by Arun Venugopal at Gothamist
Nearly six decades after the shooting death of Malcolm X, a man who claims to have witnessed the assassination spoke up for the first time, and contends that law enforcement played a role in the 1965 killing.
The revelations, said civil rights attorney Ben Crump at a Tuesday press conference, further necessitated reopening an investigation into the crime.
“The government was involved in the conspiracy to kill Malcolm X,” Crump said at the Audubon Ballroom on West 165th Street in Manhattan, where the killing took place.
For decades, supporters of Malcolm X have contended that the government played a hand in his death, and revelations in recent years have added fuel to the fire. These include statements from former Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance in 2021 that then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered witnesses to not tell investigators they were federal informants…
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