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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Atlanta (Ga.) 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I am Sandra Berman. I am here with\nElizabeth Slaton Wallace. Mrs. Wallace, I would like to thank you so much for\nagreeing to participate in this interview for the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral\nHistory Project of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\n\nWALLACE: I'm glad to be of help.\n\nBERMAN: I'm very appreciative. I'd like to begin by asking you to explain how\nexactly you are related to Governor John Slaton.\n\nWALLACE: Governor Slaton was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my great uncle. My father, John Marshall Slaton,\nJr., was born in 1895. I was always told, in the 1800s that you could name a\nnephew for an uncle, for a grandfather, or for whoever and have them 'junior.'\nHe was the fourth son. He was named for his uncle, John Marshall Slaton, Jr. In\n1900, I was always told, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"changed that to where you had to be a son to be a\n'junior,' but he never changed his name. His uncle, being a famous person, even\nthough when Uncle Jack died, he still didn't change from John Marshall Slaton,\nJr. It's been confusing all these years. So many people think that Governor\nSlaton was my grandfather, but he was not. My grandfather was William Martin\nSlaton, who was Governor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Slaton's only brother. They had five or six sisters,\nbut there were only two boys. That's how my father was named John Marshall\nSlaton, Jr.\n\nBERMAN: Can you describe him? His personality.\n\nWALLACE: He was the smartest person I ever knew. The best way I can explain that\nis to say when I was in college at Randolph-Macon ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Woman's College from 1945 to\n1949, whenever I was home on vacation, I always went to see him. He always was\nsitting in a big easy chair in his den. I would sit at his feet on an ottoman.\nHe would ask me about what I was studying. He was an attorney, as everybody\nknows, and I was a math major and a science minor. It just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"amazed me that I\ncould discuss the math courses I was taking, the science courses I was taking,\nand he could discuss them intelligently with me. That impressed me terrifically.\nOne very good example is my senior year. I was taking two courses, one\nmathematical astronomy and one atomic physics, which was the first ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"atomic\nphysics course taught in a woman's college after World War II. We had a\nprofessor who had been at Oak Ridge [National Laboratory]. His name was J.\nGordon Syke, Jr.[sp] His father had been at Emory. It was just a fascinating\nclass. What was the most fascinating about it to me was that in the study in\nmathematical astronomy that was about the largest things we knew about in the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"universe, [and] atomic physics, which was about the smallest things in the\nuniverse, we used the same mathematical formulas. I thought that was just\namazing, and Uncle Jack could discuss that with me. How would he have known how\nto discuss that with me? I don't know, but he could, and intelligently. That's\nmy biggest impression of how smart he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because my thing was not the thing\nthat you would think he'd be knowledgeable about like history and English. We\ntalked about those courses some-- but that wasn't what impressed me. So that's\nmy impression of him.\n\nBERMAN: What about other personality traits? Was he a family man?\n\nWALLACE: Very. Yes. We always went to see him when I was at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home. He was very\nfamily oriented. Family members always went over there. He was, of course,\nobviously a man of great integrity, which impressed me, because I grew up\nhearing about the Leo Frank case. I'm going to hear about it till I die, I'm\nsure. Of course, that was common knowledge. I always knew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about the Leo Frank\ncase and his bravery and the fact that his wife [Sally Frances Grant Slaton]\nsaid . . . when all of the danger came up about it, and they sent the National\nGuard out to the house and told him not to go to the inauguration the next day,\nwhich he did anyway. [They] told them not to commute the sentence, which he did.\nHis wife said, \"I would rather be the widow of a brave man than the wife of a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coward.\" She was very brave too. I remember her very pleasantly also. She died\nin 1946, whereas he lived until 1955, so I really knew him better. She was a\nvery regal looking person. Ultimate aristocratic lady. Of course, he was the\nultimate Southern gentleman. He ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"never dressed informally. Never. My aunt, Lamar\nHitt [sp], said the one bad thing about the movie that they did about the Leo\nFrank case was they had him in the court . . . was it in the court room?\nWherever they showed him . . . I think he was in the court room . . . in his\nshirtsleeves. She said, \"He never was in his shirtsleeves!