Who really killed Malcolm X?

Question

I was watching the movie Malcolm X today as I haven't seen it in a few years. Does anyone know if they ever caught the guys that did it? I think only 1 person served jail time but there is talk that he was a pawn.

Answer 1

Here's a better-than-most site with pretty much all the possibilities. Fairly easy reading:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/malcolmx/malcolmx.html

Answer 2

If you were watching the movie carefully you'd know there was a number of people out to get him assassinated. Malcolm's declaration that he would defend himself from the daily death threats which he and his family were receiving. Undercover FBI informants warned officials that Malcolm X had been marked for assassination.

Tensions increased between Malcolm and the Nation of Islam. It was alleged that orders were given by leaders of the Nation of Islam to "destroy" Malcolm; in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he says that as early as 1963, a member of the Seventh Temple confessed to him having received orders from the Nation of Islam to kill him. The NOI sued to reclaim Malcolm's home in Queens, which they claimed to have paid for, and won. He appealed, and was angry at the thought that his family might soon have no place to live. Then, on the night of February 14, 1965, the house was firebombed. Malcolm and his family survived, and no one was charged in the crime.

A week later on February 21 in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm had just begun delivering a speech when a disturbance broke out in the crowd of 400. A man yelled, "Get your hand outta my pocket! Don't be messin' with my pockets!" As Malcolm's bodyguards rushed forward to attend to the disturbance and Malcolm appealed for peace, a man rushed forward and shot Malcolm in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Two other men quickly charged towards the stage and fired handguns at Malcolm, who was shot 16 times. Angry onlookers in the crowd caught and beat the assassins as they attempted to flee the ballroom. The 39-year-old Malcolm was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He was killed by the shotgun blasting through him, the other bullets having been directed into his legs.

Although a police report once existed stating that two men were detained in connection with the shooting, that report disappeared, and the investigation was inconclusive.

Two suspects were named by witnesses — Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson — however both were known as Nation of Islam agents and would have had difficulty entering the ballroom on that evening.

Three men were eventually charged in the case. Talmadge Hayer confessed to having fired shots into Malcolm's body, but he testified that Butler and Johnson were not present and were not involved in the shooting. All three were convicted.

A complete examination of the assassination and investigation is available in The Smoking Gun: The Malcolm X Files, a collection of primary sources relating to the assassination.

Answer 3

The Nation of Islam. Quite ironic, since Malcolm X was Muslim.

Answer 4

Elijah Muhammed

Answer 5

They find his killer now he in jail he was apart of nation of Islam reason why nation kill Malcolm because he turn his back on them in they want payback

Answer 6

i thought a black guy killed Martin Luther King? And the FBI and CIA are almost 40% African American and girls individuals make up almost 31%. No. i do no longer think of that. i think of those adult adult males have been killed by utilising a pair of loopy nuts.

Answer 7

I think he was killed by Elijah and a group of others who thought he was going to kill their cash cow, but J Edgar helped get the killers away and out of the country.

Answer 8

it was a conspiracy between malcolm 2 and malcolm 8.

Answer 9

it was Kramer from Seinfeld

Answer 10

who cares