Ben Platt is speaking out against the antisemitic protestors outside the first preview performance of Broadway’s revival of “Parade,” a musical based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was falsely convicted of rape and murder in 1913, and eventually lynched in 1915 after being sentenced to life in prison.
In 1986, Frank was posthumously pardoned by the Georgia State Board of Pardons, but not officially absolved of the crime. The investigation was reopened in 2019, though the national attention of the case and trial led to the formation of the Anti-Defamation League as well as the resurgence of the KKK.