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Emmett Till — Part 1
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many people came to look at the body while it was at the funeral home the police had
to keep people back. }**
[ts 1955[ fet did not testify at trial, was
employed by the Tutwiler Funeral Home, located in Tutwiler, Mississippi. Cd
transported Till’s body from the Century Burial and Funeral Home, located in
Greenwood, Mississippi, to the Tutwiler Funeral Home and prepared the body for
shipment to Chicago] —__Jstated the body was “in bad shape” when he got him.
[___fmbaimed the body, prepared it for shipping and shipped it to Chicago,
Ilinois, for burial. 1°
Illinois. [ _ feceived Till’s body upon arrival in Chicago and opened the shipping
container. [___feseribed the body as “I couldn’t recognize it was a body because
the body had been in the water and when a body’s in the water, it becomes swelled,
‘disfigured, you can hardly tell who the person is.” { ,
no work be done on the body before it was shown to the public. [i agree
with her decision, but did as she asked. 157
e Mamie Bradley (deceased): Bradley viewed her son’s body at the A. A. Rainer
Funeral Home. When Bradley observed the body, it was still in the casket. She saw
_ it again later when it had been removed from the casket and placed on a slab. The
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