Nope. He was a young man beaten and murdered (actually murdered) back in 1955 for flirting with a white woman. Says a lot about Martin’s dad that he’s comparing his son to him.
Not that it explains anything, but I did find it interesting that Till Jr’s father was executed after a court martial for raping at least three Italian women and murdering one while stationed in Europe. Till Jr was already getting into trouble with the law while living in Chicago with his mother, who sent him to relatives in Mississippi in the hope that being away from bad companions would help turn him away from where he was headed, namely, prison. According to some of his friends, he bragged that in Chicago black men hit on white women all the time and noone dared to say anything to them.