Malcolm X’s escaped assassins
Raymond
http://malcolm-x-1.blogspot.com/
With the recent shocking revelation that one of Malcolm X’s escaped
assassins [William Bradley] had appeared in a 2010 campaign commercial
for Newark [New Jersey] Mayor Cory Booker, the reappearance of the
shadowy "Sixth Man" of the Nation of Islam's Temple No.25
assassination team Linward X Cathcart [aka Abdul Karriem Muhammad],
the 2010 parole release of convicted Malcolm X assassin Talmadge Hayer
[aka Thomas Hagan], the long-awaited publication of Manning Marable’s
biography ‘Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention’ and the accession to
power of an African-American president [Barack Obama] - along with his
appointment of an African-American Attorney General [Eric Holder] -
never has there been a 'galactic alignment' more conducive to the re-
examination of the still-unsolved Malcolm X assassination and the
bringing to trial of those responsible for this dastardly crime.
The hour has arrived to explore new evidence, cross-examine the
surviving participants in the Malcolm X assassination and finally
disentangle the Gordian Knot of what has remained one of the world’s
most labyrinthine yet emotive of criminal cases.
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NEW EVIDENCE
The Black “Zapruder Film”
Television news footage filmed outside the Audubon Ballroom in the
immediate aftermath of Malcolm’s assassination has recently revealed
an 'apparition' that has gone all but unnoticed for over 40 years. For
the first time eyewitnesses have identified the Frankenstein-like
lumbering frame of Nation of Islam assassin William Bradley who, in a
display of stupefying audacity, is still lingering at the scene of a
crime he has just helped to perpetrate and can be seen brazenly
attempting to FREE one of his fellow killers [Talmadge Hayer] from the
clutches of an angry mob.
The world now has an unprecedented opportunity to interview the
recently paroled Hayer and get the convicted killer to confirm whether
or not the menacing figure in the black trench coat is, indeed, his
shotgun-wielding compatriot William Bradley. Needless to say, such a
dramatic identification of Bradley by Hayer himself would seal the
fate of the vicious New Jersey reptile who fired the fatal shot that
took Malcolm's life.
The Linward X Connection
One of the more troubling spectacles on that fateful day at the
Audubon Ballroom was the sickening behaviour of an individual whom
numerous eyewitnesses have identified as Nation of Islam ‘lieutenant’
Linward X Cathcart. Linward X, a member of the Nation of Islam’s
paramilitary male detachment known as the 'Fruit of Islam' or FOI [and
affiliated with the New Jersey No.25 mosque from which the five known
assassins hailed], was reportedly observed grinning and laughing as
Malcolm X was being gunned down. And while he has long denied any
association with the killers his macabre conduct that blood-spattered
afternoon has long fortified suspicions that, far from his having been
a mere ‘guest’ at the Audubon Ballroom that day [as he has long
maintained], Linward X may very well have been nothing less than the
on-scene ‘supervisor' of the No.25 hit squad that slew Malcolm X and
whose task it was to both ensure the success of its mission and to
provide an after-action report to the NOI's gangster leadership in
Chicago.
Furthermore, Linward’s close relationship with Minister Louis X [now
Farrakhan] of Boston, who had been assigned to preach at No.25 that
very same day [and to whom Linward may have also reported the success
of the hit on Malcolm], could for once and for all establish Louis
Farrakhan's complicity in one of the greatest crimes of the twentieth
century. A photograph of Linward X at the Audubon Ballroom that day
has reportedly surfaced in the collection of one of Malcolm’s former
associates, Earl Grant.
The ‘Dry Runs’
Thanks to the incredible forensic filmography of New York documentary
maker Omar Shabazz ['Inside Job', 'The Laughing Lieutenant', 'Naked
Lies'] new evidence has emerged that the NOI hired out or otherwise
used the Audubon Ballroom on at least FOUR separate occasions in the
weeks leading up to Malcolm's assassination. The first of these
occurred on 12 January 1965 when the local NOI Mosque No.7 held what
was billed as 'A Night with the FOI'. A few weeks later, on 15
February, the assassins staged a 'dry run' of their 'get your hand out
of my pocket' diversion during one of Malcolm's rallies there [the
commotion in the audience and Malcolm's appeals for calm can be
clearly heard on the audio recording of the event]. The very following
day, 16 February, Mosque No.7 held another event titled 'Annual Class
Closing' for their female membership corps known as the 'Muslim Girls
in Training' or MGT. And on 20 February, the night before the
assassination, Malcolm's killers purchased tickets for a dance event
at the Audubon in order to 'case' the premises one last time and
finalise their plans.
