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1. Gun used in murder of Till acquired by MDAH

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced Thursday that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the weapon’s holster have been acquired and are now on display at the Two Mississippi Museums – Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

MDAH said the Foundation for Mississippi History acquired the artifacts for donation to MDAH.

Both artifacts were owned by J.W. Milam, who along with his half-brother Roy Bryant, confessed to Till’s murder in a “Look” magazine article published in January 1956, some four months

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