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He haven't to have a ring on with initials. >> in chicago emmit met -- emmet till's mother waited for the casket to arrive. >> she is essentially confronted with a sealed wooden casket nailed shut by the sheriff. it was her who demanded that that box be opened so she could see her child. she kind of staggers in and sees this body and she can't believe her beautiful child is this lump of flesh that's lying in this casket. then she said to herself, the country is going to have to confront this. i'm not going to suffer in this by myself. if this is what you're going to do to black boys, you're go...

Exemplified awesome detective work, we took this case very seriously. it seems they regarded it as an absolute hate crime, investigated it and pursued it to that end which is why i find it so unconscionable, that a black man in america would be complicit with making lynching a headline. emmitt till found his body, dragged from the river and mutilated, his casket open under request of his mother to draw attention to the horrific nature of livenlging in america. you put this idea as someone using that as fodder and capi l capitalizing on that horrific history, it's unconscionable. the people who...

Casket open for the funeral, she invited photographer david jackson from the weekly black news magazine "jet" to take pictures of his body. >> she and the editors of "jet" magazine made the decision that they were going to display this for the country. >> all issues of "jet" sell out. they published it again the next week. all issues sell out. and it's only in the black press owned by johnson publishing. the white press didn't even see it at first. >> there was quite a controversy about why would "jet" print this terrible picture. they wanted to make a point, just to show you how bad things we...

Of elizabeth ratliff's coffin. >> it was so air tight, it was hard to use a krask to get the casket open. you could see part of elizabeth ratliff's face and hair. it was remarkable. >> they were stunned. the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. >> the m.e. took a closer look to the injuries to elizabeth's head. >> she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven? >> the lacerations were very sim laor to the ones that had been perpetrated on kathleen peterson in her findings she made a decision ...

Department of justice looking into it and believed it to be a political show. what's your read on this in a broader context, both historical and political as well? >> look, as has been eloquently stated here the reality is that this is an un106solved murder c in technical fashion so that any justice that, any closure that can be delivered would be satisfying to the families, as m ms. watson just now said and to this american nation that's suffering some of the most heinous crimes in the histories of this nation. the courage of the mother, mamie emmett till to leave that casket open in 1955 so ...