01 February, 2017

How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case | Vanity Fair

How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case | Vanity Fair: "In a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster), Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolyn—in 2007, at age 72—confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. “That part’s not true,” she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her. As for the rest of what happened that evening in the country store, she said she couldn’t remember. (Carolyn is now 82, and her current whereabouts have been kept secret by her family.)"



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