Wright Thompson
speaker
994 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Wright Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's just because the tractors can't turn themselves around.
I mean, we're 10 years away from farming that with four people.
So Willie Reed shows back up at this barn, or Willie Lewis, that was his new name.
He shows up at this barn, and the house where he grew up is gone.
The house where his brother lived is gone.
Every single piece of evidence that he or anyone he ever knew in the first 18 years of his life had ever existed at all had been completely wiped clean, except that barn was still there.
And the FBI agent said it really like, like he lost his balance almost, like just the cosmic weight of it.
And like, it's not ancient history, man.
You know, when I started doing this, there were probably 12 people left alive who knew him until, and now there are probably eight.
I mean, they're dying in front of me, but there are people who really knew him.
Wheeler Parker, who's a Church of God in Christ minister in suburban Chicago, was Emmett Till's cousin.
He was his best friend and next door neighbor.
He rode the train south with him in 55, rode the train home alone.
The kidnappers pointed the gun in his face first.
He's the last living eyewitness to the kidnapping.
I went with him to the African-American History Museum.
They let us in before it opened.
And we went down and he went in and sort of paid his respects at the Emmett Till exhibit.
And then he walked out of there and like he couldn't even talk, man.
He was just making noises.
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