'Not true': Woman admits she made up claims that led to Emmett Till's brutal lynching

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

TRAVIS GETTYS
27 JAN 2017 AT 09:18 ET

The woman at the center of the brutal murder of Emmett Till which helped launch the civil rights movement has revealed for the first time that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony, reported Vanity Fair.

Carolyn Bryant Donham has never spoken publicly since she testified in the murder trial of her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, who were each acquitted less than a month after they kidnapped, tortured and executed the black boy.

After their acquittal, the pair [link:https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/60-years-ago-today-emmett-till-whistled-at-a-white-woman-and-he-was-executed-for-it-four-days-later/proudly admitted] what theyd done to Look magazine, saying they basically had no choice but to kill the teenager for behaving lasciviously toward Bryants wife.

But Donham, who later divorced Bryant and married twice more in the following years, admitted to author Timothy Tyson that shed made up some of the claims that led to Tills death.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/not-true-woman-admits-she-made-up-claims-that-led-to-emmett-tills-brutal-lynching/

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Who would have guessed that?

[nycbos]

2. Can she be prosecuted?

As an accessory to murder?

[cstanleytech]

4. As an accessory? She deserves to be prosecuted for it not as an accessory. nt

[Coventina]

6. There is no statute of limitations on murder, so, I hope prosecutors get on this. eom.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Statute of limitations on perjury? 5 years, apparently, but there might be finagles. . . . nt

[SCantiGOP]

10. Can you imagine

Having to live with this all of your life?
I am not expressing any sympathy for what this person did, but her life must have been hell knowing what she had been a part of. Especially if she believes in any way in the Bible's teachings.

[JI7]

11. i doubt it. she probably thought he was a worthless black person

Maybe she is dying and just wants to be right by god to make sure she can go to heaven.

But i don't think she was troubled by what she did at all.

[dalton99a]

14. And now she wants to have a book written about HER.

[JI7]

24. fuck that. what a scumbag

[csziggy]

26. Read the Vanity Fair article linked below

She was included in one book about Emmett Till's murder. She wrote a story about her life that is in an archive but that cannot be viewed by the public until 2036.

[msanthrope]

7. Justice will not come through a court on this one. nt

[RedWedge]

3. Here's the link to the Vanity Fair article:

The one that RipStory took its info from:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case

[csziggy]

25. Thank you for posting the original story - it is very good and worth reading. nt

[RedWedge]

27. You're welcome. I recommend everyone click through to the actual sources that RawStory relies on.

It's nothing but a spinner and it blows me away that it's allowed in LBN.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. May she burn in hell...

along with the rest of the murderers and jury.

[JI7]

9. she is guilty of murder also

Scum

[IntraPolitico]

12. Absolutely Disgusting

What a heinous thing to lie about.

[pinboy3niner]

13. ...

The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated on November 11, 1989. Montgomery, Alabama.
http://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial

[BeyondGeography]

15. I sincerely wish there was a hell for her to rot in

[blueseas]

16. Dear God, heaven, goddess - WHY?

A young child.

[lillypaddle]

17. If there is a hell

may she burn forever more.

[MarinCoUSA]

18. There is always a man on a horse with a whip and shotgun to brutalize Blacks.

and they don't hardly need an excuse to beat and kill.

[kimbutgar]

19. My uncle went to junior high school with Emmett

He said he was a very bright friend kid who talked to everyone. He said he will never forget seeing Emmett in his coffin.

[joanbarnes]

20. no words

[heaven05]

21. WELL surprise, surprise

: sarcasm :

[herding cats]

22. This snippet from the VF article enrages me.

But as Carolyn became reflective in Timothy Tyson’s presence, wistfully volunteering, “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.” She also admitted she “felt tender sorrow,” Tyson would note, “for Mamie Till-Mobley”—Emmett Till’s mother, who died in 2003 after a lifetime spent crusading for civil rights. (She had bravely insisted that her son’s casket remain open at his funeral in order to show America what had been done to him.) “When Carolyn herself [later] lost one of her sons, she thought about the grief that Mamie must have felt and grieved all the more.” Tyson does not say whether Carolyn was expressing guilt. Indeed, he asserts that for days after the murders, and until the trial, she was kept in seclusion by her husband’s family. But that “tender sorrow” does sound, in its way, like late-blooming regret.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case

She felt "felt tender sorrow" for Mamie Till-Mobley, but only after having lost her own son. It's always when they've had to suffer something themselves that they say, "Oh, that might have been wrong". What Mamie Till-Mobley went through was way beyond the death of her child. She lost her son because of blind hate, racism, and lies. Emmett Till died terrified and in pain. I wonder if Ms. Donham ever reflected that deeply when she was feeling her "tender sorrow." Somehow, I doubt she did.

[Nitram]

23. Not very surprising except for the fact that she finally came clean.

[patricia92243]

28. I only recently saw that horrible picture of Till in his casket. I would not

have realized it was a human unless I had been told - he was that mutilated. I had nightmares about it on and off for years.