The U.S. Justice Department has received "new information" in the murder investigation of Emmett Till, which they have decided to re-open.
This comes nearly 63-years after the brutal and racist murder of Till, who was captured and killed after he was accused of whistling at a white woman while visiting his family in Mississippi. The woman, Carolyn Bryant, later told author Timothy Tyson that her testimony about Till grabbing her around the waist and uttering obscenities was not true.
Bryant told Tyson, “Honestly, I just don’t remember. It was fifty years ago. You tell these stories for so long that they seem true, but that part is not true.”
Bryant's husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam were identified as the killers by Till's uncle, Mose Wright. The two men were found not guilty by an all-white jury in the closely watched case that helped spur the civil rights movement in the 1950s. The filmmakers of the PBS documentary, "The Murder of Emmett Till" spoke to other witnesses who say there were other accomplices involved in the murder.
Source: NPR
