Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing
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The Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and the last living witness to Till’s Aug. 28, 1955, abduction, said Tuesday’s announcement is “unfortunate, but predictable.”
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A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
The Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and the last living witness to Till’s Aug. 28, 1955, abduction, said Tuesday’s announcement is “unfortunate, but predictable.”
The news that the grand jury had declined to charge Donham makes it increasingly unlikely that she will ever be prosecuted for her role in the events that led to Till’s death.
A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The decision means it is increasingly unlikely that Carolyn Bryant Donham will ever be prosecuted for her role in the events that led to the 14-year-old's murder nearly 70 years ago.
A grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence.
The decision came more than a month after an unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was unearthed in the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse.
A Mississippi grand jury will not indict the white woman whose accusations led to the lynching of Emmett Till, a black teenager, in the 1950s, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
The Mississippi grand jury decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against Carolyn Bryant Donham in a 1955 case that helped spark the civil rights movement.
By Chuck Johnston, CNN A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making advances toward her nearly 70 years ago, allegations that led to the Black teen’s brutal death.
JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil-rights movement.
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusations against 14-year-old Emmett Till led to his kidnapping and lynching nearly
