 and opened the casket it turned that lynching into an international scandal um and so that was that case and that was the first big case that uh medgar evers investigated as the naacp field secretary and he managed to get three black witnesses to risk their lives including emmett's uncle to testify in that murder trial they the state had to put him on trial because it became a scandal that went beyond mississippi and it was an embarrassment to the state so they put