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The Till-Schwerner Election Poll
29% fault Bush for pursuing Negro-wooing charges
Backlash over 50-year-old prosecution
The Bush Administration announced that it was seeking to prosecute Carolyn Bryant and Edgar Ray Killen relating to decades-old efforts by outside agitators to promote integration in the South. George W. Bush accused Bryant, 70, of killing Emmett Till, a Negro who whistled at her in 1955. Her former husband, Roy Bryant, and J. W. Milam were acquitted by a jury in 1955. Killen is accused of killing Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, who invaded Mississippi in behalf of "black-power" in 1964. A jury failed to convict him in 1967. In 2003, Bush had, also, placed on trial in Ernest Avants, 72, who was acquitted by a jury in 1967 of charges of killing Negro
Ben Chester White, in an alleged plot against Martin Luther King.
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29% fault Bush for pursuing Negro-wooing charges
Backlash over 50-year-old prosecution
The Bush Administration announced that it was seeking to prosecute Carolyn Bryant and Edgar Ray Killen relating to decades-old efforts by outside agitators to promote integration in the South. George W. Bush accused Bryant, 70, of killing Emmett Till, a Negro who whistled at her in 1955. Her former husband, Roy Bryant, and J. W. Milam were acquitted by a jury in 1955. Killen is accused of killing Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, who invaded Mississippi in behalf of "black-power" in 1964. A jury failed to convict him in 1967. In 2003, Bush had, also, placed on trial in Ernest Avants, 72, who was acquitted by a jury in 1967 of charges of killing Negro
Ben Chester White, in an alleged plot against Martin Luther King.
(more at link)