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
packed audience of 400 people in that 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 long after he joined the nation of islam in the early 1950 s. but after more than a decade as a lightning rod in that specific cause, he had make 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. that day, his wife was there to watch his speech. she was pregnant at the time with what would turn up to turn one out to be their six daughter. three of their little girls were there that they, with their mom, ready to watch their father speak. and as he took the stage, and began to speak, the assassination plot against him beginning to unfold. someone shouted from one part of the ballroom. someone threw something, a make smoke bomb of some kind
that s called the speech and debate clause. the founders included this because they recognize how important it is for members of congress to be able to speak freely, especially in arguments, or in the course of legislative affairs and democratic conflicts. speech and debate are at the center of what it means to be a member of congress. it is what they do. sometimes, it gets nasty. not just in the year 2021, not just in our time, founders knew that. things got very, very nasty between them all the time. now, more broadly, outside of those congressional changes, of course we constitutionalist law and we have a distinction between speech, which is rightly protected by the first amendment. then there are all kind of actions which include violent, which are not. there s a middle space between speech and act soon speak and violent and that is speech that hints at violence or foots with it or threatens or insights it. there is a whole complex set of legal questions and jurisprudence
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
Immigration issue. this is an attack on our civil rights history. so i think for us to understand how broad this assault is, it s not just immigrants, it s also american civil rights history. another example of lindsey graham degrading himself for donald trump, he came out yesterday and was excited that donald trump was going to amend the constitution with an executive order which, of course, even paul ryan said you can t do that. justin omage said you can t do that. kellyanne conway s husband said you can t do that. i just wonder, what does the