Recently emerged book sheds new light on lynching after grand jury declined to charge Carolyn Bryant Donham
The nagging question for some is: why not?
“Chivalrous impulse allowed this woman to go untouched for 67 years,” said Beauchamp, who released the documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till in 2005 and helped write and produce the upcoming movie Till, a drama scheduled to premiere in October. Members of the Till family weren’t pleased with the decision. Yet Pastor Wheeler Parker of Chicago, Till’s cousin, who was with the youth the night he was abducted from a family home, sounded a conciliatory tone about the failure to obtain an indictment, a decision which he called “unfortunate, but predictable”.
The Till family and others have promised to keep pushing for someone to prosecute Donham, and additional witnesses could still be alive, said Dale Killinger, a retired FBI agent who investigated the Till case in an inquiry that ended without an indictment on a manslaughter charge in 2007.
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