American Experience; The Murder of Emmett Till; Interview with Magnolia Cooksey, classmate

the pope has been do you see well as i mentioned before seen it lane couch former casket was overwhelming for me personally because i saw him it's eighteen straight up on my mother's porch for for laughing and a jovial beautiful olive complexion young man in here and stand over a couch covered casket with a glance over his face and looking like a freak and this just was just that there is this really true because we did have like i said before those years my family we fortunate to have had a television but it was very overwhelming

to see this it's almost like it was from his dream in a science fiction comic book to see this as natalie mclean here and to see these people on tv down south are in mississippi saying that because a show me and my wife well you would take given to do this in jessica's we do track us that we used to tease him played mandolin the end result that you would be a mummified character and that you're free to be looking at you from this perspective and he's this very calm and that was very just as a coke with more questions are about water on tv and their muscle you know is one of the things that i think is important that the emmett till case was that was on tv and people all over the country could see the south they could see what was done that seems a little bit about about though they do to fill in hatfield the theaters to see this

procedure new in this holy all and people from chicago involved is huge case in the south and you're watching it on tv and you see the virtue may when they said they were not guilty on tv yes i saw was all over it and my girlfriends and i am probably our parents we saw the verdict and it was not what was we said that that's down south that's reason why a lot of people are afraid to go down south because of art just basically kill our eyelids a fourteen fifteen yo yo ma and because he was a liar i mean because we thought if he did do it we were saying he was joking but we couldn't think that anyone could be so cruel as to take a wheel of our all are waving just tied to your body and just murder you and just what was going on in your mind what we knew on the type of person are you about because someone whistle your wife you know or your girlfriend state you played shane mcmahon stay in your place well what she did you know so

again on the anger but we did not fight or anything else that was we we took it from it you say that you know i know there's a difference between like the music of nineteen fifty four and the musical nineteen fifty five doesn't seem like rajoy was just thirteen oh yes we had the box which a week at the oxford shoes and we would do in the baht that's the bebop a dependable one ritual play because i know smokey robinson was our james brown but without any new head to dick clark show because everyone i love it wasn't no i don't think he was in this particular group but my arriving on american bandstand and we just danced and i had fun again when of flavors for it with the cream along underneath and we danced and down like that the nsa laughter we had been slow dance in the fifty seven fifty five chevrolet is fifty

six buicks injuries and things of that nature that cars there was a general sentiment rock and rolled out at sea what artist you would be speaking out because we get everything we were dancers would advanced industry and whole tale we head around the basin street and we head out the grand ballroom we have a lot of dancing weekend in chicago but today an la la unesco on people and wilt chamberlain he came and champion escobar around that time i think it was right of chaman much here but i just know that we all against it in different kind of music now the rats we know anything about rap saw it with a media which you and where i would wear arm flair skirt with the kremlin underneath you must have the kremlin and armenians pink felt scared i hit with a pool that was on was on mcnamee on the skirt mud oxford head to match my shoe as a black and white oxford relax for

brown and at oxford and on the fellas wear their jeans notes tight t shirts spiegel was that this year three teachers for ten dollars and there wasn't a warehouse at that time you know and to our we also world the sweaters with college you were attaching to your sweaters and tie him down around your neck you know in those years it was just like and the girls i walk in retail a long ponytail was all boys will collect the ponytail you know and he would like sit down the clothing was a polyester felt gym shoes and it was just the music with everything with a screen and jeers he really was you know insurers were up my feet away that the boys were creative solutions that yes they will present think they will create solutions a visitor aboard the toys war great

soul shoe this begins in a week the boys were great soul shoes are striped t shirts polyester pants real time somewhat and froze and underwrote that the thing with girls a pony tails if they had done something like that right we did that was careless with and what they were all i don't know like you remember about the wall it's what type of wild oats if they get money put was in they put it in little pants pocket been going on we can do to let smoking and drinking were just on a lot of playing with one another baseball were going have our boys play gives the girls they were trying to teach us how play touch football and a lot of that ride a bicycle backwards because they put us on a girl's bike they would show was how to read the bikes backwards in fact one of my

friends he's a newspaper editor now he an image oh we all france to win he's a big bass how sad newspaper agent now massey and now as we reflected back on that you know ok great let's go through with this but this is old so