Death of Carolyn Bryant Donham (legal, Kennedy, state, claims)
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I have no reason to believe she was lying. Are you okay with a young man grabbing you (if you are a woman) or (if you are a man) your wife/daughter/sister and proposing a sexual encounter?
She admitted at one point to a writer that she had lied. After a while she became like Sirhan, she could not determine what the truth was.
You really believe a 14 year old grabbed a grown woman? That defies logic.
Carolyn Bryant Donham was the young women who, in 1955, accused Emmett Till, a 14 year old, of making improper advances. The accusation was enough for her husband and his brother to brutally murder young Emmett Till.
The husband and his brother were taken to trial and found not guilty by an all white jury. They later admitted to the murder.
Donham was accused of lying to the authorities and of changing her recollection of the events, but was never charged with anything.
In peace? May God judge her accordingly. She might have been afraid as a young woman during that time, but had a very long time to make restitutions to the family.
Pfft ever been around black folk in rural areas back 40 yrs ago? That boy would have hardly raised his eyes at an ugly white woman. And in ugly, I mean as in mean spirited. They were taught to be afraid day one. Even today, black families warn their young sons n daughters in certain areas.
Denial 24/7. Geesh
Carolyn Bryant and her sister-in-law decided not to tell their husbands, probably because they were afraid of what their husbands might do. It was one of the local children who told Roy Bryant what had happened.
It was one of the local black fieldworkers who told Bryant that there had been an incident. He was trying to curry favor with the local whites. Such has been seen before.
One of my earliest memories was seeing the photo of Emmett Till's beaten face in Jet magazine. His mother, the funeral home and the magazine were the only ones to act with bravery in the situation. They refused to let the public escape without experiencing the reality of what had been done to the child. It was a galvanizing moment.
Your falsehoods are deplorable. She did absolutely nothing wrong. The notion that she lied is not just false. It's ignorant and ridiculous -- since she never said anything that contributed to Till's death.
She lied.
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More than half a century after the murder, Timothy B. Tyson, a Duke University historian who interviewed her, wrote that she had admitted to him that she had perjured herself on the witness stand to make Emmett’s conduct sound more threatening than it actually was — serving, in Dr. Tyson’s words, as “the mouthpiece of a monstrous lie.”
“She said with respect to the physical assault on her, or anything menacing or sexual, that that part isn’t true,” Dr. Tyson told “CBS This Morning” in 2017.
It was one of the local black fieldworkers who told Bryant that there had been an incident. He was trying to curry favor with the local whites. Such has been seen before.
One of my earliest memories was seeing the photo of Emmett Till's beaten face in Jet magazine. His mother, the funeral home and the magazine were the only ones to act with bravery in the situation. They refused to let the public escape without experiencing the reality of what had been done to the child. It was a galvanizing moment.
One thing was for the dude to be jealous and enraged and just killed the boy, what they did was pure brutality and torture on a boy, not even a man. Don’t know how people keep wanting to push this down, live in denial and when it’s brought up, they cry foul- woke !! Sad folks. Just sad.
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Carolyn Bryant and her sister-in-law decided not to tell their husbands, probably because they were afraid of what their husbands might do. It was one of the local children who told Roy Bryant what had happened.
I'd forgotten about that.
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Carolyn told her sister-in-law, Juanita, who was in the back of the store with their children, what had happened. They agreed not to tell their husbands, who were out of town on a trucking job. When Roy and J. W. returned, one of the kids at the scene told them what had occurred. In the Deep South—where the separation between blacks and whites was defined by law, Roy and his half-brother decided Emmett needed to be taught a lesson.
Allegedly she might have been with them at that night to point him out:
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At about 2:30a.m. on August 28, under the cover of darkness, the two white men showed up at Moses Wright's home, where Emmett was staying, and took him away. Wright said he saw a person in the car, possibly Carolyn, who helped identify Emmett. The boy's corpse would be found several days later, disfigured and decomposing in the Tallahatchie River. Moses Wright could identify the body only by an initialed ring, which had belonged to Emmett's father, Louis Till.
Unknown if it's true that she was with them that night. If true, it's unknown if she'd been there willingly or was forced to do it by her husband, or if she'd still been there when they'd grabbed him and murdered him.
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