The winners received between 270 and 530 votes. Leslie provided no details of the crime, but Hubble could see that he was remorseful. She died that afternoon at Jackson Park Hospital. After spending six months in jail in 1956 for theft of some iron belonging to J.W. Campbell did not receive any prison time, but Bryant, having been convicted four years earlier for the same crime, received a two-year prison sentence and was ordered to turn himself in to the attorney general on April 4, 1988. “He applied with us,” confirmed Indianola police chief, Will Love, “but he does not work here.”Six months later on Nov. 19, Roy and Carolyn Bryant were riding as passengers in a car driven by Carolyn’s 18-year-old brother, James Holloway, in Greenville, when they were involved in a head-on collision at about 1:45 a.m. Juanita stormed out of the service after Milam and Bryant family members became involved in a confrontation over blame in Emmett Till’s death.Juanita, who was politically liberal, maintained interracial friendships, and her best friend for many years was a black neighbor woman. Beginning around September 1993, he underwent radiation treatments for the next year and lost 35 pounds. Two months before his death, he spoke for two hours to a reporter for the Palm Beach Post but refused to say much about the Till case. Kellum was one of three members of the defense team who lived for at least four decades after the trial and witnessed Mississippi’s transformation to an integrated society. Milam and Bryant were acquitted in the murder of Emmett Till. Campbell pleaded guilty to count four on Nov. 23, and Bryant pleaded guilty on counts five and six.
“That was his joy,” recalled his son, Simeon.In 1970, Moses’s wife, Elizabeth, died, and over the next seven years, his health declined. Mrs. Bryant was involved in an incident in the small rural community that resulted in the lynching death of a 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till.Carolyn Bryant Donham, 84, seen in this image from video taken in 2004 by a "60 Minutes" video crew, is quoted in a 2017 book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” as saying she lied about Till accosting her in 1955. He again denied that he had anything to do with the murder and matter-of-factly said, “I have no idea” who killed the Chicago youth when the reporter asked. In 1981, a portion of Mississippi 32 was designated as the Henry Clarence Strider Memorial Highway.A year after the murder trial, co-defendant J.W. In fact, it was on January 6, 2003, the eve of a planned departure for a speaking event in Atlanta, that she suffered a heart attack. However, Frank Bryant’s death took a toll on her and the project stalled. “That wasn’t the popular thing to do back then.”On Dec. 4, 1967, he was at work in Chancery Court and appeared fine. I don’t want my name ever printed again in connection with the people involved in this case.”Smith later served a second term as sheriff from 1964 until 1968. He died there in December 1968. Bryant and Milam tortured the young boy before lynching him. Bryant returned to court for sentencing two months later, and through the pleadings of his attorney, he was given only three years probation and ordered to pay a $750 fine. A year later on Aug. 15, Carolyn left Roy and two months after that, filed for divorce. “We only had the clothing on our backs. Strider claimed that the shooter had been sent down from Chicago by the NAACP for the express purpose of killing him, and that the would-be assassin was known to black workers living on Strider’s plantation. It was during these sessions that she allegedly recanted her courtroom testimony that Emmett Till grabbed her by the waist and propositioned her. Yet Strider would have been happy to rid the Delta of its black citizens.
Eighty-year-old Jesse J. Breland, the oldest member of the team, died one year later at Washington County General Hospital in Greenville after a long illness.J.W. You have to leave it alone, live your life.
Fifteen years later in February 1971, he was arrested, and four months after that, convicted of illegally possessing over 500 methamphetamine pills, popularly known as speed. The photo of Wright standing and pointing at two accused killers in Sumner remains a testament to bravery in a Mississippi courtroom.Prosecution witness Willie Reed, whose testimony placed the murder in Sunflower County and was the source that other men besides J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant were involved in the murder, knew Emmett Till only in death but remained haunted for decades by the beating sounds he heard emanating from a plantation shed on an August morning. She was, however, buried next to her infamous husband whom she was married to for 14 years.Within a few months of the murder, another brother, Leslie Milam, who ran the plantation on which Emmett Till was murdered, was “requested” to leave because many of the black laborers working there were leaving the farm out of fear. “Honestly, I just don’t remember. A lump sum of $6,300 for alimony was due by Dec. 1.After their return to Mississippi, the Bryants managed to continue a low-profile existence, despite living in close proximity to the land of the Till murder.