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Tia Hernlen was asleep when David Edward Johnson allegedly broke into her family’s home and killed her parents. She woke up after hearing a commotion in the house. Tia called 911 and calmly explained the situation to the dispatcher, giving crucial information about the scene and her whereabouts.
On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had been wrongfully sentenced to death for the rape of Nevada Taylor, but Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution.
Alan was shot twice in the chest, while Diane was shot in the head. Their daughter, Sarah Johnson, was found guilty of their murder. Sarah was 16 years old at the time. Her apparent motive was her parents' prohibiting her from dating a 19-year-old drug dealer named Bruno Santos.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Lost to Chattanooga history for 112 years, a photograph of Ed Johnson was finally uncovered on the anniversary of his lynching. Joseph Malley, a Dallas-based attorney who has been researching Ed Johnson’s Supreme Court Case for a book, found one photo with the help of Chattanooga residents Mariann Martin ...
I am innocent.''. On Friday, almost 100 years later, in a downtown courtroom here packed with a somber crowd of black and white men, women and children, and with television news cameras recording ...
Unjust Death. On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, was mob-lynched from the second span of the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga. After a trial devoid of incriminating facts and with a clearly biased jury, Johnson was sentenced to death for the rape of a white woman.
On March 19, 1906, an angry mob saw to it that Ed Johnson was hanged from Chattanooga’s Walnut Street Bridge. On Sept. 24, 2018, about a dozen people stood quietly on the bridge and listened as Eric Atkins recalled the lynching that took Johnson’s life more than 100 years earlier.
