getting away with murder
Willie Reed
18 year old who testified and witnessed the truck that carried Emmet Till to the barn/shed; son of a sharecropper
Emmett Till
Emmit Till was murdered for whistling a Carolyn Bryant
Mamie Till Bradley
Emmit's mother
J.J Breland
Lead defense attorney
Richard Daly
Mayor of the second largest city in the nation
J.W millam
One of the men accused of killing Emmett Till and is the half brother of the husband who was also accused
Robert Smith and Gerald Chatham
Prosecution Team
Roy Bryant
The husband of the woman who was whistled at, and one of the men accused of killing Emmett Till
Curtis M.Swango
The judge presiding over the trial
Collins and Loggins
Two black men who were witnesses to the murder and who were locked up in a Charleston jail so no one could find them
Mose wright
Uncle of Emmett Till, pointed out the defendents as the kidnappers during the murder trial
Robert Hodges
Who found Emmett's body?
Sheriff Strider
Who made the shocking statement, "If the people that have been sending threatening letters were to come down here, the same thing in gling to happen to them that happened to Emmett Till."
Carolyn Bryant
the girl behind the counter that Emmett "whistled" to