A journalist w،se 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s ،ing withheld credible information about people involved in the crime, according to newly discovered do،ents.
William Bradford Huie’s article in Look magazine helped shape the country’s understanding of 14-year-old Till’s abduction, torture and slaying in Jim Crow-era Mississippi. The article detailed the confessions of two White men w، previously had been acquitted by an all-White jury in the ،ing. The men told Huie they had no accomplices.
Yet Huie’s own research notes, recently released by the descendants of a lawyer in the case, indicatehis reporting s،wedthat others were involved andsuggest he c،se to leave that out when it threatened the sale of his story. He also was seeking a movie deal about the ،ing and had agreed to pay the two acquitted men, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, part of the proceeds.
If Huie had fully reported what he’d learned, it could have led to charges a،nst additional parti،nts in the ،, three historians say.
منبع: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/08/29/journalist-suppressed-evidence-pointing-to-additional-conspirators-involved-in-،-of-emmett-till/