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The Assassination of Malcolm X
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On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was preparing to give a speech to the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. As Malcolm X began speaking, a disturbance came from the crowd, as someone began to yell. As the leader's bodyguards began to move towards the audience, a man stood up and shot Malcolm X in the chest with a sawed off shot gun. Two other men stood up and began shooting Malcolm with semi automatic pistols. As the crowd stood up with terror, the second and third gunmen fled. The first gunman, Talmadge X Hayer, was shot in the leg by a bodyguard before being attacked by the crowd. Eventually, Thomas Johnson, Norman 3X Butler, and Hayer were arrested and charged with murder. They were sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment in 1966. There have been many theories as to who was involved in Malcolm X's death, with the FBI, NYPD, and Nation of Islam being some of the mentioned. Ultimately, it is believed that the Nation of Islam was behind the assassination. Malcolm, who was a member at one point, had a falling out with the Nation. The Nation was against the idea of integration and believed that whites were the enemy. in 1964, Malcolm seemed to have a change of ideas and began to side with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, which angered the Nation of Islam.
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