chicago, the site of till s open casket funeral, a decision by his mother who allowed jet magazine to photograph and publish images of her son s body, bringing the world with the face to face of the brutal reality of racism. what you remember the most about that day? i just remember about being kind of. none reverend wheeler park it was till s cousin, his best friend and the last living witnessed a tills abduction. he was in the very next room when a group of white men took till from his family s house. shook to my eyes, shake, and talking to god literally. who walked with a pistol and one hand and a flashlight can another. what was it like there in the house at night after he was taken away? nobody talked to anybody. who s just dark, a move from place to place, to talk to anyone in daylight again. parker still remembers exactly where he sat yang till s funeral. now that church is being