Move like a Butterfly, Sting like an Assassin?
The role of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in the events surrounding
Malcolm’s evolving feud with the NOI and ultimate assassination has
attracted little attention until recently. Not only was Ali a violent
critic of Malcolm's decision to abandon philandering NOI patriarch
Elijah Muhammad but Ali had a close personal and professional
relationship with at least one of the would-be assassins, Clarence 2X
Gill. Gill, who served as one of Ali's own bodyguards and close
confidants, was a Fruit of Islam ‘captain’ affiliated with Louis
Farrakhan’s Boston Mosque No.11 and in addition to his having once
sought to murder Malcolm X with a silenced pistol [an incident to
which Malcolm refers in a 1972 Marvin Worth documentary about his
life] Gill is believed to have been part of a back-up hit team at the
Audubon Ballroom on the 21st of February 1965. Gill was reportedly
shot by Malcolm X bodyguard Reuben Francis at the Audubon while
fleeing and may have later received treatment for his wounds at
Muhammad Ali’s Miami training camp - from Ali’s very own fight doctor.
Gill, along with one Alvin X Walcott [the half-brother of Louis
Farrakhan], is also suspected of having been a member of the team of
NOI arsonists who firebombed Malcolm X’s Queens residence on 14th
February 1965.
The nightmarish prospect that so revered a Mandela-esque hero as
Muhammad Ali may have harboured a vicious criminal like Gill in the
full knowledge of his role in an attempt on Malcolm’s life would be a
truly tragic coda to what has been an otherwise illustrious career.
Louis Farrakhan’s 1972 Tirade
A new recording has surfaced of a vitriolic 22 January 1972 speech by
Louis Farrakhan in which the future NOI leader celebrates the murder
of Malcolm X, praises his killers as 'fearless men' and derides what
he calls the ‘cowardice’ of those in the Audubon Ballroom who
attempted to flee as the assassins bullets ricocheted around the
auditorium. Like Farrakhan’s infamous 1993 ‘Saviours Day’ diatribe in
which he all but revelled in the NOI’s role in murdering the 'traitor'
Malcolm X, these sermons demonstrate the depth of the homicidal animus
that Farrakhan harboured towards Malcolm and strengthen suspicions
that Farrakhan’s personal involvement in the assassination goes far
deeper than his previously acknowledged culpability for ‘creating the
atmosphere’ that led to Malcolm’s killing.
Furthermore, Farrakhan’s very presence at New Jersey's Mosque No.25 on
the very same day that Malcolm X was murdered by assassins affiliated
to that temple cries out for much closer scrutiny than it has hitherto
received in the light of the newly-revealed roles played in the events
at the Audubon Ballroom that tragic day by Linward X Cathcart and
Clarence 2X Gill – two of Farrakhan’s closest associates.
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PROSPECTIVE GRAND JURY WITNESSES
Talmadge Hayer [aka Thomas Hagan]: the recently paroled assassin of
Malcolm X who made two sworn affidavits in 1977 and 1978 exonerating
Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson [two individuals wrongly
convicted for the crime] and instead naming William Bradley, Wilbur
McKinley, Leon Davis and Benjamin Thomas as the individuals who
carried out the killing with him. Hayer would be in a unique position
to identify Bradley in the aforementioned “Zapruder Film”. He would
also be in a position to confirm whether Linward X was part of the
overall hit team. He may also be able to shed light on the
participants in the 14 February 1965 firebombing of Malcolm’s home as
well as provide information on the long-held suspicion that persons
ostensibly working for Malcolm's Organisation of Afro-American Unity
[OAAU] - Robert 35X Blackwell and James 67X Shabazz in particular -
were in fact spying for the NOI.
Norman 3X Butler [aka Muhammad Abdul Aziz]: one of the two individuals
wrongly imprisoned for assassinating Malcolm X. Butler would be in a
position to confirm the claim that former NOI national secretary John
Ali met with him and at least four other FOI members and attempted to
form them into a hit team to kill Malcolm X. Another of the attendees
at this meeting was Thomas 15X Johnson [aka Khalil Islam] who was also
wrongly convicted for the Malcolm X killing. Butler also attended the
now infamous FOI 'Wannsee Conference' of 28 June 1964 at which over
700 regional security officials of the organization were issued with
an explicit order to kill Malcolm X by the Assistant Supreme Captain
[and son of NOI leader Elijah Muhammad], Elijah Muhammad Jr.
