Terrorism in America: Jena6, Al Qaeda, the Klan

It was a hot day in the late 50's when young Emmett Till and his cousins went to a small town store somewhere in Mississippi. He'd been visiting his uncle for the summer. Thinking nothing of it, the young men stepped up to the counter, paid for their snacks and ran off along their way.

Later that evening the 14 year old child settled down for bed after a hard day of play. He'd talked to his mother on the phone earlier that day and told her to make sure that she kept an eye on his bicycle because he'd be home soon.

Suddenly from the shaddows of the darkness chaos broke out! The door was smashed in! Someone was in the house! Furnititure went flying everywhere! Crash! Bang! The women and children were screaming in terror.

Then as abruptly as it began; it was over. A loud silence set in as the family realized that young Emmett was taken somewhere into the darkness...

A few days later the child's body was recovered from the local swamps. His eyes had been gouged out. His penis had been removed. He'd been dismembered in other ways as well. The coroner later said that he was probably still alive while all of this happened. With an axe, they split the child's head in half. Then, after all of this, they shot the young boy in the head with a shotgun.

The local officials did not want to send the child's body home to the mother but later gave in on the condition that she not open the coffin. They packed the box full of lime but the pungent smell still permiated the air as the train pulled into the station.

Who could do such a thing to a beautiful young child? Was it someone like Ted Bundy? Jeffrey Dahmer? What was the reasoning for this? No. It was someone much worse than Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy either one.

Some time later three men were charged with the brutal murder but later aquitted in a kangaroo court.

Their defense you ask? The child allegedly had made an inuendo to the wife of the store owner that she perceived to be a sexual advance. This beautiful young boy, Emmett Till, was black and the store owner's wife was white.