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dinners and other seated events was about 200 people. but that sunday, february 21st, 1965, there were double that number of people crowded into that room, a packed audience, 400 people in the room, all there to hear one of the towering and most controversial figures in american civil rights history. malcolm x had been the face and the world-famous voice of the nation of islam since not long after he joined the nation of islam in the early 1950s. but after more than a decade as a lightning rod in that specific cause, he had made an acrimonious split from the group. he had split from the nation of islam the year before he took the stage in that crowded ballroom in harlem in february 1965, but that day his wife was there to watch his speech. she was pregnant at the time with what would turn out to be their sixth daughter. three of their little girls were there that day too with their mom ready to watch their father speak, and as he took the stage and began to speak the assassin
OwecarditisSkyrocketingDiseasesCounting-deathsOld28HospitalReportingCrapHomeEndocarditis-beth-macyRachel-maddow with a .45 caliber pistol, they followed up the initial shooting. malcolm x was on the ground, laid out by the blast from the shotgun, and the two men stood over him, the two men with pistols stood over him and fired multiple shots into his prone body. malcolm x was 39 years old. his daughters and his wife were there in person close up to see him murdered. and, of course, chaos broke out in the crowded ballroom. one of the gunmen, the one with the .45 caliber pistol, he got caught. he was shot in the leg as he tried to run from the scene by one of malcolm x s body guards. we believe is who shot him. but he was shot in the thigh, and that brought him down and then people grabbed him. he had dropped or thrown away the .45 caliber pistol that he had used in the shooting, but somebody else recovered it at the scene outside the ballroom and handed it over. he was found with .45 caliber ammunition on him in his pants pocket. he was so he was caught that day. one of the three gunm
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