Who Killed Malcolm X? New Questions Raised About Assassination of Black Leader
On 2/21/21 at 2:15 PM EST
The three daughters of slain Civil Rights-era leader Malcolm X are calling for the investigation into his murder to be re-opened, citing a deathbed confession from a former undercover police officer who said the NYPD and FBI conspired to kill the Black activist in 1965.
Three Nation of Islam members were convicted in the murder of Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little), which took place at Washington Heights Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965 exactly 56 years ago this Sunday.
But a letter unveiled at a Saturday news conference purports to be from Ray Wood, an undercover New York police officer at the time of the murder. Wood s deathbed confession accused his NYPD supervisors of pressuring him to arrest Malcolm X s security detail just prior to the fatal shooting.