on the first few days of the trial.
Cole Thornton, Imperial Klaliff of the
American White Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan, said, "Our interest is just to
see that this man gets through this, to
try to help him any way we can."
Thornton added he was trying to show
"a little support. Show him that there's
still people out there that still care about
the rights in this country.
"We don't have civil rights other peo-
ple have. We're already, you know,
stepped on, and that's OK."
While the guilty verdict was wel-
comed — though some expressed regret
that it was for manslaughter instead of
murder — many expressed the hope
that it wouldn't be the end of the story.
"What is important is that we seek to
understand how a government became
complicit in terror and how good people
looked aside and let it happen," said
Rita Schwerner Bender, Schwerner's
widow. "If we don't understand that
then we don't do our duty to a democra-
cy, because governments can run amok
again.''
She hopes the trial will be a catalyst
"for a very important discussion which
could potentially lead to some change
and some healing." If the trial is the last
chapter in the story, she said, "then it
won't have lasting effect.
Judge Gordon denied a motion for a
new trial, but Killen's attorneys say they
plan to appeal to the Mississippi
Supreme Court.
John Steele, one of the three surviving
members of Mt. Zion Church who were
beaten in 1964, said he wants to see "a
full measure of justice, not just one-
eighth." He questioned why "one man is
in place of a mob" on trial, when a mob
was involved in the murders.
Steele built a community center in
1968 that was the site of one of the two
memorial services on June 19. The corn-
munity center burned in 1982, and the
service was held outside its shell on a
remote road one mile from Mt. Zion
Church.
Leroy Clemens, president of the
Philadelphia NAACP, thanked "each of
you who didn't give up on Mississippi,
because Mississippi is a changing place."
"A new generation has grown up that
does not know the fear that the Klan
wrought on this county," he said.
Rabbi Debra Kassoff of the Institute
for Southern Jewish Life gave the invo-
cation at the church, speaking of the
workers' pursuit of tikkun oltim, repair-
ing the world. "What were they doing if
not searching for the hidden sparks in
the dust of a Mississippi summer?" she
asked. El
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