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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE bye In 1950 the Milams moved to the town of Glendora, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, and in 1955 the Milams owned a general store/service station and home there. J.W. Milam’s store sold grocery goods primarily to the black community in the area ian did — | | | | | : not work in the store. Milam allegedly sold moonshine from the store, in addition to the standard D6 | grocery items and fuel for automobiles. J.W. Milam also owned a trucking business hauling agricultural products for customers. On occasion, he hired his half-brother, Roy Bryant, to drive truck for him. Milam died of bladder cancer on December 31, Cs | currently | resides inf | Mississippt. [currently af | advised that during the late 1940s and early 1950s he | operated a substantial bootlegging business in the northern part of Mississippi. Two of [ customers were J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant. [7 Festly sold half-pint bottles of whiskey to the | | | | | | brothers, who always paid “up front and in cash.” @ 8. Leslie F. Milam (deceased) : ee Reed (deceased) he b7C witnessed Leslie F. Milam at his farm located on the Clint Shurden Plantation on the morning of Emmett Till’s kidnaping about the time another witness observed Till at the farm. Lestie Milam, a brother of J.W. Milam and half-brother of Roy Bryant, was born on December 23, 1925. [ss born onf__iand married Leslie Milam of | [| wernt In 1955 the couple lived on a farm that Leslie = bs b7C Milam managed located on the Clint Shurden Plantation, approximately two miles west of the town of Drew, Sunflower County, Mississippi. Leslie Milam served in the Army Air Force during World LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. [cis the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and is contents are nat to be distributed outside your agency. : i a