The commemoration of 70 years since Emmett Till's death is being marked by family, friends and officials Wednesday as they repeated the fateful train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.

The ride was organized by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center and National Parks Conservation Association. Among the passengers were the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. , Till's cousin and the last surviving eyewitness to his kidnapping, his wife Dr. Marvel Parker, and Juliet Louis, the widow of sharecropper Willie Reed who reported Till's death and testified at the trial of his murderers.

The Amtrak City of New Orleans left Chicago's Union Station at 8:05 p.m. Wednesday night, following a communal prayer. It was set to arrive in Greenwood, Mississippi, on Thursday morning, which marks 70 years

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