5/??/2004 – Represented Keith Beauchamp in connection with the murder of Emmett Till

Mr. Wigdor represented filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who investigated the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, one of the most horrific murders in the history of the civil rights movement. Mr. Wigdor helped Mr. Beauchamp convince the United States Depart of Justice to re-open the case in May 2004. The case was featured on Good Morning America, and in The New York Times, Newsday, and the New York Daily News.