Did you know Emmett till & his dad Louis till shared a similar fate, just 5yrs apart?
Louis Till
born February 7, 1922.
An American soldier. He was the father of Emmett Till, whose murder in 1955 at the age of 14 galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
While serving in the Italian Campaign, Till was arrested by military police, who suspected he and another soldier, Fred A. McMurray, of the murder of an Italian woman and the rape of two others, in Civitavecchia. After a lengthy investigation he and McMurray were court-martialed, found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at the United States Army Disciplinary Training Center north of Pisa on July 2, 1945. He was a fellow prisoner of American poet Ezra Pound, who had been imprisoned for collaborating with the Nazis and Italian Fascists; he is mentioned in lines 171-173 of Canto 74 of Pound’s Pisan Cantos:
Till was hung yesterday
for murder and rape with trimmings
Till was buried in Grave 73, Row 7 (correction: row 4 not 7) of Plot E in Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.
Louis Till is buried in France in a “small plot of land outside the official grounds of the Oise-Aisne World War I American cemetery.” His is one of 80 graves of black soldiers tried, convicted, executed and silenced forever.
The circumstances of Pvt. Till’s death were not revealed to his family. Mrs. Till was only told that her husband’s death was due to “willful misconduct”. Her attempts to learn more were comprehensively blocked by the United States Army bureaucracy. The full details of Louis Till’s crimes and execution only emerged ten years later.
Knowledge links below –
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-09-25/news/0509250486_1_jim-crow-army-till-official-army
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http://www.npr.org/2016/11/12/501622050/emmett-tills-father-was-also-hanged-a-new-book-tells-his-story
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Till
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http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/till-louis.htmLouis Till
born February 7, 1922.
An American soldier. He was the father of Emmett Till, whose murder in 1955 at the age of 14 galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
While serving in the Italian Campaign, Till was arrested by military police, who suspected he and another soldier, Fred A. McMurray, of the murder of an Italian woman and the rape of two others, in Civitavecchia. After a lengthy investigation he and McMurray were court-martialed, found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at the United States Army Disciplinary Training Center north of Pisa on July 2, 1945. He was a fellow prisoner of American poet Ezra Pound, who had been imprisoned for collaborating with the Nazis and Italian Fascists; he is mentioned in lines 171-173 of Canto 74 of Pound’s Pisan Cantos:
Till was hung yesterday
for murder and rape with trimmings
Till was buried in Grave 73, Row 7 (correction: row 4 not 7) of Plot E in Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.
Louis Till is buried in France in a “small plot of land outside the official grounds of the Oise-Aisne World War I American cemetery.” His is one of 80 graves of black soldiers tried, convicted, executed and silenced forever.
The circumstances of Pvt. Till’s death were not revealed to his family. Mrs. Till was only told that her husband’s death was due to “willful misconduct”. Her attempts to learn more were comprehensively blocked by the United States Army bureaucracy. The full details of Louis Till’s crimes and execution only emerged ten years later.
Knowledge links below –
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-09-25/news/0509250486_1_jim-crow-army-till-official-army
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http://www.npr.org/2016/11/12/501622050/emmett-tills-father-was-also-hanged-a-new-book-tells-his-story
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Till
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http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/till-louis.htm
