Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Myself to Death: Partial Emmett Till Autopsy Results

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Partial Emmett Till Autopsy Results

This evening, WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC affiliate, reported that the FBI had found what they believed to be bullet fragments in the exhumed remains of Emmett Till (or at least what are believed to be the exhumed remains of Emmett Till--DNA tests to confirm the identity aren't complete yet). Of course, this being Saturday and all, WMAQ had not posted this story on their website--fortunately no significant news on this or any other story is expected to develop until Monday. The Chicago Sun-Times, however, did have a link available. (They also had, on their home page between the temperature and links for weather and traffic, a single word that I guess is meant to describe current weather conditions: skanky. I've heard that word used to describe people and I have a vague idea of what it means in that context, but what can skanky weather possible be referring to?) How these possible bullet fragments will affect the FBI's case remains to be seen, but at least this does put to rest the fears that exhuming Till's body would be nothing more than an exercise in disrupting Till's surviving family.

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