The men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. However, they later admitted to the killing in a magazine interview. They were not retried due to double jeopardy laws and both have since passed away.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were never retried for the crime. Both men have since passed away.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were never retried for the crime. Both men have since passed away.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. However, they later admitted to the murder in a magazine interview. They were never retried for the crime.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were never retried due to double jeopardy laws. Both men have since passed away.
found not guilty
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were never retried for the crime. Both men have since passed away.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were never retried for the crime. Both men have since passed away.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. However, they later admitted to the murder in a magazine interview. They were never retried for the crime.
The two men accused of shooting Emmett Till, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were never retried due to double jeopardy laws. Both men have since passed away.
The woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her was Carolyn Bryant. Her husband at the time was Roy Bryant.
found not guilty
The men accused of shooting Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview but were not retried due to double jeopardy. Both men have since passed away.
Emmett Till was murdered at a barn at the Clint Shurden Plantation in Drew, Mississippi.
The two alleged killers of Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted of Till's kidnapping and murder, but later admitted to killing him in a magazine interview. They each lived into their sixties, both dying of cancer, and neither publicly expressed remorse for the crime.
The white woman who Emmett Till was accused of whistling at was Carolyn Bryant.
They were acquitted
Emmett Till was falsely accused of whistling at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, which led to his brutal murder by her husband and his accomplice. Decades later, Bryant admitted that she had fabricated the story that led to Till's death.