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intended to show that new evidence assassinate him. for some time he and his protection, and some chased the fleeing unearthed since the final appeal in the case friends had assumed and said publicly that killers. By Alan Berger constitutes grounds for obtaining a new Black Muslims, under orders from Elijah Two men were saved from the mob by trial. Muhammad, were out to kill him. Malcolm policemen who had not been in the ballroom The assassination of Malcolm X thirteen One of the three men originally convicted. had heard rumors, he had seen signs. he had during the shooting. The first was "a thin- sears :Igo left in its wake a trail of Thomas Hagan, has now volunteered to received letters. But just before he went on lipped. olive-skinned, Latin-looking man" unanswered questions. Some of these were name four other men who acted with him in stage he had told his assistants waiting with whom eyewitnesses said was overcome by legal questions and some were larger, the murder. Hagan says that Thomas John- him in the anteroom offstage that he was pursuers in the hall after he had emptied a political questions. The standing legal ver- son and Norman Butler, the two men con- going to tell the audience that he had been gun into Malcolm's body. He was rescued dict on the assassination holds that three victed with him, are innocent. Attorney hasty to accuse the Black Muslims of bomb- from his pursuers by Patrolman Thomas men. forming a conspiracy, were guilty of Kunstler has submitted Hagan's affidavit ing his home. "Things have happened since Hoy. the ad. And since two of the three were well- along with another that includes the that are bigger than what they can do," In the morning edition of the next day's k row n Black Muslim "enforcers," the transcript of testimony given by police Malcolm said. "I know what they can do. New 1 ., ,rA Times an account was given of .-uhlie has m.,:epted the obvious implication undercover agent Gene Roberts, who Things have gone beyond that." Patrolman Hoy's actions "Patrolman that the murder was ordered. planned. demonstrated during a 1971 conspiracy trial As Malcolm stood behind the rostrum, Thomas !toy.. "22. said he had been stationed nd wined OU! solely by the Black Muslims of twenty-one Black Panthers in New York preparing to begin his talk, a scuffle broke outside the With Street entrance when as the et:mutation of that group's vendetta City that he had bees a bodyguard to out toward the back of the hall. There was heard the shooting and the place exploded .1....onst the :ini.state, Malcolm X. Malcolm X and possessed crucial knowl- an angry shout: "Nigger, get your hands out He rushed in, saw Malcolm lying on the Vet. in the last few days of his life, edge about Malcolm's murder which had of my pocket!" All heads turned to see what stage. and .grabbed a suspect' who he said ti•',1 people close to him that been withheld from the original trial. was happening — and to see who had some people were chasing. 'As I brought rc.cnt anent. had "led him to believe that -Nos far the media have given little atten- spoken this unforgivable word. Malcolm's him tit the front of the balkoom, the crowd t'ic plotters of his death were much bigger tion to the initial motions for retrial, but if bodyguards moved down from the stage began heating me and the suspect,' the Muslims Malcolm had what he Kunstler is successful in negotiating the toward the disturbance. Malcolm himseit Patrolman IYos said Ile said he put this ,:derecl sound reasons for this belief The successive legal stages leading to a new trial, stepped out froin behind the, podium and !min -.not •ttherwise identified later for ,•-etiou, summer he had been poisoned in then the American public and what is likely toward the front of the stage. "Hold it Iltild new sullen into a police car to be taken to douse room of the Cairo Hilton to become an international audience may be it! Don't get excited," Malcolm said. "I c: the Vy aitswiii-lb venue station." IC Lot,' was certain this exposed to a new chapter — and not the cool it. brothers." 