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lizzie's the reputation of mississippi and the ball wasn't what was the reputation of the gulf was the pacific who isn't no etiquette to me in places that are going to the sick or what i can't describe you know because i remember i mean i know in this city this state alone far different things that no one of me in tennessee to listen to but i don't have any specific about him iss iss at the time the story of how you first heard about the image
of the moment can't lobby and medicaid unable or have been murdered in mississippi and the trash collecting myself who don't live in a lot of pain they don't have any height moment here he had no confidence is still alive and so so well what i notice about this time that were in the depression among them from
looking at i just live with the atmosphere and service what i have to do but i don't know the work was to take place and what was the court's as myself and my rather than support we want to get caught up in the town of money that the traditional way that are going to be doing and moses newson here and baltimore back talked to my mac i don't know i mean i just think it came up in him up not correctly will move on the move and i plan to be back in that ok as
you say in this city was worth right now that not many people know they're not going to be without that well as the town of money that he said do you want the money in a small town or to those social people who went to the experiment politically involved the run and one on when we were not a part of it you know as he is is just to describe moneyball the town like yemen and been one village found out that the us court ordered the continental feel an undergraduate school and i felt that that's not all maybe sue now it was just a place where it really would decimate the people who
didn't know mao long or round a lot of money to steal away with money in that community and what it was you know if you have a one in a million small singh says all in one village though it's so everything now you get this big and we have a lot of market pawnshop and vanessa please go and we're going to just look at them what we're trying to get if you just remember what just tell me when i knew that it would limit what it all might remember that took a picture that brought you know in the midst of a corner and look
and you have one and that within within one season and come out with a key old independent special that's a little while a matter of law that he wanted that we were disappointed at because we weren't backtracking what we're about in the to one in that we could win a question a white woman three negro gordon white the real intestinal woman from miami who leave the novel netherland won it then went out of it and an observation that's going to a place where a boy there was supposed to whistle something as someone's always said he will still have some say it we have an extensive collective dollar weakening is basically all of that he was going to ask you the lady was about
the environment when you ask a white woman in that you know you just go question but why won't time your brother in law prosecutor only one who just why we even have one in the family and come back now given the congo we've been going around you know i mean women are you know we can assess mr mone right well a disability is one of them when they come out of meeting in their goal in mississippi county and now development in the tribal obligation of the world against people who live in
that was not part of the forces so you going to be when we were in an era when someone in that theater about a bomb can just have a dictator in the world name the thing that is in the normal manner that you talk with know we incessantly the park and there they were ten years old and they will not believe in any of the whole investigation to me it wasn't really you know that have actually appeared to stop i went away goodbye to the restroom at vogue a little bit
and you want to give them this is the only place about that song don't buy the airplane came but it was you know we just knew separatism and we didn't go walking around don't want to investigate nine eleven notably we've been shy about what happened because we were not running a critic and a picture this book about that approach with a look would get to that in a note about that same week that it's even found out that we won with that camera and the sound that we need to build weapons that you know you dont yesterday even today
at wayne vomit is you know oh i'm an enlightening that were two things that really long do you member the trial what was the atmosphere in trying to understand where we had corn knee wiping said quote they all were they are and hopefully in one's going to happen to me and i think you or anyone in the war was in the mix because he's so when and how soon do here rather than thirty minutes before the oil that was collected alive the border now fall
but one thing that mr ben and call quote the crowd to order and made an investment advice and we get to feed so yup you want more than forty billion global ngo mixon down here you know in maine will go beyond value of the human body in the end it will be six new wild comedy he said you know when you come in the neck and one has to do with it if you do they went outside and came back in session and we went outside more memos like that a moment like that day and we all went to one is secured and that people can
now adapt want to sign it just to get that id americans you know that it says is just to let me go at that they are or what they want now than they have been for who we folded up and put it all the help or might you right here at home and they all been warning for years that live feed and who's won that they had badly as it is today and security services can come from omaha nebraska three month or six rounds and one day i will see how smart robot named lucky that we know of the death that made yesterday's is basically an insane things that you
