Black Journal; 51; Who Killed Malcolm?

set a loretta you lead or leave he stood there all on the stage with one hand up in the air it was a perfect target and a man police say he was thomas hayden ran down the aisle with a shotgun and the ones with him were already shooting and the shotgun was writing fun of malcolm x and both barrels right malcolm went straight back and the sound of his head slamming onto the wooden floor was mixed with the screams and he lay on his back on the stage of an old ballroom it's been the pay to

play the ponies he's met again these remedies seven years since malcolm x was assassinated on a bare stage in new york audubon ballroom and final four hundred witnesses shortly afterwards three men were brought to trial and found guilty of the murder but circumstances surrounding the trial the assassination itself accounts in the press and subsequent actions were so peculiar that seven years hence the question of who killed malcolm is still with us although three men had been convicted of his murder we must ask the larger question

why was he murdered what power structure felt so threatened by the words of this one man there were different times in his life three malcolm's living on a separate names and philosophies malcolm little malcolm x in elkhart leak al shabaab is the fully understand the threat that malcolm posed one was understand his evolution he was born malcolm little wind omaha nebraska may nineteen nineteen twenty five the seventh of nine children his father a staunch follower of marcus garvey was found it allegedly he was killed because of his involvement and black nationalist malcolm was six years old at age fifteen after completing the eighth grade malcolm quit school and moved to boston to live with an older sister eventually made his way to new york where he was known as the great and worked as a waiter numbers man and dope peddler in nineteen forty six when he was twenty years old he was arrested and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for armed robbery

while in prison he was converted into the muslim religion and became malcolm x was paroled in nineteen fifty two after serving six years he was an avowed follower of the honorable elijah muhammad his first assignment was to set up a muslim mosque in detroit in nineteen fifty three malcolm went to chicago to live and be trained by mr muhammad himself a year later he was sent to harlem to establish mosque number seven an excellent invader an order malcolm x became the verbal wit of mr muhammad and the most no sir if we're set around europe for the past hundred years taking all of the white political hypocrites and every president that has taken office for some kind of freedom of some kind of justice in some kind of equality and we have to date yet don't have it then i think you could easily see that the honorable elijah muhammad is right when he says that don't wear the black men can be free as when he has a land of his own and the government of his own and an economy of his own an industry of his own so he can deliver things for himself that he now is waiting and betting

the white man to do fine and never gets done jeff buhl of the way you're right at ut

you know thank you malcolm warned against the drug threat long before it had become a popular issue because he preached separatism at a time when most blacks pursued integration malcolm was not fully appreciated by most blacks during his lifetime he was often branded a quote radical militant because it is outspoken attitude toward whites you know thank you

for years you know well it simplifies nineteen sixty three at a public rally in new york city when asked what he thought of president kennedy's assassination malcolm called it a case of quote the chickens coming

home to roost which was construed generally as meaning he was happy kennedy was dead two days later the press reported a ninety day suspension of malcolm x by elijah muhammad for the comment but doctor murthy is a really a split between yourself and your former leader mohamed know i wouldn't call it a split whether i speak i'm speaking that which is taught me and whatever position i've obtained as a muslim i'm a painter and his guidance improve his help and but didn't the ninety days that i've been sound i have come to the conclusion that i can best help spread the solution that they and the diagnosis that the honorable elijah muhammad giddens of the so called negro problem in this country by continuing to remain out of the nation of islam and working on my own without restriction in the way that i think of the stock

in mid december nineteen sixty three the suspension of malcolm x was extended indefinitely on march twelfth nineteen sixty four after ten years with the nation of islam malcolm x called a press conference announcing his break with the organization and the formation of a new group the muslim mosque which became the religious body and later the organization of afro american unity the political body which named two of black nationalism and we must do everything within our power to bring about the complete control political control of negroes or their own community or the politics of their own community and i economic philosophy which also black nationalism and design dish is designed to show negroes the importance of controlling their own economy when negroes are re educated into the knowledge of how to set up businesses and establish half factories they could create their unemployment and then they will be ready in downtown trying to boycott the white men all sit in at the white man or force him to