William Bradley [aka Al-Mustafa Shabazz]: the shotgun assassin of
Malcolm X, Bradley was recently discovered living under his assumed
Islamic name of 'Al-Mustafa Shabazz' and has long sought to re-invent
himself as a 'community elder' in the city of Newark, New Jersey. So
much so that he was even featured in a re-election campaign commercial
for Newark mayor Cory Booker.
NOI National Secretary John Ali: the former National Secretary of the
NOI and one of the individuals most responsible for organizing the hit
team that murdered Malcolm X. Ali now serves in a NOI splinter group
headed up by another notorious figure in the saga, former Springfield
FOI 'captain' John Muhammad - a man who, along with the aforementioned
Boston captain Clarence 2X Gill, was involved in an effort to procure
a pistol silencer from one Leon 4X Ameer for use in an assassination
attempt on Malcolm X [this incident was described by Malcolm X himself
at a 1965 press conference which features in a 1972 documentary about
his life].
'Springfield' John Muhammad: currently the head of an NOI splinter
faction, this former NOI captain was involved in various attempts on
Malcolm's life including having played a possible role in the 14
February 1965 firebombing of Malcolm's Queens residence.
Elijah Muhammad Jr: perhaps the KEY figure in the Malcolm X
assassination, Elijah Jr presided over the aforementioned FOI 'Wannsee
Conference' of 28 June 1964 and during which he delivered a grotesque
order that Malcolm's home be destroyed, his tongue severed by his NOI
attackers, placed in an envelope and delivered to him to be presented
to his father, Elijah Muhammad, as a macabre 'gift' or trophy. Elijah
Jr has long since disavowed his father's NOI doctrines and embraced
orthodox Islam. Now believed to be in extremely poor health, Elijah Jr
is perhaps the only surviving member of the NOI old guard who,
precisely because of his infirmity and seemingly repentant
disposition, may be inclined to provide “the Mother of all Deathbed
Confessions” by confirming whether or not the ultimate order to
assassinate Malcolm X derived directly from his father, Elijah
Muhammad himself.
Linward X Cathcart [aka Abdul Karriem Muhammad]: the elusive and
talismanic "Sixth Man" of the Malcolm X assassination team. Now
serving under Louis Farrakhan, Linward X is quite possibly the
'lynchpin' of the entire plot to kill Malcolm X. Known at the time of
the killing as 'the eyes and ears of Louis Farrakhan' any indication
that he may have communicated with Farrakhan about the Malcolm X
killing on the day it took place could establish whether or not
Farrakhan had PRIOR knowledge of the assassination plot - a fact that
would indict Farrakhan as an accessory to the crime.
Minister Louis Farrakhan: the current NOI leader and a man whom many
have long suspected of having played a role in the assassination of
Malcolm X - a role that could finally be established beyond all
reasonable doubt.
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali: whose role in the feud between Malcolm X
and the NOI has been little known until recently and who may be able
to shed new light on the roles of Clarence 2X Gill and Louis X in the
various discussions and plots to kill Malcolm X.
James 67X Shabazz [aka Abdullah Abdur-Razzaq]: the personal OAAU
secretary of Malcolm X and a man whom many suspect of having aided and
abetted Malcolm's assassins [Talmadge Hayer and/or William Bradley
would be in a position to confirm this, as would Linward X].
Filmmaker Spike Lee: to whom NOI ‘captain’ Joseph X Gravitt [aka ‘Fat
Joe’ or Yusuf Shah] of Harlem’s Mosque No.7 reportedly confessed his
own role in the firebombing of Malcolm’s home. Gravitt was a sworn
enemy of Malcolm X who once tried to have him murdered by wiring his
Oldsmobile with explosives rigged to detonate upon ignition. During
that same period Lee also interviewed Farrakhan [in preparing to
direct his 1992 biopic Malcolm X] and during which Farrakhan flatly
denied having known any of the New Jersey assassins – a dubious claim
given Farrakhan’s intimate dealings with No.25 and one the
aforementioned Talmadge Hayer may be able to refute.
