{"id":53763,"date":"2021-02-23T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53763"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:36:48","slug":"even-malcolm-xs-family-is-accusing-the-nypd-and-fbi-of-assassination-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53763","title":{"rendered":"Even Malcolm X&#8217;s Family is accusing the NYPD and FBI of assassination involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Malcolm X&#8217;s family says a letter from officer shows NYPD and FBI had a role in his murder<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1eb1651061db58f4d2e4dab64e8bf5eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1eb1651061db58f4d2e4dab64e8bf5eb.jpg 704w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1eb1651061db58f4d2e4dab64e8bf5eb-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AXIOA via Yahoo! News<\/p>\n<p>The family of Malcolm X released a letter Saturday purportedly written by a now-deceased police officer alleging that the New York Police Department and FBI were behind the 1965 assassination of the Black civil rights leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/strong>Scholars and civil rights advocates have long said men charged with killing Malcolm X, later known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, in New York\u2019s Audubon Ballroom were wrongly convicted. Some have alleged police and federal agents played a role in his death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:\u00a0<\/strong>The family made public the letter attributed to Raymond Wood, a former undercover NYPD officer, who confessed before dying that the NYPD and FBI conspired in the assassination.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>Wood wrote that he was ordered to see that Malcolm X would have no door security in the Harlem building where he was scheduled to speak.<\/li>\n<li>Daughters of Malcolm X released details of the letter at the former site of their father&#8217;s assassination and said they waited until Wood&#8217;s death to speak about it over fears of retaliation from authorities.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Any evidence that provides greater insight into the truth behind that terrible tragedy should be thoroughly investigated,&#8221; Ilyasah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X&#8217;s daughters, said\u00a0<a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-56147505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:at the press conference.\" data-rapid_p=\"7\" data-v9y=\"1\">at the press conference.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Flashback:\u00a0<\/strong>Muhammad Aziz, Mujahid Abdul Halim and Khalil Islam were convicted of killing the civil rights leader and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>Aziz and Islam denied they were connected to any plot to kill Malcolm X. Halim had said the two were not involved.<\/li>\n<li>Malcolm X was killed after he publicly broke with Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad and while he was being closely monitored by the FBI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Between the lines:<\/strong>\u00a0Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance\u2019s office announced last year his office would revisit the 1965 assassination following the release of a Netflix series questioning the investigation into Malcolm X&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li><a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/9d04582f2a960b30114b62c9ae901125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cWho Killed Malcolm X?\u201d\" data-rapid_p=\"9\" data-v9y=\"1\">\u201cWho Killed Malcolm X?\u201d\u00a0<\/a>dives into questions surrounding his accused killers and allegations of a botched investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NYPD<\/strong>\u00a0said in a statement it has \u201cprovided all available records relevant to that case to the District Attorney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>&#8220;The department remains committed to assist with that review in any way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The FBI declined to comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The big picture:\u00a0<\/strong>Malcolm X is seeing a renewed interest amid the Black Lives Matter movement and calls from advocates to diversify school history lessons to tackle systemic racism.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li><a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-dead-are-arising-the-life-of-malcolm-x-9781432886158\/9781631491665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X,&quot;\" data-rapid_p=\"10\" data-v9y=\"1\">&#8220;The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X,&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>written by the late journalist, Les Payne, and his daughter, Tamara, won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction.<\/li>\n<li>The book shows how Malcolm X&#8217;s intellectual development as a Black nationalist stemmed partly from his preacher father and his multilingual mother, who worked as a journalist.<\/li>\n<li>The book also uncovered Malcolm X&#8217;s experience attending a school with white students where he became popular and how he learned to grow better marijuana from Mexican immigrants in Michigan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/malcolm-xs-family-says-letter-234815518.html\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/malcolm-xs-family-says-letter-234815518.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm X&#8217;s family says a letter from officer shows NYPD and FBI had a role in his murder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}