Silent clip of the Audobon Ballroom immediately after the assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965.Malcolm had just begun delivering a speech when a disturbance broke out in the crowd of 400. A man in the audience created a diversion, yelling ‘Get your hand outta my pocket! Don’t be messin’ with my pockets!’ As Malcolm’s bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance, a man rushed forward with a shotgun and shot Malcolm in the chest. Two other men charged the stage and fired handguns at Malcolm, who was shot 16 times. The crowd caught and beat the assassins as they attempted to flee the ballroom. Malcolm was pronounced dead on arrival at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.After the assassination, Malcolm X was taken on a stretcher from the Audubon Ballroom to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.Two suspects were named by witnesses — Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, both members of the Nation of Islam.Three men were eventually charged in the case. Talmadge Hayer, also a Black Muslim, confessed to having fired shots into Malcolm’s body, but he testified that Butler and Johnson were not present and were not involved in the shooting. All three were convicted.http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/
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