The following is an article about how Timothy Tyson found and interviewed the woman who testified she was whistled at by Emmett Till which played a crucial part in her husband and father-in-law kidnapping and murdering him which they freely admitted to after they were acquitted by an all-White jury.
It’s also interesting that it turns out she basically lied and perjured herself in court which further carried the water for acquittal of the two murderers as shown below:
and then complained about how the case ruined her life:
While it’s a confessional and she does express some regrets over what happened, I don’t blame several FB friends who posted/discussed that article for expressing deep disgust and anger over regrets which with that complaint, gives off a vibe of “I’m sorry for what happened, but LOOK AT ME, my life was also ruined.”
I think what happened to Till was one of the worst things that has occurred in this country. It’s a disgusting, horrifying event that infuriates me every time I think of it. This woman’s lie directly caused Till’s horrible murder. So sorry it ruined her life; she absolutely deserved it to.
I’m sure it has ruined more lives than hers. An African American friend who was often sent south as a child to visit relatives in the summer was in Mississippi at that time. She was terrified, the adults were terrified, and the emotional climate sounds scarring to so many.
It wasn’t Carolyn Bryant who said the Till case ruined her life. It was Timothy Tyson - the author who interviewed her. So that was his assessment . . . there’s nothing at all to indicate that she ever made such a complaint. To the contrary, the article makes clear that she very much regrets what happened, and the culture she was a part of when this incident occurred.
So judge her, if you must, based on what she did . . . not on something she never said.
Okay, you’re right. I misread that. However, I have zero sympathy and don’t want to hear about the “culture she was a part of”. She made a choice and doubled down at the trial. I hope that always haunts her.
Read again. Her testimony wasn’t even admitted at trial (the judge having deemed it irrelevant to the murder charges). It was kept in the record for appeal - but was not provided to the jury.
And you may be correct that she was motivated by nothing other than pure evil . . . but we can only guess at that. It’s equally possible that she was pressured by her husband (and his father) into saying what she did. Their hateful intentions (and propensity towards violence) are undisputed.