Fiddlin' John Carson

And of course, Tom Watson, who shouted a direct threat to Robert Davison and Thomas Patterson, the prison commissioners who were supposedly leaning towards commutation.

As a local musician named Fiddlin' John Carson played his new song, The Ballad of Mary Fagan, detailing Leo's guilt and calling for his execution, Tom Watson called out, Watson might as well have called out the same threat that had been shouted to the jury during Leo's trial.

Hang the Jew, or we'll hang you.

Those 2,500 people couldn't compete with the millions who had signed petitions supporting clemency for Leo, but those millions of people weren't in Atlanta, and none of them decided the case.

And if he had died in 1926, he would have been a Hall of Famer right there.

And we haven't even talked about country music, which he basically starts with Fiddle and John Carson on a recording trip that they make in Atlanta.

So he's traveling all over the country with recording equipment that's much more elaborate than what the Lomaxes are going to be carrying around the trunk of their car.

I mean, these are big machines, and they're quote-unquote portable, but, I mean, it's more like a mainframe computer than what you would think of as a