'AMERICAN LYNCHING' BETRAYED

Providence, RI

In Rebecca Segall and David Holmberg's review "Who Killed Emmett Till?" [Feb. 3] there are a number of errors, distortions, omissions by inference and untrue statements. I have never had contact with Segall. After speaking to film documentarians Christopher Metress and Keith Beauchamp about certain specifics regarding the Till case, which shall remain protected and confidential, I was contacted by Holmberg. I spoke to him on two occasions in 2002, but our conversations were never supposed to be "on the record." In mid-January, after learning that I might be mentioned in a Nation piece, I contacted Holmberg. He was evasive. When I did obtain the article in printed form, I was appalled at what had been written and by what was ascribed to me and my work.

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