~ XYBØRG
6 April 2011
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"Such a Man Is Worthy of Death"
[CBS News] NEW YORK - It's been 46 years since Malcolm X was gunned
down in New York. The details were always murky. As CBS News national
correspondent Jim Axelrod reports, a new biography of the
controversial activist shines a new light on his murder and has
sparked a new call for justice. "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,"
the new book by Columbia University professor Manning Marable,
outlines why the investigation should be reopened. Marable died last
week, just before publication. Zaheer Ali, Marable's chief researcher,
said, "Professor Marable believed in justice. And his killers were
never served justice." On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was speaking to
several hundred people at the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan when
three men suddenly stood up in the front rows and opened fire.
Talmadge Hayer was caught at the scene and confessed to being one of
the gunmen. Twelve years later, he signed affidavits claiming two
other men, who both served long sentences, had nothing to do with the
shooting. David Garrow, historian and author, said, "As Marable's
quite powerful book details, four of the actual assassins never were
pursued and at least one of them still lives openly in the metro New
York area." The book claims the New York Police Department knew
Malcolm X's life was in danger but turned the other way in the face of
threats. By almost any standard, the investigation at the Audubon
Ballroom was shoddy. Four hours after Malcolm X was shot, the Audubon
was reopened for a church dance. The crime scene was cleaned up before
a full forensic analysis could be done. "There were still bullet holes
in the wall when this dance party was taking place," Ali said. "So
these kinds of questions are the kinds of questions this book raises."
Police deny a cover-up. But in his last interview, Marable told CBS
News he wanted the Justice Department to reopen the case. Now plenty
of people wait to see if this last wish will be granted.
~ CBS News
5 April 2011
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
"They Don't Come Like the Minister"
In this shocking excerpt from the incredible, all-new Omar Shabazz
documentary 'Naked Lies: the Continuous War Against Malcolm X' [2011]
- purchase by email from SSha8...@aol.com - take a listen to this
revolting 1972 speech by Louis Farrakhan in which the Nation of Islam
leader celebrates the cold-blooded murder of Malcolm X, praises his
killers as 'fearless men' and mocks what he calls the 'cowardice' of
the defenceless men, women and children in the Audubon Ballroom who
attempted to flee as the assassins bullets ricocheted around the
auditorium. Like Farrakhan's nauseating 1993 'Saviours Day' tirade in
which he all but revelled in the NOI's role in murdering the 'traitor'
Malcolm X, these sermons clearly demonstrate the depth of Farrakhan's
homicidal animus towards Malcolm X and strengthen suspicions that
Farrakhan's personal involvement in the assassination may go far
deeper than his previously acknowledged culpability for 'creating the
atmosphere' that led to Malcolm's killing.
And with the appalling decision to grant parole to Malcolm X assassin
Thomas Hagan and the sickening revelation that his fellow murderer,
William Bradley, is living freely in Newark [NJ], the Rev. Jesse
Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton and, above all, Minister Farrakhan must
issue a joint statement calling on President Barack Obama to sign an
executive order declassifying all federal files relating to Malcolm's
vicious (and as-yet-unsolved) assassination, re-opening a full
investigation aimed at identifying the real perpetrators and tasking
Attorney General Eric Holder with bringing the full force of the
Justice Department to bear against anyone and everyone who had any
involvement whatsoever in the 21 February 1965 outrage.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
An Appeal to the Malcolm X Scholars & Minister Louis Farrakhan
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In light of the recent Edgar Ray Killen conviction for the 1964 Chaney/
Goodman/Schwerner slayings, the recent exhumation of the body of
Emmett Till, the 1994 Byron De La Beckwith conviction for the 1963
Medgar Evers murder, the 1998 charging of Klan imperial wizard Sam
Bowers with the 1966 firebomb attack on an NAACP activist and the 2002
conviction of another Klansman, Bobby Frank Cherry, for his role in
the 1963 Birmingham church bombing (that killed, among others, a
relative of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) the time has NOW come
to re-open the most important of all of the civil rights-era murder
cases, namely, that of Malcolm X.
It has been 40 long years since Malcolm X was gunned down, 21 February
1965, at the Audubon Ballroom by five of Elijah Muhammad’s thugs in a
savage crime that remains unsolved to this day. Four of his cowardly
killers ~ Benjamin Thomas, Leon Davis, Wilbur McKinley and William
Bradley ~ have never been held accountable. Together with Talmadge
Hayer (the only one of the original five to have served time for the
crime) these individuals comprise what I will here refer to as the
Newark Five ~ the “special squad” that was established by the Nation
of Islam’s (NOI) New Jersey Temple No. 25 to carry out the cold-
blooded murder of Malcolm X.