\" And he wasn't. Even\nwhen he was sitting in his den, he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in a coat and tie. I don't think he had\nany informal clothes. He was always formally dressed. In the summer, as was the\ncustom back then, he often wore a white suit, but it was a suit. It was not\ncasual white pants. He was a very formal person. And he worked up until about\nthree weeks before he died in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1955. He was in his law office. He was productive\nto the very end.\n\nBERMAN: That's amazing.\n\nWALLACE: It is amazing.\n\nBERMAN: By some, Governor Slaton is remembered as one of the most honorable men\nto have ever held public office in Georgia, but there are others in the south,\nespecially in the aftermath of the Frank case, who thought of him as a villain\nbecause of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"commutation. How did he see himself in regards to the Frank case?\n\nWALLACE: He saw himself as doing the right thing. I always heard that he knew\nthat Frank was innocent. Knowing that, there's no way that he could not commute\nthe case. 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No. I just heard it from family members, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"forever.\n\nBERMAN: What did you hear about the mob and the fear that permeated--?\n\nWALLACE: That it was very, very dangerous. That they came to his house at\nWingfield in Buckhead to kill him. They called out the National Guard to stop\nthem or they would have probably broken into the house and killed him. That's\nwhat I always heard.\n\nBERMAN: Did he ever talk about it? That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"night?\n\nWALLACE: Not to me.\n\nBERMAN: It's often been said that Governor Slaton left the next day, the day\nafter the lynching, for a trip out West.\n\nWALLACE: He left the day after the inauguration.\n\nBERMAN: After the inauguration.\n\nWALLACE: To go to California. They went on a train. It had been planned for\nmonths before. He was not fleeing anything. It was a vacation. 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He just did what he had planned to do.\n\nBERMAN: He went to visit William Randolph Hearst at San ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Simeon [State Park,\nCalifornia]. Did he ever talk about his relationship with him?\n\nWALLACE: No. I never heard him talk about that.\n\nBERMAN: It was interesting to me to see letters written from the Hearst\nproperty. Did he ever discuss, or did family members ever discuss Leo Frank in\ngeneral? What he was like?\n\nWALLACE: Just that he was innocent. No.\n\nBERMAN: Did Governor Slaton ever mention his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"secretary, Aaron Hardy Ulm, the one\nwe received all these letters from?\n\nWALLACE: Not to me. I did not know anything about it.\n\nBERMAN: Do you feel that he ever felt vindicated for what he did? He was so\nconcerned in so many of these letters about his reputation and what had happened\nto his reputation. 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I\ndon't know that he cared because he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knew that he did the right thing, and that's\nwhat was important to him. That was the impression I always got was whether\nother people vindicated him or not was not what was important. The important\nthing was that he did the right thing.\n\nBERMAN: In The Jeffersonian, Tom Watson vilified him.\n\nWALLACE: Right.\n\nBERMAN: Did he ever speak about Watson?\n\nWALLACE: Not to me.\n\nBERMAN: Did the family ever talk about the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"role Tom Watson played in all of this?\n\nWALLACE: Not really. Not that I recall.\n\nBERMAN: Because didn't he virtually destroy his career? Tom Watson.\n\nWALLACE: Yes, yes he did... But I know-- I never did get any feeling from any\nfamily members of . . . I don't know the right word to use . . . revenge or\nanything about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. No. The whole picture I got my entire growing up was he did\nthe right thing, and that's what was important. Not, what other people did. I\nnever felt like the family was out to get anybody who was wrong in it, but just\npleased that my relative did what was the right thing to do. He was an honest\nman and had integrity, which I have always ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"felt like was an inheritance of mine,\nthat I should do the right thing too.\n\nBERMAN: We realized from some of the letters that he maintained a friendship, a\ncorrespondence, with William Smith, who was Jim Conley's attorney, who then\ntried to show that Conley was in actuality the murderer.\n\nWALLAC: Right.\n\nBERMAN: Did he ever talk about his relationship with William Smith?\n\nWALLACE: I never heard him mention ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. But you realize that I was young. He died\nin 1955. I was born in 1928. I was just 27 when he died. Of course, I remember\nhim all through growing up and intimate conversations with him in his den. But--\nno. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can't help you on that.\n\nBERMAN: Did he or did the family ever discuss-- how long was he gone on that\nextended trip?