Leo Frank Case Remembered On Screen, In Fall Events

Monday marked the 100th anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank in Marietta.

But remembrances of the notorious murder of a Jewish Atlanta pencil factory manager will continue through the fall.

“City Lights” contributor Matthew Bernstein mentions a joint exhibit between the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, the Kennesaw State University Museum of History and Holocaust Education and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum that runs through late November.

Bernstein, chairman of the film studies department at Emory University, offered a retrospective on the Leo Frank story in movies and television, including a 2009 PBS documentary, “The People v. Leo Frank.”

He also is the author of a book on the cinematic treatment of the Frank case called “Screening A Lynching.”