CBS interviews historian who got the truth about the murder of Emmett Till

Duke’s Timothy Tyson says the woman who claimed that the black youth had assaulted her broke her silence  –  and recanted.

Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case Recants Her Claim that Led to His Death

With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.