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Today, Explained

Open casket, reopened case

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

One of the most brutal murder cases in American history has been reopened. The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery explains how Emmett Till’s family might finally find justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sean is gonna see it!

0:01.4

I'd like to see you kind of as did you get a lot of feedback from people who found out that you were engaged by listening to our show yesterday.

0:06.7

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0:08.7

They also now know about GetClip.com slash explained.

0:14.3

Yeah.

0:23.6

When I moved to DC, I couldn't wait to visit the newest Smithsonian Museum,

0:27.0

the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

0:30.5

Once you get in, you take an elevator down.

0:38.1

And when it opens, it's dark.

0:40.1

There's lots of people in tight spaces.

0:42.8

It's designed to make you feel like you're on a slave ship.

0:46.4

As you make your way back up to the ground level, the museum begins to open up.

0:50.4

There's light, there's space.

0:52.5

Things never really get crowded, except in one place.

0:57.6

There's a long line to get into a room where you can see Emmett Till's casket.

1:03.6

People want to be reminded of how brutal we can be.

1:06.8

Last week we got another reminder.

1:11.1

The Justice Department is taking another look at one of the nation's most horrific crimes of racial violence.

1:16.7

The 1955 murder of Emmett Till.

1:20.0

Dducted and murdered by two men,

1:22.4

after a woman claimed that Emmett Till, who was 14 years old,

1:25.6

whistled at her and grabbed her.

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