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Fan Used As Weight -- Leflore County Deputy Sheriff John Ed Cothran examines the huge cotton gin fan used to weight down the body of 15-year-old Emmet Louis Till in the Tallahatchie River about 25 miles north of here. The negro boy's body was found yesterday, with the barbed wire used to tie the body on the weight. Two men are held in Greenwood in connection with the death. September 01, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

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Fan Used As Weight -- Leflore County Deputy Sheriff John Ed Cothran examines the huge cotton gin fan used to weight down the body of 15-year-old Emmet Louis Till in the Tallahatchie River about 25 miles north of here. The negro boy's body was found yesterday, with the barbed wire used to tie the body on the weight. Two men are held in Greenwood in connection with the death. September 01, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

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