1 he suspect arrested by Patrolman Hoy rot u,i: • the•Bla.k Muslims. he least damning — in the continually Then there was a muffled explosion at the never was identified. never appeared in ibis attempt on unfolding story of politically inspired rear of the hall and smoke from an incen- court. And was never seen nor heard about lute t.. the ( I \ I ess than two weeks criminal actions carried out by organiza- diary device rose into the air. A woman again Moreover, he already began to dis- fare `ts death, he was denied entry into tions that were established to, gather screamed. A man in one of the front rows appear from the afternoon (or late city) edi- I et as an "undesirable person," intelligence and to enforce the law. held asp a sawed-off shotgun and fired into tions of the New York newspapers within ,..tssittly because I rench officials feared he Malcolm's chest. the same day. The subhead for the timer .t mid he assassinated on French soil. A little after three o'clock on Sunday after- As Malcolm keeled over, two or three story was changed from the morning's Ma I, ■,1,1. .,..timed that these signs of danger noon, February 21, 1965. Malcolm X men were seen standing in the front row, "Police Hold Two for Questioning" to the w ere t 'it: inevitable consequence of his walked out onto the stage of the Audubon "like a firing squad," pumping bullets into afternoon's "One Is Held in Killing." roL:ic ditto to "internationalize" the situ- Ballroom on Broadway and 166th Street in him. After he had fallen the gunmen emp- A stor■ he Jimmy Breslin in the New .14111 0f black people in America by taking Manhattan, across the street from the tied their revolvers into the inert hods- "rA Ifera,,i tribune suffered a similar ii,eir case the l'nited Nations. • . Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He Now• there was chaos in the ballroom. editorial change. The subhead for the morn- the assassination itself and the trial that came up behind the rostrum and gave the Women and young children shrieked. ing edition of Breslin's account said, "Police tMloued almoSt a year later produced a crowd of about 400 people the Islamic Mothers sad fathers pulled their children to Rescue I wo Suspects." Breslin had original- myriad of disturbing indications_ that two greeting As-salarun alaikinn. To those who the floor and lay over them. Betts Shabazz, ls told his readers that "the other suspect innocent men were convicted and that knew him, Malcolm appeared tense and Malcolm's wife, looked to the safety of her was taken to the Wadsworth Avenue tirdercmer agents of the New York Police tired. He was showing the strain of the past four children trod then rushed forward ti the precinct. where the city's top policemen Force and the FBI may have played an few weeks, a time during which his house stage, shouting. "They're killing my hus- immediately converged and began one of the instrumental role in the case. • had been fire-bombed with his wife and four band!" heaviest homicide investigations this city has Nttornes William Kunstler has recently children in it and he had received several Some men threw themselves on the floor, ever seen.- In the next edition of the Tribune submitted affidavits to a New York court warnings of-an imminent attempt to some tried to use the literature tables for (the late city edition) the subhead was ewrfvM • ors sr The Real Paw Inc Y441 ca 1,, - moo S1433,esq° vt Co eLci ()6,;-,. 21, t5-4,15 -----1,211111111 w"111111111 changed to read, "Police Rescue One that the Black Muslims, close, killed sincere. that some truly are capable of being have been chosen to kill me. I will announce Suspect." And the piece had been edited to Malcolm X. The Times and the Tribute* brotherly toward a black man. The true them at the meeting." eliminate any reference at all to the man both editorialized airily about hatred that Islam has shown me that a blanket indict- Haley also describes Malcolm being Patrolman Hoy brought to the Wadsworth turns on itself and the violente that spawns ment of all white people is as wrong as when followed and threatened during the last three Avenue station house. violence. whites make blanket indictments against weeks of his life hs Muslims he recognized. The second man captured by the police The editorials appeared despite the well- blacks." not only in New York, but also in Los may have also been rescued from a beating, known change in Malcolm's ideas after he So the editorials about hatred may have Angeles and ("Imago. but his capture was in no other way a rescue. returned from his pilgrimage to Mecca. In a been either careless or vicious, but what Thus there was ample reason for Malcolm Thomas Hagan was taken to Bellevue letter to his followers, much publicized in about the widespread assumption that to think that he was marked for death, and Prison with a bullet in his leg, was identified,' the press, he wrote: "Each hour here in the Malcolm was Ellled for a renegade by his to believe that the kilkrs would be acting as stood trial and was convicted.

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