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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE and J.W. Milam. Reed had seen J.W. Milam on about three or four occasions prior to August 28th. Reed had never seen Emmett Till prior to that Sunday. When asked, "..you don't know whether that was Emmett Till or not, do you?" Reed replied that Till favored the picture he had just looked at. Reed had been in the barn on one occasion, did not know whe had control of the barn, but stated Leslie Milam lives next to the barn. ‘'4 In contemporary interviews, Reed identified only two white men and two black men accompanying Till in the truck as it entered the farm. Reed identified the ‘white men as Milam and Bryant and the two black men as Levi “Too Tight” Collins and Hubbard. 118, (16, 117, 148 e Add Reed (deceased): Reed was sixty-five years old in 1955 and the grandfather of Willie Reed. They lived together on the Clint Shurden Plantation. Reed's home was just across a bayou from Leslie Milam's home. On Sunday, August 28th, at about 8:00 o'clock in the morning, Reed {left his home, walking east, turned north, crossed a bayou and crossed Leslie Milam'‘s place. Reed passed by a shed and an oat bin on Leslie Milam's place and observed two men, Leslie Milam and another man Reed did not know. Reed also observed a pickup truck to be parked at a building. Willie Reed had left home prior to Add Reed leaving the house and Willie Reed had not yet returned home when Add Reed departed.!” Ha Appendix A- ~ Transcript - State of Mississippi vs. JW. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie Reed 210 to 245 Mise O/5 TIT " E second District of Tailahatchie County, Seventeenth Iudicial Distric, September 1955 - ~ Testimony of Mr. Add Reed, 245 to 249 61 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBU. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.