first great media event of the civil rights movement." >> i've just received information of an acquittal in the murder charge of emmett till in leflore county. >> reporter: after little more than an hour of deliberations, the all white jury acquitted both defendants. >> it took 67 minutes. and one juror said, "it wouldn't have taken us even that long except we stopped to have a soda." >> reporter: while the defendants escaped punishment, they would not escape judgment. after the trial, this man, journalist william bradford huie, persuaded them to sell their "true" story for $4,000. huie sold the story to "look" magazine. it's the ultimate insult to injury, having just been exonerated in this sham of a trial only to -- with no fear of