70 years after one of the seminal horrors in civil rights history, the gun used to kill 14-year-old EMTT Till is on display for the first time. The brutal torture and then shooting of Till with the Ithaca 45 caliber pistol galvanized a movement after his mother insisted his disfigured body be shown in an open casket. So, as she said, the world could see what they did to my baby. Hezekiah Watkins was 10 when Till died. At 14, imprisoned as a freedom writer and he was at the museum for the unveiling. >> I got ...