can do it but i'm saying that the story that we're doing is really about an olympic record i don't have to you know i mean that he'd been this week that common problem rather than a moment that moment in the meeting that people trying to just proud of her and i will be in the rate of the men and some of them in a very minimal mahmoud abbas they punished up and they're not going to be there that could not sleep deprived so and seventh sermon to know what to ask him was now going to go to we had one that he had one that we've been in that and they're you know it's that that
meant that question a lot and didn't count that may be the case and i cannot tell them that i understand diseases we talk about the formulas of bell and that is okay i cannot what i mean most people in reflective vests they want to quit become a boost going to know existed in my system and their families escaped to do about the thirteen days old we went down home sunday night we got up among them on the record and we go plant some and we wouldn't want that are now in turn and
then now on monday and then they all do so that he wouldn't know you know congregate and they will probably be a lot like global war where like you know it wasn't any room a name in fact i mean a lot of these days i'm asking talked about on monday or so members as you describe it what would have said there's a plane and i remember just read about you know a truth about it and i've see pictures and some of them are and it says that the question you were you took a picture malls right
on this thing you talk about what you remember about the interrogations over and that meant securing one of the attorneys as a known to man game new house that night and get him to you what happened you said that came unraveled ago a man showed the mold mold mold is it was the rhyme we want that law to be a big problem in mud and so you say you moved not gotten by with an option he opened believe in animal right i don't like stand up in the top of the house and he say can you point him out when he pointed them out i got up and took that it
took to get it as he wouldn't reappoint them they don't know one family values man on the black standing while the news tonight that we cannot sell them you know but i was the only child in the porn led to all would write it when he landed in every time i've seen that we've wrecked but i know that too basically as well you know just to make the right way he would anyone wanting the other foot you wanted it they would make him one will let me get out let me in and you want to know well i think the panthers alex rankin owns about
or flat six the salmon wipe out of three that's a moment or not only no one is exactly one seat that but none of them have a little more content or as innocent and will witness what will really have been an honor so that when a policeman no you've gotten just much of the rap that when the man didn't want and i took it said on a camden so that the man who now though regimented the book is india a coral could use a flare ups didn't want one and they
didn't like but now i'm going to go back and review the rise in corn when we're within the system well we didn't do normally compete occasionally you look that gets in a white go up when we know that people were world their denomination in an area and we went just in one picture i know why new imminent made about that we got pointed to see you know what we we don't have value they will mix and we're going to do and have a premise so doing all you would why pokemon y o thing or being too involved by the league but it will be no moment when black and white well and
then there's is named alice a young white girl liu in the summer air you move comes due somewhere in britain has been that but he was the most pressing don't know about the unsavory truths that you know self made and that's the way and new album with his gun battle conflict has for the most part the young italian pasta one hospital in durban wide open why muppets in the government the remaining letters will not making it bitter and they can live an important homilies on top so that but that will look
to the basic audience was hot cool he said you know maybe even their names and then donate to emulate it and really all of bowe bergdahl the unanimity on that crowded on tv when you said there were hard core elements of that same people at the childlike people what we mean are poor why you know why didn't that i couldn't live in the us the marines told me a bit of you why you write if you back and give back to round cage around the yelling that you were actually one of the day well robin what why you could not acceptable in retirements option would have about
why paul was there which owns atlantic to pick a lock doesn't mean that you don't have the waltz all here because we just have different indian and black now in mississippi but even in the past week and the white people that you know i lived right across street from the house where my family lived one out of china and know when we're going to have a biblical term he hadn't done that with this that the editing yes they and they know we may not learn myself a baby in a more years and that's because we live in a time when who yes they might hitch want people no action but the majority of
people want to keep you in your face what is your ratio place and don't do what i want to do what i might do you what i don't want to do that makes you know my mom had served on american league won the way i couldn't read why oh why went out to have a wife you might not think that it gets from the six thought that there was this here you know eliminate indian why only indian to lose the farm which could be why we're all going
to have a white cone white label got to a move you couldn't control and color and that's why when the light came in men's side yes they said that there were that voters they have the manpower to it was the date there was a segment of the south sea of years ago if you were in america and that he can happen in the event or haven't in crimea this out before he can handing that's an understandable mean when i come up with a key moment like that that we've got on the books he got a lot of lessons
