Monday, January 13, 2014

This is a picture of the barn that Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan took Emmett to after they had kidnapped him from the boys great uncle Moses’s house.. While there they beat him, and gouged one of his eyes out before shooting him in the head. After killing him they threw him in the Tallahassee River. Weighting him down with a 70 pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. His body was discovered and retrieved from the river three days later. Emmett was taken from his relative’s house and was told to lie down in the back of a pickup truck and people always wondered why he never jumped out of the back of the pickup to save himself. Later on they discovered that it was because the boy was not afraid. Roy and J.W.s plan was at first just to take Emmett to a cliff beat him and make him think they were going to throw him off the side of the cliff but they were unable to find the cliff so they took him to the barn instead.  Later they leaked that Emmett could not be scared and that he must have thought the two men would not hurt him because he was running his mouth like it. The two men confessed to the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till in Look Magazine for $4,000 dollars because they were protected by double jeopardy laws.  Those two men got away with murder. 

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