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Judge Marcus tion is currently on display at the canopic jars, which are ty-one years to the day after three Gordon scheduled sentencing for Bower’s Museum in Santa Ana, placed next to the body civil rights workers were beaten Thursday. the largest collection of Egyptian in the tomb and are and shot to death, an 80-year-old Civil rights volunteers Andrew artifacts outside the British Mu- used to store the liver, former Ku Klux Klansman was Goodman and Michael Schwer- seum in London. lungs, stomach and in- found guilty of manslaughter, ner – two white New Yorkers – The exhibit, which started in testines. Tuesday, in a trial that marked and James Chaney, a black Mis- April of this year and will con- There is also a small Mississippi’s latest attempt to sissippian, were intercepted by tinue through April 2007, is called area focusing on the atone for its bloodstained, racist Klansmen in their station wagon “Mummies: Death and the After- jewelry that the Egyp- past. on June 21, 1964. Their bodies life in Ancient Egypt.” It focuses tians used to adorn the The jury of nine whites and were found 44 days later buried on the history behind the mummi- deceased. three blacks took less than six in an earthen dam, in a case that fication process and its purposes. The museum offers hours to clear Edgar Ray Killen was dramatized in the 1988 mov- There are many options for visi- a wide range of all of murder but convict him of the ie “Mississippi Burning.” tors. One can peruse through the things Egyptian, from lesser charges in the 1964 kill- Prosecutors said Killen – a findings without assistance or the very elaborate ings that galvanized the struggle part-time preacher and sawmill choose to follow a group in a guid- and expensive to those for equality and helped bring operator – organized the carloads ed tour or an audio tour. used by the ordinary or about passage of the 1964 Civil of Klansmen who hunted down The first room inside of the poor. Rights Act. and killed the three young men. museum houses artifacts pertain- Photo Curtesy of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art. In addition to the Killen, a bald figure with owl- Killen’s lawyers conceded he ing to the gods of Egypt, with the ‘Face of a Coffin’ is one of many artifacts on display. actual displays, there is ish bifocals, sat impassively in was in the KKK but said that main focus being on Osiris, the The ba and ka are considered the a room with an informa- his wheelchair, an oxygen tube did not make him guilty. They god of the netherworld, and his life forces in a person, but need the tive Discovery Channel video to up his nose, as he listened to the pointed out that prosecutors of- wife/sister Isis, who represents body as a home, which is why the view and a gift shop. verdict. fered no witnesses or evidence life. Visitors are first introduced to mummification process focuses on Overall, the mummies exhibit “Forty-one years after the tragic that put Killen at the scene of the this story so as to better under- preserving the human form. is an informative and interesting murders ... justice finally arrives crime. He did not take the stand, stand the Egyptian beliefs about After learning what they need way to spend the day learning in Philadelphia, Miss,” said Rep. but has long claimed he was at a the underworld and the reason for to know to fully appreciate the ar- about a unique and elaborate cul- Bennie Thompson, Mississippi’s wake at a funeral home when the the mummification process. tifacts, guests are led into further ture. only black congressman. “Yet, victims were killed. The “Weighing of the Heart” rooms, which contain the actual For additional information visit the state of Mississippi must see “It’s not the perfect ending in ritual is explained along with the coffins and cases that the ancient the Website at www.bowers.org. to it that the wrongs of yesterday this case. I believe we proved Egyptian’s belief that there are six do not become the albatrosses of murder and I believe he was components that make a person: today.” guilty of murder,” the district at- the body, the name, the heart, the The murder charge carried up torney said. “The bottom line is shadow, the ba and the ka. This to life in prison. But Killen could they have held Edgar Ray Killen portion of the exhibit helps those still spend the rest of his life be- accountable for his actions.” unfamiliar with the culture under- stand it better.