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What we know about the reopened Emmett Till murder case

Based on new information, the Justice Department is reopening the Till investigation.

Aired 07/12/2018

PBS News Hour

What we know about the reopened Emmett Till murder case

Clip: 7/12/2018 | 8m 55sVideo has Closed Captions

Based on new information, the Justice Department is reopening the Till investigation.

Based on new information, the Justice Department is reopening the investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the African-American boy whose brutal killing by two white men in Mississippi became a galvanizing event that helped spark the civil rights movement in America. William Brangham gets reaction from Sen. Doug Jones, R-Ala.

Aired 07/12/2018

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