This POS right here. J.W. Milam.
Why is he the scum of the earth? Because he took a 14 year old boy to a barn and beat him to death. What was this evil POS’s justification for such a horrid crime? The boy whistled at a woman. That was it. Nothing else.
On the Eve of August 28, 1955 John Milam and his half brother Roy Bryant drove to Mose Wright’s house at 2:30 AM. They woke the boy up and here’s what he asked him: “Are you the niggah that did all of that talking?” (Emmett Till, the 14 year old boy replied) “yeah”. “YEAH??, don’t you yeah me boy, I’ll blow your head off!”
He then ordered young and frightened Emmett Till to get dressed.
On their way out of the house John turned to Mose Wright and asked him: “how old are you?” The preacher man Wright replied “64”. John then told him “well, if any word about this gets out you won’t live to be 65.”
They drove off towards Money Mississippi.
No one will ever know the full details of what took place between 2:30 and 6:00 AM.
I cannot imagine the terror and pain that poor boy endured.
A witness (Willie Reed) who was walking down the street saw a pickup truck with Emmett in the back along with seven men altogether. Three men in the back of the truck and four men riding in the cab.
Willie later heard some screams and some striking blows coming from the barn. He said that the screams and blows went on for a long time.
He peaked into the barn and witnessed John Milam chopping Emmett’s face with an axe.
They loaded his body into the truck and tied barbed wire around his neck and threw him in the river.
Again, Emmett was only 14 years of age. He was beaten so severely that when the police recovered his body a piece of his skull fell loose. Autopsy studies decades later also revealed that his left femur was broken, both of his wrists were broken and he was shot in the head.
John Milam was acquitted for this crime. Thanks to good old racism in Mississippi. He spent the rest of his days as a free racist man and died in 1980 while laying cozy in his bed.
Rot in hell dude.
Update (October 5, 2023)
Wow! Wow! Thanks for the upvotes. Almost 2,000! I never thought that this post would be one of my “hits”. Had I known I would’ve written a lot more detailed info about Emmett’s death as well as his funeral photos.