we could ramp down town and then your character that you say that because we knew that our way then we look at the whole lot will legal right right well with something that we want to we can talk about that that we thought you know why they say don't go so well when you're dating would take me to the back of the bus as she now using it a day just walked to get into his carriage won't get counted as correct the composer you know explain
that there are iranian with an eu reflect that it was obvious that he was not the life that martin right scotland wants to sit down with the saints are going to win and he has he told me a story the other day you could tell me get out from that was about the same kind of thing you can you're delivering newspapers the press in the water you
know the black and whites sat the l the capital modern day and thought why is wide and flat and we approach so hopefully they did that and then they sing wanted to get into the ring and then one day when she was in the column for allen there you know why you're here when they come all the people in back and the name of the new film while i wanted to be one of the little white it's also want one i got i came and white sand into the army and i reached a lot of
political content on the menu like to write too right now the wrong path pollster either life goes on use on the remaining tell you this i'm not a tall man with this an average won't leave the place an employee and he was just talking to go to that or now and then i'm told me that you don't know whether or not of the chemical kind of all you know one of the things that that that a photographer asked do you
do so well as a photographer is the kind of photographs that now people were the situation you get a sense of the most like an icy of photographs la times of almost like only you know which he had a huge photograph annie feidt like you know let's say you're going to the till trial which airs its a whit ayres isn't getting photographed and hans the world and the news peoria train train know usually knew what he knew what we read but what if you're making three people battle wants to record this man i'm thinking that maybe they don't want to get too much of the sheer sort of route around it when you say ok
you've been around demands that had been built for them i want to know this a separate addict who have no good morning and you know we knew that we didn't know they were going yesterday on a rational method so i'm so white woman i'm not like the bad word and you know and the corporate you knew on the set of respect but
you had a do you know how to navigate their world adam's an innate ability for him to come in these in football player in german and on you know a sense come together in the spirit of i don't know what to do what to horn would go and we would win this fall what will be the hot people are still the one thing you didn't mention we said you know i've been a journalist beautiful or maybe happens then all those things were all so you were you were seven to worry about lucia emitter wasn't so come away and in my own home withers that it's a problem
the apparent out of the black man of the people in the south would lead to write about track that you know write about the modern city of black people in the south because they weren't even introduce out that although they do in the self styled martin luther king when scotland will be in the la area why people weren't vigilant on him with air and why so when the minister told to chicago was as close to paradise is what you mean meant that in that isis way of the novel is the mourners new orleans rapper weren't acceptable and that when you don't there's no hitters know that you know if you were to want to disappoint you don't use this you knew that i always thought and i
have a long way to fall you paralyze you and go around them and sit in the same and seven millimeter apples in chicago and became a backhoe and a note now normally when i'm the one who wouldn't like reflect the amount of mammals woodland amanda aronczyk that seems like it was an attitude that a lot of people had all people a ninety nine or one on which the people in the second part of a latin america don't have the gravity one of the protests that coming out of the world war though the focus of a different race you into my father were wild even more than even that that ordinance in front of
the policeman and nabi reform you know when you have that basic fact why mark i knew that you know as bad as the minister told you those are the ozone it seems especially you know himself you know that at that time a lot of people moving to chicago and that was always a month prior multiple migration not all of chicago's cobbled for cleveland all use it and you rely on richard wright welcome mike vs the track that is a traveling in the world and emily and what cracked the chicago reader like to me that maybe i was came out with a number
that i'm trying to go back that land them a lot about it but i have a cousin that was living in mississippi and walkin down sat walt down near downtown and they get off set locally made slap and not be able to get up and get into why he wanted to stand walk and that none of it was angry because he knew that we didn't the government is says what i think the the till case became so famous one wild and wide at that time and to me i think he said that somebody tell you something and only as a river so they say
that in me when i was a question as to use this to the boy and that was the kick them out of the cafe i you know i did you know and begin an undertaker i'm in the lighting been taken and then we would just travel a lot of confusion and they were going to tell me that again and this time that story was a lesbian and at the trial a question came up well their body taken out of that i had terrible loss really a victory in the call through for people descend
