E17: Prosecuted or Persecuted?

Catlick

B.T. Harman

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4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A horse slasher, a Gospel choir, motorcycle races, and whiskey gangs made the summer of 1913 one to remember in Atlanta. But it was the trial of Leo Frank that really had the town buzzing. By late August, the two dueling legal teams wrap up their closing arguments, and then—a verdict.

Months covered in this episode: 30-36 (of 56)

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0:00.0	Catlic fans, welcome back.
0:03.5	After just a week, our Catholic Live finale is already halfway sold out.
0:09.4	Early bird pricing only lasts through this Thursday, February 13th.
0:13.8	After that, all the prices go up.
0:16.4	The best remaining deals are the combo packages for the Catholic walking tour, so be sure to check those out.
0:22.6	It's all going down the weekend of March the 14th.
0:25.9	So go grab your tickets now at catlick.com.
0:30.0	That's catlick.com.
0:33.5	All right.
0:34.6	Enjoy the episode.
0:37.9	The summer of 1913 was a wild one around Atlanta, pure, crazy, from top to bottom.
0:45.9	July 31st, Constitution headline.
0:49.7	Equine Jack the Ripper gets his 10th mule.
0:53.3	This drama was unfolding south of Atlanta where some unknown person had been sneaking into
0:58.9	barns late at night and killing mules and horses, slashing them with a knife, hence the Jack
1:05.3	the Ripper reference.
1:07.1	This particular article notes that this was the 10th time this had happened.
1:11.8	Police were baffled and were looking for the killer.
1:15.5	On a more positive note, the Fisk Jubilee Singers performed in Atlanta that same month.
1:21.7	They were a well-known African-American choir that hailed from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. They were the earliest known
1:29.6	group to record the Negro spiritual Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
1:50.6	While in Atlanta, they performed at one of Atlanta's legendary black churches, first congregational.
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