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Home & the River. The case concerned Emmett Louis Till, 14, who was sent by his mother, a Government office worker ($3,900 a year) in Chicago, on a family visit to her home town with her uncle, Mose Wright, 64, a sharecropper and sometime preacher. One day a cousin drove him and some other Negro youths to the nearby hamlet of Money (pop. 75) to buy 2? worth of bubble gum. On leaving, his friends later said, Till rolled his eyes and whistled lewdly at a white woman in the grocery, Mrs. Carolyn Bryant, 21. Later two white men took...
Asked to identify the men who took Emmett Till from his cabin, Mose Wright stood up and pointed a gnarled finger straight at Milam, then at Roy Bryant. The sheriff of neighboring Leflore County related that Bryant and Milam admitted taking Emmett Till, but claimed that they later let him go when they learned he was the wrong boy. The boy's mother testified that the body from the river was her son; on his finger was his dead father's ring, with the initials L.T. (Louis Till). She had cautioned him about Tallahatchie County. She told...
Last week, in reply to published charges that the Stead school is one of epic brutality, its top officers were summoned to Washington, where they met with Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., the Air Force deputy chief of personnel. The Steadmen, Colonel Burton E. McKenzie, school commander, and Major John Oliphant, training director, later reported that O'Donnell had commended them and that they contemplated no change in the school's program...
...protect his life, Dunne had used a judo trick learned in the commandos: a slashing blow with the edge of his hand against Watters' larynx. Why, then, had he called in his brother to help fake a suicide? Sudden panic at finding his assailant dead, said Sergeant Emmett-Dunne. "I was only going to stun him." For nine days, while banner headlines in the London press blared forth the details of the latest crime of passion (20 British and ten German reporters covered the proceedings), the seven-man army court considered Emmett-Dunne's story...
Last week, dismissing the plea of self-defense, it found the sergeant guilty as charged, and "the court sentences the accused to suffer death by hanging." "I have nothing to say," murmured Emmett-Dunne as he stood before his judges with neck twitching and muscles tense...