![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 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](https://cdn.superstock.com/5513/Comp/5513-16144236.webp)
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
![Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:pnp:highsm:42600:42674/full/pct:25/0/default.jpg)
Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress
![A cotton-gin fan is presented as evidence in the trial investigating the death of 14-year-old Chicago boy Emmett Louis Till, in Sumner, Miss., on September 22, 1955. The fan had been tied A cotton-gin fan is presented as evidence in the trial investigating the death of 14-year-old Chicago boy Emmett Louis Till, in Sumner, Miss., on September 22, 1955. The fan had been tied](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2NGF47F/a-cotton-gin-fan-is-presented-as-evidence-in-the-trial-investigating-the-death-of-14-year-old-chicago-boy-emmett-louis-till-in-sumner-miss-on-september-22-1955-the-fan-had-been-tied-around-the-boys-neck-with-barbed-wire-when-his-body-was-found-in-the-tallahatchie-river-near-the-delta-community-of-money-mississippi-on-august-31-1955-ap-photo-2NGF47F.jpg)