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
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
prime time. we have some scary questions and some answers tonight. here s a question. how many of us are going to get our younger kids vaccinated against covid-19? it s been hypothetical until now. the fda panel approved the use, meaning we could be a week or two away from having to make this choice. we re going to talk about it tonight. what we know and what we need to know. we have answers on that. but first, we have questions. questions of criminality being asked in the rust movie shooting. the d.a. of santa fe county says everything at this point is on the table. the prosecutor tells the new york times this investigation is focusing on ballistics. what kind of round was in the gun handed to alec baldwin? and who put it there? the d.a. says there was an enormous amount of bullets on this set. the key question, of course, is why? but again, the larger question for me is will real guns keep being used to make believe in movies? now, have you seen this? this may be the
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margaret atwood. one of the world s best selling critically acclaimed authors, she s published more than 60 books, and has won the booker prize twice. margaret atwood. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood. cheering and applause. her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid s tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved. now an emmy award winning television series. there s an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences. and how even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds # it makes them feeljust like new # plink plink, plink plink.# i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be he