By Rich Schapiro
The white woman at the center of the Emmett Till case has admitted she
lied in the case that led to the murder decades ago of the 14-year-old
black boy, according to a new book.
“Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him,” Carolyn
Bryant Donham is quoted as saying in “The Blood of Emmett Till” by
Timothy Tyson.
Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot and tossed into the muddy Tallahatchie
River in August 1955, four days after he allegedly whistled at Bryant,
the then-wife of a white Mississippi shopkeeper.
The woman’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Miliam,
were charged with murdering Till, whose mutilated body was found in the
river.
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Source: The New York Daily News
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