American Experience

The Murder of Emmett Till

Directed by Stanley Nelson
TV-PG
S15 • E6    Jan 20, 2003    55m
7.9
A documentary examining the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old boy from Chicago while visiting relatives in Mississippi, and the broad impact of his death, his funeral, and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his white killers.

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Cast of The Murder of Emmett Till

  • Andre BraugherNarrator
  • Pat AnticiKidnapper
  • Oudie BrownSelf
  • Harry CaiseSelf - Mortician
  • Magnolia Cooksey-MathiousSelf - Emmett Till's Classmate
  • Tony CzechKidnapper
  • Clara DavisSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Warren HamptonSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Richard HeardSelf - Emmett Till's Classmate
  • John HerbersSelf - Journalist
  • Rose JourdainSelf - Journalist
  • Mamie Till MobleySelf
  • Moses NewsonSelf - Journalist
  • Wheeler ParkerSelf - Emmett Till's Cousin
  • Betty PearsonSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Willie ReedSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Clarence Strider Jr.Self - Son of Mississippi Sheriff
  • Emmett TillSelf
  • William WinterSelf - Former Governor of Mississippi
  • Ernest WithersSelf - Photographer

 

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