Till's Body Interred Again After Fbi Completes Tests ; Clues Being Sought in 50-Year-Old Civil-Rights Slaying

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › June 06, 2005

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ALSIP, Ill. - Three days after the FBI exhumed Emmett Till's body to search for clues to his slaying 50 years ago, his relatives gathered Saturday at a suburban Chicago cemetery for his reinterment.

The black teenager's body was found by fishermen in August 1955 after he had been abducted from his uncle's Mississippi home, reportedly for whistling at a white woman. His slaying helped kindle the civil rights movement.

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Till's Body Interred Again After Fbi Completes Tests ; Clues Being Sought in 50-Year-Old Civil-Rights Slaying

Simeon Wright, a cousin who said he was sleeping in the same bed with Till the night h...

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