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An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’
His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative
In August of 1955, Emmett Till, an African-American boy from Chicago was abducted, beaten, and shot while visiting family in Mississippi. A nation divided by race dug in its feet in the aftermath. While Jet magazine disseminated photographs from the open-casket funeral, showing the full mutilation of the 14-year-old’s corpse, another story played out in the courtroom. That fall, an all-white jury acquitted the two killers, both white, of all charges.
- Not sure with that was really hard to read, I had to really slow down and carefully read each word. Jumpy sentences with a lack of flow.shapesalad
- have you read your own reply? are you having a stroke?imbecile
- Could beshapesalad
- the writer obviously had carbs or weed or played video games or something before writing itscarabin