so carolyn bryant and this is -- the reason we know this, so carolyn bryant is the woman who emmett till reportedly wolf whistled at. right? okay. and so she gave a statement to the defense lawyers literally just, you know, a couple of weeks before the trial of her then husband and her half-brother who were involved -- who killed emmett till. so, anyway, her original statement to the defense and we have copies of the notes because they are in the william bradford huey papers at ohio state and in that she basically said that he flirted with her, grabbed her hand, asked her for a date, flirted with her, walked out, whistled at her. she told a much different story at trial which was that emmett till basically all but raped her. that was really -- if you really want to boil it down, that's kind of real quick version of that. fast forward so the two killers -- actually there were more than that involved, there were at least four white guys involved, jeddah mylum, roy bryant, roy mylan who ran the plantation which is where emmett till was beaten and killed -- william bradford huey's piece i al

decades later, carolyn bryant, the woman who accused till, said she had lied.sissippi native, patrick weems, knows the importance of telling till's story. our correspondent diane roberts shows us his efforts to preserve till's legacy. patrick weems: the only version of civil rights i was taught was that rosa parks sat down, and martin luther king stood up -- and everybody was free. diane: 30-year-old patrick weems grew up in mississippi. patrick weems: and it wasn't until i was 18 and i took a specific course on african-american studies that i learned about emmett till. when i learned about what happened, the injustices, but also that young people made change, it compelled me to want to be a part of that change, too. diane: determined, patrick set about the work of preserving the mississippi courtroom at the center of the story and the task of making amends. patrick weems: it was here in this courtroom that two men got off for murder. and so, we decided that we needed to begin by apologizing to the till family before we could begin with our museum. out of that