State Witnesses With D.A. -- District Attorney Gerald Chatham (right) talks with state witnesses Walter Billingsley (left) and Willie Reed (center) before court session today in which two men are charged with the murder of Emmett Till. While on the witness stand today Reed told the court he saw J. W. Milam, one of the defendants, at a plantation barn in Sunflower Count on the morning after Till was abducted. September 22, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).