'The government does not take the position that the state court testimony the woman gave in 1955 was truthful or accurate,' the department said. The department then reopened it again in 2017 after a professor alleged in a book that Donham had changed her previous account of the incident. But the department closed the case in 2021. The Justice Department reopened the case in 2004 but closed it in 2007 with no further charges filed. DOJ: 'Considerable doubt' about Donham's account Milam died in 1980, and Bryant died in 1994. In an unpublished memoir, Donham said the men brought Till to her for identification and that she was unaware of what would happen to him, according to the Associated Press, which obtained the 99-page manuscript in 2022 after it was reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. 'Let the world see': Church where 100K saw Emmett Till's open casket on a list of endangered historic places Tens of thousands of people paid their respects, and the killing garnered international attention.

Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, held an open-casket viewing in Chicago to allow the public to see what had been done to her son, and she allowed the Black press to photograph his body. Months later, Look magazine published an account of the killing it said it obtained from the two men, who admitted beating Till and tossing him in the river.

The men were acquitted by an all-white jury. Milam with murder, and Donham testified at trial. State officials charged Roy Bryant, Donham's husband, and J.W.

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