on the city and so we wanted him to momma's on the pavement whoa whoa whoa i love that what the common core activists in it isn't only as a term like a fifth term in la it's hard to adjust practice every barrel they typical now for my active duty that that's what they said you know it's not you know i can help
that all their opponent ghana want to do a formal using same recipe same thing you to you to listen to the wind that the room and yes it's only a quarter we built the system mystery isn't just that they undertake a may not really gonna take that all in the crowds how do you know that that entity at all than that that really where we have them and we got him out and on the page that environment you're in about a year ago and there are still many wanton ramadan kick and that was
you know just perfectly an axe to record in fact those those kind of catered the day the defense say well i don't know the best thing that's in it that part of it but also now for since it sad that there that they sell in the pit bull in the league and they want you to go outside alone on sunday mornin improve law violent crime and a lot of them now a one or two back to that phone
and look through people cracks an abundance of them and at the end they were it was no public testimony before that that you had a fine levy well we have a group that the us from europe to the community if you can't tell the story and keep the energy up tell me tell me the story now as we do for the coral and they have begun to reconciliation happen in a little one people together they talk about for a sequence you know to the black press mr welsh a symbol will not call them it is so sweet
baby veterinarian tell us the names of this amazingly impressed but definitely wouldn't want no point of collective group of that we do in the balance was the image dr cao amina met with biden making always known about him to do yoga in the gila trout in the calmness and we reckon of europeans who mostly converted call a black pants be in that phoenix fellow at wilson them and they're communicating with europe's know whitman in here because until you know within reason in the classical world people in the know that right we went out to who would want a minivan and
three and then we found when record and then we found a lovable and that will gather and more women are going to be prosecuted one man named roy no idea of them being that for more news now and in latin america would react and its ragged jessie ho finally we were worlds will was in the top income one will be explicitly live at the local mall right around then when it went up and one of them man brandon know we as allies that and why didn't they vow while i had may come forward for a little while to get the white vote why
is that they will get involved to disappear two weeks the war that's happened down in a never been seen baton in his fields of movie living in seattle but you know you get belt people will kill in south mississippi only and people drown them without that night the characters' you know when to prosecute non muslim and about eight thousand mississippi if you got the baby that was to take this is rome's that i worked with didn't know that he was mentally ill and the deal in the back and drop as they came over the wording a kid from the house to go on and you can get you need to throw away alex wilson went down and someone who can double before the
last bit of chicago were in the navy or confession of all what it does and then when he went back then and then number on your career when they did not volunteered information to get some people say they've even speak up all of the staff was a widely known so so today i can tell here's one called women that be wonderful and then they didn't put a moment of them on with the devil when of all let me as well now on that firearm valuable than an ocean you know it's like that would not to have been more than a way it will go for all
of the women to drag on with the white boy a cargo view news is that he was a witness and their support you know if you want to see him versus limited to take on the old newborn baby in his teenage youth and so we would use a day that the two tech house in mississippi in the middle of the woody me what the young man a man from chicago which had there not a man from mississippi work with one student human back and in mississippi you have different mental
you know that increases the glum it's the only way to go and he came back to disappear a wide open field he went all in the role and legacy of slavery and the legacy of that head versus the temple on one end of that occupation all of these cases will grant them that the government or so what what what did you take then for somebody like most
right in and to come for him according to point out his grandson and two nieces and out of the factory just pull back to create don't know just answer the questions that the prosecutor asking for your own true and they reviewed the true but he wasn't he wasn't a risk for him to tell the truth will always about whether you think you're now wouldn't you can't be upgraded detail the crucial moment coming you out you mean i didn't get to go out and take him out and he disappears in a new government to do you have of god is i don't know i got is mama good so the value that the moment that lesson in gaza one appointment in their
race just spoke of fb lizzie's the reputation of mississippi and the ball wasn't what was the reputation of the gulf was the pacific you know no every comedian faces now going into this record that i
can't describe you know because i remember i mean i know in mississippi this film are things that no one of me in tennessee to listen to but i don't have any specific about him iss iss at the time the story of how you first heard about the image of the moment can operate and unable or have been written and mississippi and the trash collecting myself who cover the law changes there you go
they don't have any height moment here he had no confidences to lie so still well below the sign that we're only as the depression that don't come looking to be i just lived with the atmosphere and service what i have to do but i don't know the work was to take place and what was the court's as myself and
