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...example of how the NAACP has lost much respect in Mississippi, among even the most fair-minded people, was its recent handling of the Till case. It loosed a stream of vicious accusations and threats, indicting officials, newspapers, ministers, and the so-called "better citizens" of the entire state. Moreover, it began its accusations as soon as the body was found, despite the fact that every person and organization in the state let out a cry against the murder. People from all types of occupations were asked about the Till case, and no one came near condoning such a brutal...
...that I can comment about that in the abstract. I think the Supreme Court's decision speaks for itself, and I believe that the law should be supported by all of the citizens of the country." When a reporter sought to ask him about the case of Emmett Till, the Negro boy who was murdered in Mississippi, Stevenson interrupted the question to continue an explanation of his attitude on taxes ("While I might be against a tax reduction, which would mean revenue reduction, I might be in favor of tax adjustment"). After Stevenson had finished the tax statement, Chicago...
...swooped into the Buenos Aires headquarters of the diehard Peronista labor confederation, in a double-locked room discovered a white-shrouded body laid out on a long table flanked by evergreens. The corpse: none other than Eva Peron, perfectly preserved though three years dead of cancer, whose whereabouts was till now a mystery to Argentina's victorious revolutionaries. With ex-Dictator Juan Peron (the "immortal widower") now in exile, Eva's remains will probably be turned over to her mother for burial at last...
...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...