# American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till (film transcript)

American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till (film transcript)

- Address: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/till/
- Kind: reporting
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [United States: Tallahatchie County, Mississippi sheriff segregates Black reporters at the Emmett Till murder trial, September 1955](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1955-us-mississippi-till-trial-press-segregation)
- [Claim 859: The trial of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for Emmett Till's murder opened on September 19, 1955, in Sumner, Mississippi, according to PBS's American Experience.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/859)
- [Claim 860: Tallahatchie County Sheriff Clarence Strider assigned Black reporters covering the trial, along with congressman Charles Diggs, to a card table at the side of the courtroom, according to PBS's American Experience.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/860)
- [Claim 861: Photographer Ernest Withers recalled Sheriff Strider describing the seating as "22 seats over here for you white boys" and "four seats over here for you colored boys," saying "we don't mix 'em down here," according to PBS's American Experience.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/861)
- [Claim 863: An all white jury acquitted Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam of Emmett Till's murder, according to a news broadcast reproduced in PBS's American Experience.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/863)

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