It’s been 110 years since Jewish factory owner Leo Frank was publicly lynched by a mob in Marietta, but former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes still gets death threats about it.
Hundreds listened in rapt silence last night as Barnes related a call he received from the FBI just two years ago. The agent told him there was a credible threat to his life, and Barnes assumed it had something to do with his success in changing the Georgia flag.
“No,” the FBI agent told him. “[The perpetrator] says it’s because you’re ‘Too close to the Jews’.”…