Between December of 1963 and February of 1965 Malcolm X was the object
of multiple attempts on his life by the NOI in cities as widely
scattered as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York. These
attempts were on a national scale and were being centrally co-
ordinated from the NOI’s Chicago headquarters. This gives the lie to
the notion (punted by Minister Louis Farrakhan during a series of
1990-1993 lectures on the Malcolm X assassination) that the killing
was the spontaneous act of New Jersey “zealots” and unconnected to the
NOI’s senior leadership.
In the wake of the 15 October ‘Millions More Movement’ it is now more
imperative than ever that the single most divisive (and explosive)
issue that continues to hover over the Black World be finally put to
rest for once and for all: WHO killed Malcolm X and WHY have they
never been brought to justice? This is made all the more urgent by the
fact that the individual who convened that gathering, Minister
Farrakhan, is believed by many to have played some role in the crime.
In spite of my intense and long-standing admiration for Mr. Farrakhan
questions concerning his complicity in the assassination of Malcolm X
have always bothered me. In particular, I have long been troubled by
claims that Farrakhan was part of some “ad hoc committee” assembled to
ruin Malcolm X following the latter’s 8 March 1964 break with the NOI.
Equally troubling have been suggestions that the February 14, 1965
firebombing of Malcolm’s home (while he, his wife and children lay
asleep inside) may have been partly carried out by members of
Farrakhan’s Boston No. 11 temple. This raises the truly discomfiting
spectre that when Malcolm’s daughter, Attallah Shabazz, met with
journalist Mike Wallace and Farrakhan in May of 2000 (for the CBS ‘60
Minutes’ program) to discuss the latter’s complicity in her father’s
murder she was unwittingly meeting with a man who may have played some
role in an attempt on her own life.
Furthermore, Farrakhan’s presence at No. 25 on the very day that
Malcolm was murdered by the Newark Five is something I have long found
highly suspicious. His claim that he was merely part of a succession
of NOI ministers who were being “rotated” in and out of that temple in
order to maintain attendance rates (following the April 1964
relocation of its resident minister, James Shabazz, to New York’s No.
7 to replace Malcolm X) has never been especially convincing. In
addition, reports concerning a sickening 1971 utterance by Farrakhan
(during a Carbondale, Illinois speech) to the effect that Malcolm X
should be “dug up and killed again” for slandering Elijah Muhammad
have made it increasingly difficult for me to fully shake the
suspicion that Farrakhan was, at a minimum, an unindicted co-
conspirator who played a greater role in the crime than he has thus
far owned up to.
As a result of all of these questions and concerns, Mr. Farrakhan
finds himself in the wholly unique position of being perhaps the only
personality in the entire Western world of his level of stature,
prominence and (relative) respectability who is yet believed to have
been personally complicit in a crime as serious as murder and has
nevertheless managed to sustain, and even enhance, his national and
international profile. These are concerns that only he can fully, and
finally, put to sleep. Not a single call for reparations or an end to
police brutality or the freeing of “political prisoners” or whatever
other litany of wrongs were wailed from the Washington Mall podium
this past October will ever be worth a hearing in the absence of a
full and final accounting of, and “atoning” for, whatever role he and
the NOI played in the savage and unforgivable murder of Malcolm X.
Malcolm X is infinitely more deserving of the energies of Black
America’s (and the world’s) activists and advocates for justice than
those expended on Assata Shakur, Mumia Jamal and Geronimo Pratt.
Nobody in our history did more to excite us about ourselves and our
possibilities than Malcolm X. He impressed us with ourselves. He
exhilarated us with ourselves. And he was snatched away from us by the
most depraved and demented savages the Black World ever had the
misfortune to spawn: the Newark Five, their accomplices and all of
those up and down the NOI chain of command through whom the
assassination order was transmitted. They must now ALL be held to
account.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
~ The surviving four of the Newark Five ~ Benjamin Thomas, Leon Davis,
Wilbur McKinley and William Bradley [aka Mustafa Shabazz] ~ must be
immediately arrested and charged with the assassination of Malcolm X.
