Till’s brutal killing shocked the world and helped galvanize the civil rights movement. But misconceptions of the events leading to his death have persisted, and the FBI has reopened the case several times - most recently in 2017.

Kuwait City, Kuwait, February 1991: Graffiti marks an overturned Iraqi truck outside of Kuwait City on the road to Basra and Baghdad.

Somewhere near the DMZ, South Korea, December 1950: Two I Corps soldiers use the traditional Korean A-frame — also known as a jige — to carry supplies up to the front near Munsan-ni, South Korea in December 1950.

A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home.

Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 15, 1948: John Foster Dulles, right, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, talks to reporters on his arrival at the Rhein-Main airport.

Strong Point Alizi, Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2011: Officers with the Afghan National Civil Order Police speak with an Afghan woman during Operation Steel Lion III at Strong Point Alizi in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 22, 2001: The Yongsan Falcons stand in line to hear the national anthem prior to kickoff against the Osan Cougars at Seoul American High School, Seoul Korea.

Forward Operating Base Hanson, Afghanistan, Oct. 17, 2012: First Lt. James Mauch, left, and Corpsman Christopher Coughlin, both of 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, pause while working in Marjah district, Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Manila Bay, Philippines, May 7, 2001: Capt. Aaron Keenan grimaces while getting blasted by rotor wash from a CH-53 helicopter, as a second helicopter approaches to land and offload U.S. Marines.

Washington, April 2014: This letter by a U.S. service member, Sgt. Horace Evers, was written on Adolf Hitler’s private personal stationery. Evers and his men found the gold-embossed paper in Hitler’s apartment while they were setting up a command post in Munich.

Author and popular historian Andrew Carroll has been delicately sifting through stacks of letters written by the troops who fought every American war. They range from Revolutionary War epistles in exacting penmanship to hastily banged-out Iraq War emails, and everything in between.

The remains of Army Cpl. John A. Spruell, who was killed during the Korean War, will be interred Sept. 3 at Cortez Cemetery in Cortez, Colorado.

Chorwon Valley, South Korea, Sept. 29, 2001: Sgt. Roy Manasco, a gunner with the 6th Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment, at Camp Stanley, South Korea, checks the empty pods of the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) vehicle.

West Berlin, West Germany, Feb. 1, 1983: Vice President George Bush signs autographs for a delighted crowd at the U.S. Command Berlin Sports Center.

A message in a bottle turned up in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Debby. The note was handwritten under the letterhead “United States Navy, Amphibious Training Base, Little Creek, Virginia.” The date on the letter: “3/4/1945.”

The tradition of volunteerism that gave Tennessee its nickname began on Aug. 17, 1774 — before it was even officially a state — when a group of “Tennesseans” deployed as a militia for the first time. It also marked the beginning of the Tennessee National Guard.

Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, Coe will be laid to rest Monday in Englewood’s Brookside Cemetery alongside his mother

Pir Ahmad, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007: First Lt. Jordan Pagones, 23, of Fishkill, N.Y., looks up from his ambush position as an OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopter arcs overhead during an operation in the village of Pir Ahmad in northern Iraq.

Fifty-six years ago, divided Democrats braved raging street protests against the Vietnam War to hold their 1968 convention in Chicago. The party gathers this week for the Democratic National Convention in the same city with anger simmering over another far-away war, this time in Gaza.