El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was better known by his public name Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965, he was assassinated by three
gunmen at an Organization of Afro-American Unity rally in the Audubon Ballroom
in New York City.
Though it was initially believed that the three assassins were
members of the Nation of Islam and were affiliated with religious leader Louis
Farrakhan, the killing remains controversial, and no consensus exists on who
the killer(s) were.
In 2021, Muhammad Aziz was exonerated after being convicted in
1966 for the killing along with Khalil Islam and Mujahid Abdul Halim. Halim,
who admitted to the shooting but later said Aziz and Islam were not involved,
was paroled in 2010.
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