Feds reopen investigation of '55 murder of black teen

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is reopening the murder investigation of Emmett Till, a black Chicago teenager killed during a 1955 visit to Mississippi apparently because he whistled at a white man's wife.

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