\n\nWALLACE: I am not positive about that. It might have been several months, but I\nreally am not sure. It was to be an extended trip. I don't know the exact length\nof time. It was not in any way fleeing from anything. 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But I know, I always ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"heard that he\nwas one of the writers of the Bar Exam at some time.\n\nBERMAN: It's amazing. It's an amazing story and an amazing man. I really want to\nthank you for participating in this interview.\n\nWALLACE: I hope I've been able to help you a little.\n\nBERMAN: You've been very helpful. Is there anything that you want to say before\nwe conclude?\n\nWALLACE: Well, not that I know of.\n\nBERMAN: Do you feel that he's offered a legacy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/transcript/21474/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to your family?\n\nWALLACE: Absolutely. Because as I have told you, I always felt that I should\nlive up to his legacy and do what was the right thing. I haven't had any big\ndeal things like he did-- But I've always tried to do what I think is the right\nthing even if it's controversial, which again, hadn't been anything that was a\nbig deal. I definitely feel that as a legacy. 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We appreciate it.\n\nWALLACE: I've enjoyed meeting you and pleased to have you here.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=1230.0,1260.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall Slaton (1866-1955) was Georgia's sixtieth governor, serving two terms in 1911-12 and 1913-15. He was also a state representative and state senator.  He was a partner in the law firm Rosser, Brandon, Slaton and Phillips.  Slaton's most notable act as governor was commuting the death penalty sentence of Atlanta factory boss Leo Frank, who had been convicted for the murder of a teenage girl employee.  Soon after Slaton’s action, Frank was lynched.  Because of Slaton's law firm partnership with Frank’s defense counsel, claims were made that Slaton's involvement raised a conflict of interest. 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Slaton, believing there had been a miscarriage of justice, commuted Frank’s sentence to life in prison. This enraged a group of men who styled themselves the “Knights of Mary Phagan.” They drove to the prison, kidnapped Frank from his cell and drove him to Marietta, Georgia where they lynched him. Many years later, the murderer was revealed to be Jim Conley, who had lied in the trial, pinning it on Frank instead. Frank was pardoned on March 11, 1986, although they stopped short of exonerating him.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Slaton family built Wingfield, their Tudor-style house on a wooded acreage on the west side of Peachtree Road.  They operated a farm and a riding rink for hardness racing.  The house became the Governor’s Mansion when he became governor in 1913. Following the governor’s death in 1955, a fire severely damaged the house.  The property was sold, and Slaton Manor apartments were built there in 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was a newspaper publisher of Atlanta Georgian.  His journalism emphasized sensationalism and human interest stories.    \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hearst castle and landmark mansion is located within San Simeon State Park on the Central Coast of California. The residence was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 for William Randolph Hearst.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hearst castle and landmark mansion is located within San Simeon State Park on the Central Coast of California. The residence was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 for William Randolph Hearst.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAaron Hardy Ulm was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1879.  He was secretary to Governor Joseph Brown in 1905 and later to Governor John M. 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Watson (1856-1922) was a lawyer, publisher, and the national Populist leader.  He published an analysis of the Leo Frank trial, which caused a surge in demand for The Jeffersonian newspaper.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Manning Smith (     -1949) was counsel for Jim Conley.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLuther Zeigler Rosser (1857-1923) of the law firm Rosser, Brandon, Slaton and Phillips was chief counsel for Leo Frank.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/annotation_set/288/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eReuben R. 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He never dressed informally.  Never.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814#t=357.0,451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34916/file/103814/index/47498/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coat","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"formal","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Governor Slaton","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"John Slaton","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leo Frank case 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