Florida State University will host its third annual Emmett Till Archives Lecture Series — and one of the key speakers is a former FBI agent who led Till’s 2004 cold murder case investigation.
Retired FBI Special Agent Dale Killinger will discuss the investigation’s key findings in Till’s kidnapping and murder 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 13, in the Globe Auditorium of FSU’s Global and Multicultural Engagement Building on South Woodward Avenue.
The event is free and open to the public.
“It’s been nearly 20 years since Dale Killinger began investigating the people and places involved in the murder of Emmett Till,” said Davis Houck, the Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies in FSU’s School of Communication, in a prepared statement.
“During that time, he’s become an indispensable resource when it comes to piecing together the often-confusing details of the case.”
The case involves the kidnapping and brutal lynching of Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was visiting his cousins in Mississippi in August 1955. He was accused of whistling at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham.