This AI-generated video focuses on Newt Lee’s testimony as the third witness in the Leo Frank trial on July 28, 1913, at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, Georgia. Lee, a night watchman at the National Pencil Company, testified that Leo Frank told him to arrive at 4:00 PM on April 26, 2013, and sent him away until 6:00 PM, deviating from routine. Lee described Frank’s nervous behavior—rubbing his hands, fumbling with the time clock, and appearing startled by J.M. Gantt’s arrival. Frank’s unusual call to Lee that night further raised suspicion. Lee found Mary Phagan’s body in the basement at 3:00 AM, raped and strangled, implicating Frank, who had the opportunity to commit the murder during Lee’s absence. Lee’s account of the locked double doors, accessible to Frank, supported the prosecution’s case that Frank killed Phagan. The trial, per the Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, resulted in Frank’s conviction, his 2015 lynching, and the ADL’s founding. As of May 26, 2025, at 08:45 PM EDT, the case remains debated, with the Georgia Innocence Project seeking exoneration, opposed by Phagan’s family. X discussions reflect this, with some citing Alonzo Mann’s 1982 affidavit, while others support the verdict.
