Family to rebury Till today

[NVMojo]

Family members of Emmett Till plan to gather for a private graveside service this morning as Till's body is laid to rest for the second time since his 1955 death.

A court order required the casket be returned to the cemetery by Monday.

Meanwhile, a police detail from the Cook County sheriff's office remained assigned to guard Till's body, which was still at the Cook County medical examiner's office late Friday afternoon.

Till cousin Simeon Wright said FBI officials called him Friday to say all the testing was completed and Till's body had been well-preserved.

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-till04.html

[Hobarticus]

1. May justice be done...rest in peace, again, Emmett...

I sure hope something good comes out of this.

[Richard Steele]

2. This explained something I had wondered about....

I wondered what they thought they could discover from an autopsy after all these years.

I wasn't aware that some people claimed the body wasn't Till, and that they needed to clear up that point of contention.

I hope some JUSTICE finally comes from this.

[K-W]

8. That and forensic evidence,

They are going to prosecute anyone they can get evidence for who is still alive.

[bobbieinok]

3. unpleasant question: a body still left?-- recent disinternment here of

coffin buried in the 40s and in a concrete vault had no casket and only a partial skull and a few bones

[BiggJawn]

5. An erie fact of the mortuary business...

Google "Soap Mummy", you'll be shocked, like I was.

Made me re-think my funeral plans.

[Name removed]

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[struggle4progress]

6. Lynching victim's body reburied

Cousin: FBI says 'I'll be very pleased' with autopsy results
Saturday, June 4, 2005 Posted: 2113 GMT (0513 HKT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- Relatives Saturday reburied Emmett Till, the black teenager lynched in Mississippi 50 years ago, following an autopsy that might yield clues to an unsolved murder that helped spark the U.S. civil rights movement.

The burial took place at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, about 25 miles from Chicago, a spokesman for the cemetery said.

The FBI exhumed Till's body Wednesday in a bid to shed light on a crime that symbolized the raw history of race relations in America.

Autopsy results were sent from the Cook County Medical Examiner in Illinois to prosecutors in Greenville, Mississippi, where charges could be brought. <snip>

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/06/04/crimes.lynching.reut/



Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door.
This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well,
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till.


Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up.
They said they had a reason, but I can't remember what.
They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat.
There was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street.


Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die.


And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial,
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till.
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.


I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs.
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea.


If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust,
Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust.
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow,
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!


This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give,
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live. - Dylan

[oasis]

7. These kind of crimes happen when freeper-types go unchecked.

[msanthrope]

9. Rest in Peace, Emmett. I hope there is justice for you at last. n/t