the military buried the case and buried him in an unmarked grave forgotten silenced but the story of Lewis till did not die with him 10 years later his only son EMT till would become a name burned into history a boy accused judged without evidence lynched the similarities between Father and Son haunting for a decade the Army buried the truth but in 1955 as EMT Till's murder shook the nation the US government revealed Lewis Till's fate to discredit his grieving mother may till mobl