CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thursday marked 70 years since the murder of Emmett Till.

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John William "J.W." Milam, alongside Roy Bryant, abducted 14-year-old Till from his great-uncle's home on Aug. 28, 1955. The white men tortured and killed Till after the teenager was accused of whistling at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in a rural Mississippi grocery store.

Till's body was later found in the Tallahatchie River. Bryant and Milam were charged with Till's murder, but they were acquitted by an all-white-male jury during the Jim Crow era.

Till had been shot. His body was dumped in the river, weighed down by a cotton gin fan tied around his neck.

Mamie Till-Mobley, Till's mother, insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago, forcing America t

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