my rather than support we want to get caught up in the town of money that the traditional way of it or you want to do an undue moses newson here in baltimore back talked to my mac and he made good i don't normally like this can keep him up and not not directly or on the move and i plan to be back in that ok as you say in this city was worth the job right now that not many people know not that without doubt that people in the business well as the town of money that he said do you want the money in a small town and those little self so people
who went to the experiment twenty two the run and one on when we were not a part of that you know as he is is just to describe my needles that one village found out that the us court ordered the continental still an undergraduate school and i felt that that's not all what you know maybe they went to city hall one militia problem though it was just a place where it really would decimate the people who did on the mound your ground law with little money no way that night in that moment and what it was you know if you have a one in a million small sen levin says all the one don't know it's so everything now you get this thing that we have a
lot of market pawnshop and vanessa please go and we're going to just look at them what we're trying to get if you do just remember what just tell me when i really you know what it all month may not look at that event go and watch them you know in the midst of a corner and look and you have one and that we can live in one season and come out with a key old independent special that's a little item out of your head that he wanted that we were just going in there because we weren't backtracking
what we're about in the to one and that we could win a question a white woman three negro gordon white the real intestinal woman from a little known what if they want out of that is an observation that's going to a place where a boy there was both to whistle something as someone's always said he will still have some say it we have an extensive collected dollars between these basic cable is that he was born and as you that it was an error the environment when you ask a white woman in that you know you just go question but why won't allow prosecutor
only one who just why we even have one in the family and come back now given the congo we've been going around you know i mean women are you know we can assess mr mone right well a disability is a rite of the annual one of them when they come out of meeting in their goal in mississippi county and now development of the world we're not part of the forces so going there to be there and we were in an era when someone in that theater about a bomb think and it's okay to write the dictator is
no normal talk with no way to survey the clerk in that they know that they will lend more than i believe in any of the whole investigation to me it wasn't really that have actually stop i went away good that you'd read from a long day that you want to get that given this is a long race about that song about their white canes but it was you know we just knew separatism and we get people walking around they want to investigate nine eleven notably we've been shy about what happened because we were
not in the project and took a picture this book about that approach with a liquid that can put them down and i don't even know that out there saying well we took that they want to get even down and not the only one with that camera it's odd that we didn't get to the ones you know you dont yesterday even today at wayne vomit is no oh i'm an enlightening that were two things that really long do you member the trial what was the atmosphere of the trial
and stayed in where we had corn knee wiping the city code and they all play out in hopes of seeing one's going to happen to me and i think you or anyone in the wall while the mix because he's so when and how soon to share or rather we got the thirty minutes before the oil that was collected alive the border now fall but one thing that mr ben and call quote the crown royal and mayor and the rest of their lives and we get to feed so you know you want more than forty billion global
ngo mixon down here you know you can name will go beyond valuable human being and anybody in the senate come back and use it do you know nick and wants to do that if he went outside and came back in session and we went outside more memos like that a moment like this day and we all went to one is security minded people or to sign it just to get it american security based on negatives it says is just to let me go at that they are or what they want now than they have been for
who we folded up and put it all the way out for the mice you right here at home and they all been warning for years that live feed and who had won that they had badly as it is today and security services have come in from omaha nebraska three months or six rounds and one day i'll see how much for playing thinking about the ground the view of the us that they believe is basically signing the media here that you can do but doesn't say that the story that we're doing is really about an olympic record i don't have to you know i mean a minute david been common problem rather than a
moment that moment in the meeting to try and just proud of her and that will allow the internet writ of the men and some of them in the area but i don't know the past eight months depp and they're not going to get there that could not sleep yet that was so byzantine and seventh sermon to know what to ask him well i'm not going to go to the one that he had one that we've been in that thing that you know if that meant that question a lot and didn't count that may be the case and i cannot tell them that i understand
diseases we talk about the formulas of bell and that is okay i cannot what i mean most people in reflective vests they want to quit become a boost going to know existed in my system and then there was eighty two to about thirteen days old we went down home sunday night we got up among them on the record and we go plant some and we wouldn't want that are now in turn now would you really talk to you so that he wouldn't know you know
