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Pursuing evidence in the Till case, 50 years later

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the racially motivated murder of Emmett Till. Ed Gordon talks about the legal ramifications of the current forensic investigation into Till's death with G. Douglas Jones. The former U.S. attorney in Birmingham, Ala., also successfully prosecuted the last two suspects in that city's 1963 church bombing that killed four young girls.
Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"