Justice Denied: The Murder of Emmett Till
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In 1955, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till was abducted in the middle of the night. He was tortured and brutally murdered. A jury acquitted two of his killers — J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant. No one was ever held accountable for this heinous murder.
In this episode, we'll speak to author Devery Anderson and journalist Jerry Mitchell about the case, and the latest developments in the quest to adjudicate the people responsible for Emmett Till's murder.
Check out Devery's book "Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement" here: https://www.amazon.com/Emmett-Till-Propelled-Movement-Rhetoric/dp/1496802845
Here's Jerry Mitchell's latest article on the efforts to prosecute Carolyn Bryant: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/14/opinion/heres-proof-against-carolyn-bryant-donham-emmett-till-case-is-it-enough-convict-her/
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| 0:00.0 | Content warning. This episode contains discussion of the brutal murder of a 14-year-old child as well as racism. |
| 0:09.5 | Sometimes groups of dedicated civilians are able to accomplish things that seem beyond the abilities of the authorities. |
| 0:16.5 | In doing the murder sheet, we have found example after example of this. |
| 0:21.3 | And here is another. A group of five people, including Deborah Watts, is determined to do all they can to find justice for Watts' cousin Emmett Till. |
| 0:31.8 | Emmett was murdered all the way back in 1955. |
| 0:36.8 | And even though we have a pretty good idea who was responsible for that crime, no one has ever been convicted on charges connected to it. |
| 0:45.8 | Watts and her allies recently visited a courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi. |
| 0:51.8 | In the basement, going through old records, they found something thought lost. |
| 0:57.3 | It was an arrest warrant in the case, from all the way back in 1955. |
| 1:03.3 | It called for a suspect to be brought in and charged. And that person is still alive, can still be brought to justice. |
| 1:12.3 | So the question on everyone's mind is obvious. What happens now? |
| 1:18.8 | My name is Anya Keane. And I'm Kevin Greenland. |
| 1:22.8 | And this is the murder sheet, a weekly true crime podcast. |
| 1:27.3 | Anya and I connected over the Bergerchev murders, a 1978 unsolved case involving the killings of four young restaurant employees. |
| 1:36.3 | Now we're looking to track restaurant homicides. To help us understand the patterns of these crimes, we created a spreadsheet of nearly a thousand eatery related killings. |
| 1:46.8 | The murder sheet. We'll be drawing on that data throughout season one to give you a deep dive into undercover crimes. |
| 1:55.3 | We're the murder sheet. And this is Justice denied, the murder of Emmett Till. |
| 2:36.3 | To understand what might happen next in the case, or what should happen, it is important to understand what's already occurred. |
| 2:55.3 | We need to know who Emmett Till is and what exactly happened to him. |
| 3:00.3 | Many of us know the broad outlines of this story as it has been presented over the years. |
| 3:05.3 | An African American 14-year-old was visiting the south and whistled at a white woman. |
| 3:11.3 | In response, her husband and his half-brother tortured and killed him. |
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