Years later, both men would return to Mississippi. A Revealing Interview John Whitten, one of their defense attorneys, told National Public Radio's Soundprint program in a interview that he later regretted defending the case. Roy Bryant was also interviewed for the same Soundprint program. Legally blind and plagued with back trouble, he refused to talk about the case. Even though he was protected by double jeopardy, he still feared he would have to pay for his crime before he died. And now they want to get me, well, to hell with them.
I'm not gon' talk about it. Can't ever tell what they might do nowadays, they might change the Constitution. Embittered, Roy also claimed that his half-brother J. I ain't never made a damn nickel. In , Milam died of cancer of the bone. In August , shortly after the Soundprint interview, Roy Bryant died of cancer. Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America.
Her work helped lay the foundation for modern codebreaking today. I n the summer of , hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. We want to know what happened on the night Emmett was kidnapped.
But since that initial flurry of activity, Edwards said she has heard nothing from investigators, leaving her feeling suspended in limbo. We are much concerned with how the investigation is coming along. Publicly, the FBI has kept silent about the nature of its latest inquiry.
But as it approaches the end of its work, pressure is mounting. Investigators will know how much is riding on a case of such historic significance.
It caused a sensation by reporting that Carolyn Bryant had recanted the testimony she had given at the murder trial of her husband and brother-in-law a month after Emmett was killed.
Bryant told the court that the teenager had sexually accosted her inside the store. Describing Emmett as an n-word, she alleged he had propositioned her. Black men — or even a black boy, barely 14 — should on no account show sexual interest in a white woman.
Confident that they could not be prosecuted twice for the same crime under the double jeopardy rule, they admitted to abducting, beating and murdering Till.
That included a manuscript that Carolyn Bryant had written and had given him for safe keeping. It runs to a mere 30 pages and is not complete. Bryant herself has said nothing more about it in public. The only person who could definitively set the history books — and the legal record — straight is Bryant herself, and she is maintaining her silence. The Guardian contacted her through a relative but she declined to comment.
The relative, speaking on condition of anonymity, said her health is failing and she shrinks from public attention as tensions still run high over the murder. The law requires the Justice Department to make annual progress reports to Congress, but no new report was issued in While about cases have been reviewed, only two federal convictions and three state convictions have occurred, most recently when former Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler was convicted in of shooting Jimmie Lee Jackson during a protest in Marion, Alabama, in The report last month said three cases involving Black victims had been closed without any charges because people had died or crimes were too old to pursue.
Adams, a gay Black man, was found stabbed to death in his ransacked apartment, but a woman whose fingerprint was found on a television died in , the report said. Three men were charged with murder in the death of Collier, who was shot to death from a moving vehicle while walking with friends, but no one was convicted and no further prosecutions are possible, it said. The report said no suspects were ever identified in the case of Cook, who was killed by a shotgun blast that came from a car occupied by four or five white youths.
Related: Emmett Till's cousin sets history straight. In a majority-black grand jury in Greenwood declined to indict Donham, considering charges ranging from manslaughter to accessory after the fact. Despite the FBI's current reexamination, those familiar with the case doubt there will be any prosecution.
In , she shared with a defense lawyer for her husband and Milam that as soon as her husband Roy returned from a work trip, she told him what happened in the store with Till. Investigations by civil rights leader Dr. Howard and author Devery Anderson each concluded that Roy Bryant learned of what happened at the store from someone other than his wife. In , she took the witness stand to testify, and the judge concluded her testimony was inadmissible.
With the jury out, she told the courtroom and reporters present that Till grabbed her on the hips and told her that he had sex with white women before, using an obscenity. Davis Houck, co-author of "Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press," said if Donham is saying she didn't recant in her interview with Tyson, "we're left with a familiar story: a predatory black 'man' threatened to rape her on the evening of Aug.
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