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      • Investigators found no record that Carolyn Bryant Donham recanted her testimony about Till, a senior-level law enforcement official says.
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  3. www.justice.gov › opa › prFederal Officials Close Cold Case Re-Investigation of Murder ...

    Dec 6, 2021 · The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi announced today that it has closed its investigation into a witness’s alleged recantation of her account of the events leading up to the murder of Emmett Till.

  4. www.nytimes.com › 2017/01/27 › usWoman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her ...

    Jan 27, 2017 · The two white men who were accused of murdering Emmett in 1955 — and later admitted it in a Look Magazine interview — were acquitted that year by an all-white, all-male jury, and so could not be...

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  6. www.cnn.com › 2021/12/06 › politicsEmmett Till killing: Justice Department closes investigation ...

    Dec 6, 2021 · Fourteen-year-old Till, a Black teen from Chicago, was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955 – the scene of his fateful encounter with then-20-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham. Accounts from...

  7. www.nytimes.com › 2021/12/06 › usJustice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without ...

    Dec 6, 2021 · The department said it could not corroborate a book’s claim that a central witness had recanted her statements about Emmett, a Black teenager killed by two white men in 1955.

  8. www.nbcnews.com › news › nbcblkJustice Department closes inquiry into murder of Emmett Till ...

    Dec 7, 2021 · A federal investigation that re-examined the murder of Emmett Till ended Monday after the Justice Department failed to find proof that a key figure in the case lied, a senior level law...

  9. www.nbcnews.com › nightly-news › videoKey Witness in Emmett Till Case Recants Her Story, 62 Years ...

    Feb 19, 2017 · Carolyn Bryant says she lied in her account of the incident at a Mississippi store, where Till whistled at her as she passed by, saying he did not deserve what later came his way — he was ...

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  10. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2023/04/28Carolyn Bryant fatally accused Emmett Till. She died without ...

    Apr 28, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant had falsely alleged that 14-year-old Emmett Till grabbed her at the grocery store, an accusation that led to his gruesome killing.