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i believe that the whole united states is mourning with me and if the death of my son can mean something to the other unfortunate people all over the world, then for him to have died a hero would mean more to me than for him just to have died. mamie till, i think, got more viscerally than anyone that if she didn t show those pictures, he would just be another black boy gone dead. reporter: roy bryant and his half brother, j.w. milam were arrested and accused of murder. their trial was held in sumner, mississippi just two weeks after the funeral. although black reporters were kept separate, it was one of the first times in the south that they were permitted to sit in the main courtroom with the rest of the press. instead of being up in the balcony, frequently called the crow s nest, they were allowed ....
i believe that the whole united states is mourning with me and if the death of my son can mean something to the other unfortunate people all over the world, then for him to have died a hero would mean more to me than for him just to have died. mamie till, i think, got more viscerally than anyone that if she didn t show those pictures, he would just be another black boy gone dead. reporter: roy bryant and his half brother, j.w. milam were arrested and accused of murder. their trial was held in sumner, mississippi just two weeks after the funeral. although black reporters were kept separate, it was one of the first times in the south that they were permitted to sit in the main courtroom with the rest of the press. instead of being up in the balcony, frequently called the ....
i believe that the whole united states is mourning with me and if the death of my son can mean something to the other unfortunate people all over the world, then for him to have died a hero would mean more to me than for him just to have died. mamie till, i think, got more viscerally than anyone that if she didn t show those pictures, he would just be another black boy gone dead. reporter: roy bryant and his half brother, j.w. milam were arrested and accused of murder. their trial was held in sumner, mississippi just two weeks after the funeral. although black reporters were kept separate, it was one of the first times in the south that they were permitted to sit in the main courtroom with the rest of the press. instead of being up in the balcony, frequently called the crow s nest, they were allowed ....