https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/civil-rights-emmett-till-case
The family of Emmett Till, a black boy murdered in Mississippi 64 years ago after allegedly whistling at a white woman, have reacted with fury after the woman linked to the notorious case admitted that the most incendiary parts of the story she told about him were a lie and she now feels ‘tender sorrow’.
Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, was shot and beaten to death and disfigured beyond recognition by two white men in racially segregated Mississippi in 1955 after stopping at a store to buy two cents of bubble gum. The men walked free, acquitted of murder by an all-male, all-white jury in an hour despite having already admitted the crime to law enforcement. In a newly revealed 10-year-old interview to be published in a book today, Carolyn Bryant, the wife of one of the men arrested for Till’s murder and the woman whose testimony carried the case, admitted her account was ‘not true’. Speaking to DailyMail.com after Bryant’s confession was revealed,
Till’s cousin Wheeler Parker who was with him the night of the incident – and when he was taken from his bed to his death, said: ‘My family thinks she’s trying to make money but being a preacher, I think she is trying to find a way to go heaven now.’ Parker, now a pastor of a church in Illinois that Till and his mother attended, added: ‘Whatever the motive, I am very pleased that she’s telling the truth.’ But others from Till’s family are upset that it has taken 10 years for Bryant’s confession to be made public, published in a book The Blood of Emmett Till by Duke University professor Timothy Tyson.
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FBI finds long-lost transcript of '55 trial in Emmett Till case
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
May 18, 2005
The FBI said Tuesday that it had obtained a copy of the long-lost transcript from the 1955 trial of two men in the murder of Chicagoan Emmett Till.
The copy, described as faint and barely legible, is the only publicly known record of the trial, in which an all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted the defendants. Both men, who later confessed the crime to Look magazine, are dead.
The investigation seeks to determine whether anyone still living may also have been involved.
Till was 14 when he visited relatives in the town of Money. Accused of whistling at a white woman, he was dragged from his bed, beaten beyond recognition and shot, his body dumped into the Tallahatchie River.
Robert Garrity, the FBI's agent in charge in Mississippi, said the newly found transcript would allow investigators to review the testimony of witnesses who are now dead and also compare living witnesses' accounts today with what they said in court 50 years ago.
Garrity would not say how the agency had obtained the transcript, and he declined to release it.
