Marietta councilman presents history lecture

Marietta Councilman Van Pearlberg will present a lecture Saturday at KSU on the trial and lynching of Leo Frank.

In 1913, Frank, a Jewish manager of an Atlanta pencil factory, was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee at the factory. After Frank’s death sentence was commuted by the governor, a mob kidnapped him from the prison where he was being held and lynched him in Marietta.

The free lecture begins at 7 p.m. at Kennesaw State University’s KSU Center, 3333 Busbee Drive in Kennesaw.