Family of Emmett Till to speak about final report on his death
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The family of Emmett Till will address the final report from the FBI and Justice Department's investigation into Till's 1955 murder.
The family of Emmett Till is expected to address the final report from the FBI and Justice Department's investigation into Till's 1955 murder at a press conference on Monday.
Till, 14, was killed while visiting family in Mississippi after he was accused of whistling at and making sexual advances toward a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. He was kidnapped, badly beaten and found in the Tallahatchie River several days later.
Carolyn Bryant's husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam were charged with Till's murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. The two men later confessed to the killing in a paid magazine interview months later.
Rev. Wheeler Parker, Till's cousin -- who was 16 at the time -- was in the house when Roy Bryant and Milam came looking for Till.