(There has long been speculation about a sixth individual, a Linward X
Cathcart [now known as Abdul Karriem Muhammad] of No. 25, who is
believed to have played some sort of “observer” role during the
killing. He, too, should be arrested and charged.) These Islamic
extremists, responsible for the murder of Malcolm X, are nothing but
terrorists and should be treated with the same severity as that
reserved for Al Qaeda operatives
~ A sweeping legal action must be initiated against any members of the
Elijah Muhammad NOI (EM-NOI), Louis Farrakhan NOI (LF-NOI) and any
other Third Party that had any involvement in any attempt on the life
of Malcolm X conducted between Dec. 1963 and Feb. 1965
~ A team of attorneys should be immediately engaged and a set of
charges ~ including Complicity by Aiding and Abetting as well as
Conspiracy to Commit Murder ~ made ready
~ Minister Louis Farrakhan must make himself available, at a time to
be mutually agreed upon, to appear before a panel of the most eminent
Malcolm X/NOI scholars and legal experts (to include Manning Marable,
Michael Eric Dyson, Peter Goldman, Howard Dodson, Clayborne Carson,
Michael Friedly, Abdul Alkalimat, Bruce Perry, Herb Boyd, Charles
Rangel, Rodnell Collins, Percy Sutton, James H. Cone, Florence Hamlish
Levinsohn, Zak Kondo, Louis A. DeCaro, Les Payne, Karl Evanzz, Robert
Singh, Mattias Gardell and Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, among others) to
be subjected to the most thorough, rigorous and methodical cross-
examination about his and the N.O.I.’s role in the assassination of
Malcolm X. Farrakhan must also agree to a Polygraph Examination of a
number of highly dubious claims he made during his 1990-1993 series of
“What Really Happened to Malcolm X?” lectures
~ The US Government (having made available to the public the Nixon,
Johnson and Kennedy White House Tapes) must now declassify and release
to the world the Muhammad Tapes. These important recordings will
enable the world to establish the extent to which the NOI patriarch,
Elijah Muhammad, and his immediate associates were personally
responsible for the assassination of Malcolm X. This, in the light of
FBI electronic intercepts indicating that a number of explicit orders
to kill Malcolm were issued by Elijah Muhammad himself
~ A grand jury should be empanelled to look into the Malcolm X
assassination and Mr. Farrakhan should offer his (and the NOI’s) full
and unrestricted co-operation to said grand jury
~ A voice analysis of FBI wiretap recordings should be conducted on
the interminable series of death threats that were made to Malcolm’s
home telephone number, OL1-6320, between Dec. 1963 and Feb. 1965 and
arrests made of any of the surviving culprits responsible
~ An investigation should also be re-opened into the Feb. 14, 1965
firebombing of his Elmhurst home in light of the grotesque “Jericho”
directive issued on June 28, 1964 by Elijah Muhammad, Jr. (to a
regional gathering of Fruit of Islam, or F.O.I., “soldiers”) that
Malcolm’s home should be destroyed, his tongue severed by his
attackers, placed in an envelope and delivered to Elijah Muhammad
~ All FBI wiretaps of (among others) Chicago No. 2, New York No. 7,
Boston No. 11, Philadelphia No. 12, Newark No. 25 (together with its
Jersey City, Patterson and Plainfield satellites) and Los Angeles No.
27 telephone conversations, along with clandestine recordings of
speeches (covering, at least, the period 1962-1966), should be
declassified and released to investigators as these “temples” were
notorious for their depraved and murderous attitudes towards Malcolm X
~ A South Africa-style Truth & Reconciliation Commission ~ The Malcolm
X Assassination & Atonement Commission ~ should be established to
enable all of those who were in any way involved in the Malcolm X
murder (both within and outside of the NOI) to come forth, confess
their crimes and be reconciled with those whom they wronged
~ The NOI must accept full responsibility for the fact that two
innocent men ~ Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson ~ were wrongly
imprisoned for the murder of Malcolm X when the NOI could easily have
spared them that fate by surrendering those whom they knew to be
guilty
For over 40 long years the surviving members of the Newark Five and
their associates have thumbed their noses at the memory of the man
they slew while the world stood idly by and did nothing. Those days
are over. Malcolm X ~ and the degree to which we work to bring his
killers to justice ~ will be the final measure of our worth as a
people. As the ‘Millions More Movement’ proceeds apace one thing
becomes crystal clear: If we can’t find it within ourselves to do
justice by Malcolm X, of all people, we ~ as a people ~ aren’t worth
doing justice by.
It’s that simple.