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Blogs Liberty and Power Emmett Till Murder Investigation Reopened (My Take)

May 10, 2004

Emmett Till Murder Investigation Reopened (My Take)

by Liberty and Power

The Department of Justice has just reopened the investigation of the Emmett Till murder in 1955.

For my take on this, see our article (co-authored with Linda Royster Beito), "Why It's Unlikely the Emmett Till Murder Mystery Will Ever be Solved" at HNN. Also, see our article,"Investigating the Emmett Till Conspiracy" at Hugh Pearson's new website .