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...Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, before he was killed. Bryant and Milam were set free; their bail bonds, $10,000 each, were returned, despite the fact that both men, while denying that they had killed young Till, admitted to police that they had taken him from his uncle's home. On behalf of the Mississippians who regretted the grand jury's failure to indict, the Jackson State Times concluded: "The case . . . wound...
...week's end Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton asked U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell to investigate the disappearance of Emmett Till. Said Stratton: "It now appears that those responsible for this tragic crime are not being brought to justice ... I feel it is my duty to respectfully request the U.S. Government ... to investigate the violation of rights of this Illinois citizen in another state...
...dare to speak so self-righteously of blind hate and prejudice in conflict with the law, and in the same breath condemn a whole county, who had never heard of Emmett Till until a body was found in the river, just because you didn't like the verdict of the jury . . . Any Negro or white from anywhere in the world knows it is wrong to roll his eyes, whistle lewdly, make obscene remarks, and sling an innocent lady around as if she were a barmaid. Is it justice to make a hero of an immoral Negro? TIME could...
...next witness knew; he was Negro Willie Reed, 18, of Sunflower County, Miss., and he was so frightened he could hardly talk. He told his story: early on the morning after the kidnaping of Emmett Till, he had seen a boy who looked like Till's photographs in a truck with four white men. Soon afterward, he saw the truck outside a barn belonging to Milam's brother, and heard sounds inside "like someone being whipped." What sounds? "He say, 'oh,' " said Willie Reed, in a very low voice...
...Defendants Bryant and Milam. They hired five of Sumner's resident lawyers, who produced expert witnesses-including a doctor and an embalmer-to testify that the bloated, decomposing body had been in the river for at least ten days, and therefore could not have been Emmett Till. Sheriff Strider took the stand for the defense and said the same thing: "If it had been one of my own boys, I couldn't have identified it." In most of the U.S., this conflict over the identity of the body could have been resolved by elementary instruments of police work...