{"id":72822,"date":"2018-07-12T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72822"},"modified":"2018-07-12T06:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:56:21","slug":"apppg-federal-government-reopens-probe-of-1955-emmett-till-slaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72822","title":{"rendered":"(AP+PPG) Federal government reopens probe of 1955 Emmett Till slaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till\u2019s slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after receiving \u201cnew information.\u201d The case was closed in 2007 with authorities saying the suspects were dead; a state grand jury didn\u2019t file any new charges.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Watts, a cousin of Till, said she was unaware the case had been reopened until contacted by The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The federal report, sent annually to lawmakers under a law that bears Till\u2019s name, does not indicate what the new information might be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/nation\/2018\/07\/12\/Government-reopens-probe-of-Emmett-Till-slaying-mississippi\/stories\/201807120099\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Citing \u201cnew information,\u201d the Justice Department is re-opening the investigation into the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ED3Ez2Ov4u\">https:\/\/t.co\/ED3Ez2Ov4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (@PittsburghPG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PittsburghPG\/status\/1017356938110267392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72822\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,133,114,120,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-racerace-relations","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72824,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72822\/revisions\/72824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}