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Demovictory9

(32,479 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 07:32 AM Aug 2022

As she receives end of life hospice care.. Emmitt Till's accuser photographed first time in 20 years

Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 88, has managed to go unseen since 2004, going on to live a long life - and now spending her final days in apparent tranquility - despite her role in 14-year-old Emmett Till's lynching in 1955

At the time Donham was a 21-year-old married mother-of-two who accused the young black boy of whistling at her - a violation of the South's racist societal codes - at a Mississippi store, setting off his brutal murder

Today, she is living in a small apartment community in Kentucky with her son, Thomas Bryant, 71, and their pet shih tzu, as seen in these exclusive DailyMail.com photos

Donham, who was wearing a nasal cannula looped over her ears and into her nose, suffers from cancer, is legally blind, and is receiving end of life hospice care in her home

When approached by DailyMail.com, Donham stood by silently behind her son, who shook his head when asked if either would speak about Till


Till's beaten and mutilated body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, weighted down with a large fan from a cotton gin, before being pulled out three days later on August 28

Donham's then husband Roy Bryant and his brother John Milam were later tried and acquitted of Till's murder, while she went on to evade charges or any consequences in a case that shocked the world for its brutality

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11060011/Emmett-Tills-accuser-Carolyn-Bryant-Donham-seen-Kentucky-time-nearly-20-years.html
An unserved warrant for Donham's arrest was discovered by a team led by relatives of Till last month, bringing the case back into focus

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As she receives end of life hospice care.. Emmitt Till's accuser photographed first time in 20 years (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2022 OP
I'm not moved by her age nor her illness. Solly Mack Aug 2022 #1
+1 Baitball Blogger Aug 2022 #3
I agree. BigDemVoter Aug 2022 #10
+1 nt jrthin Aug 2022 #12
+1 nt jrthin Aug 2022 #13
✔️ live love laugh Aug 2022 #19
Hell is empty and the Devils are all here. Bluethroughu Aug 2022 #2
These are the good old days conservatives want to return to?? NoMoreRepugs Aug 2022 #4
+1, uponit7771 Aug 2022 #15
... Lucinda Aug 2022 #5
May she receive everything she deserves. niyad Aug 2022 #6
To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson: RedSpartan Aug 2022 #7
Thank you for posting the article. The images of their faces, including Emmett Till's, say it ALL. Judi Lynn Aug 2022 #8
GOP openly fantasize about vigilante killings IronLionZion Aug 2022 #9
She lives in Kentucky BidenRocks Aug 2022 #11
AG Garland should direct the DOJ to arrest and detain her under the existing warrant. MichMan Aug 2022 #14
There's no inthewind21 Aug 2022 #16
Donham deserves the same mercy she showed Emmett - NONE underthematrix Aug 2022 #17
just found out a "Till" biopic will soon be released CatWoman Aug 2022 #18
Thanks for the video Polybius Aug 2022 #20

Solly Mack

(90,788 posts)
1. I'm not moved by her age nor her illness.
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 08:11 AM
Aug 2022

There are those, whose crime(s) is (are) so heinous, that they deserve to be hounded and hunted down until their dying day in the quest for justice.

It's never the past as long as the guilty remain free.

BigDemVoter

(4,157 posts)
10. I agree.
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 10:22 AM
Aug 2022

As it states in the article, many people see her as no better than a Nazi war criminal. She is responsible for Emmett Till's murder. She falsely accused him, and she may as well have killed him with her own hands.

Judi Lynn

(160,634 posts)
8. Thank you for posting the article. The images of their faces, including Emmett Till's, say it ALL.
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 10:12 AM
Aug 2022

People like them have been unchanged all these long years. Can't guess how long it would take for them to evolve, can you?

Their "superiority" hasn't done the world much good, has it?

IronLionZion

(45,544 posts)
9. GOP openly fantasize about vigilante killings
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 10:14 AM
Aug 2022

and don't think of it as murder. They want an excuse to kill people they don't like on trumped up accusations.

These days it might be women/girls seeking abortion. Or foreign-looking people stealing jobs.

 

inthewind21

(4,616 posts)
16. There's no
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 11:54 AM
Aug 2022

statute of limitation on murder. She should have NEVER been allowed to just go on with her life as if nothing ever happened.

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