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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE identification as Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were indicted on charges of murder in Tallahatchie County. From September 19, 1955 through September 23, 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried for Till’s murder in the Circuit Court, Second J udicial District of Tallahatchie County, Seventeenth Judicial District of Mississippi, and acquitted. On November 8, 1955, a Grand Jury in Leflore County met to consider kidnaping charges against Milam and Bryant. The Grand Jury returned a No Bill and no other charges, to date, have been filed on Milam, Bryant, or any other person in connection with Till’s kidnaping and murder. Milam and Bryant later confessed to kidnaping and murdering Till to William Bradford Huie, a reporter, and the account was published in Look magazine on January 24, 1956. J.W. Milam died in 1981 and Roy Bryant died in 1994. The judge at trial, Curtis M. Swango, Jr.; the Court Reporter, James T. O’Day; prosecuting attorneys, Gerald Chatam, Robert B. Smith, III and Hamilton Caldwell; and defense attorneys J. J. Breland, C. Sidney Carlton, J.W. Kellum and John W. Whitten are deceased. Defense atomey| fs the sole surviving court » 6 officer who participated in the trial. Additionally, the original court, District Attorney, and " investigative records related to the 1955 investigation have apparently been lost. To date, no investigation into this matter, with the exception of the original 1955 investigation, has been conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, or any other law enforcement agency. | The instant investigation was opened on May 7, 2004, at the request of the District Attorney, 4" Judicial District, Greenwood, Mississippi, in an effort to determine if other individuals were involved in these crimes and to bring forth state indictments against these individuals if it is deemed appropriate. 7 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBL [i is the property of the FBI and is joaned to your agency; it and its contents art not 10 be distributed outside your agency.