give them and that we want to try and show the negro and the economic philosophy of black nationalism that he can be thousands of old and so he himself and has something for himself and social philosophy of black nationalism is again it involves the reeducation of negros or not what i can tell these old shoe was of a black nationalism is to show the negro how to take some pride in its own society are instead of trying to thousands of into the white society how to elevate the needle have elevated on society and get some racial pride racial bigotry so that he'll be socially acceptable to himself and his own society and then perhaps even longer may the city our state our government which takes our tax dollars are channel some of these dollars right back into the negro community and establish better schools in the negro community with better teachers with better our

curriculum and one of the most important ingredients in the curriculum must be the culture the loss culture of the negro so some effort must be made to restore the cultural roots of the negro in the school system this intervention to harden your attitude toward mitt romney is in the civil rights movement opposition to take you know well i think that the problem himself this'll be that all of these other negro leaders should try some way to forget our differences i'm willing to forget anything that any negro leaders ever survey about me and as i said earlier i am praying that they will also be able to forget the many bad things that i've said about them so we can sit down and try and find some common approach that can be used to solve this problem that's of our common and mutual benefit all of us after his break with the muslims malcolm broaden his scope to include the international scene and it was at this point that his life was threatened in april nineteen sixty four malcolm made a pilgrimage to mecca here at thirty nine years

old he received the name bell hodge may leak al shabaab is honorary harsh being given to own visit that muslim holy city from echo he journeyed to nigeria gonna morocco and algeria finally returning to the united states may twenty one nineteen sixty four malcolm want to galvanize public opinion against the united states for depression of black americans and african support in bringing the american racial question before the united nations to do this he needed the support of independent african states and so in the summer of nineteen sixty four not to return to africa for four months or fourteen countries in his autobiography malcolm notes that he was followed throughout africa by persons from an unknown source one of them was described as quote authentic olive skinned man on july twenty third nineteen sixty four malcolm was in cairo egypt to deliver a scathing attack of washington's domestic and foreign policies and an address before the african summit conference when he

collapsed in his hotel room with severe abdominal pains according to eric norton in an article the murder of malcolm x malcolm was rushed to a cairo hospital suffering from toxic poisoning and had to have a stomach pumped malcolm later said he'd been deliberately poisoned throughout the fall of nineteen sixty four malcolm were primarily on his plan to indict america in the united nations according to loins information malcolm had been under surveillance since he broke with the muslims but now the where as many as quell three different agents shadowing him at one time in early february nineteen sixty five knocking flew to london to address the council of african organizations from there he was scheduled to fly to paris to deliver another speech however on february ninth when his plane landed in france he was told by agents of the french government not to be blind and he was in order to leave the country immediately later malcolm was to say according to eric norton after an interview with

malcolm sister that is being barred from france led him to believe that the plotters of his death were much bigger than the movies on saturday february twelve not return to the united states both of london ten hours later to forty five sunday morning the home in which malcolm is widespread as chavez and their four children live with five on the house was severely damaged although malcolm and his family amazingly escaped unharmed in an article entitled the last days of malcolm x program said quote evidently there were several degenerate persons involved in this cowardly attack the one in that we had lost control of this finding bottle and rockets have this battle in front of the house malcolm and his family would have been trapped on february twentieth he called a business meeting of his new group the organization of afro american unity that night malcolm state alone in the twelfth floor room at the new york hilton hotel and fifty third street and sixth avenue his family had been put up by friends in queens new york a man

later identified as thomas haden one of martin's assassins would be identified by a hilton hotel house detective as one of three black men asking questions about the location of malcolm's were on the night before his death from its morning sunday february twenty first day of his murder malcolm let this twelfth floor hotel room got into his blue was no bill and finally popped this carnival blocks from the audubon ballroom where's organizations meeting was to take place in the main ballroom about troop thirty pm show at the three pm approximate four hundred people had crowded into the ballroom sitting on folding wooden chairs one of malcolm states introduced him the hell to do there were twenty two nineteen sixty five reconstructed what happened from eyewitness accounts the applause stopped and the people said down and markham's goatee face looked up and said mama leaking and the crowd murdered its response of peace be with you also and then the two lead off man made their move

they were in a metal roll and they stood up and started pushing each other and while that was saying get your hands out of my pocket stop messing with my pocket now guns bodyguards started to move towards them to break it up and up on the stage now and stepped out from behind a lectern and he was saying nah brother break it off at school if he stood there alone on the stage with one hand up in the air it was a perfect target and a man police say he was thomas hayden ran down the aisle with a shotgun and the ones with him already shooting with a shotgun was writing some of malcolm x and both barrels rating not demonstrate back and the sound of his head signing onto the wooden floor was mixed with the screams and he lay on his back on the stage of an old ballroom ah va

va va va volcanic vents are either peter bailey an associate editor of ebony magazine was a member of the all aa you and work closely with malcolm x he was at the audubon the day of the shooting that same day you know his immediate reactions to what took place i was in the rear of the ballroom sitting in waiting to the entrance for the speakers who expected as during flu shots and ran into the main ballroom looked up front and saw nothing but confusion the play sounded like a battlefield i did ask that all the group of people running towards me and ducked into

the bathroom at the side to avoid the shots immediately hearing the last shot i ran out of the bathroom and down the center of the toning recall to the stage jumping into the stage i saw with amalgams lying the stage floor with bullet holes all over his chest i leaned over him and so that his skin was already getting to death we look there were several people administered to him and i got to the stage i was doing what others were holding his wife i said that someone had gone to the doctor not knowing whether this was to a knot i didn't jump from the stage as does the real the hall to see if the doctor was on the way was almost three quarters of the way down the hall vessel the first to cops that i had seen and i have to just carefully look into the hole is only one authentic flow this despite the fact that people still screaming crying in the place look like a battlefield several questions arise from press accounts of what happened that day in all three new york morning papers

descriptions were given of the capture of two suspects at the audubon ballroom immediately after the murder and later editions of the sign papers and from then on only one suspect was said to have been captured at the scene by police and the press never questioned this an early edition of the new york times' dated february twenty second nineteen sixty five an article headlined malcolm x shot to death that rally here said quote the police indicated two suspects were being questioned end quote one of those suspects was identified as thomas haden and i laid a paragraph the capture of the second suspect was described quote the chairman thomas hoyt twenty two said he had been stationed outside the one hundred and sixty six street entrance when quote i heard the shooting and the place exploded he rushed in sa malcolm lying on the stage and paul grant a suspect who he said some people were chasing as i brought him to the front of the ballroom the crowd began beating me and the suspect the truman always said he said he put this man not

otherwise identified later for a newsman into a police car to be taken to the wadsworth administration a late city edition of the same paper only indicated one person thomas hayden was captured at the scene there is no for the mention of a second suspect from then on all early edition february twenty second newspapers were actually on the newsstands the night of february twenty fours which is a date of the assassination and the february twenty second early edition of the new york daily news the same thing happened quote two men one the ridiculous were taken by police from the hands of the halting lot of malcolm's followings both men were spirited away by the police again late additions may know for the mention of a second man because of the mysteries surrounding the second suspect several independent writers and lesser known publications have wondered if he could've been a police age and several other questions follow what was the other man arrested by patrolman hoyt doing to make the crowd think him a suspect the police never

