Monday, October 25, 2004

60 Minutes: Justice, Delayed But Not Denied

A riveting, heart-rending story of teenager Emmet Till’s murder. This case was closed, the men who were charged with Till’s brutal beating and murder were declared innocent by a white Southern jury, but the murderers admitted six months later in a magazine article (for which they were paid $4,000) that they did it to teach Northern blacks a lesson. Now, 50 years later a determined young man—a documentary filmmaker—has taken the law enforcement community by surprise by researching and rescuing the information of the other people involved and has forced the government to re-open the case against those that are still alive. Silenced history—quiet no longer.

Justice, Delayed But Not Denied 60 Minutes

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