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...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...
...Corps hero and former FBI agent-made an earnest and honest effort to build their case at what can be assumed to be great social cost to themselves. They got no help from Tallahatchie's Sheriff H. C. Strider, a cotton planter (1,500 acres), who insisted that Till had been whisked away alive. "This whole thing was rigged," he said...
...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...
...burgeoning industrial South. It is an island, and there are many in the Deeper South, where the law of the land and the will of the community-as expressed in trial by jury or otherwise-are in basic conflict. The feeling created in the U.S. by the Till case indicated that something was going to have to give...
...Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets of $9,000,000 in his holster...