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Sixty years later, Emmett Till's cousin recalls the night he last saw him
When a 14-year-old African American boy named Emmett Till whistled at a white woman outside her shop in 1955, his cousin Simeon Wright remembers being terrified. “That scared us half to death,” he said. “Whistling at a white woman in Mississippi? It’s better to play with a rattlesnake.” Later that week, Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered. In this excerpt from a special episode of America Tonight, Joie Chen travels to the Mississippi Delta to meet Wright, who takes us back to the grocery store where a whistle led to an execution.
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