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| ; ' LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE . age, weighing about 150 pounds. Family accounts relate that Emmett Till was a fun loving, gentle person who loved practical jokes and making other people laugh. 37,38. | Till's father, Louis Till, died in Europe during 1945. Records released to the press in October 1955 indicate that Louis Till, a Private in the U.S. Army assigned to the 177th Port Company, 397th Port Battalion, was executed on July 2, 1945 by the US. Army for the rape of two women and the murder of another in Italy. °° The American Battle Monuments Commission verified Louis Till was executed and is currently interred at the Oisne-Aisne Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France, 4! Wright Home — Circa 1955 2. The Wright Family: The Wright family, headed by Mose Wright (deceased), was the family with whom Till was visiting when he was abducted. Mose Wright was born in Lexington, Mississippi, and was sixty-four years old in 1955. Mose Wright was commonily referred *” Death of innocence, The Story of The Hate Crime That Changed America, Maime Till-Mobley and Christopher ‘Mise ofs William Bradford Huie, “Why the Army Hanged Emmett Till’s Father,” Confidential, May 1956 Mise o/s [ l Z1 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document containg neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FAL. [tis the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. a