Malcolm X Assassinated: Shot 15 Times at the Audubon Ballroom
A shouted insult and sudden gunfire silenced Malcolm X mid-speech at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, leaving him dead from twenty-one bullet wounds. The immediate conviction of three men for the assassination sparked decades of controversy when one gunman later named four other Nation of Islam members as co-conspirators. This unresolved testimony continues to challenge the official narrative of who orchestrated the killing and why.
February 21, 1965
61 years ago
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