explain why they didn't release the suspects named as they did with thomas hayden is he was described by eyewitnesses at the audubon ballroom as a girl tight lipped olive skinned man with slanted eyes the same description was used by malcolm forman he said followed him throughout africa and europe well the most curious aspects of the events surrounding malcolm's assassination has to do with gene roberts and undercover policeman who infiltrated malcolm's organization shall hear administering melt the mouth resuscitation to malcolm as he lay on the audubon stage the muslims claim roberts had defected from them with malcolm the year before he finally surfaced as an undercover police agents at the new york trial of the panther thirty according to the new york times of december eighth nineteen seventy robert was assigned undercover work when he became a policeman in nineteen sixty five the year that malcolm was killed and did not reveal himself until his panthers

thirteen grand jury testimony on april one nineteen sixty nine a time says quote detective gene roberts said he had been assigned to infiltrate the organization of malcolm x and was on duty as the black leaders bodyguard the afternoon he was killed on the state it is a frequent practice of white journalism for the press to convict blacks suspected or charged with crimes no worries the example of this practice more blatant than in the case of malcolm's death immediately after the assassination of the police and press were quick to blame the moose and so the assassination of malcolm x a quote from time i did say march fifth nineteen sixty five malcolm's murder almost certainly at the hands of the blood moves nims and we had defected came on a bright sunday afternoon the new york times if there were twenty second nineteen sixty five an article by pete ricketts said quote about to oslo at the police said the shooting had apparently been the result of a feud between follows amalgam and members of the

extremist group the broker with flashy the blood moves nims besides tom has taken the one suspect police admitted holding two others were later arrested norman butler on february twenty six and thomas johnson on march third nineteen sixty five old but van johnson were well known was an insular out on bail on an assault charge at the time of malcolm smarter neither was arrested at the scene during the last days of the trial the other suspect thomas hayden confessed to murdering malcolm x but said it was a snub but lauren johnson who aided him in the assassination all three were subsequently found guilty and sentenced to life in prison the court transcript of the trial needs thomas haden i know that day elaine johnson didn't have anything to do with the crime that was committed at the audubon ballroom there were twenty first but i did take part in it and that i know for a fact that they weren't there and that i wanted to show this to the jury this to be known to the jury the court and the judge i

want to tell the truth as the stern district attorney derrick williams also the plan was how the assassination was to take what's hanging for people to people sitting in the front row now with the shotgun shirt dark man with a beer sitting around the fourth world from the front man in the back one man starts commotion says get then out of my pocket gaza and the stage goes after this man now with the shotgun should not the two men on the front row should pistols da and which of these men were you had in one of the men sitting on the front row of later in the court transcript they do you know the names of these four people hadn't i do they give us the names of these four people that you say you know were involved with you hagen i will not be a year testified a few moments ago that you were told to do this by somebody is that right

i was also some money for donna from people there probably would have been revealed most the wayans one of the defense attorneys could have contained his interrogation i ask that that be stricken as not responsive to strike out although hayden testified that three other than himself or involved only two others than himself were convicted neither of whom was involved in the murder according to haiti according to the court transcript no further efforts were made in the trial by the defense attorneys well the prosecution to discover the identity of the person or persons who hired hayden and his confederates who actually ordered the killing of malcolm there's been much speculation although two of the men convicted of malcolm's death were muslims and one thomas fagan rumored to be a muslim there has never been any formal evidence that his death was an official plot of the nation is well now that these men convicted were acting under orders a black muslim officials the new york

times' dated february twenty three nineteen sixty five reported that elijah muhammad denied that the black muslim movement had anything to do with the slaying of malcolm x james farmer former director of core felt malcolm x was killed because of his crusade against drugs author eric norden notes that if the muslims had their reasons for wanting malcolm d and so did others novel is jay kennedy also said it was because of drugs but specifically named red china as the force behind the assassin malcolm sister bella collins said that his death was planned even before he was refused entry into france by the western power structure it has been seven years since the assassination of bell hodge may leak al shabaab is that there are still numerous questions left unanswered and many ns left dangling ain't a

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