Mamie Mobley, whose 14-year-old son Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi in 1955, supposedly for whistling at a white woman, speaks to demonstrators in Kokomo, Miss., in 2000. She became a civil rights leader and educator, and died in 2003. The Justice Department on Thursday reopened Till's murder case. Photo by AJ Sisco/UPI
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The report said the case was reopened "based upon the discovery of new information," but did not give other details.
Two men accused in the killing were acquitted of murder, and later admitted to a magazine reporter they indeed killed Till. In a book published about the incident, the wife, Carolyn Donham, admitted she lied about Till's alleged advances to the FBI and to other law enforcement officers.