Report on Slaying Due: Mississippi Jury Rules Today in Killing of Negro Youth

Report on Slaying Due: Mississippi Jury Rules Today in Killing of Negro Youth

Emmett Till; lynching; newspaper coverage

This short article provides an update on the grand jury for the Emmett Till murder, previewing an upcoming witness who examined Till's body after it was found he was found brutally beaten in the Tallahatchie River.

WCU, HIS 601/HON 451 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Spring 2016

September 6, 1955

Janneken Smucker

Used by permission of the Philadelphia Tribune Company, Inc. All rights reserved. The Philadelphia Tribune, with 130 years of continuous publication, is the oldest newspaper in the United States serving the African-American community.

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Greenwood, Miss., Sept. 5 (AP)--A grand jury will report tomorrow on its investigation of the fatal shooting of a Chicago Negro youth.

District Attorney Gerald Chatham said that his most important witness tomorrow would be a Greenwood doctor who examined the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till before it was shipped to Chicago for burial.

Three days passed between the kidnaping [sic] of young Till and the discovery of a body identified as him in the Tallahatchie River. Mr. Chatham said Dr. L. B. Otken had told him he doubted whether a body cold deteriorate as much in three days as that pulled from the river.

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