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KCET Airs 'The People v. Leo Frank' on 8 November (Sunday) 10 p.m. (video)
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If you've seen the production of "Parade" at that Mark Taper Forum, or if you're just interested in the history of lynching and racism in the United States, tune in to KCET on Sunday night at 10 p.m. (8 November 2009) for "The People V. Leo Frank" which looks at the 1913 murder of a 13-year-old factory working girl named Mary Phagan and learn how her death led to the lynching of the Northern-raised and educated Jewish American, Leo Frank, and how the KKK rose in numbers are a result.
The film uses recreations featuring Will Janowitz ("The Sopranos") playing Leo Frank and Seth Gilliam ("The Wire") as the black janitor at the factory where Phagan and Frank worked, Jim Conley. Conley served as the state's star witness. Frank was the superintendent and the last person known to have seen Phagan before her murder when she went to pick up her pay.
Steve Oney, the author of "And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, was the chief consultant of the movie. He was formerly a staff writer for The Atlantic Journal and Constitution Magazine and is a senior editor at the Los Angeles magazine.
Writer/director Ben Loeterman has contributed three programs to the PBS history series "American Experience" and won Emmy awards for directing. He has also won two duPont-Columbia journalism awards.
The play about Leo Frank, "Parade," continues until 15 November at the New Mark Taper Forum. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2:30 p.m.; Sundays1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
For more information go to the Mark Taper Forum web site.
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