james hicks -- why did he say that? i said he wanted the world to think he was an expert on emmett till case and he came up with that preposterous idea. william bradford hughy, i have no confidence in his writing when he wrote a piece and said that he took one look at my mother and realized she was uneducated. then he said that he interviewed us here and we showed him where bryant lived. his white girlfriend lived. and we were discussing did he ever go to bed with her. i said get out of here. we never talked to him. he never interviewed with us. i don't know how much money he made off of it but these things he put out there. so i don't believe practically anything he said. even the interview with bryant and milan. i don't believe all he said about what took place. i don't need him to say that to convince me that they killed emmett till. i didn't need that. i knew that before he wrote that piece. but why he did it, some say he was a checkbook journalist, whatever that means. but he did it. he put a lot of inaccuracies ou

in that connection, i want to ask you about your perspective on james hicks and william bradford hughley. hicks was a journalist that 55ered the case in sumner in for the black press, and he we broke -- wrote a piece in the january issue. reporter, ithe think at the time he worked for the african-american press. out, i'm not sure exactly when he came out with this, daddies testimony. i have a copy of the trial transcript. my father said, there he is. he helped my daddy escape mississippi's and he began to describe a report someone from washington heversity, st. louis, that was helping my daddy escape and telling me how fast he was driving one way, driving 75 and thathour all stop they put my daddy in a coffin and they drove him to memphis, tennessee. so, i asked the question, i said, three sons there. how did they get out? it is inaccuracy is like this and i'm trying to correct. he said, why did he say that? he one the world to think he was an expert. and he came up with a preposterous idea. i have no confidence in his when he wrote the piece and said that he took one look at my mother a