Ghosts of Mississippi

Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, a field secretary for the NAACP, pulled his car into the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. As Evers stepped out of his car, a gun fired, shattering the silence of the night. Shot in the back, Evers dragged himself to the front porch as his wife, Myrlie Evers, and his three children rushed out to watch him bleed to death before them. From the beginning, investigators …

…aren't we doing a wonderful job of making amends? Alan Parker's ``Mississippi Burning'' was criticized for making white FBI agents into heroes of the civil rights era when the real FBI was conspicuous by its lack of enthusiasm for that assignment. But that film paid its way with great performances and tremendously moving drama. ``Ghosts of Mississippi'' generates nowhere near as much passion. It closes a chapter in history, but scarcely brings it to life.