we talk about a global deal with a white lady roommate name in fact i mean a lot of these days i'm asking talked about on monday are so many as as you describe it a pain and i remember just read about you know a truth about it and i've see pictures in a certain key and it says that the question you were you took a picture malls right on this thing you talk about what you remember about their interrogations over and that meant to turn one of the
attorneys as a known to man game you know that made you who you were he said they came unraveled though man sheryl crow mole old moldy this is ms pratt we want that boy to be a big problem in a month and so you say you moved about god and love of the ocean he opened believe in animal right i don't like standing up in the top of the house and he say can you point him out and he wondered about when he pointed them out i got up and took that it took to get it as he wouldn't reappoint them they don't know one family values man on the lacks family walked up to me is that they need him down so you know you hear a
lot out of the olympics in the porn led to all would write it when he landed and every time i've seen that we've wrecked but i know that it took basically as well you know just to make the right the right word meaning what widen the other foot kitchen wanting to be in the game when the wedding get out let me in and you know what no well i think the panthers alex reading about or flat six the salmon wipe out of three that's a moment or not only no one is exactly right on
that but none of them have a little more content or as innocent and will witness and went well so they had been used no you've gotten much rap that when the man didn't want and i took it said on a camden so that the man who now though regimented the book is india a coral could use a flash across didn't want one and they didn't like but now i'm going to go back and review the rise in corn when we're
within the system wouldn't do normally compete occasionally you look that gets in a white go up when we know that people were world their denomination than an area and we weren't just going to a doctor no white knew the men had made about that we got twenty two seats you know what we we don't have value they will mix and we're going to do and have a premise so you at all you would be wide open wide building will be able to enroll by the weekend when they will be no moment when black and white well and then there's is named alice a young white girl do you in the summer air you move comes to somewhere and impressionistic but he was most passionate don't know
about him about the unsavory treated that you just don't sell me then that's the name of new oil which has gotten that out of conflict that has for the most part the young pastor one afternoon georgian white wine it meant that soon we may still not making it bitter and they can live an important homilies on top so that but that will look to the basic audience was hot cool he said there will be no means even know their names the man don't leap to emulate it and really all of bowe bergdahl the
unanimity on that crowded on tv when you said there were hard core elements of that same people at the childlike people what we mean are cruel why you know why didn't that couldn't live in the us the marines told me a bit of you why you write if you back and give back to round cage around yelling along with that is that someone of that day well robin what why you could not acceptable in retirements option would have about why paul was made which owns a check you can pick a lock doesn't mean that you don't have the waltz all here because we just have different indiana black version now in mississippi but even that live across from the white
people that i lived right across street from the house where my family lived one out of china and now we're going to have a yearbook often he hadn't done that ben would be made with this that the editing yes they and they know we may not learn myself a baby in a more years and that's because we live in a time when i guess they read him about my kids want people no action but the message on it we want to keep you in your face what is your ratio place and don't do what i want to do what i might do you what i don't want to do and make you know my mom had served on the leak on the way i couldn't read why oh
why went out there that you can wipe tears from the six year itch of thought they'd lose their bonuses here you eliminate indian why only indian to say no no this is the farm which could be me wideman were all calm we're going to have white police get a call a static y negro got to move that you couldn't control and color is that your sense of why wonder why you came in there in society the princeton yes they said that there are
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Series
American Experience
Episode
The Murder of Emmett Till
Raw Footage
Interview with Ernest Withers, photographer
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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Ernest Withers Interview about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Topics
History
Race and Ethnicity
Law Enforcement and Crime
Subjects
American history, African Americans, civil rights, racism, lynching, Mississippi
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(c) 2003-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
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01:40:13
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Chicago: “American Experience; The Murder of Emmett Till; Interview with Ernest Withers, photographer,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-n58cf9k93z.
MLA: “American Experience; The Murder of Emmett Till; Interview with Ernest Withers, photographer.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-n58cf9k93z>.
APA: American Experience; The Murder of Emmett Till; Interview with Ernest Withers, photographer. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-n58cf9k93z