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BE LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE A. Time Line: E bé Saturday ~ August 20-21, 1985: Emmett Till a residents of _: bic Chicago, Illinois, travel to Mississippi with Mose Wright. os Wednesday — August 24, 1955 - Evening: Till entered Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Mississippi. Carolyn Bryant-Donham alleged Till accosted her and exited the store. Bryant-Donham followed Till out so she could retrieve a pistol from a car and upon Bryant-Donham’s exit, Til! whistled at her. Saturday - August 27, 1955 - Evening: [ __t a black teenager, entered Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market in Money, ssissippi.l___bvas verbally bé confronted by Roy Bryant about being from Chicago. bic related that a similar incident (likely the same instance) occurred on this night and sh told Roy Bryant that the nn wasn’t the nght person and the confrontation ended. Sometime between Wednesday — August 24, 1955 and Saturday — August 27, 1955 — PS when J.W, Milam, Roy Bryant, J.W. Washington an up behind him in a pickup truck. Washington, at Roy Bryant’s direction, took and threw him in the truck. old Roy Bryant thai wasn’t the right person an was released. Sunday — August 28, 1955 - 2:30 a.m.: Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam came to Mose Wright’s home, east of Money, Mississippi, looking for the boy that “did the talking” in Money, Mississippi. Till was taken from the home and someone with a “lighter voice than a man’s” identified Till as the right person as they left. Sunday ~ August 28, 1955 - Time Unknown, Early Moming: Roy Bryant, J.W. Be eo Milam and a man named Kimbrell brought Till tol jat Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Mississippi. bé Sunday — August 28.1955 — Time Unknown, Early Morning: d b7C Leslie Milam were awakened by either J.W. Milam or Roy Bryant. overheard Leslie Milam telling whomever to take the boy back where they got him. Sunday — August 28, 1955 — 6:00 -— 7:00 a.m.: Willie Reed observed four white men and three black men in a truck with Till entering Leslie Milam’s farm on the Clint - Shurden Plantation outside of Drew, Mississippi. Reed then heard the sounds of someone being beaten inside a barn. Sunday — August 28, 1955 ~ 6:30 - 7:00 a.m.: Willie Reed came to Mandy Bradley’s home. Bradley observed four white men and a truck by a barn at Leslie Milam’s farm. One of the men was tall and bald. 37 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE oo This document contains acither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBE. [t is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its contents are not lo be distribused outside your agency. ee