Malcolm Xs last speech on February 14, 1965 truly shows the incomparable brilliance of the man. A man who was incorruptible. A man the U.S. government had to kill, murder, because he told the absolute TRUTH about America. It is by no coincidence that he was silenced one week later. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattans Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket! As Malcolm X and his bodyguards tried to quell the disturbance, a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun; two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. Malcolm X was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm, shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms and legs, including ten buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast. Allegations of conspiracy One gunman, Nation of Islam member Talmadge Hayer (also known as Thomas Hagan) was beaten by the crowd before police arrived; witnesses identified the others as Nation members Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. All three were convicted in March 1966 and sentenced to life in prison. (At trial Hayer confessed, but refused to identify the other assailants except to assert that they were not Butler and Johnson; in 1977 and 1978 he reasserted their innocence and named four other Nation members as participants in the murder or its planning.) In the 1970s, the public learned about COINTELPRO and other secret FBI programs established to infiltrate and disrupt civil rights organizations during the 1950s and 1960s.[193] John Ali, national secretary of the Nation of Islam, was identified as an FBI undercover agent. Malcolm X had confided to a reporter that Ali exacerbated tensions between him and Elijah Muhammad, and that he considered Ali his archenemy within the Nation of Islam leadership. Ali had a meeting with Talmadge Hayer, one of the men convicted of killing Malcolm X, the night before the assassination. So as Malcolm X said: You cant trust the man. The man used black men to physically murder Malcolm. The man in this sense is the U.S government, the Johnson Administration along with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. They killed the messenger but they could not kill his message. Malcolm X lives on in my heart, our hearts. He has shaped and molded the consciousness of the man I am today. May we all learn from his exemplary example by any means necessary!
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