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# Journalist William Huie Concealed Lynchers in Emmett Till Case
- URL: https://werd.io/journalist-william-huie-concealed-lynchers-in-emmett-till-case/
- Published: 2021-09-13T01:15:16.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-13T01:15:16.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“As Dave Tell points out in his book, “Remembering Emmett Till,” Huie needed releases from the murderers to indemnify Look magazine from litigation. But he couldn’t get four. He could only get two. So, he made his story fit his resources. He shrank the kidnapping and murder party to two and moved the murder scene as a consequence. So, instead of telling readers the truth—that Till’s lynchers killed him in a barn on a plantation run by Leslie Milam, a member of the killing party whom Huie concealed—he claimed J.W. Milam and Bryant beat Till near J.W. Milam’s home and shot him to death on the Tallahatchie River’s bank.”

\[[Link](https://www.mississippifreepress.org/15462/journalist-william-huie-concealed-lynchers-in-emmett-till-case-and-got-away-with-it/)\]