The family of Malcolm X announced on the anniversary of his 1965 assassination that they intend to sue U.S. government entities — including the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department — for $100 million, alleging they played a part in his death.
while preparing to give a speech at the Audubon Ballroom. A bodyguard shot one of the assailants trying to flee the scene, Talmadge Hayer, and captured him.
Hayer, who goes by Mujahid Abdul Halim, later confessed to killing Malcolm X. He spent 45 years in prison and was released on parole in 2010. However, Hayer long insisted that the two other men who were arrested and jailed for the crime, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, both members of the Nation of Islam, were innocent.authorities in 1977 that he planned the killing with four different men because they were incensed by Malcolm X’s public feud with Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.Aziz, who previously went by the name of Norman ‘‘3X’’ Butler, was paroled in 1985. Islam, who went by Thomas ‘‘15X’’ Johnson, was paroled in 1987.
of the available evidence from the case, the New York District Attorney’s Office recommended that the two men’s first-degree murder convictions be vacated.The office also acknowledged law enforcement failings in the case.
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