The day of his death, he was staying in a hotel in midtown manhattan. He was taken to the autobon ball room where he was obviously very irascible,. uncomfortable, nervous, kind of cantankerous. Even he went back stage, he sat down, he kept asking about the guests because a number of his guests had cancelled. And at that very moment, some one in the back of the hall said, get your hand out of my pocket. This person took a smoke bomb hurled it to the floor. It was just a complete raucus. I didn't even have time to buckle it just fell right back. The crowd started screaming and going bazerk
Nearly 60 years after the assassination of Malcolm X, some of the men wrongly put in prison for killing him are finally being redeemed. Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, from the documentary series "Who Killed Malcolm X?", explains whether the true killers will ever be brought to justice.
Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Haleema Shah and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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