Feds Exhume Body of Civil Rights Icon Emmett Till
The federal government is hoping that dead men can tell tales. Investigators unearthed the body of Emmett Till Wednesday in suburban Chicago hoping to find some information that will help them in the reopened murder case. Till, 14, was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi in a case that galvanized the civil rights movement.
Frank Bochte, an FBI spokesman, explained the reason for exhuming Till’s body. ‘One purpose of this is to positively identify the remains and dispel any rumors as to whether it is truly Emmett Till or not,’ Frank Bochte said. He added the investigators wanted to ‘see if any further evidence can be looked at to help Mississippi officials bring additional charges if warranted.’
The case became reopened after new information became available. Documentary filmmaker Keith Beauchamp was a key figure in obtaining the new information for investigators.
Till was kidnapped from his uncle’s Money, Mississippi farm on August 28, 1955. The 14-year-old boy was abducted for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Three days later, his mutilated remains were found in the Tallahatchie River.
Till’s mother had an open casket at his funeral so that her son’s mutilated remains could be seen by the entire nation as a symbol of the oppression blacks faced in the Jim Crow south at that time.
Two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were later tried for the murder but acquitted by an all-white jury. They later confessed to the murder in an interview with ‘Look’ magazine. Both of them are now dead but the FBI believes others who may have assisted Bryant and Milam may still be alive and can be brought to justice.
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You say that the two white men that committed this horrible deed are dead, So why reopen the case? Reopen the case anyway! What about the white woman that he supposedly whistled at, charge her with something. She is just as much to blame as the men that did it!!!!!!!
She should be locked up too!!!!!!
I just want to see the pictures.
go to the library and they can help you there, i was the picture once when i was in jr high school in a text book. it’s not good to look at.
The woman isn’t to blame–she didn’t report the incident. Till’s friends did! Anyhow, the woman is probably deceased by now anyway. The whole situation is tragic and shameful.
actually she was married to one of the men who murdered him. she had everything to do with his death.
Yes this case should be re-opened. The murderers are now dead, but justice must still be served. I can not seem to get the images of Emmett’s mutilated face out of my mind. How do killers (who confessed to the murder in a magazine article after the trial) walk away free men? I hope justice will finally arrive for Emmett and Mamie, his mother.
Ms. Bryant is partly to blame (and is still alive, i believe) and the case should have been reopened. If Justice is for ALL then its time to prove it!
as for that dumb person that wrote that it was his friends that got him in trouble with the white people in misissippi who ever that is need to do some research on what really happend cuz it was her fault cuz as I was taugtht ther is no harm in speaking to anyone everyone is entilited to be spoken to ..and that is 4 real so try and put your self in his familyu place and you will see that she should also be charged with apart of that horrible crime also.
If a person can be exhonerated in death if innocent, so should they be charged if guilty. Reopen the case and all guilty partys be prepared.
The tragedy of Emmit Till symbolizes the psychotic fear that many white Americans and particularly those in the south had towards black people(and some still do). Our nation should address this psychosis, first, by bringing justice for Emmit Till in the way of a trial for those living and dead who were involved in the case, second, by raising money from all white donors to erect a memorial to Emmit Till. Thirdly, to launch a huge educational program that would address racism in all its forms, and lastly to pass legislation to abolish the construct of race altogether.
i really want to see the pics cuz i think its a shame what they did to that poor child it was only a mistake
Is this really your name? My name is Shelita Hilton and because my name is so odd it’s hard to beleive that they’re someone else with the same name as mine?
I think it was and still an injustice of the treatment of the black american in this society. I made my son who is fourteen look at the documentary of the emmett till story because he said he is not taught it in school and he didn’t even know who emmett till was. I hope the people that killed emmett made restution with GOD before they died. That crime as all crimes against humanity was TERRIBLE!
God don’t like ugly. Ms Bryant has a whole lot of chillin herself.They could be got too.
I was just a baby when all this happened, so I don’t really have a memory of any of it, but yes, I think that justice should be done with all deliberate speed. If there are any of those still living that had anything at all to do with this crime, then they should be find and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But on the other hand, maybe we should consider another possibility. In a conversation that I had with a schoolteacher online (at least, she said that she was a schoolteacher), perhaps we should consider the possibility that Bryant and Mylam themselves were ill-served by this system ( segregation I mean). By that I mean that they were only doing what they had been taught all their lives so they were just doing what was expected of them. No, I’m not absolving them of any moral culpability, but it is something to think about, I think.
Well, this is just so wrong. God how could someone do this? Have that kind of heart? This bewilders me in a way that is unexplainable….. But cutting my case short, those two men didn’t get what i wished they got…. Oh, and as for “Mrs. Bryant” …. She isn’t dead yet. She lives here in Cleveland,Mississippi, and is seen at the sizzlin every Saturday night… I just wanna question her and ask her why the hell could she do such a thing to a 14 year old innocent, African American male. But don’t worry, God will handle her… in due time ….. in DUE TIME!!!!!!!
Strait and to the point, the case should be reopened. There were eye witnesses who seen no less than (2) two other white males, besides Bryant and Milam, exiting the shed where Emmett Till was being brutally beaten. If those individuals that took part in this crime is still breathing today then that reason alone warrants the reopening of this murder case.
