NEWS
By Charles Sheehan and Charles Sheehan,CHICAGO TRIBUNE | June 2, 2005
ALSIP, Ill. - The earth above Emmett Till's grave was scraped away just after dawn yesterday, and steel cables hoisted his burial vault from the ground as family members prayed nearby. The barrel-topped concrete vault containing Till's metal casket was raised to a flatbed truck and covered in a blue tarp. Seven squad cars then escorted the remains on the 20-mile trip to Chicago, where forensics experts waited to see whether they would shed new light on a murder that helped ignite the civil rights movement.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and David Zurawik,SUN TELEVISION CRITIC | October 24, 2004
There are no shocking revelations or deathbed confessions in tonight's 60 Minutes report on an infamous 50-year-old civil rights case. Yet, the double-length segment focusing on the 1955 murder in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till is a reminder of how valuable a repository of national memory and voice of social conscience television news can be when its makers try. Till, an ebullient teenager who lived with his mother in Chicago, came to visit relatives...
NEWS
By Laura Sullivan and Laura Sullivan,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | May 11, 2004
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department reopened the investigation yesterday into the death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth whose 1955 killing illuminated the racism of the South and ignited the emerging civil rights movement. It has been almost a half-century since the body of Till, beaten and shot because he purportedly whistled at or otherwise offended a white woman, was dragged from a Mississippi river, an industrial fan tied to his neck with barbed wire. No one has ever been convicted of the crime, though it has been known almost from the beginning that at least two men, Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, both now dead, kidnapped Till at gunpoint from the home of relatives in the middle of the night in August 1955.
NEWS
August 29, 2005
A screening and discussion of the film The Murder of Emmett Till is set for 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral St. The free presentation - sponsored by the library and the Baltimore Community Relations Commission - marks the 40th anniversary of Till's death. The 14-year-old boy had traveled from Chicago to Mississippi to visit relatives in August 1955, and was beaten and killed, allegedly by two white men, after he purportedly whistled at a white woman.
NEWS
By CHARLES SHEEHAN and CHARLES SHEEHAN,CHICAGO TRIBUNE | November 24, 2005
CHICAGO -- Federal investigators have wrapped up an investigation into the murder 50 years ago of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was tortured and killed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at or making advances to a white woman. "The investigation is concluded, and the report is almost done," said Mike Turner, legal counsel for the FBI in Jackson, Miss. Results from the 18-month murder investigation could be in the hands of Mississippi District Attorney Joyce Chiles as early as next month, Turner said.
NEWS
By Ellen Barry and Ellen Barry,LOS ANGELES TIMES | July 15, 2005
ATLANTA - The trial and conviction last month of former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen has prompted federal prosecutors in Mississippi to re-examine three lesser-known crimes from the civil rights era. U.S. attorney Dunn Lampton has promised to review evidence in the 1964 killings of Charles Moore and Henry Dee, two young black men from rural Franklin County. Their mutilated bodies were found in the Mississippi River while federal authorities were searching for Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner - the three civil rights workers whose deaths Killen was accused of plotting.