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FBI To Exhume Body of Emmett Till

HeadlineMay 05, 2005

The FBI announced Wednesday it will exhume the body of Emmett Till in an attempt to determine who killed him nearly 50 years ago. The murder of the 14-year-old African-American boy shocked the nation and helped fuel the civil rights movement. Till was pulled from his bed in Mississippi and brutally killed, allegedly for whistling to a white store clerk. Two white men implicated by eyewitnesses were acquitted by an all-white jury. New evidence in the case emerged during the production of a recent PBS documentary implicating many others in the murder.

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