured by a piece of wood (1). Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood(a dildo).&#8221;<br />
    (footnotes) &#8220;(1) Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood.&#8221;</p>
<p>SANHEDRIN, 69b<br />
&#8220;Our rabbis taught: If a woman sported lewdly with her young son (a minor), and he committed the first stage of cohabitation with her, -Beth Shammai says, he thereby renders her unfit for the priesthood (1). Beth Hillel declares her fit&#8230;All agree that the connection of a boy nine years and a day is a real connection; whilst that of one less than eight years is not (2); their dispute refers only to one who is eight years old.<br />
THE TALMUD IS THE HEART&#8217;S BLOOD OF THE JEWISH RELIGION</p>
<p> &#8220;The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart&#8217;s blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe ~ whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists ~ we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.&#8221; ~ Herman Wouk</p>
<p>We will legally define the Talmud as the basis of the Israeli legal system. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu</p>
<p>&#8220;THE JEWISH TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD&#8221;!</p>
<p>The official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud published in 1935 was &#8220;Translated into English with Notes, Glossary and Indices&#8221; by such eminent Talmudic scholars as Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Daiches, Rabbi Dr. Israel W. Slotki, M.A., Litt.D., The Reverend Dr. A. Cohen, M.A.&#8217;, Ph.D., Maurice Simon, M.A., and the Very Reverend The Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz wrote the &#8220;Foreword&#8221; for the Soncino Edition of the Talmud. The Very Reverend Rabbi Hertz was at the time the Chief Rabbi of England.<br />
The world&#8217;s leading authorities on the Talmud confirm that the official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud translated into English follows the original texts with great exactness. It is almost a word-for-word translation of the original texts. In his famous classic &#8220;The History of the Talmud,&#8221; Michael Rodkinson, the leading authority on the Talmud, in collaboration with the celebrated Reverend Dr. Isaac M. Wise states:</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marguerite]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They can do all they want, but that area they &#039;plan&#039; to rule from will be their burial ground!]]></description>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marguerite]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2567&quot;&gt;Allen Black&lt;/a&gt;.

Great reply!  Most, if not all race riots and lynchings were instigated by Jews, as well! Yes!  They have lots to pay for and they will!!]]></description>
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<p>Great reply!  Most, if not all race riots and lynchings were instigated by Jews, as well! Yes!  They have lots to pay for and they will!!</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marguerite McCray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2442&quot;&gt;Leo Frank Case&lt;/a&gt;.

Why do they hide  that it was people Franks KNEW who took him out of prison and lynched him??  Would you give your wedding ring to be delivered to your wife to other than a friend??]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2442">Leo Frank Case</a>.</p>
<p>Why do they hide  that it was people Franks KNEW who took him out of prison and lynched him??  Would you give your wedding ring to be delivered to your wife to other than a friend??</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2567&quot;&gt;Allen Black&lt;/a&gt;.

Best reply I&#039;ve read so far!]]></description>
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<p>Best reply I&#8217;ve read so far!</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kristy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2442&quot;&gt;Leo Frank Case&lt;/a&gt;.

I agree!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2442">Leo Frank Case</a>.</p>
<p>I agree!</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/100-reasons-proving-leo-frank-is-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-2360&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;.

And??]]></description>
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<p>And??</p>
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