- Title Pages
- Praise for <i>Shocking the Conscience</i>
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 The Sleeping Giant
- 2 “Time Is Running Out”
- 3 The Rally Ends; The Killing Begins
- 4 Born to Dream
- 5 “Let Them See What I’ve Seen”
- 6 The Trial
- 7 “The Little Magazine that Could” Comes to Washington
- 8 “A Communist Under Every Bed”
- 9 Ike’s First Term
- 10 The Battle of Little Rock
- 11 Eisenhower Redux
- 12 Baltimore, My Baltimore
- 13 A Tale of two Campaigns
- 14 A New Day Dawning
- 15 The Freedom Rides
- 16 No Ordinary Football Game
- 17 Camelot, The Final Act
- 18 A Southern President
- 19 “All the Way with LBJ”
- 20 Fighting On
- 21 A Familiar Face
- 22 The End of the Beginning
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
The Trial
The Trial
- Chapter:
- (p.63) 6 The Trial
- Source:
- Shocking the Conscience
- Author(s):
Simeon Booker
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
In this chapter, the author narrates his coverage of the trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were accused for the kidnapping and murder of fourteen-year-old Chicago boy, Emmett Till. With Judge Curtis M. Swango presiding, the trial began on September 19, 1955 at the courthouse in Sumner. Just over a week before the trial, the unedited, close-up photo of Till’s mutilated face was published in Jet, sparking a tremendous public reaction that the magazine quickly sold out. The trial was also covered by numerous white daily news organizations and three television networks. The author describes the events at the trial, from jury selection to the appearance of witnesses such as Moses Wright, Till’s mother Mamie Till Bradley, and Tallahatchie County Sheriff H. C. Strider.
Keywords: trial, Jet, J. W. Milam, Roy Bryant, kidnapping, murder, Emmett Till, jury, witnesses, Tallahatchie County
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- Title Pages
- Praise for <i>Shocking the Conscience</i>
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 The Sleeping Giant
- 2 “Time Is Running Out”
- 3 The Rally Ends; The Killing Begins
- 4 Born to Dream
- 5 “Let Them See What I’ve Seen”
- 6 The Trial
- 7 “The Little Magazine that Could” Comes to Washington
- 8 “A Communist Under Every Bed”
- 9 Ike’s First Term
- 10 The Battle of Little Rock
- 11 Eisenhower Redux
- 12 Baltimore, My Baltimore
- 13 A Tale of two Campaigns
- 14 A New Day Dawning
- 15 The Freedom Rides
- 16 No Ordinary Football Game
- 17 Camelot, The Final Act
- 18 A Southern President
- 19 “All the Way with LBJ”
- 20 Fighting On
- 21 A Familiar Face
- 22 The End of the Beginning
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