In 1955, I hadn’t quite turned ten yet. My hustle was sales of Jet Magazines. Back in those days, many African American youths my age were couriers for the magazine all over the country. Around the time that the murder occurred, Jet magazine was conducting a sales contest for couriers. Those of us who sold the most jets were awarded various prizes for our efforts. It was this year that a young boy named Emmett Till, a 14 yr old black teen out of Chicago, was murdered in Mississippi.
I don’t know if younger people would be familiar with this infamous murder, but it was such a hot news item, that I had to keep going back and asking for more copies because I kept running out of them. I was awarded numerous prizes including t-shirts, baseball caps, and Jet ball point pens.
The one thing that I never forgot was the gruesome photo of Emmett Till’s mutilated body laying in a casket. I was infuriated at the sight of his mutilated body lying in the casket in the photo I saw in the Jet magazine. It was this murder, and the insistence of Mamie Till, Emmett’s mother, that his casket remained open during his funeral service to show the whole world what the perpetrators of this horrible lynching had done to her son, that sparked the civil rights movement the following year.
To this day, justice has yet to be served on Emmitt Till’s racist murderers. I pray to G_d that that justice is served soon. If not, they won’t get past G_d in the next life unless they repented, and He accepted their repentance.
A.B. Madyun, I was about 15 years before my time but I have seen those damn pics. They didn’t lay out any other slain white people that I know like that. It was all about the time and the stupid ass people back then. I don’t know how I would act back in those times if I was an adult. I guess it just proves that hate and racism is taught and not born with.
Ken…I agree with you that that is what was happening at that time. But i didn’t quite get your meaning when you said that they never laid any slain white people out like that. Whites weren’t being slain by blacks in the south. However, blacks were commonly slain by whites, and still are.
Also, if you read the story, you will recall that the reason for the display of Emmitt Till’s body was by his mother’s request to send out the right message to the world. It was not the wrong message, because when injustice is being leveled against innocent people, it’s easy for folks to turn their backs and ignore it as though it’s only business as usual and to think…”well, it didn’t happen to me, or anybody I know.”
But, if it is displayed to them, then people are more likely to get the point, and that’s what happened. Those photographs woke up the whole world. For those who couldn’t stomach the pictures…oh well!
what happend to E,till is very sad every time i see a pic or hear his name it hurts me even more ,and still scares me my granny was growin up back in them days and it just pisses me off the way people think and act how they can be so uncareing and just take an innocent life and sometimes i wounder if( any of them )really care they still here trust me they aint went nowhereand all we can do is pray ,just pray because when jesus comes back they got theirs comin
I would like to know if anyone knows the result of the new trial that was reopened in 2005 I can’t seem to find out any information.
IT WAS A DAMN SHAME WHAT THE WHITE MAN DID TO EMMITT TILL.
I SAY WHITE MAN BECAUSE ALL WHO TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THE CRIME, WALKED AWAY AND DID NOT SHOW JUSTICE ARE ALL GUILTY. HE WAS ONLY 14YRS. OLD. HOW COULD PEOPLE BE SO CRUEL AND HEARTLESS. I WONDER IF IT HAPPENED TO THEIR CHILDREN HOW WOULD THEY FILL IF PEOPLE TURNED THEIR BACKS AND WALK AWAY. DON’T THINK YOU’RE GETTING AWAY WITH SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T DO THE TIME. WHAT NEGATIVE THING YOU BRING TO THE TABLE CAN COME BACK ON YOUR CHILDREN OR YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN. THINK ABOUT IT.
well it was really sad when i seen hes body i was fina cry the dude did not have to do that to hem if he was living i would date hem he hes so pretty god gonna bless hem i wish he was in our world hes in a better place. Sign by Jaquita Pryor Love you Emmet till
I jst think tht wht they did to Emmett was really unessasary:O
I agree!
I can’t belive people can be so cruel the only thing diffrent is our colors and thet don’t even matter! it’s so heartless people can be stupid sometimes!
i’m so angry he should have known better but still!
He was a kid from Chicago, Teresa. Also, attitudes differed vastly between the big city of Chicago where Emmitt Till was from even though there was also racial tensions there as well, and redneck Money, Mississippi where he was murdered. In addition, he was only a teenager. He was still green. If he were an adult when this lynching occurred, yes…I would agree with you that he should have known better. But Emmitt Till was just a kid.
I just got done watching the movie about this case. Honestly I do not know how people could do this to one another.. this tore my heart to shreds.. I honestly cant even think of the feelings I have toward this case, but what I do know is that Emmett did not die in vain. His death sparked more than controversy around the world. I still dont get why bad things happen to go good people, nor will we ever understand. RIP EMMETT.Mamie our hearts go out to you and your family.
He should have kept his mouth shut… He whistled at the white women which is something a black person wouldn’t dream of doing in the 1950′s south. It was juvenile stupidity and he paid an altimate price for it. Very Sad.
I agree with you that he probably should have kept his mouth shut, but the comment doesn’t meet the reality. Emmett Till was a 14 year old adolescent from Chicago, where attitudes were slightly different than that of redneck Money, Mississippi. Make sure that you impress upon your mind that he was a kid, not an adult who should know better. In addition, perhaps a kid from Mississippi would have known better.