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Emmett Till — Part 1
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and it had a -- had a cover over the door we called a tarpaulan (sic), had a tarp over it,
. and I heard somebody hollerin’ on the truck, but I didn’t see nobody.” 122
In a later interview[ ___|described his home as being located near
[ west of Money on the way tof [__]also stated he bs
saw Milam’s truck pass him, with Milam and Branch [Bryant] inside, on either a
Tuesday or Wednesday and that it could not have been a Sunday. [ ~~ Jatso
stated the truck passed him about lunch time. '
f. August 28, 1955 - before daylight — Glendora, Mississippi
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Sometime in the middle of the night __ nd her sistef
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[ were at home, sitting at a window, trying to get some air, when they noticed = p7c
a fire burning in a barrel behind J.W. Milam’s home. [Pater leamed that
someone had burned something in the barrel. later saw shoes that had
burned in the fire and was told the shoes were Emmett Till’s. °° !?°
[ [___|recalted “{ remember the shoe. Like at night my sister an’ I
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was in the bed an’ you know you had your windows up down south...” ““An’ we say 476
like maybe two or three guys, back then you would bring your garbage up a tall barrel
you,..” “.,. They put somethin’ in that an’ set it on fre.[ | later learned it was
Till’s shoe which had been burned. '?°
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