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He was shot dead on February 21st at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, New York.
(Previously Malcolm Little, then Malcolm X, he was known as El Haj Malik El Shabbazz at the time of his death).
Three men, all members of The Nation of Islam, were charged with the murder and imprisoned for many years.
But in November 2021, Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam (formerly Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson) were exonerated from their murder convictions, following a review that found the FBI and the New York Police Department withheld key evidence during the trial.
The other man, known variously as Thomas Hagan/Thalmadge Hayer/Mujahid Halim, confessed to the murder at trial.
He was paroled in 2010.
There are rumours of an NYPD Cop confessing of his involvement with the murder, on his deathbed.
There is the background of the FBI and it's COINTELPRO programme to disrupt some civil rights organisations.
The murder was said to be pre-planned, by elements within the Nation of Islam, an exclusively African-American organisation Malcolm had been a main organiser and preacher in, but had left to form his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, and himself became more closely aligned with Sunni Islam.
He was said to have held "dirt" on the group's leader, Elijah Muhammad, and was seen as threat by them, as skilled and visually prominent orator.
There was no doubt Malcolm knew someone was out to get him, as evidenced by this famous photo of him guarding his home shortly before his murder.
Who killed Malcolm X and why?
(Previously Malcolm Little, then Malcolm X, he was known as El Haj Malik El Shabbazz at the time of his death).
Three men, all members of The Nation of Islam, were charged with the murder and imprisoned for many years.
But in November 2021, Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam (formerly Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson) were exonerated from their murder convictions, following a review that found the FBI and the New York Police Department withheld key evidence during the trial.
The other man, known variously as Thomas Hagan/Thalmadge Hayer/Mujahid Halim, confessed to the murder at trial.
He was paroled in 2010.
There are rumours of an NYPD Cop confessing of his involvement with the murder, on his deathbed.
There is the background of the FBI and it's COINTELPRO programme to disrupt some civil rights organisations.
The murder was said to be pre-planned, by elements within the Nation of Islam, an exclusively African-American organisation Malcolm had been a main organiser and preacher in, but had left to form his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, and himself became more closely aligned with Sunni Islam.
He was said to have held "dirt" on the group's leader, Elijah Muhammad, and was seen as threat by them, as skilled and visually prominent orator.
There was no doubt Malcolm knew someone was out to get him, as evidenced by this famous photo of him guarding his home shortly before his murder.
Who killed Malcolm X and why?
