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"Yes, [Emmett Till] did whistle at Carolyn Bryant," said Wright, tackling one of the longstanding debates about what triggered the tragic incident. "Another cousin, who wasn't at the store when it happened, is responsible for perpetuating accounts that he didn't. He wasn't there. I was."
Another misconception, Wright said, had to do with his father, Mose Wright. During the trial Mose bravely appeared in court and pointed out one of the white men who had abducted Till that Sunday morning, four days after the whistling incident. "My father did not say 'Thar he.' He said 'There he is,'" Wright related. "I guess it was more colorful and stereotypical to make him sound like an illiterate country farmer. But that wasn't the case. My father was a preacher and very articulate. He often spoke around the county at various churches."Wright, who currently lives in Chicago and is a retired pipe fitter, cleared up several other things that over the years have been exaggerated about Till's death. But rather than go too far with his explanations he felt it necessary to preserve some of these corrections for his book. "I've been approached several times about doing a book, and now that we've finished the film, maybe it's something I can take on now," Wright said. "I have a niece who is a budding writer. Perhaps she can help me pull it together."See the full content of this document
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The Real Deal On Emmett Till
It will take a book to correct all the misinformation, lies, and distortions about what happened to fourteen-year-old Emmett Till beginning on that fateful August day in Money, Mississippi, almost a half century ago.
One day Simeon Wright promises to writ...See the full content of this document
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