Hugh Dorsey

After hearing of the atrocity in Georgia, leaders in the NAACP, such as James Weldon Johnson and Walter White, got involved to spread the news and advocate for change.

Georgia Governor Hugh Dorsey also pushed for prosecution of the crimes.

Anti-pionage and anti-lynching legislation was proposed to stop the violence against innocent Black Americans.

Clyde Manning, a black captive forced to act as the overseer on the plantation, gave a gut-wrenching testimony that helped convince an all-white jury to convict John of murder.

So I'm going to completely give my full indication of the story.

And then there's accusations that have come out later on that he was coached by Dorsey, the prosecutor.

And I don't think that's the case so much.

I mean like what's – few interesting things.

No one's trying to kill her and everything goes on.

So what happens?

Yeah, so, a matter of fact, in the closing, Hugh Dorsey, the prosecutor, the solicitor there, he actually makes a call to the sense of what we talked about here, of the Jews in the South being part of community, and then he equates his religion to their religion and, you know, tries to Basically, he's propping him up.

He's not saying anything ornery or bad.

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken on his case.

His last hope then was appealing to the governor for clemency.

I think, you know, at this point, with the law the way it is now, Leo Frank obviously would have won.

And we talked about this before, the development of the law in this area.

It's great that one day that'll change.

But he's in a pretty bad situation.

And now he has to ask for clemency from the governor in Georgia, where, as we know, popular opinion is saying this man needs to be executed.

The mob is demanding his execution.