Are the Shotgun Assassins Still Alive?

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I got my hands on the f b is file on william bradley, and there it was in black and white. Bradley was the shotgun man that that took malcolm and took malcolm out. He was a lieutenant in that community. And this was, this is actually in the fbi documents. So that was one of the more striking revelations that i saw. I knew that leon for x amir had provided this information to the fbi. In fact, we show that in our series who killed malcolm x but i did not know that he was actually an informant for the fbi,. The men who were exonerated? Kalil islam and mohammed

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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